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(03/07/13 4:00am)
After over a decade of research, test studies and trips to Finland and Tanzania, Geisel School of Medicine professor Fordham von Reyn's hard work has paid off. Von Reyn was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease on March 1 for creating a vaccine that reduces tuberculosis in HIV patients.
(03/01/13 4:00am)
Though they get good benefits, employees say understaffing and student behavior makes working there difficult. Collis is often strained to hire staff to work at Late Night, particularly non-student employees.
(02/26/13 4:00am)
Rothberg's lecture focused on his research with University of Illinois German professor Yasemin Yildiz and independent scholar Andres Nader. He described the efforts of several Turkish-Germans to connect more closely to the Holocaust and German identity. Hakan Savas Mican's play "Der Besuch" and Anny and Sibel Ozturk's artwork "Das Leben, Das Universam und der ganze Rest" provide two examples of German migrants inheriting consciousness of the Holocaust.
(02/22/13 4:00am)
Since her first day at Dartmouth in 1979, Jean Hanff Korelitz '83 knew she wanted to become a writer. Her career began in the oak-paneled nooks of Sanborn Library, her favorite place to write. The bright and old-fashioned space even appears in her fifth novel, "Admission," and her experience at the College in its early years of coeducation color the pages of her work.
(02/13/13 4:00am)
Last year, the Hanover Board of Selectmen hired Desman Associates, a parking consulting group, to conduct a study on ways to improve downtown Hanover's parking. The findings were presented last Monday to the Board and included suggestions to offer day passes for the public parking lot on South Lebanon Street, open more permitted parking spaces to workers on Lebanon Street and raise the cost of parking meters.
(02/08/13 4:00am)
Since the first Winter Carnival in 1910, snow sculptures, ski races and parties in fraternity basements have defined the celebration. Over the years, though, due to the introduction of coeducation, decreased student participation and safety concerns, some Carnival traditions have been lost, alumni said. Overall, alumni said that they feel Winter Carnival has become a less important event to current students.
(02/08/13 4:00am)
There are very few complaints filed with the town regarding the actions of Dartmouth students, and Hanover does not maintain a special file for complaints against the College.
(02/04/13 4:00am)
Returns on endowments declined by an average of 0.3 percent across 831 private and public higher education institutions for the 2012 fiscal year, marking the third time in five years that returns have declined, Inside Higher Education reported. The continued decline reflects the financial troubles facing universities across the United States. Additionally, reduced state funding to public universities and colleges has exacerbated many institutions' fiscal problems. The survey raises concerns about whether universities will be able to spend their endowments at the traditional rate of approximately 5 percent each year, according to Inside Higher Ed. In order to spend at that level, institutions would need over 7 percent returns on their endowment annually, which very few schools have been able to achieve in the last 10 years. As a result of decreased returns on endowment, many institutions have been forced to cut costs and programs, including scholarships and teaching posts, Inside Higher Ed reported.
(01/30/13 4:00am)
A research team at Duke University, led by Dartmouth and Duke professors, discovered a treatment method that has brought researchers one step closer to a cure for drug-resistant leukemia. Pharmacology and toxicology professor Manabu Kurokawa and Sally Kornbluth, a pharmacology and cancer biology professor of at Duke University School of Medicine, led the team to discover a way to destroy a patient's cancer cells using mutations within certain cells.
(01/28/13 4:00am)
While the College saw a 3 percent decline in applications for the Class of 2017 the only Ivy League institution to see a significant drop this year the decrease is not expected to have long-term effects on admissions numbers, according to Dean of Admissions Maria Laskaris.
(01/22/13 4:00am)
A study produced by the Illinois State University Center for the Study of Education Policy showed that 31 states increased spending on higher education during the 2013 fiscal year, Inside Higher Ed reported. Overall spending on higher education decreased by 0.4 percent, an improvement from last year's decrease of 7.5 percent. States are likely to expand education funding in the coming years as the effects of the recession decrease, and the governors of California, Colorado, Nebraska and Nevada have pledged to increase funding in their states. A recent report by Demos, a think tank, found that economic factors, rather than political and cultural factors, influence how much states appropriate for higher education. Education spending also varies from state to state, and those that have experienced recent increases in their reserve of natural resources are appropriating larger portions of their budget toward higher education.
(01/18/13 4:00am)
In a process called "spaghettification," a person falling into a black hole would be ripped apart by its gravitational forces before they were able to feel anything, according to astronomy post-doctoral researcher Kevin Hainline. To a spectator, though, it would look as though the person were infinitely falling into the black hole as a result of relativistic effects. Physics and astronomy professor Ryan Hickox and Princeton University astrophysics professor Jenny Greene discussed black holes and the science behind them at a bustling Science Pub event titled "Black Holes: Monsters of the Universe!" at Murphy's on the Green on Thursday.
(01/14/13 4:00am)
Since the beginning of the flu season in December, 14 adults in New Hampshire have died of influenza as of Jan. 11, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported. In that same period, there have been over 40 reported outbreaks of influenza, compared with 10 to 30 outbreaks the state typically sees during an average flu season.
(01/10/13 4:00am)
In the wake of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., New Hampshire lawmakers are considering changes to the state's lax gun laws. It is unclear if New Hampshire's gun laws will change, however, according to State Sen. David Pierce, D-Etna. The College will not be changing its gun policies, Director of Safety and Security Harry Kinne said.
(11/13/12 4:00am)
Parsons the New School for Design announced that it will reopen its Paris program in the fall of 2013, The New York Times reported. In 2010, the French program changed its name to the Paris College of Art after its relationship with the New York campus ended. The new campus, which will be located on Rue Saint-Roch and called the Parsons Paris School of Art and Design, will teach between 300 and 500 students. The program plans to offer degrees in art, fashion, design and business, and students who start at the Paris campus will have the option of transferring to the New York, Shanghai or Mumbai campuses. Executive Dean of Parsons Joel Towers said that students from across Europe will be allowed to enroll in short-term professional development and online courses, for which they could receive Parsons credit, according to The Times.
(11/09/12 4:00am)
Economics and public policy professor Charles Wheelan moderated the discussion between government professors Joseph Bafumi, Linda Fowler and Brendan Nyhan.
(10/30/12 3:00am)
Although rumors have recently circulated that student-athletes who are Good Sammed can no longer compete with their teams, coaches are not automatically notified if one of their players has been the picked up by Safety and Security under the Good Samaritan policy. If a varsity athlete chooses to inform a coach that a Good Sam call was made on his or her behalf, the student can be punished at the coach's discretion in addition to facing the normal consequences, according to Executive Associate Athletic Director for Varsity Sports Brian Austin.
(10/26/12 2:00am)
Although certain Homecoming traditions such as a freshman-sophomore tug-of-war and the practice of building the bonfire higher each year have faded over time, the many Homecoming traditions that remain bring alumni and students of the College together each fall.
(10/25/12 2:00am)
A study conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles found that full-time faculty members are spending less time teaching, Inside Higher Ed reported on Wednesday. The annual Undergraduate Teaching Faculty study based on a survey of 23,824 faculty members found that the percentage of full-time professors at universities teaching nine or more hours each week fell from 56.5 to 43.6 percent in the past 10 years. The percentage of professors working only one to four hours a week has more than doubled from 7 to 15.8 percent during this time, according to the study. The survey also found that women are more likely to use "student-centered" teaching approaches than male faculty, with 78 percent of female professors and 68 percent of male professors utilizing class discussion. In addition, the survey found that over 50 percent of academics now identify as liberal or "far left," with faculty members at private research universities leaning the farthest left. While female professors tend to identify as more liberal than their male colleagues, less than one percent of college professors overall identify as "far right," regardless of type of institution or gender. The Institute's 1998 survey found that less than half of professors interviewed identified as liberal, and over 30 percent considered themselves moderates, according to Inside Higher Ed. Institute Director Sylvia Hurtado said it is unclear what has caused this shift, but she believes the increased average age of full-time professors may play a role, Inside Higher Ed reported.
(10/23/12 2:00am)
Kraus said that the increased presence of Dartmouth students helped make this year's run a success.