Class of 2018: Senior Survey

Dartmouth to award six honorary degrees

Dartmouth will award honorary degrees to six individuals at the upcoming Commencement ceremony on June 10.

Trump tweets that he will pardon Dinesh D'Souza '83

President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday morning that he will give a full pardon to conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza ‘83 for violating federal finance laws in 2012, when he used straw donors to contribute to a Republican Senatorial campaign in New York. While D’Souza pled guilty to the charges in 2014, he later claimed he had been targeted by the office of then-U.S.

Commencement programs will not list names of graduates

This year, the College will not print the names of all graduates and their honors in the traditional printed program distributed on Commencement Day.

Kristi Clemens will be next Title IX Coordinator

Kristi Clemens will be Dartmouth’s next Title IX coordinator and Clery compliance officer, interim provost David Kotz ’86 announced on May 29.

Task force will determine future of Dartmouth College Press

Following last month’s vote by the University Press of New England board of governors to close down the 48-year-old publishing consortium, interim provost David Kotz ’86 and dean of libraries Susanne Mehrerhave called for the assembly of a task force to determine the future of the Dartmouth College Press. According to a statement issued by Kotz and Mehrer, the task force — which held two meetings open to Dartmouth faculty and staff last week — will decide “whether Dartmouth, and its faculty, are best served by operating a press, or by directing funding toward direct support of faculty scholarship.” In an interview with The Dartmouth, Kotz expressed interest in evaluating the merits of retaining the College Press in the wake of the UPNE’s closure.

Thesis no longer required for QSS major

Future quantitative social science majors will no longer be required to complete a thesis before graduating.

Senior Fellows research and write beyond College curriculum

What do federal Native American law, science fiction, a Chilean feminst and a choreopoem have in common?

Tuck student's app 'Nudg' helps manage personal relationships

Many of us have forgotten to call, text or otherwise contact those we are close to. Angela Orzell Tu’19 is working to design an application to solve this problem — Nudg, a personal relationship manager. According to Orzell, Nudg manages contacts and reminds users to reach out to those with whom they may be forgetting to keep in touch.

Tuck hosts annual Tuck Runs for Veterans

Green Key was not the only crowd-drawing event that took place on campus this past weekend. On May 19 the Tuck Veterans Club hosted its annual Tuck Runs for Veterans event, drawing more than 170 participants, including Dartmouth students, faculty and Upper Valley residents.

Nine Geisel students awarded Schweitzer Fellowships

Nine first-year medical students at the Geisel School of Medicine have been awarded the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, which provides students with funding to complete innovative projects that improve the health, safety and welfare of the community.

Joseph Helble appointed as new provost

Thayer School of Engineering dean Joseph Helble has been appointed as Dartmouth’s next provost by College President Phil Hanlon.

New language for distributives approved

The faculty of arts and sciences voted on May 7 to approve language drafted by the Committee on Instruction for new distributive requirements, which were first proposed in 2016 and which are set to go into effect as early as two years from now. The 2016 proposal consolidated the current distributives into four broad categories: Humanistic and Aesthetic Inquiry, Natural Scientific Inquiry, Social Scientific Inquiry and a more abstract Interdisciplinary Inquiry category.