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New Hampshire has the lowest amount of funding for higher education in the country, according to a recent study by the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute that ranked all 50 states. The study comes less than two months after New Hampshire approved its 2026-2027 state budget, which cut funding for the University System of New Hampshire by 17.6%.
The Office of the Provost is launching the Dartmouth Initiative for Middle East Exchange, a three-year pilot program to strengthen academic and professional partnerships between Dartmouth and the Middle East and North Africa region. DIMEX is seeking to work with other universities and institutions in the Middle East and North Africa to “enrich Dartmouth’s global excellence,” according to Middle Eastern Studies professor and program director Jonathan Smolin.
A federal antitrust lawsuit filed on Aug. 8 in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts accused Dartmouth and 31 other colleges and universities — including Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania — of conspiring to inflate tuition through binding early decision admissions.
Vishva Natarajan MED ’28, a second-year student at the Geisel School of Medicine, was recently named one of 11 recipients of the 2025 Jack & Fay Netchin Medical Student Fellowship from the American Brain Tumor Association. He will receive a $3,000 grant from the ABTA to facilitate further research. Natarajan’s project, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze data from rare brain tumor tissue to improve the study of tumor-related epilepsy, builds on collaborations with Geisel faculty mentors Dr. Jennifer Hong and Dr. Saeed Hassanpour and reflects his interest in harnessing AI to advance neurosurgery. He spoke with The Dartmouth about his research, the importance of his mentors and the future of AI in healthcare.
At the end of the legislative session in July, Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed seven bills that had passed both chambers with broad support from her own party. The vetoed legislation included bills that would have made it easier to remove books from classrooms, expanded religious exemptions for school vaccine requirements and permitted the requirement of people to use bathrooms according to their sex at birth.
Ph.D. student Xiaotian Liu GR dropped his lawsuit against the Trump administration after his F-1 student immigration status was reinstated on Aug. 8. The New Hampshire chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the New England-based law firm Shaheen and Gordon represented Liu after his immigration record was abruptly deleted on April 4.
On July 30, distinguished fellow Ezzedine Fishere published an opinion article in The Washington Post entitled “This country should take over Gaza — for now,” in which he argued that the Egyptian government should become a temporary steward of Gaza to dismantle the threat to Israel and to establish a path towards a Palestinian state. Before becoming a professor at Dartmouth, Fishere served as a diplomat for Egypt and the United Nations.
Throughout the summer, College President Sian Leah Beilock spoke across the country at multiple high-profile events about the future of higher education — including at the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho that brings together the country’s rich and powerful.
Ledyard Park, a new park on the east side of South Main Street between Ledyard National Bank and Citizens Bank, is currently under construction and is projected to be completed in the spring of 2026. The project was spearheaded by the Town of Hanover in partnership with local businesses and community groups and aims to create a versatile venue for performances and casual socializing, according to town manager Robert Houseman.
Dartmouth plans to borrow more than $450 million through the sale of $300 million in taxable bonds and $156 million in tax-exempt bonds to fund the College’s “long-term capital plan,” College spokesperson Jana Barnello wrote in a statement to The Dartmouth.
Long before she became President Donald Trump’s choice for United States assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, Harmeet Dhillon ’89 was a classical studies major and the editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review. Today, Dhillon is a Trump loyalist, the first Republican woman to hold her position within the Department of Justice and a key figure in the Trump administration’s campaign to freeze federal funding for universities on the alleged basis that they have inadequately addressed campus antisemitism.
On Aug. 4, the Committee on Standards ruled that Roan Wade ’25 and Jordan Narrol ’25 were “responsible” for participating in a masked May 28 sit-in of the president’s office in Parkhurst Hall — where protesters were largely unidentifiable. Their respective suspensions were extended to the end of summer term.
On August 5, Dartmouth’s chapter of the Federalist Society hosted Harvard Law School Professor Stephen Sachs for a moderated Q&A on recent Supreme Court rulings regarding birthright citizenship.
In a new study, a group of archaeologists led by anthropology professor Madeleine McLeester found that from A.D. 1000 to 1600, farming was extensive among Native American communities at the Sixty Islands site in Wisconsin, complicating widely held notions in current archaeological theory. At Sixty Islands — which is the largest preserved ancestral native American cornfield in North America — McLeester and her team examined soil-building techniques, ridge maintenance and connections with nearby villages. McLeester spoke to The Dartmouth about her career and her ground-breaking study, which has garnered national attention in the New York Times.
In recent months, Dartmouth has received attention in national media outlets as the sole Ivy League school to largely avoid the Trump administration’s renegotiation of federal funding: “How one Ivy League university avoided the president’s wrath,” declared The Economist on May 1. “How one Ivy League university has avoided Trump’s retribution so far,” published the New York Times on May 11.
Dartmouth spent 25 times more on federal lobbying in the first six months of 2025 than in the first six months of 2024.
Thirty students completed the Dartmouth Outing Club Fifty on July 27, hiking 54 miles from Moosilauke Lodge to Hanover in an iconic and celebrated College tradition. The outdoor event is a complicated logistical feat organized entirely by students. Over 150 students, selected via applications, run support stations along the hike, offering hikers snacks, water and medical aid, according to Carter Bartel ’27, the Fifty’s logistics director.
Dartmouth launched a partnership with Israeli universities in October 2024 that will bring Israeli researchers to Hanover and facilitate academic collaboration.
Throughout the summer term, more than 4,000 alumni return to campus for 12 class reunions and the 40th anniversary of DGALA, the Dartmouth LGBTQIA+ Alumni Association. The Dartmouth sat down with vice president of alumni relations Cheryl Bascomb ’82 and alumni engagement director Joe Piedrafite to discuss this year’s reunions, undergraduate involvement in these events and what they hope to accomplish with reunions.
This spring, Roan V. Wade ’25 and Jordan Narrol ’25 were suspended following the May 28 sit-in at Parkhurst Hall. Both students were barred from accessing Dartmouth-owned and affiliated spaces and have since pleaded not guilty to College disciplinary charges.