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PRIDE Week highlights diversity of experiences

By Estephanie Aquino | May 3, 2015

PRIDE Week, a week-long celebration dedicated to raising awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and transgender issues, wraps up today with a talk by keynote speaker and prominent transgender activist Janet Mock. Highlights of the week included an HIV screening in Collis Common Ground on Wednesday, a cookout on the Collis Center patio on Thursday and a series of lectures and discussions throughout the week.

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#DartmouthIAmHere campaign aims to showcase socioeconomic diversity

By Rebecca Asoulin | May 3, 2015

Ramtin Rahmani ’16 said he keeps thinking back to one anecdote submitted as part of the #DartmouthIamHere campaign — a new project using student submissions to showcase socioeconomic diversity on campus — where the student wrote about how at the end of each College tour he gives, he mentions that he is the first person from his family to attend college. This act, Ramtin noted, is this student’s way of expressing that there is diversity on campus.

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Students petition to preserve professor Milde’s position

By Sean Connolly and Max Gibson | April 30, 2015

Following restructuring in the chemistry department that has led to the apparent dissolution of Sibohan Milde’s position as a senior lecturer, support for Milde has spread among members of the student body, resulting in a petition created by chemistry major Josie Coury ’15. As of press time the petition has accrued 756 signatures from both undergraduate and graduate students alike, Coury said.

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College awards professors $450,000 for seed funding

By Bob Wang | April 30, 2015

Ten proposals of the 51 submitted were awarded seed funding from the Office of the Provost, the College announced last week. Funding for the 10 projects will go toward purchasing necessary equipment, financially supporting team members and running experiments to see if the project could potentially work.

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Geisel and DHMC funding remains steady

By Erin Lee | April 29, 2015

Funding for medical research at Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has remained relatively steady despite recent declines in federal funding, Geisel interim dean Duane Compton said.

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Faculty, students react to academic proposals

By Noah Goldstein | April 28, 2015

In the wake of Monday’s meeting of the faculty of arts and sciences, faculty and students expressed mixed sentiments about possible changes to distributive requirements, grade inflation and course schedule changes. These proposals come following calls to increase “academic rigor” by College President Phil Hanlon as a part of his “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative.

 
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Faculty discuss changes to distributive requirements, grade inflation, class times

By Emilia Baldwin | April 27, 2015

Potential changes to distributive requirements, class meeting times, grade inflation and upperclassmen advising were discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the faculty of arts and sciences. The meeting served as an open forum for both proposal and discussion, as several of the ideas discussed will potentially be put to a vote on June 1, dean of the faculty Michael Mastanduno said.

Pre-health advisor Sarah Berger meets with students to discuss academics and applications.
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Pre-health advising program being restructured, Lee Witters steps down

By Lauren Budd and Erin Lee | April 27, 2015

Geisel School of Medicine professor Tim Lahey will become the faculty director of the health professions program, replacing longtime program leader and biology and Geisel professor Lee Witters, who elected to step down. The program is currently undergoing restructuring and will expand to hire a staff member for the new position of associate director, associate dean of faculty for the sciences and computer science professor David Kotz said.

The Rockefeller Center hosted former Pakistani high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland Akbar Ahmed
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Akbar Ahmed advocates for greater understanding in Middle East conflict

By Parker Richards | April 27, 2015

Akbar Ahmed, the former Pakistani high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland, said in a lecture yesterday that his mission is “to heal a fractured world.” He said he has set out to undo the narrative of clashing civilizations that has arisen in academic circles and the public sphere since 9/11 to explain the conflicts between East and West and replace it with ideas of dialogue and education.

Prospective students watched members of the Class of 2018 perform songs, dances and skits Thursday evening.
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1,100 prospective students visit for Dimensions

By Hannah Hye Min Chung | April 26, 2015

The third session of Dimensions of Dartmouth — the College’s prospective students programming — ended this Friday, with total of about 1,100 prospective students attending the three sessions. This number is roughly equal to the number who visited last year, which director of admissions Paul Sunde said is remarkable considering the fact that the College admitted about 100 fewer students than last year.

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