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(05/27/14 10:37pm)
Patient advocates and medical, legal, ethics and policy professionals will come to campus this summer for the 2014 Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice, discussing the implications of informed consent and patient choice, as well as improvements in health care transparency and patient-based care.
(05/26/14 10:07pm)
Every potential new member will get called back to four houses in the second round of sorority recruitment this fall, one in a series of changes announced by the Panhellenic Council. If a potential new member is not called back to four different houses, she will be randomly assigned to additional houses to fill up the set of four.
(05/20/14 11:07pm)
While all incoming students are assigned to a first-year faculty advisor and an undergraduate dean, with many scheduling initial meetings, participation in advising programs drops off as students near the end of their first year on campus.
(05/12/14 10:15pm)
Engineering professor Mark Borsuk and the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program received a $93,000 grant from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services to explore the reasons many state residents who obtain their water from private wells do not test for arsenic.
(05/08/14 12:26am)
Surrounded by red walls and decor reminiscent of the Memphis blues scene, teams of students and community members hunched over tables in 3 Guys Basement Barbecue for a card game Wednesday night as part of a paid research study hosted by Tiltfactor Laboratory, an interdisciplinary studio that designs and studies games that promote social change.
(05/05/14 10:37pm)
Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson, set to depart Dartmouth at the end of the academic year, will begin work at Scripps College, a 1,000-student women’s college in Claremont, California, on August 1. Her selection as dean of students and vice president of student at Scripps follows the unexpected death of the former dean last November and recent calls from students for greater administrative transparency.
(04/28/14 11:16pm)
Alpha Phi sorority and Phi Delta Alpha fraternity canceled their annual “Phiesta” fundraiser last week, sparking vigorous debate at the College, with some arguing that the event was culturally insensitive and others disagreeing, often highlighting the event’s goal to raise money for cardiac health. Students reported being targeted for their beliefs, both in person and online.
(04/24/14 10:57pm)
Handmade award trophies resembling cairns-, stacks of rocks typically used to mark hiking trails, were awarded to studio art and Thayer School of Engineering professor Jack Wilson, Morgan Curtis ’14 and Dartmouth Dining Services associate director Don Reed for their “trailblazing” work at last night’s third annual Sustainability Awards, a part of the College’s Earth Week celebrations.
(04/14/14 11:05pm)
Dartmouth’s difficulty in recruiting and retaining minority faculty members may derive from a preexisting lack of minority professors, tenure prospects and additional mentorship responsibilities these faculty members take on, students, faculty and staff said at the fifth set of “Moving Dartmouth Forward” discussions. Facilitated by Dean of the Faculty Michael Mastanduno and Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering Joseph Helble on Monday, the sessions focused on issues surrounding faculty recruitment and retention.
(04/07/14 10:55pm)
Pointing to shortcomings in the current system, the Panhellenic Council announced Monday that it will make several adjustments to its pre-recruitment process this term to foster a sense of united Greek community across all sororities. Potential new members planning to rush next year will have the option of participating in two “sorority-blind” pre-recruitment events.
(04/06/14 10:44pm)
This year’s four candidates for Student Assembly president and three for vice president will emphasize unity, personal dedication and communication in their campaigns. The candidates for president are Casey Dennis ’15, Jay Graham ’15, Jon Miller ’15 and Yesuto Shaw ’15. The candidates for vice president are Frank Cunningham ’16, Harry Qi ’17 and Matthew Robinson ’15.
(04/03/14 11:38pm)
At the Dickey Center for International Understanding’s first annual Global Health Day on Thursday, in between attending a networking session and panel discussions, students tossed beanbags in the hopes of earning “health care dollars.” Participants, who were each assigned a character with a specific health description, also lost “health status points” based on simulated events. The session, organized by The Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Clinical Practice initiative ReThink Health, sought to address barriers to health care access.
(03/24/14 11:58pm)
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity’s national leadership announced earlier this month that all chapters would no longer allow members to complete a pledging process before fully joining the house. Instead, members must be initiated as brothers within 96 hours of receiving their the bid. All members, not just new recruits, must participate in educational programming called the “True Gentleman Experience.”
(03/06/14 12:36am)
Upcoming construction projects at the College rest on budgetary decisions expected to be made in Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting and the priorities of recently hired administrators, including incoming vice president of campus planning and facilities Lisa Hogarty and incoming provost Carolyn Dever.
(02/27/14 2:21am)
Last Wednesday, after 75 years of business, Eastman’s Pharmacy filled its last prescription and closed its doors. Its clients will now be sent 1,000 feet down South Main Street to CVS Pharmacy or receive prescriptions by mail.
(02/26/14 12:33am)
As Boston’s first chief of economic development, John Barros ’96 plans to use his experience working in urban neighborhoods to promote small business growth, job training programs and build a city that is accommodating to residents of all backgrounds. Martin Walsh, the mayor of Boston who took office this January, created the position to equalize growth across the city.
(02/17/14 1:17am)
Serving lunch, dinner and late-night fare, The Box is a student-run food truck that will offer locally-sourced Mediterranean cuisine starting the first week of spring term.
(02/05/14 12:52am)
Participants held each others’ gaze. “This person is 1,000 stories I do not know,” a workshop facilitator said.
(01/30/14 12:30am)
Specific proposals for strengthening higher education were absent from President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address delivered on Tuesday night, in which Obama spoke in general terms about his goal for improving access to higher education and reiterated the education-related themes of past addresses.
(10/04/13 2:00am)
Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass"