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(01/20/11 4:00am)
The Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science will bring 50 students from a wide range of disciplines to campus this July for a master's program designed to address national health care issues, according to Al Mulley Jr., the Center's director.
(01/12/11 4:00am)
In financial betting markets, where experts and traders might have incentives to lie and mislead others in order to capitalize on their mistakes, proper incentives become especially important for accurate results, Chen said.
(01/07/11 4:00am)
Acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears will not apply to serve as permanent Dean of the College, Spears said in an interview with The Dartmouth Editorial Board on Thursday. Spears will vacate the position when her two-year appointment ends on June 30, she said.
(10/28/10 2:00am)
Clouds of particles floating in space may affect the strength of magnetic fields protecting the Earth from cosmic rays, according to research by Dartmouth professor Hans-Reinhard Mueller. Mueller's research into understanding the relationship between space clouds and particles on Earth may eventually allow for a three-dimensional map of interstellar dust clouds, he said.
(10/25/10 2:00am)
Patients suffering from functional dyspepsia, a gastrointestinal disease, are more than three times more likely to develop sleeping disorders than healthy patients, according to a study entitled "Functional Dyspepsia: A Risk Factor for Disordered Sleep" conducted by Brian Lacy, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School. The study was the first to examine the connection between dyspepsia and sleeping disorders, Lacy said.
(09/29/10 2:00am)
Gordon-Reed, a professor at Harvard University's undergraduate college and Harvard Law School, wrote the 2008 book "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," which traced the history of several generations of the slave family owned by Jefferson. The book won the National Book Award in 2008 and the Pulitzer Prize in 2009.
(09/29/10 2:00am)
Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed '81 received the MacArthur Fellowship commonly known as the "Genius Grant" for her groundbreaking scholarship on the life and family of President Thomas Jefferson, the Foundation announced Tuesday.
(06/11/10 2:00am)
"There's way too much to do," said Cameron Bilger '80, reunion chair for the Class of 1980.
(05/19/10 2:00am)
The Cat's mischievous character and "outrageous" clothes were influenced by stereotypes of African-Americans depicted in minstrel shows and cartoons of the period, according to Nel.
(05/17/10 2:00am)
Colleges nationwide are expanding the size of their waiting lists, showing that admissions office are becoming "increasingly cautious" in an uncertain economic climate, The Washington Post reported. Several colleges and universities, including the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary, have complied waiting lists this year that exceed the size of their freshman classes, according to The Post. Administrators from cash-strapped colleges have inflated the waiting list over the past several years to create added security as it becomes more and more difficult to determine which accepted students will enroll, The Post reported. While some students told The Post the waiting list adds another, more complicated element to their college decision-making, an admissions officer told The Post that students accepted from the waiting list are often the most excited to attend the institution in question.
(05/07/10 2:00am)
Jefferson was an Enlightenment-influenced deist who believed God was a "clockmaker" who created the universe but who does not interfere with human affairs, Gordon-Reed said. He did not believe in the Trinity or the divinity of Jesus Christ, but instead regarded Jesus as a great moral philosopher, according to Gordon-Reed.
(04/23/10 2:00am)
Many scholars cite 15th century "broadsides" single sheets of printed news, prayers and forms as early forms of mass media. Historical evidence, however, does not support this opinion, Falk Eisermann, head of an early print cataloguing project at the Berlin State Library, said in a lecture in the Current Periodicals Room of Baker Library on Thursday.
(04/19/10 2:00am)
Medical ethicist Ezekiel Emanuel explored the ethical implications of three hypothetical medical situations in an open discussion with students, faculty and other audience members in the Rockefeller Center on Friday. Emanuel also explained his own personal views on the medical ethics of the cases and challenged audience members to defend their reasoning for their ethical opinions.
(04/01/10 2:00am)
Making frequent use of the blackboard to illustrate her points, Caldicott described the ways in which each stage of the production of nuclear power, from the mining of uranium to the storing of nuclear waste, can release dangerous, cancer-causing chemicals into the environment.
(03/30/10 2:00am)
Retired Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Mark Pfeiffer '70 has decided not to make a bid for Rhode Island's open House of Representatives 1st District seat, Pfeiffer said in an interview with The Dartmouth, despite speculation in several media outlets that he was considering a run. The opening attracted several candidates after current Rep. Patrick Kennedy D-R.I. announced in February that he would not seek reelection.
(03/02/10 4:00am)
Despite the College's current fiscal challenges, several academic departments are hiring new professors to replace departing faculty, according to several professors interviewed by The Dartmouth. The decisions to fill the vacant positions were approved before the current round of budget cuts was announced last month, the professors said.
(02/25/10 4:00am)
The current U.S. strategy of economic sanctions combined with negotiations has proven insufficient, Posen said. The international community's attempts to curtail Iran's nuclear activities through sanctions have not worked over the past several years either, and harsher sanctions would be difficult to coordinate, he added.
(02/22/10 4:00am)
The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care has recently drawn fire following the publication of an article on Feb. 17 in the New England Journal of Medicine, which criticized data assembled in the Atlas as "unsound, both conceptually and methodologically." Dartmouth researchers have used the data to support the suggestion that high health care costs do not always lead to better health outcomes, an idea that has become a central tenet of proposed federal health care reform legislation.
(02/19/10 4:00am)
William Davies '44, a World War II veteran and long-time radio broadcaster, died Feb. 9 at the age of 87 in Williamsburg, VA, according to The Montclair Times. Born in Scranton, Pa., Davies graduated early from the College to enlist in the U.S. Navy in 1943, The Times reported. He was among the first U.S. soldiers to land in Japan after the war ended in 1945, according to The Times. Davies worked as the program director of a Beirut, Lebanon-based evangelical radio program for the United Presbyterian Church, and he and his family were evacuated from Lebanon in 1967 during the Six-Day War. Before retiring in 1987, Davies worked to raise funds and awareness for social and community organizations. Davies is survived by his wife Nancy, their three children and five grandchildren, according to The Times.
(02/12/10 4:00am)
The 1936 Winter Carnival poster, designed by Dwight Clark Shepler, recently made Dartmouth history as the second highest selling Winter Carnival poster in history. The poster sold for $7,200 almost double its estimated value during a Feb. 4 auction at Swann Auction Galleries, a major auction house in New York City.