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(05/16/08 7:36am)
"The arctic is ground zero for the immediate impact of climate change," Patrick Parenteau, senior counsel to the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic, said on the panel. "This century, we're playing for the Greenland ice sheet."
(04/30/08 6:46am)
"That just goes to show, it seems the stronger the opinions of people, the more ignorant they are," said Warde.
(04/04/08 7:51am)
Students learned how to "green their rooms," conserve energy and "prove the skeptics wrong" about global warming at Sustainable Dartmouth's first Sustainable Summit of the term held in Tindle Lounge on Thursday. The summit brought together Dartmouth's environmental advocacy groups to promote sustainability.
(04/04/08 7:49am)
According to a Princeton Review Survey of high school students, Harvard University ranked as the top "dream" school. Princeton University was the favorite among parents who were questioned in a separate survey. The survey, entitled "College Hopes & Worries Survey," was featured in The Princeton Review's "Best 366 Colleges" book and asked students about college admissions and financial aid. In answer to the question, "What 'dream college' do you wish you could attend (or see your child attend) if acceptance or cost weren't issues?" students chose, Harvard, followed by Stanford, then Princeton. Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania were the only Ivy League schools not included on the lists. Eighty-four percent of students say financial aid will be "very necessary," 50 percent of students said that the greatest factor in choosing a college will be the school with the "best overall fit."
(02/28/08 8:46am)
The national organizations of Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc. and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity honored their respective Dartmouth chapters with various awards in ceremonies this month. Both organizations recognized individual Dartmouth members, and Sig Ep received four awards for the chapter as a whole.
(02/06/08 1:28pm)
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education has launched a pilot program to quantify schools' sustainability initiatives, according to Inside Higher Ed. Over 90 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada have been selected to participate in the program, which will rate colleges based on inclusion of sustainability in class curiculae, research pertaining to sustainability and the implementation of sustainability initiatives in their operations. For example, colleges can earn points for buying locally-grown food products or obtaining green certification for buildings. AASHE plans to instate the official program by 2009, at which point all colleges will be able to participate. The data obtained in the final version of program will be public, but the pilot version data will not be published.
(01/15/08 9:29am)
Most mainstream video games do not involve shooting memories with "coping mechanisms" such as beer bottles and romance novels. But Mary Flanagan, an associate professor of film and media studies at Hunter College, discussed this game and others she has created in her lecture, "The Video Game as an Expressive Medium," on Monday in the Haldeman Center.
(11/26/07 7:22am)
While most university students focus on studying for exams, Dartmouth Medical School student Nick Ellis DMS'10 spent his college years developing a program to support medical missions to Ecuador. Ellis' program -- Medicine, Education and Development for Low Income Families Everywhere, or MEDLIFE -- seeks to provide healthcare and education to communities that wouldn't get them otherwise.
(11/07/07 7:34pm)
There is a cure for breast cancer; it just hasn't been found yet. This is the notion that resonated throughout the room at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Leadership Summit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Tuesday, where two aspirant first ladies and Dartmouth's own first lady were in attendance.
(11/05/07 6:09am)
Amidst a clash of titans Saturday, one rose above the rest: Team Waffles' Lego robot. The robot, constructed exclusively from Legos, was one of the participants competing in the Dartmouth Area Robotics Tournament, hosted by the Thayer School of Engineering in Cummings Hall.
(11/01/07 5:26am)
Some dyslexic children could be helped to develop more normal brain responses and become better readers without actually reading, according to a new study coauthored by Elise Temple, a Dartmouth professor of education. Difficulty reading, a symptom typical of dyslexic children, can be the result of the brain's inability to keep up with rapidly changing sounds. Using a dyslexia remediation program called Fast ForWorld Language, the study's participants were able to better their reading abilities after eight weeks of one-hour sessions. The system had the children differentiate between different sounds to develop their brain's response. The study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to analyze the brains of 22 dyslexic children and another 23 with normal reading ability. After completing the remediation program, the children's reading scores were within the low end of the normal range.
(10/25/07 5:22am)
Halo 3 is the third and final rendition of Microsoft's popular first-person war game. Prior to its release on Sept. 25, the game was expected to garner more sales in 24 hours than the blockbuster movie Spider-Man 3, according to the Los Angeles Times.
(10/15/07 4:47am)
Scientists, CEOs, politicians and interested citizens gathered in Hanover for the Dartmouth Energy Symposium, hosted by the Thayer School of Engineering last Thursday and Friday, to discuss the future of energy and explore the relationships between energy and the broader environment. The symposium featured three keynote speakers and five panel discussions.
(10/09/07 5:00am)
Mascoma Corporation, a forerunner in the cellulosic ethanol industry, is bursting at the seams in its Lebanon, N.H., lab. The corporation, which moved into its current location at the Dartmouth Regional Technology Center in Centerra Park just over a year ago, will soon be forced to move as a result of space constraints.
(10/05/07 7:07am)
Most students who receive a bad grade move on. Brian Marquis sued. The 51-year-old University of Massachusetts at Amherst student filed a lawsuit against the college after receiving a C in a course called Problems in Social Thought, according to the Boston Globe. Marquis claims that the university infringed upon his civil and contractual rights, as well as deliberately caused him emotional distress. The teaching assistant for the class, Jeremy Cushing, graded students on a curve, therefore, Marquis's numerical 84 became a C at the TA's discretion. District Court Judge Michael A. Ponsor dismissed the suit. Marquis is thinking of appealing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
(10/02/07 7:39am)
Tuesday and Wednesday will see the Top of the Hop transformed into a bustling center for schmoozing as 100 private corporations, nonprofits and government employers set up shop for Career Services' annual Employer Connection Fair. About 800 students are expected to attend each day, as in recent years.