All Greek To Me

Joyce takes over as the new director of Greek life

By Daniela Armas | September 29, 2016

To finish his doctorate in education leadership at Clemson University this past June, Brian Joyce, the new director of the Office of Greek Life, authored a dissertation that examined how membership in traditionally white fraternities can shift notions of identity in minority students.

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News

Folks to leave NH Hospital in Jan.

By Seamus Walsh | September 29, 2016

Geisel School of Medicine psychiatry professor David Folks, who has also served as the Chief Medical Officer of New Hampshire Hospital — the state-run psychiatric hospital — for the past eight years, will step down from both posts in January.

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Profile

Q&A with government professor Russell Muirhead

By Alexandra Steinberg | September 29, 2016

Growing up in “the shadow” of Manchester’s industrial mills, government professor and political theorist Russell Muirhead first learned about work, alongside the ethics of work.

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Geisel Grant

Geisel receives NIH research grant

By Mika Jehoon Lee | September 27, 2016

Last week, researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center received an award worth up to $42 million from the National Institute of Health to study the influence of environmental exposures on children’s health. The funding is provided as part of Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes, a seven-year initiative recently launched by the NIH to further investigate how environmental exposures could affect the health of children and adolescents.

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Water Works

Q&A with professor Christopher Sneddon

By Jimmy McColgan | September 27, 2016

To Christopher Sneddon, water is not only the source of human life, but also the source of many human conflicts.

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News

Rockefeller Center panel to discuss national economics

By Kristine Jiwoo Ahn | September 27, 2016

Today’s “Links between Financial Markets and the American Economy” symposium will feature debate from three distinguished panelists on recent and prospective changes to the financial system.

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Money Matters

Endowment declines by 4 percent

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | September 24, 2016

Dartmouth’s endowment posted a 1.9 percent investment loss for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2016, according to a press release on Friday by the College.

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Overprescribed

DHMC study finds overprescription of opioids

By Sunpreet Singh | September 23, 2016

Doctors are overprescribing opioids, according to a new study from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, leading to an abundance of unused drugs that could potentially be abused.

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Econ 101

Q&A with economics professor Andrew Levin

By Debora Hyemin Han | September 23, 2016

It can be hard to connect the classroom to real life, but economics professor Andrew Levin is trying to do just that.

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News

Sustainability task force to meet this month

By Alex Fredman | September 22, 2016

A new sustainability task force of students, faculty and administrators will have its first full meeting this month.

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News

Study finds broad support for diversity

By Julian Nathan | September 22, 2016

Dartmouth students were largely in favor of giving minority applicants preference in admissions and faculty hiring procedures, a recent study co-authored by Madeline Brown ’16, Lauren Martin ’16 and government professors John Carey and Yusaku Horiuchi found.

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News

Plan invests in west campus

By Samantha Stern | September 22, 2016

Expect to see more scaffolding around campus.

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Job Hunt

CPD to host career fair in the Hop

By Emilia Baldwin | September 20, 2016

The Hopkins Center for the Arts will be teeming with job-seekers today and tomorrow as the Center for Professional Development hosts its annual Employee Connections Fair.

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Energy

Hanlon announces creation of new energy institute

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | September 16, 2016

College President Hanlon announced the creation of the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society at the College in an email to campus this morning.

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Diversity

Diversity plan initiatives begin

By Amanda Zhou | September 16, 2016

The College has taken the first steps in implementing its plan for improving diversity and inclusion on campus and among alumni.

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On The Rise

College ranked 11th by U.S. News

By Megan Clyne | September 15, 2016

This past Tuesday, U.S. News and World Report announced that the College rose from 12th to 11th place in the 2017 college rankings.

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Dance

FLEXN, at the edge of art and activism, to perform tonight

By Kaina Chen | September 15, 2016

FLEXN combines dance and social activism in their energetic performances. 

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News

College to clean toxic farm site

By Erin Lee | August 18, 2016

The College responds to petition to clean up Rennie Farm, which it used as a laboratory dump site for animal testing and other waste in the 1960s and 1970s

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Grant

College receives major National Institute of Health grant

By Katie Rafter | August 18, 2016

Faculty members develop iTarget, an interdisciplinary biomedical research center, with the aid of a $12.45 million National Institute of Health grant.

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News

German consul general discusses German-Jewish relations

By Emilia Baldwin | August 11, 2016

Ralf Horlemann, the consul general of Germany, spoke yesterday at the Rockefeller Center about German-Jewish relations. The lecture, entitled “Remembrance and Hope — Past, Present and Future of German-Jewish Relations,” drew parallels between the historical treatment of Jews in Germany and the treatment of Syrian refugees in the ongoing crisis.

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