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(01/20/10 4:00am)
A panel of administrators answered students' questions on topics ranging from changing the academic calendar to increasing class size at the student budget forum held Tuesday night in Collis Common Ground.
(01/14/10 4:00am)
Sweet said that College staff are expecting another round of layoffs to sweep through Dartmouth after the Board of Trustees meets in early February.
(01/11/10 4:00am)
In his research, McPeek was intrigued by the problem presented to scientists by damselflies, which are insects similar to dragonflies, he said. As many as ten distinct damselfly species can exist in a single pond, McPeek said, and experiments show that the only significant difference between the populations is the shape of their reproductive plates. In his research, McPeek sought to determine why speciation the divergence of one species into two distinct species would occur when the species appear to be so similar.
(01/04/10 4:00am)
During last year's budget reductions, 70 staff members left the College through a similar voluntary retirement incentive plan.
(12/18/09 3:31am)
During last year's budget reductions, 70 staff members left the College through a similar voluntary retirement incentive plan.
(12/02/09 4:00am)
Dartmouth, in suspending the search for a new chief investment officer and ceding control of the College's investment office to a Board of Trustees committee in November, created the potential for significant conflicts of interest several trustees are in the investment industry. College officials, however, affirm significant safeguards have been put in place to avoid conflicts in the temporary arrangement, which is not uncommon among colleges and universities.
(12/01/09 4:00am)
As Dartmouth's 23 percent endowment loss may bring increased scrutiny to the financial strategy underpinning the College's investment portfolio, the ethics of Dartmouth's investments will continue to be weighed by an Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility.
(11/06/09 4:00am)
Sidransky explained that by examining the biomarkers, or specific biological properties, associated with a cancer, physicians are better equipped to choose the most effective treatment. The presence of the biomarker protein KRAS, for example, can indicate whether a patient will respond to treatment with the drug Erbitux.
(10/30/09 3:00am)
Students taking introductory biology classes may soon have the opportunity to sequence their own DNA, pending approval of a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to fund an experimental laboratory option for Biology 2 and 11.
(10/23/09 2:00am)
As Homecoming weekend arrives, anticipation and excitement among members of the Class of 2013 has peaked. Many freshmen have heard countless stories from upperclassmen and now await Friday night to evaluate whether their first big weekend as Dartmouth students lives up to their expectations.
(10/23/09 2:00am)
Douglas Noordsy, Craig Donnelly, Robert Santulli and Jeffrey Fetter who serve as psychiatrists either at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center or New Hampshire Hospital received $35,500, $30,250, $9,300 and $6,300, respectively, for work with Eli Lilly during the first quarter of 2009. DMS professor Richard Rubin, the director of the Vermont Clinical Study Center in Burlington, Vt., received $15,000 from the company.
(10/21/09 2:00am)
College President Jim Yong Kim will be adopted as a member of the Class of 1982 during the class' mini-reunion this Saturday, Diana Lawrence, director of communications for the Office of Alumni Relations, told The Dartmouth on Tuesday. The formal adoption will take place in the Russo Gallery in Kemeny Hall. The Class of 1982 is adopting Kim because 1982 is the year he would have graduated from the College had he been a Dartmouth student, Lawrence told The Dartmouth. Former College President James Wright was an adopted member of the Class of 1964, she said.
(10/21/09 2:00am)
College President Jim Yong Kim will be adopted as a member of the Class of 1982 during the class' mini-reunion this Saturday, Diana Lawrence, director of communications for the Office of Alumni Relations, told The Dartmouth on Tuesday. The formal adoption will take place in the Russo Gallery in Kemeny Hall. The Class of 1982 is adopting Kim because 1982 is the year he would have graduated from the College had he been a Dartmouth student, Lawrence told The Dartmouth. Former College President James Wright was an adopted member of the Class of 1964, she said.
(10/16/09 2:00am)
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., raised $141,282 in thethird quarter of 2009 for her reelection campaign, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported Thursday. Shea-Porter has raised nearly $375,000 to date roughly the same amount she accumulated for her 2008 congressional race but has slightly less cash on hand than she had at the same time in 2007, the Union Leader reported. Shea-Porter, the only Democratic candidate in the 2010 race, spent roughly $1.5 million during the 2008 campaign. One of her current Republican opponents, Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta, raised $125,755 in the third quarter. He has raised $180,121 to date, including a $20,000 loan Guinta himself gave to the campaign. Another Republican candidate, Bob Bestani of Newmarket, raised $42,390 in this quarter and now has $44,188 on hand, according to the Union Leader.
(10/07/09 2:00am)
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., will likely face Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta in her 2010 reelection bid. Shea-Porter became the first Democrat to represent New Hampshire's first district since 1982 when she defeated two-term incumbent Rep. Jeb Bradley, R-N.H., in 2006. She defeated Bradley again in her 2008 race for reelection.
(09/28/09 2:00am)
Biology professor Kevin Peterson, working with researchers from several institutions, has developed a breakthrough technique to study the evolutionary relationships between species. His research, published on Sept. 15 online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, provides answers to long-standing questions about the evolution of segmented worms.
(09/25/09 2:00am)
LEED, a for-profit accreditation organization, awards certifications based on a building's energy use and design. The McLaughlin Cluster and the McLane and Fahey residence halls have received gold LEED certifications, while Kemeny Hall, the Haldeman Center and the Floren Varsity House have silver certifications.
(09/23/09 2:00am)
Physicians from across the nation gathered to discuss smoking-related issues in the first-annual C. Everett Koop Tobacco Treatment Conference, held on Sept. 18 and sponsored by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
(09/22/09 2:00am)
College President Jim Yong Kim used to joke that he and Harvard Medical School professor Paul Farmer were "twin sons of different mothers," Tracy Kidder wrote in his 2004 book "Mountains Beyond Mountains." This friendship which has prompted some students to ask whether Farmer will join the Dartmouth faculty may now lead to a partnership between Dartmouth and Partners in Health, the non-profit organization Farmer and Kim co-founded.
(09/15/09 2:00am)
Although billed as a discussion of the health care reform effort, College President Jim Yong Kim's interview with PBS' Bill Moyers, which aired Friday night, was also a discourse on Kim's rise to the Dartmouth presidency and hopes for his coming tenure.