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(05/12/15 11:01pm)
Last week the National Science Foundation awarded 16 alumni and students Graduate Research Fellowships for 2015 out of 2,000 recipients from a pool of 16,500 applicants nationwide. An additional 16 Dartmouth-affiliated students were awarded honorable mentions.
(05/10/15 11:11pm)
Most Hanover businesses report little to no change in revenue since the College’s hard alcohol ban went into effect on March 28. Hanover town manager Julia Griffin said that though she expected of-age students to turn to town businesses instead of drinking hard liquor at fraternities, she has yet to hear of this happening from town businesses, adding, however, that she is more likely to hear from businesses during difficult times than when there is an uptick in sales.
(04/27/15 11:54pm)
Potential changes to distributive requirements, class meeting times, grade inflation and upperclassmen advising were discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the faculty of arts and sciences. The meeting served as an open forum for both proposal and discussion, as several of the ideas discussed will potentially be put to a vote on June 1, dean of the faculty Michael Mastanduno said.
(04/20/15 10:34pm)
The College Republicans attended the “First In The Nation Republican Leadership Summit” for the first time this past weekend. The State Committee hosted the summit in Nashua, New Hampshire, and it included speeches by prominent members of the GOP, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX; Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL; Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY; Gov. Chris Christie, R-NJ and former governor of Florida Jeb Bush.
(04/15/15 10:44pm)
Gathered in Spaulding Auditorium yesterday afternoon, special collections librarian Jay Satterfield and College executive vice president Richard Mills addressed a crowd of approximately 70 faculty and students. The lecture was part of the fourth town hall meeting in an ongoing series of open conversations launched by Mills last October.
(04/07/15 11:02pm)
The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was named one of the “150 Best Places to Work in Health Care” last month by Becker’s Hospital Review. This was the first year DHMC made the list since it was first published in 2011, DHMC chief human resource officer John Malanowski said.
(04/01/15 11:13pm)
This March, a Tuck School of Business team traveled to Cairo to co-host a summit titled “Learning by Doing: The Power of Experiential Learning in Management Education” at the American University in Cairo.
(03/03/15 12:39am)
The Tuck School of Business recently announced the appointment of Fred McKinney as the managing director of its minority business programs. McKinney has worked for the past four years as the president and chief executive officer of the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council, a non-profit organization that dedicates itself to advancing business opportunities for certified Asian, black, Hispanic and Native American businesses.
(03/02/15 5:16am)
Seventy college students, including students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology, have signed up for HackDartmouth — Dartmouth’s first annual hackathon — since registration opened last week, student organizer Colby Ye ’16 said. The College-sponsored, student-run event, which will be held this coming April, is financially sponsored by Facebook, Google, Ionic Security, the Neukom Digital Arts Leadership and Innovation Lab, Palantir, Namecheap and Major League Hacking.
(02/23/15 11:59pm)
With the help of a $17.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Thayer School of Engineering professor Mary Albert will lead the U.S. Ice Drilling Program for four years to gather data about climate change in Antarctica and Greenland.
(02/18/15 12:15am)
“Jeez, AIDS was complicated,” former director of the Boston AIDS consortium and executive director of the New England Innocence Project Denise McWilliams said during her lecture “Fears, Fallacies and Failures” yesterday in the Rockefeller Center. The talk was the College’s 15th annual Stonewall Lecture, a series which aims to educate students on gay, lesbian, transgender and queer issues.
(02/12/15 1:04am)
A study conducted by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles reveals that current freshmen around the country entered college last fall less concerned with partying and more anxious about job prospects and paying for school. The annual study, titled “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2014,” was released last week and delves into various aspects of student life, including experience with drugs and alcohol, anxiety and financial concerns. According to the report, only 11 percent of current freshmen report having spent six hours or more per week partying in high school, a decrease from 23 percent 10 years ago.
(02/06/15 2:37am)
Graduate students inhabit the same campus as the College’s undergraduate population, but experience different forms of academic and social life.
(02/04/15 11:35pm)
For years, the non-profit Hanover Conservancy has partnered with the town and the College to protect Hanover-area wildlife. The organization has recently narrowed its focus to devote undivided attention to the wildlife preservation work in Hanover, executive director of the trust Adair Mulligan said. In the past, the Conservancy sought to preserve a wider area of the Upper Valley, including Lebanon.
(01/27/15 12:22am)
Students at the Tuck School of Business have been using their classroom and work experiences to contribute to the Upper Valley community through a consulting club, Tuck Student Consulting Services. The club, designed to provide Tuck students with real-world experience in consulting, has been helping various companies and non-profits throughout the area, such as Carrie Cahill Mulligan’s Heirloom Handknit Hats, non-profit Positive Tracks and workforce development program WorkReadyNH. In total, the program works with 10 to 20 businesses per year, with each project being 40 to 60 hours in scope.
(01/21/15 4:10am)
Hanover, in conjunction with the Twin Pines Housing Trust, will expand and improve its affordable housing by replacing current units with newer, senior-specific units in downtown Hanover.
(01/16/15 3:55am)
While official programming for the College’s social justice themed celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. officially begins today, about 40 students joined in a protest in Baker-Berry Library last night, chanting “black lives matter, we can’t breathe.” The protest comes before a lecture and programming that will address the events surrounding the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and general issues of social justice and civil rights.
(01/06/15 2:33am)
Dartmouth has become the third institution of higher learning to partner with the Posse Foundation as part of a program that aims to recruit exceptional post-9/11 veterans to various top-tier universities around the country, the College announced in early December. The Posse Veterans Program, also in place at Vassar College and Wesleyan University, sends cohorts of 10 veterans to school with four-year financial aid packages and provides support throughout the college experience to ensure success.
(11/14/14 12:52am)
The Dartmouth chatted with Aine Donovan, who directs the College’s Ethics Institute, about Dartmouth’s honor code.
(11/04/14 12:37am)
Laura Barrett, the College library’s director of education and outreach, said she used to pay for the best parking sticker available, which gave her access to parking lots close to the center of campus.