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On April 21, Hillel at Dartmouth and the Rohr Chabad Center co-hosted a vigil on the Green for Yom HaZikaron, an Israeli national holiday that remembers victims of terror attacks and fallen soldiers. Approximately 30 people attended, according to Dartmouth Safety and Security officer Don White.
On April 14, a temporary student art installation composed of 20 strips of molding beef jerky arranged in the shape of a smiling face was removed from the dedication wall of the Black Family Visual Arts Center by the artists at the direction of studio art department chair Tricia Treacy.
On May 12, Hanover residents will vote on three zoning amendments at the annual town meeting. The town’s planning, zoning and codes department is sponsoring two of the amendments on the ballot: Article 2 refines last year’s “house-scale residential overlay” amendment by limiting the size of new multi-unit developments, while Article 3 updates the town’s accessory dwelling unit rules for secondary residential buildings, such as garage apartments, to ensure ADUs match the original homes. If passed, Article 7 — which was brought by a resident petition and not sponsored by the planning, zoning and codes department — would rescind the zoning reforms passed by the town in 2025 by banning multi-unit buildings in certain residential zones.
On Monday, Dartmouth welcomed more than 600 admitted students from the Class of 2030 and their families to campus for the fourth annual Dimensions program since its return in 2023 following the COVID pandemic. The day, the first of two program runs, featured academic panels, campus traditions and student-led events designed to give admitted students a feel for life in Hanover.
New York Times opinion columnist and host of “The Ezra Klein Show” Ezra Klein said Democrats must treat “communicating with the American people” as “part of democracy” in the next election cycle during an event hosted by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy on April 16. The event also featured Ford Foundation president Heather Gerken, who formerly served as the dean of Yale Law School. The Ford Foundation is a non-profit that aims “to reduce poverty and injustice, strengthen democratic values, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement,” according to their website. It has one of the largest private endowments in the United States.
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 for state-wide and New Hampshire district positions.
On April 19, at the third weekly Dartmouth Student Government meeting of the spring term, the Senate discussed gym extensions for graduating seniors, a program to consolidate course syllabi in a single database and funding for Dartmouth’s chapter of women’s self-defense organization WenDo.
On April 7, artificial intelligence lab Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview, a powerful new large-language model which the company claims has found “thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities” across the internet. Anthropic announced that it would not publicly release the model due to security concerns and is forming a consortium of large tech companies — called Project Glasswing — which will use Mythos to patch vulnerabilities in critical software.
In April 2024, Dartmouth Dining implemented biometric hand scanners at the Class of 1953 Commons and self-order kiosks at Courtyard Cafe. One year later, the technology has become part of daily life at Dartmouth. Lines still form at ’53 Commons, where some students swipe in manually as others skip the line using the biometric hand scanners. At Courtyard Cafe, students line up behind kiosks to place orders, occasionally pausing when screens freeze or break down. However, student concerns about data privacy persist, even a year later.
Four former and two current members of the Dartmouth women’s volleyball team have been given the pseudonyms Amelia, Emily, Grace, Lucy, Olivia and Sophie. They each have been granted anonymity to speak candidly about their experiences. Nine out of the 11 current members of the team declined to comment.
On April 13, former U.S. secretaries of state Michael Pompeo and John Kerry joined the Dartmouth Political Union for a debate and open forum Q&A on contemporary geopolitics at the Hanover Inn. Pompeo served in the first Trump administration, and Kerry during the second Obama administration.
On April 7, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy hosted Concord Coalition — a fiscal responsibility advocacy non-profit — senior advisor Robert Bixby for a conversation about the federal deficit. The event, moderated by Tuck School of Business professor Charles Wheelan ’88, was a part of the Rockefeller Center’s ongoing “Law and Democracy” speaker series, which has featured numerous public policy leaders and legal scholars since it began in fall 2025.
Beta Alpha Omega fraternity will participate in Interfraternity Council recruitment this fall for the first time since 2024, Greek Life and Student Societies director Hunter Carlheim wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth.
On Sunday, the Dartmouth Student Government announced that the DSG Student Life Committee will design the layout and menu of Russo Cafe, a dining location planned for Russo Hall, a new 290-bed dormitory set to open this fall as part of a broader effort by the College to expand housing.
This fall, the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies will launch a Ph.D. in computational science and modeling.
On April 2, Institute for Arctic Studies innovation fellow Matthew Druckenmiller was elected to serve as president of the International Arctic Science Committee, a science organization made up of 24 countries that supports Arctic research and collaboration between Arctic scientists. Druckenmiller, who has served as the committee’s vice president for the last four years, will lead the organization for the next four years.
On April 3, the U.S. Forest Service announced that it will close 57 out of 77 forestry research facilities nationwide — centers that conduct research on national forests — including the Bartlett Experimental Forest site in the White Mountain National Forest near Durham, N.H., two hours south-east of Hanover.
On Monday, Brown University — which organizes the exchange program that sends students in the U.S. to the University of Havana — announced to participating schools they are “paus[ing]” the fall 2026 cohort “due to the geopolitical tensions and resource stress produced by the U.S. blockade on the island,” Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies professor and Dartmouth exchange program faculty director Jorge Cuellar wrote in an email to The Dartmouth. The U.S. State Department has advised “increased caution” when traveling to Cuba “due to crime and unreliable electrical power” since 2018.
On April 3, College President Sian Leah Beilock and Provost Santiago Schnell announced that University of Florida College of Medicine interim dean Jennifer Hunt will serve as the next dean of the Geisel School of Medicine. She will make history as the first female dean in Geisel’s history when she assumes her role in August. The Dartmouth interviewed Hunt about her mission at Geisel and the future of the medical field.