Study examines arsenic, H1N1 virus
Low levels of arsenic, commonly found in tap water, may increase susceptibility to the H1N1 virus, Dartmouth Medical School researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives online.
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Low levels of arsenic, commonly found in tap water, may increase susceptibility to the H1N1 virus, Dartmouth Medical School researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives online.
Kadish previously served as undersecretary for health and human services for the state of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2006.
Editor's Note: This is part two of a two-part series on Dartmouth graduates and entrepreneurship.
Editor's Note: This is part one of a two-part series on Dartmouth graduates and entrepreneurship.
For the first time in at least 30 years, LGBTQA students from across the Ivy League will come together for a conference to discuss the issues affecting their community, according to Gender Sexuality XYZ co-chair Adam Holt '09. Dartmouth is not submitting a proposal to vie to be the host for the conference, Holt said.
Trustee Todd Zywicki '88 was offered the opportunity to step down from his position before the Board of Trustees voted not to reelect him in what was the first secret vote in at least the past five years, Trustee T.J. Rodgers '70 wrote in an opinion piece printed in The Dartmouth on Wednesday. Alumni have had mixed reactions to the Board's decision not to reelect Zywicki, which is unprecedented in recent years.
College President James Wright will throw the first pitch when the Boston Red Sox face the Texas Rangers at Fenway Park on June 6, according to a College press release. The Red Sox are honoring Wright, an avid sports fan, for his 40 years of service at the College and his leadership in assisting military veterans attend institutions of higher learning, the release said. Wright served three years in the U.S. Marines before attending college. He began visiting wounded veterans in 2005 and worked with Congress to make college more accessible for former members of the armed forces, according to the release. "The Red Sox are a remarkable institution, and I admire their rich history, excellence on and off the field, and the commitment of their fans," Wright said in the release. "This will be a memorable honor."
Trustee Todd Zywicki '88 questioned the College's Board of Trustees' dedication to freedom of speech in an open letter to the Dartmouth community released on Tuesday, one week after the announcement that the Board had moved not to reelect him for a second term. Zywicki, one of four petition trustees currently serving on the Board, argues in his letter that a 1990 change to trustee election procedures limits alumni influence over the Board.
When Russ D'souza '07 and Jack Groetzinger '07 landed consulting jobs after months of competitive recruiting, they did not expect to leave their positions after less than a year to start a business. Yet barely two years after leaving the College, D'souza and Groetzinger are just a few months away from launching a commercial version of Scribnia, a web site they designed for users to find and review journalists, columnists and bloggers.
Princeton University administrators have proposed a $170-million budget reduction over the next two years in order to address a $4.89-billion decline in the university's endowment that is expected by the end of June, The Times of Trenton reported on Thursday. The decline represents a 30-percent drop in the university's $16.3-billion endowment. Princeton will also freeze raises on all salaries over $75,000, postpone the filling of open faculty and staff positions and may lay off employees in order to reduce spending, according to The Times of Trenton. Princeton's 10-year construction plan will also be reevaluated, and funding will be restricted to only essential projects. The $1.3-billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year will be reduced by $88 million, according to a letter from university President Shirley Tilghman to the Princeton community.
Dartmouth's Board of Trustees voted not to reelect Trustee Todd Zywicki '88 for his second term on the Board at its April meeting this weekend. The Board also evaluated campus-wide budget cuts and fundraising efforts at its meeting, calling for an 11-percent cut from Dartmouth Medical School's $230-million budget by 2011 in an effort to meet College-wide budgetary objectives.
President Barack Obama intends to nominate Robert Groves '70 as Census Bureau director, the White House announced on Thursday. If approved by the Senate, Groves, currently a sociology professor at the University of Michigan, will oversee the 2010 census. Some Republicans have criticized the nomination because they disapprove of Grove's 1990 proposals to revise census data collection procedures.
The Office of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs has assumed responsibility for minor misconduct disciplinary hearings, a move which Dean of the College Tom Crady said will allow class deans, who were previously responsible for the proceedings, to be more available to meet with students and provide support during the current economic crisis. Crady announced the changes in a campus-wide e-mail on Tuesday.
Dean of the College Thomas Crady has extended the deadline for approving the proposed Alcohol Management Policy indefinitely to further assess student input. Crady originally planned to make a decision on the policy this month, but has postponed approval in order to fully understand student suggestions and gather more feedback, he said. The AMP proposal, written by a committee chaired by Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman, was drafted to replace the College's current Social Event Management Policy.
Several Dartmouth alumni filed a lawsuit against the College last week, the second form of legal action the school has faced from its alumni in the last 14 months. The suit, filed on Nov. 18, states that the College violated an 1891 agreement to maintain parity on the Board of Trustees. The Order of Notice states that legal action has become more relevant in light of Dartmouth's current presidential search.
Between learning how to make mosaics in Italy, protecting prairie dogs in Utah and constructing a genocide memorial in Rwanda, Terry Tempest Williams said her journey to "Find Beauty in a Broken World" -- the title of her most recent book -- has led her to discover that even when the world seems to be in pieces, there is always hope to combine the fragments into a complete "mosaic," at her speech Thursday to a full audience in Cook Auditorium.
Dartmouth's student Honor Education Committee has begun publicizing students' ability to submit anonymous violations of the College's academic honor code online, as evidenced by a Nov. 9 recipient-list-suppressed e-mail that encouraged students to learn about the feature.
Mushroom stew replaced chicken dinners and red meat was exchanged for black bean cakes at Home Plate Wednesday night, welcoming supporters of the "Veg Pledge," a national effort to encourage college students to commit to vegetarianism for one day. The second annual Veg Pledge day, organized at the College by the Dartmouth Animal Welfare Group, recruited 276 students, an increase from the 100 students to sign the pledge last year.
Trustees on the committee gathered student input when the Board held an open forum with students Friday in Moore Hall. The forum, organized by Student Assembly, focused primarily on the presidential search, although students also asked about budget cuts and their potential impact on diversity at the College.
The panelists were Dan Reicher '78, director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives at Google.org, Henry Diamond, the New York State commissioner of Environmental Conservation during Rockefeller's administration and Allison Rockefeller, chair of Cornerstone Parks of New York and wife of Rockefeller's grandson.