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(04/29/11 2:00am)
"Beyond the troubled question of a national style, what Chinese film really shares with the other Chinese visual arts instead of any common style is a body of cultural reference of content and context, both historic and contemporary," Silbergeld said to approximately 30 audience members, including mainly professors and Chinese culture and language students.
(04/26/11 2:00am)
Throughout the Korean War, American news accounts of Korea were "spotty," which led to a national sentiment of "puzzled pessimism," Wright said. Although over 37,000 Americans died during the fighting in Korea, Americans struggled to grasp the scale of the conflict. Their lack of comprehension resulted from both the recent memory of World War II and the the Korean War's complexity and distance from the United States, he said.
(04/21/11 2:00am)
Philosophy professor Adina Roskies received the 2011 Stanton Prize awarded to scholars who have made "significant contributions to interdisciplinary research" from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, according to the Society's website. Roskies, a neuroscientist and philosopher who specializes in neuroethics, is currently writing a book on the philosophy of brain imaging, she said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Roskies plans to continue this project while serving as a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values next year. Roskies previously won the Society's William James Prize as a graduate student in 2002, she said.
(04/19/11 2:00am)
While working at the Yale machine shop sometime before 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Dufault's hair was caught in a metal lathe, a large machine that rotates a piece around a stationary tool, according to the Yale Daily News.
(04/12/11 2:00am)
Audience members filled the 16 large tables in Collis Common Ground, leaving few open seats as the six panel participants government professor Michelle Clarke, music professor Larry Polansky, chemistry professor Siobhan Milde, writing professor Stephanie Boone, German professor Bruce Duncan and Thayer School of Engineering professor John Collier discussed important instances in their own lives and provided suggestions for students as they pursue their studies and post-graduate careers.
(04/08/11 2:00am)
While a government shutdown may delay the distribution of financial aid and other student services, it is unlikely to result in long-term consequences for students or universities, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Congress has until midnight on Friday to pass a budget for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year or approve a temporary spending bill. If an agreement is not reached, only "essential employees" would report to work, The Chronicle reported. Based on the slow-down that occurred during a 21-day government shutdown in 1995 and 1996, students in academic programs based on quarters or other shorter units may be delayed in receiving financial aid payments. Since the White House instructed department officials not to discuss their shutdown contingency plans, the exact impact on educational institutions remains unknown, The Chronicle reported.
(04/07/11 2:00am)
"We still don't have career paths for people to lower cost and improve quality of health care," Kim said. "But we're going to invent it right here at Dartmouth College."
(04/01/11 2:00am)
The audience reacted passionately to the panelists' opinions during the question and answer session by interrupting claims with accusations of falsehood and punctuating particularly well-received points with applause.
(03/29/11 2:00am)
Salem did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
(03/07/11 4:00am)
Harvard University signed an agreement with Navy Secretary Ray Mabus that formally re-established a Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps on its campus on Friday, The Harvard Crimson reported. The program will be recognized with the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy projected to occur this summer. The University has also begun talks of opening more ROTC programs with other branches of the military. A formal ROTC unit will not be established on Harvard's campus until more student interest is generated, during which time the current 20 Harvard cadets will continue to train at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Harvard's decision is expected to influence other colleges and universities. Columbia University and Yale University officials are already engaging in discussion with the military about reinstating ROTC on their campuses, according to The Crimson.
(03/04/11 4:00am)
In the small town of Cange, Haiti, last week, six Upper Valley medical professionals performed 35 operations on Haitian patients many of whom arrived for surgery dressed in their best clothes because they were so grateful to be treated. The team of volunteers from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt., returned on Feb. 27 after treating patients in Partners in Health's Cange hospital, DHMC executive director and trip organizer John Butterly said.
(02/24/11 4:00am)
When the Ku Klux Klan crashed a voter registration drive held in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, Janet Moses one of the voter registry event's co-organizers stood her ground.
(02/22/11 4:00am)
Annette Gordon-Reed '81 was appointed as a member of the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, according to a press release on the Commission's website. Gordon-Reed was asked to join the Commission which was created on Feb. 17 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences by Leslie Berlowitz, the president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Gordon-Reed said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth. Gordon-Reed will serve on the Commission alongside filmmaker George Lucas, a former governor of Tennessee, the retired chief executive officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation and numerous college and university presidents including those from Harvard University, Duke University, Stanford University and New York University. "I hope the existence of the Commission and the work we do will bolster public awareness of and support for the humanities and social sciences as disciplines that are crucial to the progress of society," Gordon-Reed said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth. As a member of the Board of Trustees, Gordon-Reed drew parallels between the goals of the Board and the Commission, citing their mutual interests in promoting "the best ways to educate young people." The Commission which aims to provide the government and educational institutions with steps to support national conversations about the humanities and social sciences was formed after a bipartisan group of United States Senators and Representatives requested its creation, according to the release.
(02/16/11 4:00am)
The Green Team initiative, a budding student-run program that will train students to assist intoxicated peers at parties, held its first training session in Filene Auditorium on Tuesday afternoon. Approximately 80 students most of them members of Greek organizations attended the event, Student Assembly Alcohol Crime and Reduction Committee co-chair Cyrus Akrami '11 said.
(02/11/11 4:00am)
Students who have learned different English dialects encounter difficulties in their education due to a language gap known as the "deficit perspective," according to Noma LeMoine, chief executive officer of LeMoine and Associates Educational Consulting. These students, known as "Standard English learners," should be provided with a bilingual education in order to facilitate their learning experience, LeMoine said in a lecture at the Rockefeller Center on Thursday.
(02/04/11 4:00am)
Members of the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health participated in strategic advocacy workshops and discussed ways that students can increase the response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic at the national Student Global AIDS Campaign conference at Harvard University last weekend, according to Cameron Nutt '11, a member of the DCGH leadership board. DCGH sent 27 students the largest number of representatives compared to the groups from15 institutions at the conference Nutt said.
(01/26/11 4:00am)
The Book of Job is a useful vehicle for exploring ways to find justice in human suffering, Einstein Forum Director Susan Neiman said in her lecture "Job, God and the Problem of Evil," held in Filene Auditorium on Tuesday.
(01/25/11 4:00am)
Campus fraternities accepted a total of 28 new members this term, with Sigma Nu fraternity sinking the largest number of bids, according to Interfraternity Council President Tyler Brace '11.
(01/21/11 4:00am)
Michelle Obama endorsed the Obama administration's effort to encourage higher education institutions to increase the number of students who study abroad in China, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Although approximately 13,000 Americans study in China each year, the Obama administration hopes to double this number by 2014, The Chronicle reported. This goal may be difficult to achieve, however, since the government is not providing any funding for the initiative. Universities are advised to raise their own funds and attain support from the private sector, according to The Chronicle. Although legislation to provide $80 million in grants to study abroad programs was introduced in the last Congressional session, it was not passed due to the tight federal budget, The Chronicle reported. In addition to funding concerns, the Obama administration's goal is hampered by the limited Chinese culture and language education in American schools. The Obama administration believes that increased student exchanges would enhance the Chinese-American relationship, according to The Chronicle.
(01/20/11 4:00am)
In her presentation, "Education and Entrepreneurship: The Great Equalizer," Kajunju explained that individuals in poverty-stricken regions of the world often lack access to basic education and entrepreneurship opportunities, both of which are often classified as "out-of-reach."