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(10/14/14 10:20pm)
Studying irrigation canals in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, Mexico, and climate change and geopolitical issues in the Arctic, among other projects, six Dartmouth students are using their $10,000 awards by the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation to pursue global research. The five juniors and one senior selected as the College’s inaugural class of Stamps Scholars are planning and launching their projects this fall.
(10/09/14 11:04pm)
In a town hall meeting with around 115 faculty and staff Thursday, executive vice president and chief financial officer Rick Mills called for cross-campus dialogue about the College’s future. The informal, open gathering featured a brief talk by Mills, focused on current shifts in higher education, followed by questions from the audience.
(09/30/14 10:38pm)
Environmental studies professor Andrew Friedland stands in front of Baker Tower, introducing himself and encouraging students to sign up for his class. “In the 1960s, there were three billion people on earth. Today there are 7.2 billion inhabitants impacting the natural world,” he says.
(09/19/14 12:49am)
This week, 113 freshmen applied for 25 spots in the Dickey Center for International Understanding’s Great Issues Scholars program. They will join more than 50 participants living in the Global Village, a new living-learning community that will introduce a residential component to the program.
(09/17/14 11:05pm)
For most members of the Class of 2018, courses they started this week will be the first of 35 credits required to graduate — a change from prior years, when students often entered Dartmouth with credit from qualifying scores on Advanced Placement tests and other exams. While transfer credits from courses taken at community colleges or other institutions still apply, this is the first year Dartmouth will stop granting pre-matriculation credit. Some students called the policy fair to those whose high schools did not offer college-level classes, but others said it would decrease D-Plan flexibility.
(03/05/14 12:43am)
On the eve of the first anniversary of former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s death, around 30 Dartmouth students gathered in support of the Venezuelan students thousands of miles away who are leading national protests against the regime of current president Nicolas Maduro. After the Latin American Political Society gave a presentation about the political unrest that has rocked Venezuela since Chavez died last March, students spoke with Caracas residents Jeroen and Marlene Candel, who have participated in the ongoing demonstrations, via Skype.
(02/17/14 1:19am)
When Lee Chilcote ’64 and Francis McGrath ’64 visited professor Edward Miller’s class in the fall of 2012 to share their stories of fighting in the Vietnam War, the experience dredged up memories and emotions that had remained unvoiced for decades. On Monday — nearly 50 years after accepting their military commissions — Chilcote, McGrath and fellow veteran James Laughlin ’64 will return to speak to Miller’s class for a second time and to give a public lecture.
(02/07/14 12:56am)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has not upheld its commitment to educate student-athletes, former Interim College President and current Chapel Hill chancellor Carol Folt said in a statement to the University’s board of trustees late last month.
(02/03/14 12:30am)
A Dartmouth Mock Trial Society team earned an honorable mention and a chance to advance to the next round of the American Mock Trial Association’s national tournament at a regional competition this weekend at St. Anselm College in Manchester. Dartmouth sent two teams of 10 students to the competition.
(01/13/14 3:43am)
One screen shows five colored discs on three pegs, ready for the user to manipulate. Another presents faces and a word bank of possible emotions.
(11/13/13 11:09pm)
Upcoming changes to the Medical College Admission Test, which will go into effect in March 2015, are affecting many students’ decisions about their majors, Dartmouth Plans and test preparations schedules.
(11/04/13 11:40pm)
College President Phil Hanlon laid out his vision for the future of Dartmouth academics at the general faculty meeting Monday. He stressed the importance of experiential learning and introduced proposals to keep tuition rates flat with inflation, create a freestanding graduate school and hire faculty in clusters.
(10/23/13 2:00am)
The task force's creation follows controversy surrounding Tengatenga's appointment as dean of the Tucker Foundation in July. A month after appointing Tengatenga, Hanlon announced in August that Tengatenga would no longer become dean in light of his previous statements regarding homosexuality.
(10/15/13 2:00am)
The earth sciences department has been forced to alter its off-campus field program known as "the Stretch," said Carl Renshaw, an earth science professor who leads the national parks segment of the trip.
(10/11/13 2:00am)
Safety and Security director Harry Kinne said the department will once again work with officers from Green Mountain Security, a Vermont-based security company, on Friday night.
(10/07/13 2:00am)
Helen Damon-Moore, Tucker Foundation director of service and educational programs director, said that some of the typical projects from previous Days of Caring did not continue this year.
(09/27/13 2:00am)
"We are not post-racial," he said. "This ideology is suave but deadly."