Students named among top young innovators

Aspiring entrepreneurs from the Dartmouth Kairos Society attended the fourth annual Kairos Global Summit Feb.

Batchelor: Mind the Gap

Given that much of the Occupy movement has come in from the cold city streets around the world to organize indoors, many protestors have been asking: What now?

Daily Debriefing

Robert Champion's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the owner of Fabulous Coach Lines and the driver of the charter bus on which Champion, a student and band member at Florida A&M University, was hazed before dying as a result of the November 2011 incident, The Associated Press reported.

Crepes a la Carte 2012-02-16

Werner: Marketing Democracy

Radical Islam and its adherents remain visible in the news, but the pattern of their message appears to be changing.

‘Sex Week' attracts controversy

Yale University's "Sex Week," an event held every other year in the week leading up to Valentine's Day and dedicated to sexual education and exploration, has inspired similar events at Brown University and Harvard University, but Dartmouth's sexual health peer advisors have no plans to bring comparable programming to the College, according to Sexpert Kate Taylor '13. Taylor said the Sexperts have mostly avoided heavy criticisms that Yale's Sex Week directors weathered this year from a group called Undergraduates for a Better Yale College, which opposes Sex Week's emphasis on the "unbridled pursuit of pleasure," according to UBYC co-founder Eduardo Andino.

Casler: Apple-nomics

Following Apple's announcement on Monday that it has begun an independent audit of working conditions at plants in China where the iPhone and iPad are built, the recent outcry over the business practices of the company with the largest market in the world is coming to a head.

Lacy research indicates surprising voter trends

In an ironic twist at a time when Congressional Republicans are insisting on federal spending cuts, those states receiving the most federal dollars relative to their tax revenues are more likely to vote Republican in presidential elections, according to research conducted by government professor Dean Lacy.

Rubin: Time to Apply R2P

As the violence in Syria intensifies and the world community takes steps to peacefully force President Bashar al-Assad to step down, we must stand back and reflect on what the United States' goal in Syria should be.

Kopalle studies future of advertising in media

As newspapers and magazines grapple with shrinking readership and revenues, Tuck School of Business marketing professor Praveen Kopalle has found that print media outlets struggling to survive in the new world of online media have overlooked a crucial element of their product: advertisements.

Two more records fall for women's track at Valentine Invite

The Big Green track and field teams continued their strong seasons with impressive individual accomplishments at the Valentine Invitational hosted by Boston University last weekend. The event, which is not team-scored, featured some of the top individual talent in the Northeast.

Freddie and the Bigger People 2012-02-15

Daily Debriefing

The availability of federal aid to for-profit colleges may be increasing those institutions' tuition costs, Inside Higher Ed reported.

Salty Dogs 2012-02-15

Aaron, devoted alum., dies from cancer at 69

A lifetime of loyalty to his family, to Dartmouth and to his law firm characterized Roger Aaron '64 Tu '65, family, friends and co-workers said in interviews with The Dartmouth.

DHMC campuses offer decision-making tools

Correction Appended Both Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the new Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nashua campus have sought to expand their centers for collaborative decision-making to help patients make difficult medical choices, according to Susan Berg, interim program director for the Center for Shared Decision Making at DHMC. "Sometimes there are two or more ways to go with how to treat things," DHMC-Nashua Medical Director Sanders Burstein said.