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A 'Pesca' volunteer takes the blood pressure of one of the Jornada participants while his grandson watches during the May 2017 Jornada in El Rosario, Honduras.
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Researchers investigate cancer in Honduras

By Gigi Grigorian | January 11, 2018

Since 2011, researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have been conducting projects in Honduras that help citizens who lack medical care, in addition to furthering academic understanding of cancer there.

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Endowment tax could cost the College $5 million

By Alex Fredman | January 9, 2018

With the passage of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of last year, many of the law’s provisions — including cuts to the corporate and individual income tax rates ­— have garnered significant attention due to the intense political fighting and maneuvering that occurred as the bill moved through Congress. Among the new law’s lesser-known provisions is a new tax that will directly affect Dartmouth and its long-term financial outlook.

Peter Wilson, the Country Program Coordinator for the US African Development Foundation, met with students on the trip. 
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Public policy students take winterim trip to Liberia

By Maria Harrast | January 9, 2018

Over winter interim, 12 Dartmouth students traveled to Monrovia, Liberia, where they witnessed a historic Supreme Court ruling that preceded a runoff presidential election, marking Liberia’s first democratic, peaceful handover of power since 1944. “The election was actually supposed to be finished by the time we got to Liberia, but it was contested, so it ended up going through the Supreme Court.

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Center for Service renamed

By Sonia Qin | January 5, 2018

The Dartmouth Center for Service changed its name this month to the Dartmouth Center for Social Impact to reflect its broader opportunities available and show that there are ways to effect social change outside of community service, according to the center’s interim director Tracy Dustin-Eichler. The new name was formally approved by the Board of Trustees in November, said Dustin-Eichler.

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WannaCry strikes computer network

By Gigi Grigorian | January 5, 2018

Over winter break, the College was victim to a cyberattack by a strain of WannaCry, a ransomware virus that President Donald Trump’s administration has attributed to North Korea.

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Dam management raises questions among locals

By Julian Nathan | January 4, 2018

As energy company Great River Hydro undergoes relicensing procedures for local Connecticut River dams, conservation and recreation groups, including Ledyard Canoe Club, are raising concerns about the company’s water management techniques.

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Fifteen students allege three professors created 'hostile academic environment'

By Erin Lee and Ray Lu | November 18, 2017

In allegations that span multiple generations of graduate students, four students in Dartmouth’s department of psychological and brain sciences told The Dartmouth this week that three professors now under investigation by the College and state prosecutors created a hostile academic environment that they allege included excessive drinking, favoritism and behaviors that they considered to be sexual harassment.

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BarHop on indefinite hiatus

By Eileen Brady | November 13, 2017

BarHop, a College-sponsored program that ran from February 2014 through May 2017, is “taking a pause,” according to an email statement from Joshua Kol ’93, director of student performance programs at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

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