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(01/18/07 11:00am)
Thousands of Vermont residents lost power Monday after a freezing rain storm downed trees and power lines. The damage occurred primarily in Windham County and the outage was confined to Central Vermont Public Service customers. "The amount of tree and ice damage in that area is absolutely astonishing," said Christine Rivers, a CVPS spokeswoman. The extended power outage is proving to be especially problematic in the face of this week's low temperatures. At least 225 households were still without power as of Wednesday at 5 p.m., according to Anne Skrocki, a Duty Officer for Vermont Emergency Management.
(01/12/07 11:00am)
Dr. James Weinstein, an orthopedic surgeon at Dartmouth Medical School, was featured Thursday in a New York Times fitness article, "When It's O.K. to Run Hurt." The article focused on the recovery methods and advice physicians offer to patients with sports-related injuries. In the past, it was advised that resting was the best way to heal a sports injury but such advice is said to be outdated and many times can even prolong the recovery process if the injury is not too severe. A person recovering from a sports injury should exercise at a slower level or try different types of exercise like cross-training. Weinstein recommends his patients take an anti-inflammatory pill like aspirin before they exercise and ice the spot before and after working out, though advice differs from physician to physician.
(01/08/07 11:00am)
Following a recent American Bar Association policy change, law schools will only report a student's highest LSAT score -- rather than an average of all scores -- to the ABA, changing the way many law school admissions offices evaluate applicants' scores.
(11/17/06 11:00am)
Paul Christesen '88, assistant professor of classics at Dartmouth, was named the New Hampshire Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on Thursday. Each year CASE honors four professors nationally and several Aon the state level for their commitment to undergraduate teaching. They focus on criteria including professors' involvement with students, scholarly approach to teaching and learning, contributions to the undergraduate institution and recommendations from colleagues and current and former students. According to Dean of Faculty Carol Folt, Christesen is known for forming strong relationships with his students and for creating discussion groups and atmospheres that allow students to speak on academic and personal topics. "More than anything else, this award is a reflection of the fact that Dartmouth is an ideal environment for teaching and for learning and a recognition of the outstanding quality of Dartmouth's faculty and student body," Christesen said.
(11/15/06 11:00am)
While the Facebook.com group "Wikipedia is the source of all my knowledge" was created out of humor, its title has a grain of truth for many students at Dartmouth. However, the use of the popular website for academic purposes is receiving mixed reviews from faculty members.
(11/01/06 11:00am)
College campuses are becoming hot spots for the spread of mumps, whooping cough and tuberculosis, said an article in yesterday's Inside Higher Ed online magazine. While all three diseases have been on the decline in the United States for years, greater international populations at universities have partially led to an increasing number of cases. At the University of Virginia, 29 cases of the mumps were recently reported. All of the infected students had received the two-dose vaccination for the disease, which is only 90 percent effective. At Missouri Southern State University, a few students received positive test results for tuberculosis, a reminder of the disease's prevalence throughout the world. While all three diseases are treatable and do not pose a real threat to individuals, there is always the alarming possibility of it becoming plague-like and affecting the mass population.
(10/20/06 9:00am)
The Hindu student association Shanti plans to light 1,500 lamps on the Dartmouth Green to celebrate Diwali. At the celebration, which begins at 5 p.m. on Oct. 21 in Rollins Chapel, a cleric will lead participants in puja, or prayer. At 6 p.m., members of Shanti will proceed to the Green to light the lamps. Diwali, meaning "line of lamps," is a major holiday for Hindus as well as Jains, Sikhs and Indian Buddhists. It celebrates the victory of good over evil through the story of the god Krishna and his wife Sathyabhama and their triumph over the demon Naraka. Shanti, which includes roughly 150 members, is made up of undergraduates, graduate students, staff, faculty and Upper Valley community members. It convenes weekly for services in the Hindu temple of Rollins Chapel.
(10/19/06 9:00am)
Dartmouth researchers have found the areas in the brain that signal bilingualism, which could potentially be a breakthrough in determining the human brain's language centers. The research was conducted using optical imaging technology called near infrared spectroscopy, and the researchers were among the first to utilize it for brain studies. For both monolinguals and bilinguals, findings show increased activity in the brain's left hemisphere. When bilinguals switched between two languages, there was especially increased activity in the brain's right hemisphere. Bilinguals may better utilize the neural language landscape for language in the brain, the study said.
(10/19/06 9:00am)
A BlitzMail message sent on Monday from the Scholarship Office sent to the top 25 percent of the Class of 2008 garnered more attention than usual, but not because of its subject. Scholarship Advisor Bridget Thomas sent out the blitz without suppressing the recipient list, enabling recipients to see who fell into this elite category of students.
(10/12/06 9:00am)
With public transportation restored and Reggie Bush running around a packed Superdome, life is slowly returning to normal for the 32 students who attended Dartmouth after Katrina displaced them from universities along the Gulf Coast. After two terms at Dartmouth, students returned to their respective universities. Almost nine months since their departure from Dartmouth, a lot has changed for these students and for New Orleans.
(10/05/06 9:00am)
In recognition of the continued need for aid work in the Gulf Coast region, seven student-led trips will head south this December to continue the Hurricane Katrina Relief project.