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(07/10/09 2:00am)
Competing against game development teams from around the world, Edward McNeill '11 won the second-place prize for game development at the 2009 Microsoft Imagine Cup competition, held earlier this month in Cairo, Egypt. The competition, held annually by the Microsoft Corporation, encourages students to utilize Microsoft technology in order to solve global problems.
(06/30/09 2:00am)
Horowitz and one of her colleagues were traveling in a car when one of the tires blew out. The vehicle crashed into a "tro-tro," or shared van, according to Moore. Horowitz, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from the vehicle and died several hours later at a community hospital, he said. Two other people were killed in the collision, Moore added.
(03/03/09 10:42am)
In his thesis, Reid limited his data set to the 173 cases from the 1870s to the 1990s when world leaders died of accidental or natural causes because he wanted to pinpoint changes in policies made by replacement leaders. Changes made by new leaders following assassinations or coups, he said, could be sparked by greater political forces, rather than an individual's personal motives.
(02/20/09 9:52am)
"We have reached a true turning point in U.S. history and in global history," Bacevich said, referring to the current economic crisis. "Neither the greed of Wall Street, nor the recklessness of Main Street can explain the problem. We must put our house in order -- it is imperative. There must be substantive change."
(02/12/09 8:56am)
Customers who enter The Artifactory, a jewelry and gift store located in West Lebanon's PowerHouse Mall, often ask owners Arnie and Anne Brown the same thing: how is their business doing? Although sales are down 13 percent from last year, Arnie Brown said he always replies with a sense of humor.
(01/22/09 8:30am)
"I think after the great crisis of 9/11, we went into a defensive crouch, and the world felt excluded," Burns said. "We can be the country that unites."
(11/25/08 8:36am)
Kathryn Twyman '09 will pursue a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry at Oxford University as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar next year. Twyman, a chemistry and physics double major and biology minor, said she learned of her selection Saturday night and is looking forward to working closely with Oxford professor Tim Softley, who specializes in ultra-cold reactions.
(11/24/08 9:26am)
The Daniel Webster Project, formerly the Daniel Webster Program, hosted its first "ancient and modern conference," which featured papers by several prominent professors of political philosophy and debate over the role of classical and modern influences in contemporary liberal arts education. The conference, titled "Socrates or Rosseau: Ancient and Modern Ideas of Higher Education," was attended by approximately 60 people, including students, faculty and visiting professors Friday and Saturday at the Rockefeller Center.
(11/06/08 8:33am)
The challenge, sponsored by the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health and the East Wheelock Service Corps, offered a $2 rice-and-beans dinner served in Food Court. The event also included a food and clothing drive in Collis Common Ground to benefit Goodwill and the Upper Valley Haven in White River Junction, as well as a survey to determine how much students knew about the United Nations's Millennium Development Goals agenda.
(11/05/08 1:13pm)
Democrats swept New England's congressional races Tuesday, defeating the last remaining House Republican in the region, Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut. In New Hampshire, Democratic incumbents Governor John Lynch and U.S. Representative Paul Hodes '72 handily won re-election, and former Governor Jeanne Shaheen defeated Republican incumbent John Sununu in a heated race for U.S. Senate.
(10/23/08 6:03am)
Blanchflower, the only Dartmouth professor ever to be appointed to the Monetary Policy Committee, called for a decisive decrease in interest rates at least a year before the Committee's Oct. 8 unanimous decision to lower rates 0.5 percent.
(10/15/08 7:14am)
"You're going to be the future leaders of the United States, whether you like it or not," Abizaid said in his closing remarks to an overflowing audience in Filene Auditorium. "You're going to have to decide whether to be part of the problem-solving class or part of the critical class. You've been given a tough hand."
(10/02/08 2:13pm)
Immigration, education and health -care reform dominated the joint-party discussion between the Dartmouth College Democrats and Dartmouth College Republicans in a forum titled "Democrats and Republicans: On issues affecting people of color" Wednesday night at the Rockefeller Center. With less than five weeks leading up to the election, potential-voter turnout was high at the event, co-sponsored by the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan and Alpha Pi Omega Sorority, Inc.
(09/25/08 7:11am)
Hunter College professor Mary Flanagan will serve as the first-ever endowed chair of the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professorship in Digital Humanities, the College's dean-of-the-faculty office announced this month. Flanagan will officially arrive on campus Oct. 1 to open her game design laboratory, Tiltfactor Laboratories, and will teach classes at the College on game design, environmental art and media starting Winter term.
(05/28/08 9:59am)
Former Dartmouth writing instructor Priya Venkatesan '90 said she no longer plans to publish a memoir in the near future, recanting previous statements that she would write a book that would identify specific Dartmouth students who she claims discriminated against her and in addition to including their anonymous course evaluations. Venkatesan alleged that these students, all members of her Winter term Writing 5 class, invaded her personal space and displayed other means of disrespectful behavior towards her, according to statements she made in an interview with The Dartmouth.
(05/27/08 9:11am)
Construction of a 72-room hotel planned for downtown Hanover was postponed after the developer discovered soil contamination at the proposed building site during routine soil tests, The Valley News reported. The Olympia Companies of Portland, Maine, canceled its Planning Board meeting, scheduled for May 6, after the tests indicated low levels of contamination. The source of contamination is unknown, but Hanover Town Manager Julia Griffin said it is likely from an underground oil tank, according to The Valley News. The company, which expects a report about the contamination in a few months, hopes to begin construction on the three-story brick hotel this summer and to finish the building in spring 2010. The plan also includes a restaurant and underground parking.
(05/20/08 7:25am)
Thanks to graduating student employees at Dartmouth's libraries, "Superbad" will soon have space on a library shelf beside the likes of "Casablanca" and "Citizen Kane" through the Student Library Service Bookplate Program. Senior student employees are rewarded for their dedication with the acquisition of a book or other item in their name, complete with a "bookplate" sticker commemorating their services to the College's library system.
(05/12/08 8:30am)
Editor's note: This is the sixth installment of a 10-part series profiling various members of the Upper Valley community
(05/07/08 6:39am)
"I wrote 40 pages in the last week and a half," said Kathleen Onufer '08, who is writing an 85-page environmental studies thesis on institutional governance and sustainable development.
(05/01/08 5:55am)
Forgiving and forgetting is the Filipino way, Reverend Father Ted Torralba, a speaker from the Philippines, told audience members during his Wednesday lecture. The lecture was part of a three-day international symposium that focuses on Filipino fine and performing arts that began Wednesday.