Upper Valley

Town of Hanover gets #Readyfor100

By Debora Hyemin Han | September 29, 2016

The Sierra Club Upper Valley Group has a big goal for the town of Hanover and Dartmouth: to source 100 percent of their energy of all three sectors — heat, transportation and electricity — from sustainable sources.

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News

Cohen discusses his new book

By Peter Charalambous | September 29, 2016

In his lecture yesterday evening at the Rockefeller Center, journalist Michael Cohen connected the political activity of Nelson A. Rockefeller ‘30 to today’s polarized presidential election.

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All Greek To Me

Joyce takes over as the new director of Greek life

By Daniela Armas | September 29, 2016

To finish his doctorate in education leadership at Clemson University this past June, Brian Joyce, the new director of the Office of Greek Life, authored a dissertation that examined how membership in traditionally white fraternities can shift notions of identity in minority students.

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News

Folks to leave NH Hospital in Jan.

By Seamus Walsh | September 29, 2016

Geisel School of Medicine psychiatry professor David Folks, who has also served as the Chief Medical Officer of New Hampshire Hospital — the state-run psychiatric hospital — for the past eight years, will step down from both posts in January.

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Profile

Q&A with government professor Russell Muirhead

By Alexandra Steinberg | September 29, 2016

Growing up in “the shadow” of Manchester’s industrial mills, government professor and political theorist Russell Muirhead first learned about work, alongside the ethics of work.

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All Night Long

HackDartmouth hosts over 200 competitors

By Emma Demers | September 27, 2016

At this year’s HackDartmouth, sleep was optional. Over 200 students participated last weekend in the third iteration of Dartmouth’s 24-hour hackathon, a competition in which students compete to build a product using a variety of programming skills.

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Geisel Grant

Geisel receives NIH research grant

By Mika Jehoon Lee | September 27, 2016

Last week, researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center received an award worth up to $42 million from the National Institute of Health to study the influence of environmental exposures on children’s health. The funding is provided as part of Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes, a seven-year initiative recently launched by the NIH to further investigate how environmental exposures could affect the health of children and adolescents.

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Water Works

Q&A with professor Christopher Sneddon

By Jimmy McColgan | September 27, 2016

To Christopher Sneddon, water is not only the source of human life, but also the source of many human conflicts.

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News

Rockefeller Center panel to discuss national economics

By Kristine Jiwoo Ahn | September 27, 2016

Today’s “Links between Financial Markets and the American Economy” symposium will feature debate from three distinguished panelists on recent and prospective changes to the financial system.

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Money Matters

Endowment declines by 4 percent

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | September 24, 2016

Dartmouth’s endowment posted a 1.9 percent investment loss for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2016, according to a press release on Friday by the College.

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Overprescribed

DHMC study finds overprescription of opioids

By Sunpreet Singh | September 23, 2016

Doctors are overprescribing opioids, according to a new study from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, leading to an abundance of unused drugs that could potentially be abused.

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Econ 101

Q&A with economics professor Andrew Levin

By Debora Hyemin Han | September 23, 2016

It can be hard to connect the classroom to real life, but economics professor Andrew Levin is trying to do just that.

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News

Sustainability task force to meet this month

By Alex Fredman | September 22, 2016

A new sustainability task force of students, faculty and administrators will have its first full meeting this month.

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News

Study finds broad support for diversity

By Julian Nathan | September 22, 2016

Dartmouth students were largely in favor of giving minority applicants preference in admissions and faculty hiring procedures, a recent study co-authored by Madeline Brown ’16, Lauren Martin ’16 and government professors John Carey and Yusaku Horiuchi found.

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Morphy

Corpse flower to bloom soon

By Anthony Robles | September 22, 2016

The College’s resident “corpse flower,” known as Morphy, is expected to bloom at the end of this week for the first time since July 2011.

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News

Plan invests in west campus

By Samantha Stern | September 22, 2016

Expect to see more scaffolding around campus.

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News

Q&A with religion professor Devin Singh

By Frances Cohen | September 22, 2016

From kung fu training in Thailand to poetry writing, Devin Singh, now beginning his second year at Dartmouth, is not your typical religion professor.

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Job Hunt

CPD to host career fair in the Hop

By Emilia Baldwin | September 20, 2016

The Hopkins Center for the Arts will be teeming with job-seekers today and tomorrow as the Center for Professional Development hosts its annual Employee Connections Fair.

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Shake It Out

Sigma Delta adopts shakeout

By Sungil Ahn | September 20, 2016

Starting this term, Sigma Delta sorority will exclusively recruit potential new members through its shakeout process, first piloted last winter term.

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News

Sexual assault attempt reported to Safety and Security

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | September 19, 2016

An unidentified male attempted to sexually assault a female student on Saturday evening, Safety and Security director Harry Kinne announced in an email to campus this morning.

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