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(09/20/12 2:00am)
New websites for a variety of College departments will be reconfigured in the fall, with results that will affect everything from prospective students' first online interaction with Dartmouth to seniors' job searches. Among the sites currently undergoing revision are the College's official website, Blackboard and Student Assembly's webpage.
(09/19/12 2:00am)
News of a bomb threat caused the widespread evacuation of Louisiana State University's campus in Baton Rouge, La., on Monday afternoon, The New York Times reported. The event marked the fourth evacuation resulting from a bomb threat at a college campus in four days and followed similar incidents at Hiram College, North Dakota State University and the University of Texas at Austin. The LSU evacuation occurred after 911 responders for East Baton Rouge parish received a threat at 10:32 a.m., and the campus was evacuated within an hour. The university has 29,000 enrolled students, although it is unclear how many were present at the time of evacuation. An FBI spokesperson said that the bureau is currently investigating whether the four bomb threats are related, according to The Times.
(09/12/12 2:00am)
This year, 23 new professors will join the Dartmouth faculty in 17 different departments, according to Janet Terp, chief of staff for the Administration and Advancement for Arts and Sciences. These newest additions hail from locations as far away as Singapore and Kazakhstan and will teach a range of courses, including "The History of Paper (and the Stories Written on It)" and "Political Mythbusters."
(09/04/12 2:00am)
New Student Orientation for the Class of 2016, which officially began today, faces the new obstacle of the Fall term schedule change, which truncated Orientation by two days, according to Collis Orientation Team co-leader Adam Kraus '14. Incoming freshmen began arriving in Hanover on Aug. 31 to take part in pre-Orientation festivities ranging from barbecues to bingo prior to the start of Orientation.
(05/25/12 2:00am)
Small businesses in the Upper Valley are still struggling after the destruction wrought by Hurricane Irene in August, but many have begun to receive help from the Small Business Support Team, a project organized by the disaster relief group Upper Valley Strong and the regional organization Vital Communities.
(05/21/12 2:00am)
New Hampshire's unemployment rate dropped to roughly 5 percent in April, significantly lower than the national unemployment rate of 8.1 percent, CBS News reported. This rate marks the lowest percentage since December 2008, when the state reported a 4.8 percent unemployment rate, according to CBS News. Gov. John Lynch, D-N.H., said the news is a good sign for the state's economy and noted that more than 6,800 New Hampshire residents found jobs in the past year, but the state is still home to 37,000 unemployed residents, CBS News reported.
(05/18/12 2:00am)
As Dartmouth students prepare for this year's Green Key festivities, students at other schools have already celebrated their own spring weekend events, which generally involved large concerts and parties as well as children's activities such as moon bounces, according to event organizers and students at some of Dartmouth's peer institutions.
(05/15/12 2:00am)
U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Ferriero to be the nation's 10th archivist in 2009. Before his appointment, he worked for over 30 years in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology libraries before assuming the top position at Duke University's library. Later, as the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Library, he oversaw 91 libraries in total.
(05/14/12 2:00am)
Former Dean of the College Sylvia Spears was named vice president for diversity and inclusion at Emerson College on Friday, according to Emerson radio station WERS. Spears, who most recently served as assistant vice president of academic initiatives at New England College, will also serve as chair of Emerson's diversity council and as a member of the president's council when she joins the Emerson staff on Aug. 1. Spears previously served as Dean of the College until the end of her two-year appointment on June 30, 2011. She chose not to apply for the permanent deanship during the College's search process in early 2011. Before her tenure as dean of the College, Spears served as the College's associate dean of student life and director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership. Spears earned a bachelor's degree in speech communications, a master's degree in human development and family studies and a PhD in education at the University of Rhode Island.
(05/03/12 2:00am)
Government professor and prominent Libya expert Dirk Vandewalle is serving as an advisor to the country's first national election in over 50 years in the wake of the death of longstanding dictator Muammar Qaddafi. Vandewalle has over 30 years of experience studying the region and has served as an advisor to the United Nations special envoy for the United Nations Special Mission in Libya.
(04/25/12 2:00am)
With services beginning in the fall, the recently created conflict resolution group Mediation at Dartmouth hopes to tackle a variety of issues facing the College community, ranging from tension between roommates to hazing. The group is currently training its first mediators and collaborating with student and administrative organizations to solidify its plans.
(04/23/12 2:00am)
While past incarnations of Earth Week have called on students to carry around bags of trash and compost and dance in flair to the sounds of environmental music, this year's event which included efforts to reduce usage of plastic bottles, the screening of an environmental documentary and a showcase of local foods was designed to make a small but lasting change in students' lifestyles, according to EcoRep Ari Koeppel '15.
(04/16/12 2:00am)
The lively sounds of Yiddish folk music can often be heard drifting from the office of Alex Hartov, a professor at the Thayer School of Engineering and the founder of the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive, an online database of nearly 40,000 songs, broadcasts and interviews that reflect a range of Jewish life. Hartov and Asian and Middle Eastern languages and literature professor Lewis Glinert have worked on the archive's website for the past 10 years.
(04/09/12 2:00am)
An unnamed Dartmouth alumnus will sell a collection of wine at Christie's an international company that conducts art auctions and private sales on April 13, with part of the proceeds donated to the College, according to an announcement from the auction house. The total value of the sale is estimated to be between $1.6 and $2.3 million, and the donation to the College is expected to be between $390,000 and $530,000. Items for the auction have been collected from regions across the world, including Tuscany, Burgundy, Bordeaux, Languedoc and Spain, according to Charles Antin, a wine specialist at Christie's and the auctioneer for the sale. This type of auction is unusual, as most consignors do not typically donate to charities, Antin said. Interested buyers will have the chance to taste some of the wine being sold at the live auction.
(03/26/12 2:00am)
The rise in the primary care and research categories marks a step toward the goals of the 20x20 strategic plan, designed to place DMS among the nation's top 20 medical schools by 2020, according to Assistant Dean for Advancement Gary Snyder.
(03/06/12 4:00am)
California State University has unveiled a new program for online learning, called Cal State Online, according to Inside Higher Ed. The program will serve students at each of the university's 23 campuses and was announced in a letter posted publicly on Friday by Cal State Online Executive Director Ruth Claire Black, Inside Higher Ed reported. The initiative comes in response to system-wide budget cuts, and the university hopes that it will be able to accept a greater number of qualified students into the program, according to Inside Higher Ed. Similar systems have been implemented at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Massachusetts. The system will continue to use professor-designed courses rather than hiring for-profit universities to do so, but Cal State professors have still had negative reactions to the Internet-based learning program, Inside Higher Ed, reported.
(03/01/12 4:00am)
Professor emeritus of religion and former Dean of the Faculty Hans Penner, who helped develop the Dartmouth Plan and was a leading figure in the religion department for many years, died Saturday Feb. 25 after a battle with lung cancer, Susan Ackerman, chair of the religion department, said in an email to The Dartmouth. He was 78 years old.
(02/29/12 4:00am)
A recent study released by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that one-third of college students transfer to a different institution before graduating, reflecting a decreasing percentage of students who graduate from the same school they entered as freshmen, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Students most commonly transfer in their second year, though 13 percent of transferring students do so in their fourth year, according to The Chronicle. Among students who transfer from four-year public institutions, more than half transfer to two-year public schools. Of students who transfer from two-year public institutions, over a third transfer to other two-year institutions, while 41 percent of students transfer to four-year institutions, The Chronicle reported. The report found that community colleges are a popular destination for transfer students, possibly due to lower tuiton costs and better insitutional fits, according to The Chronicle.
(02/24/12 4:00am)
The wife of newly hired University of Vermont President Thomas Sullivan will be subject to unprecedented rules governing her involvement with the institution, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on Wednesday. The university's Board of Trustees has decided to implement a president-partner policy, which states that all activities as a volunteer for the school pursued by the president's spouse must be approved by the trustees, according to The Chronicle. The new policy follows the resignation of former President Daniel Fogel, who stepped down after his wife was deemed to have had an inappropriate relationship with an officer in the development office, where she also worked as a volunteer fundraiser. Although presidential candidates will not be asked about their marital status before they take office, their spouses will be subjected to the new guidelines after they take office, The Chronicle reported.
(02/21/12 4:00am)
Around 50 students are involved with the program and work on approximately 20 research projects, Shaiko said. The Vermont and New Hampshire legislatures ask group members to research specific policy-related topics. When their research is complete, students testify before the state legislatures and objectively present their findings, Shaiko said.