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(11/12/09 4:00am)
WASHINGTON Former College President James Wright urged Americans to remember fallen veterans not only as casualties of war, but as individuals with accomplished lives, at a Veterans' Day celebration here on Wednesday. Wright, himself a former Marine, spoke at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to a crowd that included many veterans who attended, despite the cold and rain.
(08/21/09 2:00am)
Dartmouth has maintained the No. 11 slot among national universities in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings, but tops a new category prioritizing a commitment to undergraduate education among national universities.
(08/19/09 8:47pm)
Dartmouth has maintained the No. 11 slot among national universities in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings, but tops a new category prioritizing a commitment to undergraduate education among national universities.
(07/24/09 2:00am)
President Barack Obama announced that he will nominate Board member Jose Fernandez '77 as the Assistant Secretary of State for economic, energy and business affairs, on Wednesday, according to a White House press release. Fernandez is an attorney at Latham and Watkins LLP in New York, and was elected by alumni to the Board of Trustees in May 2002.
(07/21/09 2:00am)
New Haven State Attorney Michael Dearington filed the motion requesting a single trial in early July. Under this procedure, both suspects in the investigation would still be evaluated by separate juries, Dearington told The Dartmouth. If a specific piece of evidence were admissible for just one of the suspects, Dearington said, the other jury would leave the courtroom.
(07/17/09 2:00am)
"There were a lot of good things at Dartmouth that no one knew about," Gardner said in an interview with The Dartmouth. "There was a culture where people were almost embarrassed to talk about their accomplishments."
(07/14/09 2:00am)
Former Dartmouth Trustee Kate Stith-Cabranes '73 will testify for the Democratic Party on Thursday in the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Stith-Cabranes currently serves as the Dean of Yale Law School, where she also holds the title of Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law. Academically, she specializes in criminal law, criminal procedure and constitutional law, according to the Yale Law School web site. Stith-Cabranes previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where Sotomayor later served as the youngest federal judge. Sotomayor's confirmation hearings began on Monday, and are expected to last through the end of the week.
(07/10/09 2:00am)
Scherr, who became provost in 2001, told The Dartmouth that Kim asked him to stay an additional year in order to help prepare for the College's reaccreditation hearing, which is scheduled to begin in November 2010. After realizing how much work the preparations demand, however, Scherr decided to stay on for an additional year, he said.
(07/09/09 5:46pm)
College Provost Barry Scherr, who had announced in March that he would leave his position before spring 2010, will continue to serve as provost through June 2011, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an e-mail to the Dartmouth community early Thursday morning.
(07/07/09 2:00am)
The Dartmouth men's soccer team following an appearance in the Sweet Sixteen at the 2008 NCAA Championships rounds out the top 10 teams nationally in a preseason poll by College Soccer News.
(07/01/09 2:00am)
Kim said that his primary task as president will be to ensure that Dartmouth offers "close to the best, if not the best, undergraduate education" in the world. Kim added he is "beginning to be convinced" that the College does so already, although he said evaluating education is both a difficult and subjective process.
(03/03/09 10:46am)
College President-elect Jim Yong Kim first left his mark on global health care when he and his friend, Paul Farmer, now a Harvard Medical School professor, risked being thrown out of Peru for their efforts to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the country. At the time, the World Health Organization recommended that only drug-susceptible tuberculosis be treated, incorrectly believing drug resistant TB was not contagious and would be eliminated as afflicted patients died.
(03/03/09 10:44am)
The selection of Jim Yong Kim as the College's next president continues what has developed into a pattern within the Wheelock succession. The last five College presidents have cycled between those with prior ties to the College and those with no previous Dartmouth connections, along with those who specialized in academics and those who focused more on student life.
(03/02/09 4:36pm)
When College President James Wright spoke at the April 1998 meeting held to announce his selection as the College's 16th president, he stressed his commitment to Dartmouth's financial aid program, a pledge he has continued to work to fulfill throughout his tenure. In addition to financial aid reform, Wright's presidency has been marked by controversial social initiatives and alumni lawsuits, as well as improvements to residential life and construction efforts.
(02/25/09 8:52am)
Construction had been slated to begin no later than this spring.
(02/18/09 8:54am)
If the study, which the commission proposed on Feb. 6, determines that affordable housing is the best use for the properties, it will be roughly five years before apartments are ready to be rented, according to commission chair Bob Strauss.
(02/12/09 8:57am)
The conflict, which lasted from December 2008 to January 2009, began when Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, violated a ceasefire by firing rockets into Israel, Tamir said.
(02/09/09 8:46am)
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has said he may attempt to use his senatorial privilege to put a hold on Lynn's nomination and block a Senate vote, Reuters reported.
(02/06/09 9:51am)
The Dartmouth Outing Club announced the directorate for the 2009 Freshmen Trips Thursday in an e-mail to former Trips participants. Scott Limbird '09 will serve as director and Student Body President Molly Bode '09 will be assistant director. Jake Routhier '10, Maisie Breit '10 and James Cart '10 are this year's Trip leader trainers. The chiefs for the five "croos" were also announced. Emily Baumrin '10 and Tanner Tananbaum '10 will lead H-Croo, Ravi Segal '09 and Jan Gromadzki '10 will run Lodj Croo, and Kate Parizeau '10 and Greg Sokol '10 will head Vox Croo. Billy Corbett '10 was named Climbing Croo chief and Eric Larson '10 will be Grant Croo chief.
(02/06/09 9:48am)
In her landmark stem cell study published online last month in Nature, Nancy Speck reports on research she performed at Dartmouth Medical School with fellow Dartmouth researchers. While Speck ensured that the article mentions her connection to the College, it also lists the institution with which she is currently affiliated -- the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Speck, who started at Penn in September, is one of three high-profile science faculty members who have left the College recently for larger institutions in the last several years, often to pursue expanded research opportunities.