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(05/15/14 10:19pm)
On a 30-minute trip to Stevens High School each week, tutors swap stories and share tips as they get ready to help students in Claremont achieve their college goals. The students volunteer with Let’s Get Ready, a national non-profit that provides free tutoring and college counseling to high school students who have qualifying financial need.
(05/06/14 10:50pm)
A photo of a young Afghan child swinging from the barrel of a tank gun stretched behind internationally recognized war photographer James Nachtwey ’70 as he shared his experience covering Afghanistan’s civil war in the 1990s. The talk, which took place Tuesday afternoon, featured photographs chronicling his stay in Kabul before the Taliban wrested control of the city in 1996, as well as his time with the Afghan Northern Alliance, who were fighting the Taliban outside of Kabul.
(04/27/14 10:21pm)
Dartmouth students whose racial identities span beyond simple check boxes posed for portraits in the Black Family Visual Arts Center Sunday evening to take part in “The Changing Face of Dartmouth,” a photography project sponsored by MOSAIC, a group of multiracial and multicultural Dartmouth students. The photos will be on display in Baker-Berry library later this month.
(04/10/14 10:53pm)
By the Monday night deadline, over 750 students had applied for a spot in one of the College’s living learning communities, a housing option for students seeking to live with peers who share a certain passion or interest. Students could opt to join an established affinity community, participate in one of three new programs or design their own. The programs being launched this fall include an entrepreneurship community, a global village and an LGBTQ affinity house.
(03/30/14 10:55pm)
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(03/24/14 11:59pm)
On the heels of a 27 percent increase in applications, the Geisel School of Medicine jumped to 18th in U.S. News and World Report’s 2015 medical school rankings for primary care, rising 13 spots from last year. The school also improved in research rankings released earlier this month, climbing from 38 to 34.
(03/05/14 12:46am)
This spring’s newly admitted students program, Dimensions of Dartmouth, will offer three dates for prospective students to visit campus rather than one, and enrolled students will not pose as prospective members of the Class of 2018, dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said. In previous years, students performing in the Dimensions show pretended to be high school students at the start of the program to facilitate social interactions. They revealed themselves as current students during the Dimensions show.
(02/17/14 1:51am)
The Geisel School of Medicine saw a 27 percent increase in applications for the fall’s entering class than for the entering class of 2013. Candidates sent in 5,241 completed applications to compete for fewer than 90 available spots, which will result in a acceptance rate of about 1.7 percent, according to a recent Geisel press release.
(02/06/14 8:57pm)
The College has no shortage of traditions, from laps around the Homecoming bonfire to the semi-legal late-night swim that is the Ledyard Challenge. During past Winter Carnivals, however, some combination of cabin fever and a College-sanctioned holiday have driven students to come up with some downright ridiculous traditions.
(02/06/14 12:51am)
Within the next few days, two rockets will be sent into space from an Alaska launch site. Dartmouth physics researchers have participated in the mission as part of “Cube Swarm,” an operation that aims to launch low-cost satellites into short-term orbits around the Earth. One of the rockets, carrying College instruments, will not orbit the Earth but will instead test a new hardware system that may be used in future orbiting satellites, physics professor Kristina Lynch said.
(01/31/14 12:00am)
With the Winter Olympics set to begin next week, The Dartmouth sat down with government professor William Wohlforth to discuss security preparations in Sochi, Russia and the possibility of a terrorist attack. Wohlforth specializes in Russian foreign policy and international security.
(01/24/14 1:17am)
The College announced Thursday that it will begin offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, through the online learning platform edX. DartmouthX will launch its initial course this fall and plans to offer three additional MOOCs during the 2014-2015 academic year.
(01/23/14 2:08pm)
The College announced today that it will begin offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, through the online learning platform edX. DartmouthX will launch its initial course this fall and plans to offer three additional MOOCs during the 2014-2015 year.
(01/17/14 3:00am)
More ice cream. A pool hall with a tricky name. Largely unchanged wait times. One year and millions of dollars later, the newly renovated Collis Center for Student Involvement is seeing its finishing touches. The three-part process, which started with the center’s temporary closure last winter, has transformed its dining, studying and lounging spaces.
(01/09/14 3:16am)
After last year’s successful pilot program, the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault announced an expansion of a grant program that will fund research focused on reducing instances of sexual assault on college campuses. The SPCSA’s Elizabeth A. Hoffman grants will provide each recipient with $750 per term for up to two terms of research.
(01/07/14 3:54am)
During the winter interim period, Ezra Toback ’14 roamed Tokyo and its surroundings, interviewing priests and collecting materials at over 15 sacred sites. Toback’s travels, funded by the College’s office of undergraduate advising and research, formed an integral part of his Asian and Middle Eastern studies thesis, which looks at the ways in which Japanese shrines and temples market themselves to members of various socioeconomic classes.
(11/17/13 11:02pm)
Dieters’ ability to self-regulate is severely diminished after a long, stressful day — and the food they aim to avoid looks tastier too, according to a new study by psychology professor Todd Heatherton.
(10/31/13 11:02am)
The third annual Global Employability Survey, published on Monday, indicates a trend toward a more international employment market, The New York Times reported. The survey asked firms to describe their ideal recruit and rank higher education institutions most likely to produce this type of recruit. Of the 150 universities ranked by the survey, 45 were American, down from 56 three years ago. University affiliation was shown to be very important, with 21.8 percent saying that an applicant’s alma mater was the main factor for selection and 45.1 percent saying that it played a major role. The ranking also showed a rise for universities in European countries including Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
(10/30/13 11:00am)
New research has found Norse Greenlanders went extinct despite many attempts to adapt to changing climate. This finding revises previous scholarship that viewed the Norse as a inflexible society resistant to change, said Thomas McGovern, an anthropology professor at Hunter College, City University of New York.
(10/15/13 2:00am)
Freshmen expressed relief at the prospect of having social options beyond Greek Leadership Council-sponsored events and dorm-hopping.