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College faces projected $91 million loss in fiscal 2021

Despite the partial return of students to campus, the recovery of the financial markets and the prospect of widespread vaccinations, the College is, financially speaking, not out of the snowy New Hampshire woods. Dartmouth will face an estimated $91 million operating loss for fiscal year 2021 as it works to return to normal operations and begins planning for the long-term budgetary impacts of COVID-19.

Video footage reveals possible suspects in menorah vandalism investigation

As Hanover Police continue to investigate the vandalism of the menorah on the Green reported last Wednesday, the department has obtained a video that may show two perpetrators.

ED applicants reflect on virtual admissions process

Newly admitted members of Dartmouth’s Class of 2025, many of whom had to get to know, apply to and interview with the College entirely remotely, faced unique challenges in what proved to be an especially competitive early decision admissions cycle. Out of a record-breaking 2,664 applicants, the College admitted 566 students on Thursday.

College condemns anti-Semitism after Dartmouth Green menorah vandalized

Updated Dec. 18, 2020 at 2:17 p.m.

Dartmouth admits 566 early decision applicants from largest-ever pool

Updated Dec. 19, 10:23 p.m.

Geisel professor Alan Green remembered for dedication to family, passion for research

A prolific researcher and dedicated father and husband, Alan Ivan Green was known for his endless enthusiasm, innate curiosity, steady nature and kindness.

Q&A: Fed Challenge winners discuss historic win and COVID-19 economy

On Nov. 20, a team of Dartmouth students won the 17th annual national College Fed Challenge for the first time in the College’s 10 years of participation in the competition. The competition, which is organized by the Federal Reserve, takes place in two parts: a 15-minute scripted presentation in which students role-play as members of the Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee and provide a monetary policy recommendation, and a question and answer session about their recommendation in front of a panel of judges, who are members of the Fed.

Eighty-six students removed from campus fall term

Updated Dec. 11, 2020 at 4:56 p.m.

College to offer increased opportunities for in-person engagement this winter

Updated Dec. 11, 2020 at 4:39 p.m.

Winter term arrival dates delayed, quarantine period shortened

Arrival dates for students returning to campus in the winter have been postponed from Jan. 5 and 6 to Jan. 16 and 17, Provost Joseph Helble announced in a campus-wide email on Monday afternoon. The delay comes amid the growing number of COVID-19 cases in the Upper Valley and an anticipated post-holiday surge in transmission.

Community raises money for Lou’s waitress after cancer diagnosis

When longtime Lou’s Restaurant and Bakery waitress Becky Schneider was diagnosed with stage 3B lung cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes last month, the Dartmouth, Hanover and wider Upper Valley community quickly sprang to action. An online fundraiser started on Schneider’s behalf has raised over $50,000 for her living expenses as of Saturday.

Beau DuBray ’24 remembered for kindness, passion for outdoors

Those who knew Beau DuBray ’24 recall him as a kind friend, thoughtful classmate and lover of nature. 

Jake Sullivan, former Dartmouth teaching fellow, to serve as Biden’s national security adviser

President-elect Joe Biden announced on Monday that Jake Sullivan — a resident teaching fellow at Dartmouth from winter 2019 to spring 2020 — will serve as his national security adviser. At 44, Sullivan will be the youngest national security adviser in decades.

Geisel psychiatry professor Alan Green dies at home

Alan Green, former chair of the department of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine, died on Thursday. 

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Beau DuBray ’24 dies unexpectedly at 18

Updated Nov. 19, 2020 at 6:13 p.m.

Victoria Blodgett remembered for her warmth, dedication to graduate student life

Victoria Blodgett, assistant dean of postdoctoral affairs at the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, was known for her warmth, humor and positivity. Blodgett died on Nov. 4 after a two-year battle with uterine cancer. She was 59.

College sees spike in quarantine numbers

Even as positive COVID-19 cases at the College remain in the single digits, 56 students are currently in quarantine and five are in isolation, according to Dartmouth’s COVID-19 dashboard. The current total is a spike from the dashboard’s totals on Saturday, when 29 students and seven staff members were in quarantine, and a total of 25 students and staff were in isolation. 

Bubble tea shop to open on Main Street in January

A new bubble tea store — 4U Bubble Tea — will make its debut in Hanover in January 2021, becoming the only bubble tea business in town after the closure of The Swirl & Pearl in March. The store, which will open at the underground location on Main Street previously occupied by My Brigadeiro, will feature different flavors of bubble tea and Asian snacks.

Dartmouth celebrates Diwali

This past Saturday, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and other religious groups around the world celebrated the holiday of Diwali. On campus, Dartmouth’s Hindu student organization Shanti celebrated with a prayer and a celebration, though the event was notably smaller this year due to COVID-19 restrictions.