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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News

Anti-Trump rally held on the Green

By Kelsey Flower | July 21, 2016

Around 45 people, ranging from young children to senior citizens, gathered at the corner of the Green Thursday afternoon, holding up posters and shouting, “No hate in the Granite State” to demonstrate their opposition of Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination.

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