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(08/13/10 2:00am)
Forbes Magazine ranked Dartmouth 30th in its annual list of "America's Best Colleges," up from last year's ranking of 98th. The rankings, however, have faced some criticism due to the methodology, which relies on professor reviews on Ratemyprofessors.com, as well as alumni salaries and school affordability.
(08/10/10 2:00am)
"Fish Tank" follows the broken and perhaps not-so-nave childhood of Mia (Katie Jarvis), a disheveled and often hungover fifteen-year-old, living with her promiscuous and neglectful mother (Kierston Wareing) and younger sister. In a household where the "B" word is the most popular form of address, the pain and rage that boils under Mia's skin is often released in the form of foul language and verbal attacks at her mother, sister or anyone who crosses her path at an untimely moment.
(02/12/10 4:00am)
Skloot's first book, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," was released last month and has since reached The New York Times best-seller list. Skloot, a former biology major who ventured into creative writing solely to fulfill a college distribution requirement, did not anticipate that the class would lead to a 10-year project, she said.
(01/29/10 4:00am)
Effective change in the health care system must begin with adjustments in physician behavior rather than legislation, despite the recent health care reform debate that has raged in Washington, D.C., according to a panel of health care experts from local medical facilities and non-profit physician groups.
(01/25/10 4:00am)
The Organizational Adjudication Committee will start training members of its student board during Winter term, students and College officials announced following a meeting Friday. Despite an abrupt announcement on Jan. 12 that the effort would be postponed until Spring term, students involved in forming the board said it should now be ready for operation before the end of Winter term, closer to the original timeline.
(01/22/10 4:00am)
The Organizational Adjudication Committee is on track to begin training members of its student board during the Winter term, students and College officials announced following a meeting Friday. Despite an abrupt announcement on Jan. 12 that the effort would be postponed until Spring term, students involved in forming the board said it should now be ready for operation before the end of Winter term.
(01/07/10 4:00am)
Dartmouth students preparing for Winter term hibernation can soon have drinks delivered in bulk directly to their dorm rooms or off-campus houses with the launch of ThirstD.com, a new business founded by four members of the Class of 2010. Some students say the business's offerings would be a welcome break from walking to get drinks in the cold, but others maintained they would be unwilling to pay for them unless they could use money from their Declining Balance Account.
(11/18/09 4:00am)
In the wake of the House of Representatives' narrow approval of a health care bill that Democratic leaders believe will extend coverage to 36 million previously uninsured Americans, several College and health policy experts told The Dartmouth that, although the bill would extend coverage to recently graduated students, the legislation is unlikely to have an immediate impact on health care coverage for undergraduate students at the College.
(10/30/09 3:00am)
"Freedom of expression as Americans know it does not really exist in Cuba," said Associated Press Havana bureau chief Anita Snow, who is also a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University.
(10/23/09 2:00am)
The event was hosted jointly by the Dartmouth Institute for Security, Technology and Society and the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection.
(10/06/09 2:00am)
Provost Barry Scherr, who was to remain in his current position up to June 2011, will step down as College provost to pursue his academic work, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in a campus-wide e-mail on Monday. Scherr is the latest in a series of high-level College officials to announce their departures in the last few months.
(09/29/09 2:00am)
Funding from the $787-billion federal stimulus package has allowed Dartmouth professors to continue and expand their research in ways that otherwise would not have been possible, according to Jill Mortali, director of the Office of Sponsored Programs. The American Recovery Reinvestment Act had provided grant support to 50 Dartmouth recipients for a total of $19,493,601 as of Sept. 22.
(09/28/09 2:00am)
Yale University may cut several of its smaller undergraduate classes to save money, the Yale Daily News reported on Friday. For the 2008-2009 academic year, 34.9 percent of Yale undergraduate courses had an enrollment of only two to nine students. Yale Provost Peter Salovey told the Yale Daily News, adding that his office is in the process of investigating if classes with low enrollments can be offered less frequently without "significant negative impact." Decreasing the number of times a course is offered would allow the university to hire fewer faculty members. The Committee on Yale College Education found that offering low-enrollment, specialized courses might force Yale to sacrifice valuable introductory courses in its annual report in 2003.
(05/22/09 6:01am)
As the renovations will require the partial demolition of nearly all of the walls, the house will be uninhabitable during construction, according to associate Provost Mary Gorman, who is overseeing the project.
(05/14/09 5:15am)
The Global Health Initiative at Dartmouth has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, the College announced on Tuesday. The initiative was founded in 2004 as a collaboration between the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and Dartmouth Medical School to promote research and educate students about global health.
(05/07/09 6:43am)
Designed to reach 70 miles per hour, student-built hybrid race cars became blurs of color encircling the New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Wednesday as 30 teams, representing colleges and universities from five different countries, competed in the third and final day of the Formula Hybrid International Competition hosted by the Thayer School of Engineering.
(04/22/09 6:31am)
Education Secretary Arne Duncan reaffirmed the Obama administration's commitment to simplifying the federal financial aid application process on Monday, making it easier for students to obtain Perkins loans and Pell grants, Bloomberg.com reported. President Barack Obama's administration has previously proposed eliminating the current application process, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, according to the White House web site. The administration's proposed new process would allow families to authorize the release of tax information by checking a box on their tax forms. The administration hopes the change will encourage more students to apply for financial aid, according to the White House web site. By eliminating one of the multiple forms involved in college applications, the administration hopes that students will be more strongly encouraged to apply for financial aid, the White House web site said.
(04/22/09 6:29am)
Correction appended