Pedde: Public School Progress
Affirmative action plays an important role in Dartmouth and many other universities' admissions processes.
Affirmative action plays an important role in Dartmouth and many other universities' admissions processes.
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When The Dartmouth published an article about "GREEN: Words to Live By, Words to Drink By, Words to Succeed By," ("Students publish guide to college," May 11) my interest was immediately piqued.
English professor Jeff Sharlet's investigation of anti-gay persecution specifically Uganda's "Kill The Gays" bill, which would make homosexuality punishable as a capital offense earned first and second place awards for Excellence in Journalism for feature writing in 2011 from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association.
Courtesy of Dartmouth.edu Representatives from 32 colleges and universities discussed methods for evaluating initiative effectiveness and guidelines for enacting change at the first meeting of the Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking spearheaded by the College last week, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
Last month, the Supreme Court struck down a never-enacted California law banning the sale of violent video games to minors.
Courtesy of Grant Sparling While many of his peers studied for final exams and made plans for the upcoming summer vacation, Grant Sparling '15 joined a team of students at Shad Valley International enrichment program in Toronto to design a pill form of the influenza vaccine that would replace the conventional intravenous administration of the immunization. The team received a provisional patent for its development and will file patents in Canada and the United States by July 20, according to Sparling. "It started when I was at summer camp at Shad," Sparling said.
Vince Marriott / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Students huddled around the help desk at Computing Services this week as members of the Class of 2013 became the first wave of students whose BlitzMail email system migrated to the new Microsoft Office 365 suite.
A group of 47 doctors, nurses and administrators arrived in Hanover on Tuesday to participate in the first class session of the Master of Health Care Delivery Science degree program at the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, according to a Tuck School of Business press release.
It's official: Even a law aimed at treating everyone equally can violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
In response to student feedback, the College has modified its controversial SmartChoice dining plan to allow for greater flexibility in meal choices, according to Director of Dartmouth Dining Services David Newlove.
Ben Gettinger / The Dartmouth Staff Squash player Chris Hanson '13 is never satisfied with less than perfection.
I landed on American soil in August 1999 as a dependent listed on my father's work visa. I attended a public school while my parents set up a small Teriyaki store and paid their taxes, with the hope that we would eventually gain our permanent residency.
The Tuck School of Business Annual Giving campaign broke a world record when it reached a 70.5 percent participation rate in its 2011 campaign, according to a Tuck press release.
As holidays go, a Dartmouth Fourth of July is pretty charming and American. It's the epitome of outdoor fun promised by sophomore Summer and one of those wonderful days when every meal can be eaten around a grill.
Correction appended Department chairs in the humanities should aim to "open the door" to students and strengthen their departments' presence at the College, according to art history professor Adrian Randolph, the newly-appointed associate dean of the faculty for the arts and humanities.
Courtesy of Pop-break.com Most Dartmouth students spend their junior summers chasing their dreams, be they corporate or crunchy, and Ryan Engelberger '12 is no exception.
In response to criticism that their statistical reports on Medicare expenditures failed to take into account regional variations in cost of living expenses, researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas Project of Health Care have released an analysis that adjusts for that variable.
Blackboard Inc. announced that the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners purchased the software company for $1.64 billion, Inside Higher Ed reported Friday.