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(04/10/12 2:00am)
Hoping to improve China's health care delivery system as it undergoes a five-year reform plan, the College has entered into a partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Health, a College press release announced on Thursday. A Chinese delegation led by Minghui Ren, director-general of the Department of International Cooperation in the Ministry of Health, visited Hanover last week for a series of discussions with members of the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. The partnership was initially established when Dartmouth representatives traveled to Beijing in October 2011 to sign an agreement. However, the Center waited to publicize the agreement until Chinese delegations came to Hanover, according to Al Mulley '70, director of the Center.
(04/03/12 2:00am)
Gleizer said she hopes to set the record for youngest person to kayak around the circumference of Lake Baikal.
(03/29/12 2:00am)
Kim's tour, overseen by the U.S. Treasury, aims to solicit the ideas of various heads of state and finance ministers of stakeholding countries of the World Bank, according to the Treasury release. Various news sources have reported that the tour is also designed to promote Kim's campaign against two other candidates for the position Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo.
(03/07/12 4:00am)
Due to accounting and record-keeping problems, AmeriCorps, the national organization that provides grants to the Dartmouth Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program, was forced to freeze its grants, according to SEAD Executive Director Jay Davis. As a result, the $1,100 tuition reimbursement provided by AmeriCorps funding to SEAD interns working in high schools this term must be funded by a different source, according to Davis. This tuition reimbursement, which was described by Davis as "a nice added thing," is currently provided to interns in addition to a stipend and free housing from the Tucker Foundation. The organization that directly provides the grant money to SEAD from AmeriCorps is looking for funding from other sources that could substitute for the usual grant that covers the tuition reimbursement. However, if these grants do not cover the full amount of the tuition reimbursements, Davis said that SEAD will cover the extra amount with its own funding. The SEAD intern program will not change in future terms, though the method of funding will, according to Davis.
(02/29/12 4:00am)
According to flyers posted across campus by the group, only 11 of 171 victims are known by the group to have sought help from the College administration.
(02/29/12 4:00am)
A recent study released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that one-third of college students transfer to a different institution before graduating, reflecting a decreasing percentage of students who graduate from the same school they entered as freshmen, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Students most commonly transfer in their second year, though 13 percent of transferring students do so in their fourth year, according to The Chronicle. Among students who transfer from four-year public institutions, more than half transfer to two-year public schools. Of students who transfer from two-year public institutions, over a third transfer to other two-year institutions, while 41 percent of students transfer to four-year institutions, The Chronicle reported. The report found that community colleges are a popular destination for transfer students, possibly due to lower tuiton costs and better insitutional fits, according to The Chronicle.
(02/20/12 4:00am)
An increasing blur between private and public spheres is the future of technology in business, according to an analysis performed by M. Eric Johnson, the director of the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business. The Center, founded in 2001, "infuses technology into the Tuck curriculum" to provide business students with skills necessary given the growing importance of technology and the Internet.
(02/17/12 4:00am)
The man arrested on homicide charges in the alleged murder of Crispin Scott '13 has been identified as Oscar Vicente Castro Cadeno, a 41-year-old from Ecuador, El Periodico de Catalunya reported Thursday. After searching the perpetrator's home in Esplugues, a municipality of Barcelona, Catalonian police discovered over 100 photographs of 20 young men who appeared to be unconscious and showed signs of having been sexually assaulted, El Periodico reported. All of the individuals were white and appeared to be in their 20s. The photographs found by investigators, all in print form, showed similar patterns, documenting the men in both clothed and unclothed states, and some of the pictures showed Castro sexually assaulting the men, according to El Periodico. The authorities are attempting to locate the individuals in the photographs, saying that the arrested man is HIV-positive and may have infected some of his victims, El Periodico reported. Investigators said Castro frequented bars and convinced individuals to return to his home for drinks, a strategy he likely employed after meeting Scott in a bar on Aribau Street in the Eixample district of Barcelona. Officers also searched the nearby building of a woman whom Castro looked after and determined that he likely stole the barbiturates used on his victims from the woman, according to El Periodico. After moving to Barcelona in 2007, Castro joined various artists' circles and associations, and he began sharing his photography and poetry. One member of the Artists Circle of Esplugues told El Periodico that Castro said "he liked to take photos and print them in large-size formats." To date, officers have only located one of Castro's victims, a young man who accused Castro of drugging and sexually violating him in 2009. At the time, the case was closed because it was "one person's word against another's," El Periodico reported.
(02/07/12 4:00am)
College-run study abroad options provide students "a chance to apply their knowledge to an unfamiliar situation" and gain "global citizenship," according to Associate Dean of the Faculty for International and Interdisciplinary Studies Lynn Higgins, who has led 15 Dartmouth-led study abroad terms. Higgins said transfer terms have a number of disadvantages, notably that a maximum of four credits may be obtained from transfer terms.
(02/02/12 4:00am)
Although he is still in the process of earning his business degree, Phil McDonnell Tu '12 has already founded two start up companies. His most recent venture, an online business called CoupFlip, emerged from collaboration with two of his peers, as well as various undergraduates and faculty at Tuck School of Business.
(01/24/12 4:00am)
The hot pot dinner attracted a gathering of students and graduate students, mostly composed of members of DAO, according to Anna Lynn Doster '12, the undergraduate advisor for the Chinese Language House.
(01/23/12 4:00am)
The Palaeopitus Senior Society will host an event, titled "I Have A Dream for Dartmouth," Tuesday evening centered on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy.
(01/12/12 4:00am)
The Street View feature for institutes of higher education is aimed at prospective students, nostalgic alumni and current students who want to become more familiar with their campuses, according to a post on the official Google blog. The virtual campus tour could help prospective students tour various campuses without physically conducting college visits, which can often be expensive and time consuming, The Los Angeles Times wrote.
(01/09/12 4:00am)
The upcoming New Hampshire primary elections will play an important role in the developing race for the Republican presidential nomination, government professor Ronald Shaiko said in an interview with WPTZ Burlington on Jan. 3. The primary, like the Iowa caucus, will help the Republican party decide which candidate will win the nomination, as no Republican candidate has ever won the nomination without winning either New Hampshire or Iowa, according to Shaiko. The timing of the New Hampshire primary, which closely follows the Iowa caucus, means that candidates who fared well in Iowa will still be in the spotlight during the primary, Shaiko said. By the end of the primary, candidates who performed poorly are expected to drop out, narrowing the race for the nomination.
(05/27/11 2:00am)
Chi Gamma Epsilon's physical plant was spray-painted with the words "no means yes, and yes means anal" and "rape" as well as other obscenities late Wednesday evening or during the early morning hours of Thursday, according to a Thursday email sent to fraternity and sorority presidents by Chi Gam president Sean Schultz '12 and obtained by The Dartmouth. After discovering the graffiti on the outside of the fraternity house, Schultz contacted Safety and Security regarding the vandalism, he said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Several other fraternities including Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, Gamma Delta Chi fraternity and Theta Delta Chi fraternity were also vandalized with similar profanities. The word "rufies" [sic] was spray-painted onto the exterior of GDX, and the word "rape" was spray-painted onto Theta Delt. Hanover Police informed the fraternities that had been vandalized that officers caught the perpetrators on Thursday evening, Alpha Chi president Eric Sussman '12 said in an email to The Dartmouth. Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College, declined to comment on the incident, citing the ongoing investigation.
(05/26/11 2:00am)
The Women in Science Project, founded in 1990, celebrated its 20th anniversary last Thursday and Friday with various events including an alumnae panel, a mentoring workshop and a student poster symposium, according to Assistant Dean of Faculty for Undergraduate Research and WISP Director Margaret Funnell. The Karen E. Wetterhahn Science Symposium, named after the deceased chemistry professor who co-founded WISP, featured the work of 79 WISP student interns in a variety of fields ranging from biology to mathematics on Thursday, Funnell said.
(05/20/11 2:00am)
By The Dartmouth Staff
(05/19/11 2:00am)
The cafe will be open from morning to the early evening during its pilot term this Summer, although the exact hours have not yet been set, according to Horrell. He said he hopes the cafe will be open until 1 a.m. starting Fall term to better align with students' study habits.
(05/13/11 2:00am)
The Panhellenic Council and Inter-Fraternity Council agreed to work collaboratively to establish policies addressing assault in Greek organizations at a joint meeting Thursday evening, Panhell president Ellie Sandmeyer '12 said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The organizations also agreed to review and possibly revise bylaws of each individual Greek organization to ensure that internal adjudication procedures are in place to address incidents of assault, Sandmeyer said.
(05/05/11 2:00am)
As geopolitical and natural crises erupt across the globe from Japan's nuclear plant meltdown to the revolutions in the Middle East Dartmouth's Off-Campus Programs Office remains "vigilant" in ensuring the safety of students studying abroad, Off-Campus Programs Executive Director John Tansey said. This summer's Advanced Language Study Abroad in Japan, which was altered following the Fukushima nuclear power plant failure in March, was the only program to undergo logistical changes in light of world events.