Endowment reaches $3.4 billion
Dartmouth's endowment increased by 18.4 percent in the last fiscal year, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College.
Dartmouth's endowment increased by 18.4 percent in the last fiscal year, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College.
Ying-Qi Wong / The Dartmouth The 2011 Employer Connections Fair attracted a total of 104 public and private organizations to the Hopkins Center for the Arts, where employers set up booths to offer information and advice to students.
Dartmouth's endowment increased by 18.4 percent in the last fiscal year, increasing in value by $415 million to $3.413 billion as of June 30, according to a College press release. The increase in the endowment up from a 10 percent return in fiscal year 2010 is partially due to a "strong equity market rally" at the beginning of the fiscal year, and strong positions in global public equities and venture capital, Pamela Peedin, the College's Chief Investment Officer, said in the press release.
Correction appended Of the 2,822 students and community members who entered the lottery to attend the Oct.
The Dartmouth women's golf team traveled to Princeton, N.J., last weekend, riding the momentum of a first-place finish in the Dartmouth Invitational.
Almost two years ago to the day, I picked up this newspaper and read a now-infamous column written by senior Mirror columnist Matthew Ritger '10 ("The Gospel According to Matthew," Oct.
President Barack Obama swore in Mara Rudman '84 as assistant administrator for the Middle East with the U.S.
Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Had the first 20 seconds not counted, the match would have ended in a tie. Unfortunately for the Dartmouth women's soccer team, however, the Big Green fell to University of Massachusetts in the first play of their game, when UMass senior Julie Morrissey scored on a turnover in the defensive zone.
Princeton University plans to rewrite its policy on sexual harassment and sexual assault, Provost Chris Eisgruber announced Monday, according to The Daily Princetonian.
Hunter Van Adelsberg Given the dizzying pace of technological advancement and its ramifications on the production and consumption of art, it might seem odd that artist Beryl Korot combines technological modernity with something as archaic as weaving.
In response to criticism that Student Assembly inadequately represented students' interests last year, Student Body President Max Yoeli '12 and Student Body Vice President Amrita Sankar '12 announced plans to improve efficiency and solicit increased student feedback at the term's first General Assembly meeting Wednesday evening.
I was four years old when my mother organized a "play date" with one of her acquaintance's young daughters.
Courtesy of Joe Mehling '69 Correction appended### One of the most fascinating things about professor Jeff Sharlet's new book, "Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between," which features, among others, a holocaust survivor, a new age guru and a fundamentalist Christian, is that these stories all happen to be true. Sharlet, who considers himself a "literary journalist," said his goal is to find the riveting stories that exist in everyday life.
Dartmouth was ranked the second best institution in the Ivy League for its treatment of animals in research programs, according to a Sept.
In last week's review of Wilco's "The Whole Love," which drops on Tuesday, I used the term "alt-country" multiple times to describe the band's early sound.
I still have absolutely nothing to write about. It's been almost a year of me and this absurdly poor-titled column, and yet I still do not have much for you. As usual, I think about what people who get paid to write about sports usually write about at this time of year.