Study abroad cuts impact academic planning, opportunities for students
The College’s decision to eliminate about half of its study abroad offerings next year has thwarted some students’ academic plans.
The College’s decision to eliminate about half of its study abroad offerings next year has thwarted some students’ academic plans.
The event brought together nearly 125 community members in remembering the one-year anniversary of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
While summer study abroad programs have been canceled for the second consecutive year, some fellowships will be held remotely.
The College has closed its athletic facilities and transitioned to “grab-and-go” dining in response to the uptick in cases.
The vaccines arrived following a devastating winter, which saw one Hanover nursing home grapple to contain an outbreak that left dozens infected and seven dead.
The newly created position will oversee the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, the Native American Program and the Tucker Center for Spiritual and Ethical Life.
The Dartmouth alumnus will act as an advocate on Native American issues and an intermediary between tribes and the federal government.
Phillips’s company Studio Elsewhere has provided nature-inspired “recharge rooms” to nearly 30 hospitals since the start of the pandemic.
All students, regardless of where they stayed over the interim, will need to quarantine in their rooms for the first eight days of spring term.
Eric Fossum won the award for his invention of a pixel image sensor now used in phone cameras and webcams.
Work on the building will begin in late 2022.
Student Assembly’s food insecurity report, published earlier this month, finds nearly a third of respondents are food insecure.
The new category, which indicates that only one of the test's two "probes" detected COVID-19, has so far been found in about 0.25% of the Broad Institute's tests.
Members of Pi Theta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. have led an effort to pass legislation banning discrimination based on race-based hairstyles in New Hampshire.
Kresge Physical Sciences Library and Paddock Music Library will close permanently at the end of the academic year, Dartmouth announced on Tuesday. The College attributed the closures to decreased library lending numbers and budget cuts, both unrelated to the pandemic.
For high school seniors, the 2020-21 college application season has proven to be yet another challenge to navigate during the pandemic. This year, the College saw an all-time high of 28,338 combined early decision and regular decision applicants — a 32.5% increase in applications since the last admissions cycle.
As Dartmouth’s Winter Carnival celebration enters its third and final week, students can attend an interactive event showcasing alumni in the gaming industry or head to the Bema to see a light and sound show, among other programming opportunities. Despite seeing initially low engagement, the extended 16-day, video game-inspired carnival has brought many students online or outside to celebrate.
In the three weeks since the end of the initial quarantine period for winter term, students have taken advantage of a variety of outdoor programming activities offered by the College, including the two ice skating rinks in front of Baker-Berry Library, fire pits on the Green and around the Collis Center and cross-country ski and snowshoe rentals at the new Winter Activities Center near the golf course.
The College will offer about 25 off-campus programs in the 2021-2022 academic year, just over half the roughly 40 usually offered. The list of eliminated, consolidated or paused programs has yet to be announced.
Students on campus rang in the Year of the Ox in a variety of ways over the past week. To celebrate the Lunar New Year, which took place on Feb. 12 this year, campus organizations held virtual and in-person celebrations, including a craft night and a free bubble tea event.