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(05/22/26 9:10am)
On May 20, journalist and free speech advocate Maria Ressa visited Hanover to give the keynote address for this year’s Social Justice Awards ceremony. The awards, hosted by the College’s Division of Institutional Diversity and Equity, honor Dartmouth alumni, faculty, staff and community members for their commitment to “social justice locally and worldwide,” according to IDE’s website.
(05/22/26 12:53pm)
As part of The Dartmouth’s coverage of the upcoming 2026 midterm and gubernatorial elections, the paper is publishing an interview series, “A Sit-Down with The Dartmouth,” featuring in-depth conversations with candidates and political leaders connected to statewide and New Hampshire district races.
(05/22/26 9:00am)
New Hampshire will receive $500 million in federal healthcare grants over the next five years from the Rural Health Transformation Program, a federal initiative created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act after it was signed into law by President Donald Trump in July 2025. Some healthcare providers and state politicians told The Dartmouth they worry that the funding will not compensate for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s simultaneous cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
(05/22/26 9:05am)
On May 6, the Information, Technology and Consulting office published an updated set of nine guidelines for workplace generative artificial intelligence use on their website. VOX Daily, the College’s official newsletter, circulated the guidelines in an email to campus on May 13, six days after The Dartmouth reported that a chemistry professor unintentionally released student information to campus through the Dartmouth Claude enterprise portal in a “test” of Claude’s grading capabilities.
(05/21/26 9:05am)
At their biweekly meeting on May 18, the Hanover Selectboard voted to use the town’s contingency fund to pay the Valley News's legal fees in a 2024 Right to Know lawsuit and approved symbolic resident petitions passed at last week’s town business meeting against the state’s school vouchers and property taxes. The Selectboard also voted to “take no action” on the anti-apartheid pledge passed at the May 12 town meeting.
(05/21/26 9:10am)
On May 14, Harvard University history and law professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed ’81 discussed the importance of including broader perspectives in remembering American history at an event sponsored by the Montgomery Fellows Program.
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On May 9, Erik Peterson ’27 and Ranvir Deshmukh ’26 won the 2026 Magnuson Startup Competition with their real-estate startup RealPact, an artificial intelligence tool for real estate brokers that can “handle the operational work behind every [real estate] deal,” according to its website. The competition — hosted by the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship — evaluates startups for metrics such as their “strength of team,” “problem definition” and “quality of solution.” The winning startup receives a grand prize of $20,000.
(05/19/26 10:59am)
At yesterday’s meeting, the Hanover Selectboard voted unanimously to “take no action” on the anti-apartheid pledge passed at the annual town business meeting on May 12. The majority approval at the town meeting was “non-binding,” according to the town warrant.
(05/19/26 9:20am)
On May 14, United States assistant attorney general for civil rights Harmeet Dhillon ’89 joined the Dartmouth Political Union for a moderated conversation and open forum Q&A on her work in the Department of Justice.
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On May 17, at the seventh weekly Dartmouth Student Government meeting of the spring term, senators discussed a proposal pitched by general senator Isla Walker ’29 to fund free, environmentally-friendly laundry detergent manufactured by Generation Conscious, a New York-based startup.
(05/19/26 9:15am)
During Green Key weekend, which ran from May 15 to 17 this year, the Hanover Police Department responded to 28 calls “associated with the event area and surrounding campus activity,” including 16 “intoxication-related incidents” as well as noise complaints, “property-related incidents,” “minor disturbances” and follow-up investigations, according to Hanover Police chief James Martin. No students were arrested.
(05/19/26 9:02am)
On May 12, Yale University psychology professor and podcast host Laurie Santos discussed the “student mental health crisis,” the impacts of artificial intelligence on mental health and the policy applications of happiness science at an event hosted by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.
(05/19/26 9:10am)
On May 6, the College rolled out a new online hostile intruder training module as part of broader campus safety and emergency preparedness efforts. The training is designed to provide students, faculty and staff with strategies for responding to emergencies, according to Dartmouth Safety and Security director Keiselim Montás.
(05/18/26 9:00am)
Dartmouth has received “no information to suggest that Canvas usage poses any additional security risk at this time,” College spokesperson Jana Barnello wrote in a May 13 email statement to The Dartmouth on behalf of the Information, Technology and Consulting office. Students at nearly 9,000 colleges and universities lost access to Canvas after the breach on May 7, when criminal hacker and extortion group ShinyHunters breached Infrastructure, Canvas’s developer and publisher.
(05/18/26 9:05am)
Former communications office assistant director of social media Micky Bedell posted three projects she used as part of a “knowledge base” to create and edit social media content for the College on the Dartmouth Claude enterprise portal.
(05/15/26 1:22am)
Nina Pavcnik will be the inaugural dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, according to a campus-wide email sent by College President Sian Leah Beilock and provost Santiago Schnell on Thursday. Pavcnik — who has served as interim dean of arts and sciences since January 2025 — will assume the role on July 1.
(05/14/26 9:20am)
Remembered by friends and teammates for his intellectual curiosity, quiet generosity and attentiveness to others, Ryan Lafferty ’26 left a lasting mark on the international debate community and the people closest to him.
(05/14/26 9:15am)
Three current and two former Evergreen student employees who have worked in writing training dialogues have been given pseudonyms so they may speak candidly about their experiences. Quinn, Charlie, Olivia and Rebecca said they used AI to write dialogues as project assistants. Georgia, who was a content reviewer for Evergreen, said she did not use generative AI in her work. Quinn, Charlie and Olivia are still employed by Evergreen; Rebecca and Georgia said they voluntarily left the project. Numerous Evergreen student employees declined to comment.
(05/14/26 9:10am)
On May 9, Dartmouth’s Native American Program hosted the 54th Annual Dartmouth College Powwow on the Green, the theme of which was “Honoring the Women Who Carry Us.” Events included the War Cry Contest, the Round Dance, Men’s and Women’s Traditional and General Dances and more.
(05/14/26 9:05am)
On April 29, former history department postdoctoral fellow Charnan Williams filed a lawsuit against the College and several senior faculty members. In the complaint, which is publicly available, Williams alleged “race discrimination, sex discrimination, retaliation, hostile work environment, conspiracy to deprive [her] of her civil rights, civil conspiracy, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, breach of institutional policies and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
