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Geisel Dean Duane Compton delivers a State of the Medical School address
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Geisel Dean Duane Compton delivers a State of the Medical School address

By Erin Lee | May 28, 2015

In his inaugural State of the Medical School address Thursday evening, interim dean of the Geisel School of Medicine Duane Compton announced that Geisel is on its way to becoming financially stable after a year of budget adjustments. Before an audience of about 100, three faculty members also received lifetime achievement awards and nine were inducted into the Geisel Academy of Faculty Master Educators.

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College creates math scholars program following $20 million donation

By Katie Rafter | May 28, 2015

The College has announced the creation of the Jack Byrne Scholars Program in Math and Society after a donation of $20 million from Dorothy Byrne in honor of her late husband. The College will match the gift with a contribution of $5 million from the $100 million gift to support academic excellence that the College received in 2014.

Over 200 students presented research at the 24th annual Karen E. Wetterhahn Science Symposium.
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Students present research at symposium

By Rachel Favors | May 28, 2015

The College held its 24th annual Karen E. Wetterhahn Science Symposium in the Life Sciences Center on Thursday, with 232 students participating — the highest number in the symposium’s history — and 176 poster presentations, undergraduate advising and research assistant director Kathy Weaver, who coordinated the symposium, said.

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Yield decreases to 50.4 percent, consistent with most years

By Laura Weiss | May 28, 2015

With a yield of 50.4 percent for the Class of 2019, the proportion of students accepting the College's offer of admission has declined from last year's yield of 54.5 percent but is up from 48.5 percent in 2013. For the past decade, the yearly yield rate has hovered around 50 percent, according to a College statement.

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Committee proposes harsher grading, eliminating NRO

By Parker Richards | May 27, 2015

The ad hoc committee on grading practices and grade inflation released its proposal to address grade inflation at the College on May 11. The proposal, sent out to faculty, outlines a strategy to curb grade inflation by adhering more strictly to the Dartmouth Scholarship Ratings system of awarding As for excellence, Bs for “good master” and Cs for “acceptable mastery.” The proposal hopes to incentivize faculty to adhere to stricter grading policies rather than mandate department-wide medians or curves or limit the number or percentage of particular grades that may be awarded.

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Alums awarded for lifetime service to the College

By Lauren Budd | May 27, 2015

Five Dartmouth alumni will be recognized for their lifetime contributions to the College and other achievements. Three will receive the Dartmouth Alumni Award, which recognizes service to the College, career achievement and other community service, and two will receive the Dartmouth Young Alumni Distinguished Service Award. The awards will be presented during the Alumni Awards Gala, which will be held in the fall.

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Majority of campus experiences power outage

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | May 27, 2015

Following a thunderstorm, main campus lost power shortly before 5 p.m., associate vice president of facilities operations and management announced in an email to campus. Liberty Utilities, the College's power provider, does not currently have an estimate for when power will be restored to main campus.

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Undergraduate advisors assess new programming

By Katie Rafter | May 26, 2015

A focus group consisting of students and undergraduate advisors met to evaluate the progress of recently implemented changes to the upperclassman UGA model, mainly with the goal of increasing interaction between residents and UGAs.

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Link Up holds conference for middle school girls

By Hannah Hye Min Chung | May 26, 2015

One hundred and twenty-two female middle school students from six Upper Valley schools visited the College yesterday to participate in an annual Sister-to-Sister conference hosted by Link Up, a student organization dedicated to fostering connections between Dartmouth community members.

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Founders donate $21 million to King Scholar Leadership Program

By Erin Lee | May 25, 2015

Founders Bob King ’57 and Dottie King donated $21 million to the King Scholar Leadership Program, which will be used to expand the program to include more students and fund additional internships. The Kings’ gift will raise their total investment in the scholarship program to $35 million.

The Memorial Challenge surpassed its $30,000 fundraising goal for cardiac research.
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Memorial Challenge raises $35,672 for cardiac research

By Bob Wang | May 25, 2015

More than 450 students came together to work out and celebrate the lives of Blaine Steinberg and Torin Tucker, both members of the Class of 2015 who died suddenly last year due to heart complications, at the first annual Memorial Challenge at Memorial Field last Saturday. The event raised $35,672, surpassing its goal of $30,000, which will go toward cardiac research at the Heart and Vascular Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

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UFC distributes $1,080,000 to student groups

By Katie Rafter | May 21, 2015

The Undergraduate Finance Committee approved funding of $1,080,000, up from last year’s $1,045,000, for 10 student organizations. UFC’s budget comes from the student activities fee charged to each student’s tuition every term, currently an $83 charge.

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County Attorneys hold office hours, see low student turnout

By Kelsey Flower | May 21, 2015

Spurred by a suggestion in a November discussion about sexual assault at the College, two Grafton County attorneys have begun holding open office hours on a monthly basis at the College with the intent of answering legal questions students may have on a variety of topics. Organizers say that the program can be a good resource to students, but thus far there has been little student participation.

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Panelists discuss Asian/American issues

By Erin Lee | May 20, 2015

The first time Akiko Okuda ’15 visited Dartmouth, she said her mother asked her, “Where are the Asians?” Last night this question was the defining theme of a panel, as six seniors — Carla Yoon ’15, Justin Sha ’15, Diksha Gautham ’15, Shweta Raghu ’15, Aditya Shah ’15 and Okuda — spoke to an audience of 150 people in Collis Common Ground about their experiences as Asian and Asian-American students at the College.

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