The Freshman Year Bucket List
This article was featured in the 2017 Freshman Issue. Time flies quickly inside our little bubble of Hanover and your first year at college can be overwhelming with all the various things grabbing your attention.
This article was featured in the 2017 Freshman Issue. Time flies quickly inside our little bubble of Hanover and your first year at college can be overwhelming with all the various things grabbing your attention.
This article was featured in the 2017 Freshman Issue. Approximately sixty-six thousand Dartmouth graduates “roam the girdled earth,” as we sing in the alma mater.
This article was featured in the 2017 Freshman Issue. When there are over 50 majors and minors provided, choosing a discipline to concentrate in can be difficult.
This article was featured in the 2017 Freshman Issue. As you can probably tell by now, Dartmouth uses quite a few acronyms.
While Dartmouth is home to both traditions and buildings that harken back to the College’s nearly 250-year history, one of the most referenced parts of the College’s academic and social structure is relatively young.
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The College and Hanover community set significant goals to transition towards renewable energy sources this past year.
“Dartmouth College has a problem,” declared Linda Chavez in a widely-read April 2014 New York Post opinion column.
From observing the Southern hemisphere’s night sky in South Africa to cultivating a deeper understanding of Chinese culture in Beijing, over 55 percent of Dartmouth students participate in an off-campus program before they graduate. Every year, the College provides various opportunities for students to take their education outside of the classroom and beyond Hanover.
In November 2015, Dartmouth announced the creation of a house system as part of the Moving Dartmouth Forward initiative, featuring six new house communities intended to serve as a residential life model for students.
Last week, over 40 teachers from across Mexico gathered at Dartmouth for a two-week program led by the Inter-American Partnership for Education, held in partnership with the educational nonprofit WorldFund and the Rassias Center for World Languages and Culture.
Charlie Blatt ’18, a government major and French minor, was published in the United States Army War College’s journal Parameters this June for her analysis of military strategy in the Iraq War.
Last Tuesday, Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH) signed HB 640, a marijuana decriminalization bill that will reduce penalties for marijuana possession.
On June 25, CNBC aired a documentary featuring two recent Dartmouth graduates. “A Billionaire’s Bet: The Best & Brightest” followed 110 students from around the world as they participated in the Schwarzman Scholars program at Tsinghua University.
Charles Wheelan ’88 is a senior lecturer in public policy at the College. He is the founder of The Centrist Project, which supports centrist policies and independent candidates, and is the author of “Naked Economics.” This summer he is teaching a class titled “Economics of Public Policymaking.” In May, Wheelan returned from his most recent sabbatical, during which he traveled with his family for nine months around six continents.
Joseph Rago ’05, an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal, has died, according to The Wall Street Journal.
V.S. Subrahmanian will begin his position as the inaugural Distinguished Professor in Cybersecurity, Technology and Society at the College on August 1, joining the Cybersecurity Academic Cluster.
Members of the admissions office met with tour guides on July 12 to discuss issues that guides have raised with the office’s policies for their jobs, including payment, tour scheduling and inauthenticity in the tour script. One issue that came up during the meeting was payment.
Madison Sabol ’18 has come up with a way to greatly reduce the College’s carbon footprint. After two years of research and assistance from the Dartmouth Office of Sustainability and Dartmouth Dining Services, she has created the “Green2Go” food takeout program, which replaces the disposable to-go containers in the Class of 1953 Commons with reusable ones.
English professor William Craig teaches both fiction and nonfiction creative writing at the College.