51 Lebanon 2010-08-24

Daily Debriefing

Economics professor Douglas Irwin was selected as the lecturer for the 23rd annual Ohlin Lectures, a two-day lecture series at the Stockholm School of Economics in Stockholm, Sweden, according to a College press release.

Williamson '12 competes in USGA tournament

Nordberg and Pearson to leave College posts

Chief Human Resources Officer Traci Nordberg and Vice President for Communications Diana Pearson have announced their departures from the College.

51 Lebanon 2010-08-20

Gifted students experience college

High school students uncovered footprints, identified blood evidence and dusted for fingerprints in a mock crime scene on Wednesday for the class "Crime Scene Investigation" a part of the Summer Institute for the Gifted Program at Dartmouth.

N.Y. directors discuss theater works

In two installations of the 18th annual New York Theatre Workshop, New York playwrights Deen and Joan Vail Thorne will present their original works, "Draw the Circle" and "The Anatomy of a Female Pope," which will address current issues pertaining to preconceived conventions about gender. The Workshop, which presents two plays every Saturday during its residency, is a three-week program that allows artists to work on special projects and their performance techniques as a break from the bustling city atmosphere. As a transgendered man and performer, Deen has used drama to process the great changes and challenges that have happened in is life.

News from Nowhere 2010-08-20

Professor appointed to associate deanship

Nancy Marion, former chair of the economics department and economics professor, has been appointed associate dean of the faculty for the social sciences, Dean of Faculty Michael Mastanduno announced in an e-mail on Monday.

Teach for Educational Opportunity

Over the next few weeks, 8,200 Teach For America teachers, also known as corps members, will start the school year in classrooms in 39 urban and rural regions around the country.

Hudak, Trunzo '11 participate in national hockey festival

Mark Hudak, head coach of the Big Green women's ice hockey team, spent the past week developing and evaluating some of the nation's top players at the 2010 Women's National Festival in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Experts discuss war in Afghanistan

From being shot at by Taliban forces in the Middle East to reporting live from the Pentagon as it was attacked on Sept.

HELP sends engineers to aid African villages

Although they are spending summer in Hanover thousands of miles away from Africa, members of Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects have used this term to increase their presence in impoverished, villages overseas and are working to create a small-scale hydroelectricity system in Rwanda and improve wood burning and waste disposal technology in Tanzania, according to HELP member Ted Sumers '12.

A Republican Responsibility

Republican lawmakers have spent the past two years relentlessly obstructing every facet of President Barack Obama's agenda, a strategy that they unfortunately appear poised to capitalize on in the November midterm elections.

Dartmouth students take the stage at Kennedy Center

Although she is normally found at open mic nights in One Wheelock performing slam poetry wih fellow Soul Scribes, Aimee Le '12 experienced a change of venue when she and Murktarat Yussuf '12 shared the stage with members of the Grammy Award-winning reggaeton band The Roots, at the John F.