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(05/16/13 2:00am)
Two pillars of today's international monetary system were not engineered in New York, London, Paris or Berlin. In 1944, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank were established in Bretton Woods, N.H., today a small skiing village less than two hours from Hanover. At a conference held in the town, more than 700 delegates from 44 nations agreed on the framework forged by Harry Dexter White, said Benn Steil, a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations and director of international economics, in a lecture on Wednesday.
(05/02/13 2:00am)
Choi, a well-known activist widely credited with helping catalyze the policy's repeal, spoke in a lecture as part of both Pride Week and Asian-Pacific Heritage month. His talk, peppered with humor and rhetorical force, decried continued homophobia in the United States and addressed his identity as a gay Asian-American.
(04/29/13 2:00am)
NCHIP, founded by former College President Jim Yong Kim in 2011, is a learning collaborative of 32 schools that aims to reduce drug and alcohol abuse on campuses. The College hosts two symposia related to these topics each year, said Seddon Savage, director of the Dartmouth Center on Addiction, Recovery, and Education.
(04/11/13 2:00am)
For those living in Japan in the 1980s, flying to Hawaii and staying at a four-star hotel to play golf was cheaper than playing a single round of eighteen holes on a local Japanese course. Angus Lockyer, a professor from the University of London, traced golf's evolution in Japan from the 1880s to the present in a lecture on Wednesday, arguing that the sport became embedded in Japanese culture less as an athletic pastime than as a networking tool.
(04/03/13 2:00am)
The results suggest that "organizational misfits," or those with less common occupational backgrounds, are more likely to be "brokers," or individuals who connect otherwise unlinked groups of people.
(03/27/13 3:00am)
Regardless of moral considerations, Roe v. Wade should be overturned because of its flawed legal reasoning, managing director and general counsel of the Bioethics Defense Fund Nikolas Nikas and executive director of the Life Legal Defense Foundation Dana Cody said in a lecture on Tuesday. Vita Clamantis, a campus pro-life group, sponsored the talk.
(03/07/13 4:00am)
Since hiring full-time student employment consultant Kari Jo Grant in June, the Student Employment Office has developed new, non-mandatory standards to assist employers in determining pay structures for student positions. The guidelines will provide supervisors with greater clarity regarding appropriate pay rates for all student employees, from the Class of 1953 Commons to Alumni Gym.
(02/27/13 4:00am)
Foudy, whom the team nicknamed "Loudy Foudy" for her outspoken nature, spoke to a packed audience of over 200 students, faculty and community members in Alumni Hall on Tuesday, highlighting her experience as captain of the national team and expressing her continued support for women in sports. Foudy, a soccer commentator for ESPN and founder of the Julie Foudy Leadership Foundation, stressed that everybody can attain success.
(02/22/13 4:00am)
Berggren moderated Thursday's panel discussion "The Imprint of Haiti on One's Life," which featured Haitian students and health leaders. The seven panelists had a wide range of cultural and familial backgrounds, hailing from both small Haitian villages and the nation's capital.
(01/17/13 4:00am)
San Jose State University announced on Tuesday that it will develop a pilot program to create three online introductory math courses in cooperation with the for-profit massive online open course provider Udacity, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The classes will be offered for credit to San Jose State students at $150 per class, as opposed to $450 to $750 for traditional courses. San Jose State will retain 51 percent of the profits from the courses if the program continues after the pilot, and the remaining percentage will go to Udacity. Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., initially contacted Udacity to find a way to mitigate increasing student debt. To combat the high dropout rates associated with online courses, San Jose State will consider implementing a peer mentoring initiative to monitor enrolled students.
(01/09/13 4:00am)
Humans across cultures can express various emotions through music and motion, according to a recent study by psychology professor Thalia Wheatley, psychology and brain sciences PhD candidate Beau Sievers GR '17 and music professor Michael Casey.