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(05/27/10 2:00am)
Donald Sheehan, a former Dartmouth professor and the first executive director of the Frost Place in Franconia, N.H., passed away on May 26 at his home in Charleston, S.C. at the age of 70, according to a statement from his family.
(05/19/10 2:00am)
Former Harvard student Adam Wheeler, 23, was charged with falsifying documents that helped him get into Harvard University in 2007, where he was granted $45,000 in financial aid, grants and scholarships, according to the Associated Press. Wheeler was admitted to Harvard after creating documents that claimed he earned a perfect academic record at Phillips Academy in Andover and studied for a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the AP. Wheeler was in the process of applying to transfer to Yale and Brown when he was caught, Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leone told the AP. Before attending Harvard, Wheeler was a student at Bowdoin College from 2005 to 2007, but was expelled for academic dishonesty.
(05/14/10 2:00am)
At one point a three-day festival complete with a minstrel show and a street parade, today's Green Key weekend bears little resemblance to the holiday's debut in May of 1899. The inaugural spring celebration, then referred to as "Spring Houseparties Weekend," featured fraternity parties on Webster Avenue and a bicycle parade in which visiting women competed for awards such as best decorated wheel and costume, according to a 1899 article in The Dartmouth.
(05/11/10 2:00am)
Jan van der Marck, the director of the Dartmouth College Galleries and Collections from 1974 to 1980, passed away in his Michigan home on April 26 at the age of 80, according to his wife of 20 years, Shelia van der Marck.
(05/04/10 2:00am)
The Dartmouth Formula Racing team will go head-to-head with teams from around the world in the fourth annual Formula Hybrid International Competition held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon this week. Teams from Yale University, Tufts University and McGill University will race alongside cars from India, Italy, Russia and Taiwan in the three-day event hosted by the Thayer School of Engineering that challenges competitors to design, build and race fuel-efficient race cars.
(04/30/10 2:00am)
"The DSGHP exceeds the standard guidelines issued by the American College Health Association for an appropriate, credible student health insurance/benefits program that is affordable," DSGHP and patient accounting supervisor Ginger Farewell-Lawrence said in an e-mail to The Dartmouth.
(04/26/10 2:00am)
Starting this Summer term, instructors will post required and recommended textbook identification information on the College's online Course Timetable, according to an e-mail from the Registrar sent to undergraduates Friday morning. Book information, including the text's retail price and International Standard Book Number or the text's author, title, publisher and copyright date, will be listed in a pop-up window from hyper-linked course titles, according to the e-mail. This change will put the College in compliance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act's requirement that colleges and universities provide students with textbook information "to the maximum extent possible" in their online course schedule, according to the e-mail. The change is intended to prevent booksellers from charging higher prices where competition is lacking and to provide students with enough time to compare prices from various sellers.
(04/19/10 2:00am)
Rassias said the "best way to teach" is to employ "simple heart-to-heart involvement."
(04/12/10 2:00am)
The upcoming decade will determine nuclear energy's viability as an alternative energy source in order to combat greenhouse gas emissions and halt the process of global warming, according to three speakers at the Thayer School of Engineering's second annual Great Issues in Energy Symposium on Friday.
(04/01/10 2:00am)
In September, Hadley resigned from his position as the chief of staff of Rockdale County, Ga., to campaign full-time, he said. As chief of staff, he was responsible for "facilitating internal communications" between the county's Board of Commissioners, as well as conducting research and managing board-initiated programs, according to a Rockdale County press release.
(03/03/10 4:00am)
Facing a decrease in funding due to the College's budget cuts, Dartmouth Career Services was not able to provide the same recruitment opportunities that it has offered in previous years, including sending students to off-campus recruiting events, according to Associate Director of Employer Relations Monica Wilson. The Tuck School of Business' Career Development Office, however, has actively collaborated with other business schools to coordinate off-campus opportunities for the institution's students, according to Rebecca Joffrey Tu '97, director of the Tuck Career Development Office.
(02/23/10 4:00am)
Harvesting peanuts and feeding fish with worms may not be the first images that come to mind when one thinks of a farm, but Dartmouth's Organic Farm has been a venue for such sustainable experimentation since its creation in 1994.
(02/12/10 4:00am)
Despite the slew of students plunging into ice-cold Occom Pond and speeding down the Dartmouth Skiway this weekend, Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone and Dick's House officials said they do not expect a significant increase in student incidents during Winter Carnival and will make few special provisions for the weekend. Safety and Security, however, will likely see an increase the number of calls it receives due to the weekend's scheduled activities, according to Keiselim Montas, interim director of Safety and Security.
(01/27/10 4:00am)
McDougall has worked closely with three other DHMC employees, as well as numerous national and state trade organizations, to pool information to bring to Congress, he said.
(01/22/10 4:00am)
Earth sciences professor James Scott, who led the earth sciences department's geobiology group, suffered a fatal heart attack in his Hanover condominium on Jan. 11. Scott was 48 years old, and had worked for Dartmouth since 2006.
(01/08/10 4:00am)
As national economies become more globalized, companies risk becoming less competitive, causing products and services to lose their uniqueness, according to Tuck School of Business professor Richard D'Aveni. In his new book, "Beating the Commodity Trap: How to Maximize Your Competitive Position and Increase Your Pricing Power," which came out last month, D'Aveni details strategies that companies should use to survive amid widespread "commoditization."
(12/09/09 2:49am)
The military health care system, which is comprised of 70 hospitals, 400 ambulatory clinics, 400 dental clinics, 184 veterinary clinics and 130,000 uniformed personnel, receives only $2 billion in federal funding annually, Embrey said.
(12/01/09 4:00am)
Dartmouth, which owns the Hanover Inn, has agreed to pay $2,000 in fines for several hundred labor law violations at the Inn including immigration violations, and wage and hour violations in a settlement with the New Hampshire Department of Labor. The settlement also required the College to pay $29,000 in back pay to the Hanover Inn's catering employees.
(11/23/09 4:00am)
The environmental movement is deeply rooted in notions of ethical responsibility and the development of strong communities, Peter Forbes '83, the co-founder and executive director of The Center for Whole Communities, said in his Friday lecture, "Social Justice and Environmentalism: Bridging the Gap." Although environmental protection and social justice are often approached separately, neither can be fully solved until they are considered together, Forbes said during the lecture, held in the Rockefeller Center.
(11/11/09 4:00am)
Successful health care reform would be a major turning point in United States history, with repercussions similar to those of the Industrial Revolution, Harvard Business School professor Regina Herzlinger said in a lecture on Tuesday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Herzlinger proposed increasing health care plans' transparency and abolishing employer-based insurance during her lecture, "Who Killed Health Care?"