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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.

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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.

For the first time, affinity housing is under the umbrella of living learning communities.
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Fewer students apply for living learning communities

By Katie Rafter | April 9, 2015

The number of students who applied to live in living learning communities for the fall decreased from 844 last year to 575, but assistant director for living learning and academic initiatives Katharina Daub said that she hopes this means more students will be placed in their first-choice community.

Prospective members of the Class of 2019 mingle in Collis Common Ground
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Dimensions of Dartmouth welcomes 150 prospective students today

By Sean Connolly | April 9, 2015

An inch of snow coats the Green today as dozens of prospective students stroll along its muddy walkways for the first session of Dimensions of Dartmouth, an annual program that offers a slate of events for prospective students. The College will welcome approximately 350 guests this weekend, including 150 potential members of the Class of 2019, dean of admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said.

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Islam Awareness Week kicks off today

By Rebecca Asoulin | April 8, 2015

In preparation for Islam Awareness Week, Saaid Arshad ’14Th’18 stumbled upon something he never thought he would find anywhere, let alone at Dartmouth — a 1,000-year-old Quran manuscript. Arshad, the graduate student representative for Al-Nur — Dartmouth’s Muslim students association — said that seeing and touching the manuscript of the sacred religious text, available for viewing through Rauner Special Collections, was a “transcendental experience.”

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Symposium will present nonprofit career paths

By Max Gibson | April 8, 2015

Students will have the opportunity to learn from and engage with established professionals in the nonprofit sector as part of the Tucker Foundation’s “Breaking the Mold: Careers for the Common Good Symposium.” The event, which starts this afternoon and will continue through tomorrow, will feature a keynote address from Katherine Collins, Founder and CEO of Honeybee Capital, and multiple workshops focused on educating students about nonprofit career paths.

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Orozco lecture features Castañeda

By Lauren Budd | April 8, 2015

The countless Dartmouth students who study in the Orozco mural room daily interact with the mural ---— even if they are unaware of its significance — simply by studying in the room, art history department chair Mary Coffey said. The National Park Service awarded the mural national landmark status in 2013, Hood Museum interim director Juliette Bianco said at yesterday’s fourth annual “Manton Foundation Orozco Lecture.”

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Tuck administrators, students prepare for global experience requirement

By Michael Qian | April 7, 2015

Two decades ago, only one percent of Walmart’s stores were overseas. Today, half of its over 11,000 stores are abroad — a global business expansion that underlines the importance of giving students at the Tuck School of Business international exposure, associate dean for the masters of business administration program Phillip Stocken said.

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Users and creators react to Dartmouth’s first MOOC

By Laura Sim | April 7, 2015

By engaging with students through the virtual screen during the College’s first massive online open course, “Introduction to Environmental Science,” environmental studies professor and course lead Andrew Friedland said that he and his team frequently found themselves surprised by the universality of environmental science, despite students’ varied perspectives.

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DHMC ranked one of 150 best places to work in health care

By Emilia Baldwin | April 7, 2015

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was named one of the “150 Best Places to Work in Health Care” last month by Becker’s Hospital Review. This was the first year DHMC made the list since it was first published in 2011 , DHMC chief human resource officer John Malanowski said.

Fewer students participated in corporate recruiting this winter than in 2014.
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Winter corporate recruiting sees lower numbers

By Parker Richards | April 6, 2015

Fewer students participated in corporate recruiting this winter than the prior year, according to figures released by the Center for Professional Development. A total of 665 students submitted 8,256 applications for the 189 positions advertised through the CPD by 121 employers.

Collis Miniversity will restructure its programming to increase engagement.
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Collis Miniversity will be restructured, cancels fall classes

By Ashley See | April 6, 2015

Collis Miniversity will be restructured to pursue engaging, stand-alone academic conversations with the goal of “increased interactivity,” Collis Center program coordinator Juliann Coombs said. After the launch of “Not Another Lecture Series,” a series of casual conversations with alumni and lecturers, Collis Miniversity will end their termly classes, including “Wine Discovery” and “Speed Reading,” this fall.

Seth Holmes gives a lecture about migrant farmers and their health outcomes.
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Holmes delivers lecture on U.S. migrant farming

By Lucia McGloin | April 6, 2015

For few academics does the term “fieldwork” entail working in an actual field. Seth Holmes, in contrast to many of his colleagues, spent months working with indigenous Mexican migrant farmers as he conducted research for his 2013 book “Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States.”

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Michelle Obama honors Kaya Thomas '17

By Hannah Hye Min Chung | April 5, 2015

When she was young, Kaya Thomas ’17, creator of the iPhone application “We Read Too,” said she was thrilled when she first discovered a book with another black girl on its cover. When she began to read the book, however, she said that she was heartbroken to discover the story was about a girl who got pregnant, became a stripper and dropped out of school.

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“Move It Challenge” promotes fitness among faculty, staff

By Erin Lee | April 5, 2015

The Wellness at Dartmouth office has launched its second annual “Move It Challenge” for faculty and staff this week with a series of kick-off walks for community members. The eight-week event, which takes places from April 6 to May 31, encourages participants to log at least 37,500 steps per week to promote personal health, director of health promotion and wellness Melissa Miner wrote in an email interview.

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Symposium on Sexual Assault will discuss community accountability

By Priya Ramaiah | April 2, 2015

This afternoon, faculty, students and community members will convene in Collis Common Ground for the fourth annual Symposium on Sexual Assault. The event, hosted by the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, will focus this year on community accountability for sexual violence, as well as recognition of groups and individuals making positive change on campus, SPCSA chair Tori Nevel ’16 said.

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