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(08/14/14 10:49pm)
A $340,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers to investigate the correlation between reading performance and neurological changes from intense reading instruction in third grade students in the Lebanon school district.
(08/08/14 1:40pm)
About half of Dartmouth students participate in at least one off-campus program. The College’s off-campus programs office offers two types of programs: foreign study programs and language study abroad programs.
(08/08/14 1:25pm)
Just because there’s no placement test for “Dartspeak” doesn’t mean that students of the College haven’t developed our own form of communication, and as with any language, Dartspeak cannot be mastered until one lives alongside those who speak it.
(07/31/14 11:34pm)
Members of the Class of 2018 will fill Butterfield Hall in the fall in an effort to accommodate the largest class in College history, which contains roughly 100 more students than the Class of 2017, undergraduate housing director Rachael Class-Giguere said.
(07/17/14 9:29pm)
This week, The Dartmouth caught up with Janine Leger ’15, who finished a month-long trip biking trip across Spain this week. Leger rode in memory of her friend and former roommate Blaine Steinberg ’15, who died of a heart attack March 7. After visa problems derailed her summer plans, Leger found a bike and flew to Spain, planning her trip along the way. Riding roughly 2,000 kilometers over the past month, Leger biked along the Camino de Santiago, Camino Francés and Camino del Norte, beginning and ending in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
(02/11/14 12:48am)
The College’s library is conducting its triennial survey this week, an examination that in past years has led the library to extend its hours from midnight to 2 a.m. and add more group study rooms. The survey, conducted by the Dartmouth library assessment committee, will be sent to 1,528 undergraduates and 771 graduate students over the next few days.
(02/06/14 8:24pm)
Whether making the pilgrimage back to Hanover to see campus in full winter swing or to participate in College-sponsored alumni events, alumni flock to the College for Carnival weekend each year. Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley president Dimitri Gerakaris ’69 sees the weekend as a celebration for the whole community.
(02/06/14 12:50am)
To protect those without a warm shelter from blistering winds and subzero temperatures, the Upper Valley Haven opened a warming center on Jan. 22. After Vermont reduced funding for emergency cold weather programs last year, Haven staff realized they needed to provide a safe place for people to get out of the cold, volunteer services coordinator Laura Perez said.
(01/29/14 12:07am)
As students begin spring course selection, those curious about the level of difficulty of potential classes can check median grades using Median Town, a website that Matthew Marcus ’16 created over winter interim. Using data from the office of the registrar, the website displays trends in class medians through bar graphs.
(01/21/14 3:44am)
Changes to this year’s winter sorority recruitment reflect minor shifts in a long, evolving history of rush processes at the College. This year, a talk on dues, philanthropy and financial aid, as well as an anonymous question-and-answer session, replaced song-and-dance routines.
(01/13/14 3:41am)
The Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Chicago last weekend drew over 7,000 people, including over 20 Dartmouth professors. The conference’s theme, “Vulnerable Times,” was selected by association president and former College French and comparative literature professor Marianne Hirsch.
(01/07/14 3:53am)
The College will host its first IvyQ conference in the fall, bringing to campus hundreds of participants whose presence organizers hope will improve awareness of and support for the Dartmouth’s LGBTQ community. The conference, open to LGBTQ and allied students, connects students with one another and aims to foster an LGBTQ community larger than those of individual schools.
(11/18/13 8:24pm)
Princeton University has seen seven of its students hospitalized this year as a result of a meningitis outbreak, The New York Times reported. In response, the administration urged students to stop sharing drinks at parties and avoid kissing. Princeton officials are considering the use of a vaccine, Bexsero, that has not been approved in the United States, to treat its student body. Meningitis vaccinations are already required for most students at Princeton and other New Jersey four-year colleges by state law, but the particular strain at Princeton is not covered by the vaccine commonly used in America. Due to the concentrated outbreak at Princeton, the Food and Drug Administration gave special permission to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to import Bexsero.
(11/07/13 11:01pm)
Brown University will investigate a protest that led to the cancellation of an event with New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly to decide whether students involved should be disciplined, The New York Times reported. In a letter to campus, Brown president Christina Paxson said the protest violated the student code of conduct because it obstructed “the basic exchange of ideas,” and Paxson created a committee to evaluate the incident. Protesters, including Brown students and local residents, interrupted the speech to protest the New York City police department’s stop-and-frisk practice. Last week, a federal appeals court overruled a federal judge’s earlier decision mandating a change in this policy.
(10/23/13 2:00am)
Universities are beginning to use big data to evaluate the expected success of applicants and identify students that may need extra help, Fast Company reported Monday. Student evaluations are calculated using data points formed from grades, employment status and family assistance, along with professors' evaluations and other sources. Wichita State University uses IBM business analytics software as a predictive tool, which has yielded a 96 percent accuracy rate in picking "high-yield" applicants. The tool is 14 percent more accurate than comparable external human evaluations, suggesting increased future use of big data in education, Fast Company reported.
(10/16/13 2:00am)
Americans do not believe that online learning is as valuable as learning in the classroom, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. In a Gallup survey of over 1,000 adults, online education scored worse in four of the poll's categories, including delivering tailored individual instruction, providing high-quality instruction from well-qualified professors, offering trustworthy and rigorous grading and awarding degrees that employees will value. One-third of survey participants gave online programs a positive rating, while above 60 percent gave positive ratings to four-year colleges, universities and community colleges. Currently, 20 percent of college students and 5 percent of Americans are enrolled in online courses.
(10/03/13 2:00am)
Howard University president Sidney Ribeau will step down at the end of this year after internal controversy over the school's financial health, The Washington Post reported. His retirement announcement follows the university's drop in national ranking and credit downgrade. During his five-year tenure, Ribeau renewed all of Howard's 170 academic programs, started a $200 million facilities renewal initiative, expanded Howard's international footprint and bolstered the University's focus on leadership and service. Provost Wayne Frederick will serve as interim president while the Board of Trustees conducts a national search for a new president.
(09/18/13 2:00am)
On Tuesday, at least three members of Christian group Luke 24 vs 47 demonstrated first on the Green and later outside of Dirt Cowboy Cafe, where they preached their beliefs to passersby. One member used a microphone to broadcast the group's ideologies across the Green, declaring "You can't have parties in heaven" and "Life is short, eternity is longer." Another member handed out pamphlets and movies. Group members travel together to spread their message, with visits to the University of New Hampshire, the University of Maine at Portland and the University of Massachusetts at Boston scheduled later this month, and have held past demonstrations in Jamaica and the United Kingdom.
(08/16/13 2:00am)
The National Science Foundation awarded Dartmouth, John Hopkins University, the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan $10 million to improve cybersecurity for health care information, the College announced Thursday. The grant will go toward the Trustworthy Health and Wellness project, a five-year program that seeks to strengthen cybersecurity as health information relocates to mobile devices and cloud-bases services. To create a health system that can protect individual privacy, the project will develop new authentication for clinical staff, more secure health networks for small clinics and methods to detect problems with medical devices. The project is headed by computer science professor David Kotz. The other principle investigators are Lisa Marsch, head of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at the Geisel School of Medicine, and Eric Johnson, a Tuck School of Business professor.
(08/09/13 2:00am)
Peck provides students with food-related guidance, including nutrition counseling to improve eating habits. Students can also talk to the College's dietitian, Elizabeth Rosenberger, about how to accommodate personal needs like allergies and athletic goals using Dartmouth Dining Services, Peck said.