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(09/24/09 2:00am)
Kappa Delta sorority, which accepted Dartmouth's invitation to become the College's eighth Panhellenic sorority in May, will participate in its first formal rush process this fall. In interviews with The Dartmouth this week, several sorority presidents expressed hope that Kappa Delta's participation will help reduce membership quotas for all sororities involved in the rush process, resulting in smaller pledge classes for each organization.
(09/22/09 2:00am)
Director of Safety and Security Harry Kinne is temporarily serving as interim associate Dean of the College, filling in for Marcia Kelly, who is acting as interim secretary to the Board of Trustees, The Dartmouth confirmed on Monday.
(09/18/09 5:52pm)
U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano '73, D-Mass., formally announced that he will seek the late Edward Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat in a Boston press conference on Friday.
(09/15/09 2:00am)
Rep. Michael Capuano '73, D-Mass., will formally announce whether he will enter the race for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the late Edward Kennedy this week, according to Alison Mills, Capuano's press secretary. Capuano obtained nomination papers for the Senate seat on Sept. 8.
(09/15/09 2:00am)
Although fewer than 10 Dartmouth students have reported influenza-like illnesses amidst the resurgence of the H1N1 virus this fall, College officials expect that number will quickly rise as more students arrive for the beginning of the term, according to College Health Services Director John Turco.
(09/09/09 3:45am)
"I believe that the voters of Massachusetts want to continue the progressive ideals that Senator Ted Kennedy fought for during his decades of service," Capuano's statement reads. "No other candidate being mentioned or already announced more closely mirrors Ted Kennedy's positions on important issues of war and peace."
(06/02/09 2:00am)
This year's Commencement exercises will mark the end of current College President James Wright's time at the helm of Dartmouth. After 40 years at the College, Wright will step down from his post July 1. Harvard professor Jim Yong Kim a former director of the World Health Organization's HIV/AIDS division will then become the 17th member of the Wheelock Succession of Dartmouth presidents.
(06/01/09 2:00am)
Researchers have long sought to unravel the mysteries of the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights. In 2005, Dartmouth physics professor Kristina Lynch led a team that tried to answer a few of these mysteries with the Cascades-1 rocket, which failed to gather the desired information about the aurora when it was launched in 2005. On March 20, however, with new funding, Lynch and her team successfully collected data after launching the Cascades-2 Sounding Rocket through the aurora.
(05/28/09 2:00am)
Linda Snyder, the current associate dean for physical resources and planning at Harvard University, has been appointed as Dartmouth's first Chief Facilities Officer, the College announced on Wednesday. Snyder, who will begin work at the College in early August 2009, will oversee both the Department of Facilities, Operations and Management and the Office of Planning, Design and Construction, which will become one integrated department, said Adam Keller, executive vice president of finance and administration.
(05/21/09 5:25am)
The nature of Dartmouth's Commencement ceremony makes the event resistant to budget cuts, Kiefer said.
(05/15/09 7:48am)
Anticipating dumpsters brimming with plastic cups and cans of Keystone Light, sustainability chairs and members of several Greek organizations said they are taking steps to stay environmentally friendly during Green Key Weekend.
(05/12/09 5:10am)
The 11 Dartmouth students who were evacuated almost two weeks ago from the Language Study Abroad program in Cholula, Mexico, following the swine flu outbreak, returned to campus on Monday. The students, who are living in four previously unoccupied triples in Richardson Hall, will complete their LSA courses at Dartmouth.
(05/11/09 6:21am)
A stagnant economy and a weak national government contributed to the failure of the Articles of Confederation, a panel of American history scholars told an audience of 50 in the Rockefeller Center on Friday. Each speaker offered an alternative analysis of the circumstances that led to the creation of the Constitution in the panel, "Why does America have the Constitution of 1787?: New Historical Perspectives," moderated by Dartmouth history professor Joseph Cullon.
(05/05/09 6:02am)
Civic technologies are interactive services that depend on users to prevent accidental and deliberate damage, Zittrain said.
(04/28/09 6:04am)
Gordon-Reed, who was traveling in Australia at the time of the announcement, said in an interview with The Dartmouth that she was shocked to learn that she had won.
(04/27/09 7:13am)
College President James Wright and his wife, Susan Wright, spoke about their experiences and memories of Dartmouth before an audience of students and parents in Spaulding Auditorium on Saturday as part of First-Year Family Weekend. Asked about his greatest challenges as president of Dartmouth, Wright described leading the community through the murder of two professors in Etna, N.H. in 2001, and dealing with the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when the College dispatched cross-country runners to reach students on freshman trips. "They summarized to these kids what had happened because we had no way of knowing who among our students might have had someone in those buildings," James Wright said. Susan Wright also shared highlights from her time working with students. "The best time ever was when I looked outside on the night of the [2008] election and there were all these students -- and they weren't coming to protest the [Student Life Initiative]," she said. "They were coming to share the excitement of the presidential election."
(04/24/09 7:33am)
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(04/16/09 6:26am)
The Dartmouth Energy Conservation Campaign kicked off on Wednesday afternoon with an event in Collis Common Ground. The campaign is designed to help Dartmouth achieve the goal set out by College President James Wright in September to reduce the College's greenhouse gas emissions to 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.
(04/14/09 5:48am)
A rally will be held at the University of California, Los Angeles on April 22 in support of the use of animals in biomedical experiments, the Los Angeles Times reported. UCLA professor J. David Jentsch, the rally's lead organizer, is among several University of California scientists who use animals in their research. The Animal Liberation Brigade, an animal rights organization, took responsibility for setting Jensch's car on fire on March 9, the LA Times reported. Jentsch, who uses vervet monkeys to study treatments for schizophrenia and drug addiction, said his work is "humane and carefully regulated," the LA Times reported.
(04/09/09 7:30am)
Although undergraduate interest in jobs in environmental fields has increased in recent years, the availability of jobs in this sector has not mirrored its growing popularity, according to personnel at several Ivy League colleges and universities.