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(03/01/10 4:00am)
In response to recent controversy about alcohol use on campus, College President Jim Yong Kim has formed the Student and Presidential Committee for Alcohol Harm Reduction last month in cooperation with student and administrative leaders, according to a College press release. The committee will investigate alcohol consumption and policies at Dartmouth to promote student safety, the release said.
(02/26/10 4:00am)
The average number of hours worked by physicians fell by 7.2 percent between 1996 and 2008, correlating with a decline of 25 percent in physician fees, according to a study by economics professor Douglas Staiger and his colleagues published Feb. 24 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
(02/22/10 4:00am)
David Knight '10, a history major with a concentration in political history, was one of 25 students nationwide to receive the first Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowship for Aspiring Teachers of Color last week, according to a press release from the College Office of Public Affairs. Knight has mentored children in New Hampshire and Vermont, interned with the Amy Biehl Foundation in South Africa and advocated for education in the Dominican Republic on an alternative spring break trip, according to the press release. He will receive $30,000 from the fellowship to fund a master's program in education. The program, which was transferred to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in 2009, has provided $8 million in funding for 350 individuals since its creation in 1992, the release said. The program aims to counteract falling percentages of teachers of color in the education work force by recruiting such teachers to work at public schools in greatest need of qualified instructors.
(02/22/10 4:00am)
The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center bioethics committee has started the largest revision of its code of professional conduct in DHMC's 19-year history, partly in response to recent controversy over medical schools' authorship policies, according to James Bernat, chairman of the DHMC committee and president of the New Hampshire-Vermont Hospital Ethics Committee Network. The revision will, among a number of changes, require proper disclosure of the authorship of all scholarly writings in order to discourage ghostwriting, a practice by which pharmaceutical companies secretly author journal articles and pay academic researchers to endorse the papers and allow the use of their names for publication.
(02/12/10 4:00am)
While Dartmouth hosts the oldest collegiate winter festival in the country, several other institutions also revel in the snowy outdoors during their own annual winter celebrations. Other schools' winter activities range from the extreme the University of Denver's snowboarding exhibition to the obscure Syracuse University's bowling competition.
(02/10/10 4:00am)
Dartmouth will offer tuition-free education to a group of Haitian students whose studies were put on hold by the recent earthquake in their country, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in a press conference Monday. The students will likely be hosted by families in the Upper Valley community, Kim said. The project is a response to requests made by Paul Farmer and former U.S. President Bill Clinton to continue the education of Haiti's future leaders, Kim said. The service to Haitian students comes as the latest addition to Dartmouth's Haiti Response, a joint effort by the College, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Partners in Health, which Kim founded with Farmer. Dartmouth's fundraising campaign has collected approximately $190,000 in donations for Haiti and 20 DHMC physicians and nurses have spent time in Haiti offering medical assistance.
(02/08/10 4:00am)
It might take stunts like an underwater cabinet meeting conducted by the president of the Maldives to illustrate the potential consequences of rapidly increasing sea levels, according to glaciologist Robert Bindschadler of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In a lecture on Friday at the Thayer School of Engineering, "Waking Giants: Ice Sheets in a Warming World," Bindschadler argued that the public must realize that some parts of the world will eventually be entirely submerged by melting glaciers, reporting that ice sheets are becoming more active and will likely increase the sea level by one meter within the next century.
(02/05/10 4:00am)
Although the number of students taking Advanced Placement tests has risen dramatically in recent years, an increasing number of students are failing the exams, receiving a score of less than two of five, USA Today reported on Thursday. The number of AP exams administered has increased by 1.8 million in the past ten years, according to USA Today. Of the 2.9 million exams administered last year, 41.5 percent earned failing scores, up from 36.5 percent in 1999. The failure rate for Southern states was particularly high, at 48.4 percent of all tests taken. The statistics may indicate that many schools are administering AP exams to students without adequate preparation, according to Linda Darling-Hammond, a teacher-quality expert at Stanford University. According to USA Today, students are often pressured into taking AP classes and exams by the prospect of weighted grades and monetary incentives. Failure rates are expected to continue to increase as more students sign up to take AP exams, USA Today reported.
(02/01/10 4:00am)
As the 2010 census approaches, many Dartmouth students may be unaware that they will have to file responses as Hanover residents, rather than as members of their families, Laura Waldon, a partnership specialist with the U.S. Census Bureau, said in an interview with The Dartmouth. In either February or March, officials from the Census Bureau, a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce, will begin working with campus officials to determine how best to distribute forms and survey students, Waldon said. Students living off-campus should receive census forms by mail in mid to late March, while those living in on-campus housing will receive paperwork on April 1 or shortly thereafter, Waldon said.
(01/28/10 4:00am)
The building, located between Lebanon and South Streets and designed by Truex Cullins for the College, was completed in December 2009 as the department's temporary home, Snyder said. The construction of the shell and core of the building cost $10.7 million.
(01/22/10 4:00am)
In their appeal, the SEIU asked for "sufficient time for the collective bargaining process to work."
(01/15/10 4:00am)
Ofri began with a reading from her book, "Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients," which told the story of Nazma Uddin, a 35-year-old woman from Bangladesh, who repeatedly visited Ofri's office complaining of countless ailments. Throughout her appointments, Ofri communicated with Uddin with the help of Uddin's daughter Azina, who acted as an interpreter.
(01/07/10 4:00am)
Facing an increasingly complicated health-care industry, more students are turning to joint MD-MBA programs to become informed about the business and clinical sides of health care administration, MD-MBA program directors from several universities around the country told The Dartmouth.
(12/02/09 4:00am)
As a background in business is perceived to be increasingly important for medical professionals, the number of medical students turning to dual-degree MD-MBA programs to prepare them for the management side of health care delivery continues to rise.
(11/24/09 4:00am)
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating complaints of discrimination against female cadets at the state-run Virginia Military Institute, according to The Boston Globe. Twelve years after women won the right to attend the institution, federal investigators are examining accusations that the institution's policies are sexist. An Education Department complaint filed in June 2008, for example, alleges that language used about women in the barracks reflects a derogatory attitude and hostility towards female cadets. The department is also investigating VMI promotion policies. Although female students still represent only a small fraction of the population at the institute, applications from women have doubled over the past six years, and many female cadets told The Globe they were surprised to hear of the complaints.
(11/13/09 4:00am)
In a controversial move that has been met with opposition from politicians and community members, the state of New Hampshire has granted the Eagle Times newspaper of Claremont, N.H., a loan guarantee to help keep the publication in production.
(10/26/09 3:00am)
The American Medical Association underestimates the number of young physicians in the workforce and overestimates the number of elderly physicians, many of whom have retired, according to a study by Dartmouth economics professor Douglas Staiger. The study predicts that the future physician workforce will likely younger, but also smaller, than previously expected.
(10/20/09 2:00am)
Over a dozen colleges in Massachusetts have implemented strategies to improve students' eating habits and combat youth obesity, often without students' knowledge, The Boston Globe reported on Sunday. Wellesley College, Tufts University and Northeastern University, among others, have reduced portion sizes in response to statistics showing that 25 percent of college students gain weight during their first semester, according to The Globe. The head chef at Merrimack College has altered the menu to include fresh, healthy ingredients that reduce trans fat and sodium content. Harvard University and Boston University have begun to make nutritional information available for students to encourage healthy eating choices. Although some students, particularly athletes, are unhappy with the widespread changes, most students do not notice the healthier substitutions, Ken Toong, executive director of dining at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, told The Globe.
(10/19/09 2:00am)
While some colleges and universities have come under fire for failing to provide adequate health coverage for student-athletes, Dartmouth students injured on the playing field have limited out-of-pocket expenses due to aid from the Dartmouth Student Group Health Plan and funding from the athletic department.