Student Spotlight: photographer and poet Cecilia Torres ’18
Dartmouth’s isolated location and idyllic campus can often feel like a haven from pressing social issues, lulling students and faculty into complacency.
Dartmouth’s isolated location and idyllic campus can often feel like a haven from pressing social issues, lulling students and faculty into complacency.
The Emerson String Quartet returned to the Hopkins Center for the Arts Sept. 30, bringing to Dartmouth adaptations of music from 18th century Beethoven to emergent 21st century composers.
Maria looks at parental leave across America, as well as how it affects Hanover parents.
Janice analyzes the importance of DACA and the dynamics it builds.
Annie compares homestay experiences amongst Dartmouth students.
After listening to Jacob Kirkegaard's sound expedition in Fairchild, Numaira investigates the sounds of home.
Dartmouth released its annual Security and Fire Safety report — also known as the Clery Act report — for 2016 on Sunday, showing no major changes from last year’s report, which noted a sharp decrease in reported rape cases. Clery Act Compliance Officer Allison O’Connell said that the College annually discloses incidents of crime and fire that have occurred on or around Dartmouth property.
Farid talks to self-proclaimed interior design experts on campus.
Born in Japan, government and quantitative social science professor Yusaku Horiuchi has had a global academic experience.
In late September, the College lost its appeal to the Grafton Superior Court to approve a plan for a new indoor practice facility.
Founded in 2013 by George Boateng ’16 Th’17, Project iSWEST, which stands for Innovating Solutions with Engineering, Science and Technology, is a three-week summer program for high school students in Ghana based in part on the College’s curriculum for Engineering Sciences 21, “Introduction to Engineering.” The course serves as the flagship program of the Nsesa Foundation, a nonprofit founded and run by Boateng and six of his colleagues. Nsesa, which means “change” in the Ghanaian language Twi, hopes to help young people use science, technology, engineering and math to benefit their communities, according to the foundation’s website.
On Sept. 26, the College released its latest massive open online course, or MOOC, called “Bipedalism: The Science of Upright Walking.” Taught by anthropology professor Jeremy DeSilva, this free five-week course, open to the public, is the newest addition to DartmouthX, a collection of Dartmouth MOOCs created over the past three years. The course is comprised of five units: comparative anatomy, evolutionary origins, evolutionary history, human variation and the trade-offs of bipedalism, DeSilva said.
Dartmouth football pulled out a win on the last play to defeat the co-defending Ivy League champion University of Pennsylvania, 16-13, at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday night.
The Big Green men’s and women’s soccer teams each played at home against Princeton University on Saturday. The women’s game ended in a 2-0 loss for the Big Green, continuing a good season for Princeton and dropping Dartmouth to 4-6. The men won 2-1 with an overtime winner by senior Matt Danilack ’18.
The women’s soccer and men’s and women’s track and field teams recently announced two new endowed coaching positions.
After devoting 20 or more hours a week to their sport during school, Dartmouth’s student-athletes can find it difficult to fill the gap left by sports once their college careers end.
The women’s rugby team continues to prove itself as a team to watch on the national scene.
The Big Green sailing team won the Hewitt Trophy while taking seventh at the 75th Danmark Trophy.
In July, Thai restaurant Kata Thai owner Janet Wong and Samosa Man owner Fuad Ndibalema began the process of merging their eateries into a single, cross-cultural restaurant that will replace what is currently Kata Thai.
With the conclusion of men’s fall fraternity recruitment, fraternities have finished their rush processes, and new members are beginning to start a new segment of their lives as affiliates of Greek life.