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Edible Book Festival celebrates literature, food and puns

By Amelia Rosch | April 13, 2015

“The House of Seven Bagels.” “The Dartmouth Alumni Marzipan.” “The Road to Tiramisu.” These titles were among several literary-themed puns that inspired desserts, including cakes, bagels and a collection of brownie crumbs, on display in Baker-Berry Library yesterday.

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Beyond the Bubble: Environmental advocacy and the arts

By Andrea Nease | April 13, 2015

Few people would question the assertion that art can have an impact on social change, but, as can be expected, some changes are easier to address than others. We have likely all seen works that call attention to gender inequality or racial injustice, for example, but how often do we see art about environmental concerns?

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College hires 24 new faculty members

By Erin Lee | April 12, 2015

Based on faculty turnover and changing student enrollments by department, the College hired 24 new faculty members in the arts and sciences this academic year, associate dean of faculty for the sciences and computer science professor David Kotz said. In addition, Thayer School of Engineering hired one new professor and Tuck School of Business hired five.

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Six students and alumni awarded Fulbright grants

By Rebecca Asoulin | April 12, 2015

Maia Salholz-Hillel ’15 said she has been fascinated by neuroscience since her freshman year of high school when her biology class spent two days studying the brain. The fact that the brain was the blueprint of everything and yet we only have a minimal understand of how it works blew her mind, “no pun intended,” she said. This fascination led her to pursue work in the field, culminating in her recent receiving of a Fulbright Scholarship to study neuroscience in Berlin.

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Nine Bolivian students will participate in exchange program

By Estephanie Aquino | April 12, 2015

This week, nine Bolivian students will visit the College, led by Foreign Service Officer Yuki Kondo-Shah ’07 in order to enrich their international business and entrepreneurship studies at Universidad Catolica, an elite English-language undergraduate business school in La Paz, Bolivia. This visit to the College is sponsored by the United States Department of State as part of President Barack Obama’s “100,000 Strong in the Americas” initiative to improve U.S. relationships with Western Hemisphere countries through student exchanges.

Arts

“It Follows” (2014) follows no formula

By Andrew Kingsley | April 12, 2015

Although “It Follows” unravels slightly as it draws toward its close, following the teenagers as they plot an elaborate Scooby Doo gang scheme to catch the monster, Mitchell’s third film will stick with you long after the credits. Like its monster, “It Follows” will stay right behind you, getting under your skin and surely slip into bed with you as you fall asleep, its abject thoughts lurking out of your unconscious and into the fore of your nightmares.

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Sharma ’13 talks balance, meshing writing with work

By Hallie Huffaker | April 12, 2015

Divyanka Sharma ’13 exemplifies the meaning of “doing it all.” A young alumna originally hailing from India, Sharma balances budding success in short fiction with full-time work for New York City-based Locus Analytics, working to apply functional classification systems of enterprises to the developing world. An English major at the College, Sharma worked for Reserve Bank of India during her time at Dartmouth and credits English professor Thomas O’Malley for helping her publish her first ever published piece, the short story “To Benares.”

Sports

Women’s tennis splits weekend outings

By Chanelle Qi | April 12, 2015

After a narrow loss to No. 56 Princeton University 4-3 on Saturday, the No. 37 women’s tennis team edged out the University of Pennsylvania 4-3 on Sunday on the back of a match-clinching three-set victory by Taylor Ng ’17 at No.

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Alumni push College for divestment

By Kelsey Flower | April 9, 2015

Seventy-nine Dartmouth alumni hope to up the pressure on College administrators to divest fossil fuels through an open letter addressed to College President Phil Hanlon, the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, originally released on April 2. The letter urges the College to make headway on the divestment of its financial portfolio from fossil fuel companies and informs the school that the undersigned alumni are donating to the Multi-School Fossil Free Divestment Fund instead of the Annual Fund.

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