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(06/09/08 4:40am)
For the first time in Dartmouth's history, three members of the graduating class have been named valedictorians, as they all maintained 4.0 grade point averages throughout their College careers. Nicholas Christman '08, Jean Ellen Cowgill '08 and Margaret Fitchet '08 are this year's valedictorians, although only Christman and Cowgill will speak at Commencement.
(05/30/08 8:08am)
Lean Granger, the wife of Dartmouth professor Richard Granger, was convicted Wednesday of stealing approximately $320,000 from a church in California, where the couple previously resided. She will serve six years in California state prison and must pay $333,133 in restitution, according to a press release from the Orange County District Attorneys office.
(05/19/08 10:51am)
Dartmouth Medical School faculty gave feedback about the qualities they would like to see in Dartmouth's next president at an open forum held by Trustee Al Mulley '70, chair of the presidential search committee, and DMS Dean Bill Green on Friday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Mulley and Dartmouth Board of Trustees Chairman Ed Haldeman '70 have held similar forums for students, alumni and faculty this spring and decided to hold a forum for clinicians who might not have been able to leave DHMC to attend the faculty meeting on May 9, Mulley said.
(05/15/08 8:46am)
Michelle de Sousa will take on the role of the College's Sexual Abuse Awareness Program coordinator on July 1, Xenia Markowitt, director of the Center for Women and Gender, and Mark Reed, director of counseling and health resources at Dick's House, said in an e-mail on Wednesday. Interim SAAP coordinator Rebel Roberts, a crime prevention specialist with Safety and Security and an instructor in the Rape Aggression and Defense Program, has served in the position since January, following the departure of the College's previous coordinator, Leah Prescott, in September 2007.
(05/12/08 8:21am)
Dartmouth faculty members offered input on the presidential search process to Dartmouth Board of Trustees Chairman Ed Haldeman '70 and trustee Al Mulley '70, the chair of the search committee, in an open forum on Friday. The trustees held similar forums for students, staff and alumni on March 14 and 15. The Board and the search committee will use the input to help create a "leadership statement" and to make the search process more transparent, Haldeman said.
(05/06/08 8:21am)
Students in Priya Venkatesan '90's Winter term Writing 5 classes will have the option of receiving credit for the class without a grade, Associate Dean of the Faculty Lindsay Whaley informed them on April 31. Venkatesan, a former Writing 5 lecturer and research associate at Dartmouth Medical School, threatened to name students in her Writing 5 classes in a civil rights lawsuit against Dartmouth in an April 25 e-mail.
(04/30/08 6:01pm)
Four days after announcing that she would likely name students in a potential civil lawsuit against the College, Priya Venkatesan '90, a former Writing 5 lecturer and research associate at Dartmouth Medical School, told The Dartmouth Tuesday in a statement that she would likely not pursue legal action at this time. Venkatesan later retracted the statement in a phone call to The Dartmouth.
(04/28/08 8:19am)
Priya Venkatesan '90, a former Writing 5 lecturer and research associate at Dartmouth Medical School, is threatening to name seven of her former students in a potential civil rights lawsuit against the College, DMS and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Venkatesan announced Friday. Venkatesan also plans to write an autobiographical book that will include details of her experience at Dartmouth and name the seven students in question, all of whom were members of her Winter term Writing 5 class in 2008, she said.
(04/24/08 6:49am)
Approximately 170,000 people are diagnosed with lung cancer each year, almost 90 percent of whom eventually die from the disease, Dmitrovsky said. This widespread "societal problem" motivates him to study the disease, he added.
(04/21/08 9:07am)
The ongoing credit crisis may make it more difficult for students to secure college loans, but they should ultimately be able to find lenders, according to Virginia Hazen, Dartmouth's director of financial aid
(04/17/08 7:31am)
Dartmouth's Student Assembly will request a moment of silence today at 11:00 A.M. to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre. Other colleges, such as Northern Illinois University, held candlelight vigils Wednesday, exactly a year after the Virginia shootings, Inside Higher Ed reported Wednesday. In the town of Blacksburg, Va., where Virginia Tech is located, Wednesday's activities included a softball game, art displays and meditation in honor of the 32 victims. This week, more than 70 locations across the country, including 32 colleges, will call for stricter gun laws by holding "lie-ins" in front of city halls and other public venues. Issues of gun control, mental well-being and campus security have been brought to the forefront of college life across the country in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, according to Inside Higher Ed. This is especially true in the context of the recent temporary shut-downs of Oakland University and Xavier University in Chicago, the article reported. The shut-downs were in response to the death threats written in graffiti at both schools.
(04/15/08 7:04am)
Several students suggested that undergraduates participate directly in the search process. Responding to Student Assembly President-elect Molly Bode '09, who asked if the search committee would include students, Haldeman said he could not answer this and similar questions because the Board has not yet finalized the selection process.
(04/11/08 7:07am)
Akash Maharaj, a transfer student at Yale University, will face charges of larceny and forgery after the university discovered that much of the information on his application to Yale had been fabricated, according to The New York Times. Maharaj had falsely claimed that he had received straight A's from Columbia in his application to transfer to Yale. Maharaj had attended Columbia, but did not have a 4.0 grade point average. Maharaj attended New York University before Columbia and St. John's College before NYU. Yale had offered Maharaj a $32,000 scholarship in addition to $15,000 he received from federal loans and scholarships, according to an affidavit from Yale.
(04/04/08 7:45am)
"The country's been okay if you're a big corporation," Shaheen said. "It's been working for you if you're a corporate interest. It's not been working so well for middle class Americans."
(04/04/08 7:43am)
Dartmouth's Board of Trustees will begin to solicit input from all members of the Dartmouth community regarding criteria for the selection of the College's next president on Friday, Board Chairman Ed Haldeman '70 announced in a letter that was sent to the community early this morning. This announcement fulfills Haldeman's pledge to include input from "all Dartmouth constituencies" in the search process, which he made following the Board's March meeting.
(03/28/08 7:28am)
The probability that a college freshmen will withdraw from a university increases significantly when large, introductory courses are taught by part-time, adjunct professors, according to a study presented at this year's meeting of the American Education Research Association on Wednesday, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The study, which focused on the transcripts of approximately 30,000 students at four public, four-year universities, concluded that having graduate students or full-time, non-tenure track professors teach introductory courses did not have any significant impact on the likelihood that a student would withdraw. Audrey Jaeger, a professor at North Carolina State University and the lead author of the paper, hypothesized that reliance on part-time professors, as opposed to graduate students, can be detrimental because the professors often travel among several campuses, which allows little time to meet with students.
(03/26/08 7:37am)
Kathy Lambert '90 will become the College's sustainability manager, who helps to generate and implement plans to improve Dartmouth's sustainability efforts, in August 2008. The College has not had a full-time sustainability coordinator since the departure of former sustainability director Jim Merkel last August.
(02/13/08 11:00am)
Pearson has never worked for an academic institution. She has previously served as senior vice president for corporate communications and media relations at Martha Stewert Media Living Omnimedia, as director of public affairs for Time Magazine and as director of communications for Newsweek Magazine. She was also a journalist for Gannet Newspapers and the Associated Press.
(02/05/08 1:58pm)
As College President James Wright prepares to leave Dartmouth after 40 years at the College, he will be remembered for his attempts to expand social and residential life, as well as for his improvements to financial aid and campus infrastructure. In recent years, his tenure as Dartmouth's 16th president has also been marked by alumni controversy and changes to the College's governance structure.
(02/01/08 10:38am)
With Citigroup and Merrill Lynch reporting losses in billions of dollars in losses and Morgan Stanley reporting its first quarterly loss in the company's history, the sub-prime mortgage crisis has hit many of the largest firms on Wall Street.