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Panhell will begin "Big Sister" mentorship program

By Hannah Hye Min Chung | April 19, 2015

Panhellenic Council is launching a “Big Sister” program, its pilot mentorship initiative that will match first-year female students with affiliated upperclasswomen. The program aims to give freshmen women more personal opportunities to learn about the Greek experience and recruitment process, as well as generate inter-class connections and relationships.

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Fifth-annual Earth Week programming kicks off

By Kelsey Flower | April 19, 2015

Students can take part in Dartmouth’s fifth-annual celebration of Earth Week by tasting food at “Farm Fresh Friday,” becoming aware of their waste production via the Dartmouth Dining Services food waste display and engaging in discussion at the social justice and sustainability dinner.

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Five chosen for Society of Fellows from pool of 1,700

By Noah Goldstein | April 16, 2015

Dartmouth has selected five scholars to be the first members of the Society of Fellows initiative, out of an initial applicant pool of more than 1,700 postdoctoral fellows, English professor Donald Pease said. The selected fellows will begin three-year fellowships this fall and will conduct research at the College for at least one year, vice provost for academic initiatives Denise Anthony said.

Fusion Dance Ensemble, along with other student groups, performed at "Still I Rise."
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"Still I Rise" advocates for survivors

By Katie Rafter | April 16, 2015

Displayed on the first page of the “Still I Rise” event program, the Maya Angelou quote “there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you,” set the tenor of the night. Hosted yesterday by WISE @ Dartmouth, the event gave survivors of domestic and dating violence, sexual assault and stalking a chance to tell their stories.

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Students celebrate the art of speaking with contest

By Laura Sim | April 16, 2015

On Thursday, students, faculty and members of the Dartmouth community gathered in the Treasure Room in Baker Library — a space with books lining the walls and light filtering in through stained glass windows — for the Benjamin F. Barge and Class of 1866 Prizes for Oratory Speech contest, an annual event celebrating the oratory arts within the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.

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Tuck admits record number of female applicants

By Hannah Hye Min Chung | April 15, 2015

Tuck School of Business admitted a record-high number of female applicants for the Class of 2017, Tuck Dean Paul Danos said. Thirty-five percent of the applicants admitted so far are female, though the admissions process is ongoing, Danos said. He added that he expects the number to increase to about 38 percent when the admissions process ends.

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Richard Mills advocates for change in town hall meeting

By Emilia Baldwin | April 15, 2015

Gathered in Spaulding Auditorium yesterday afternoon, special collections librarian Jay Satterfield and College executive vice president Richard Mills addressed a crowd of approximately 70 faculty and students. The lecture was part of the fourth town hall meeting in an ongoing series of open conversations launched by Mills last October.

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Ameer named vice provost for student affairs

By Lauren Budd | April 14, 2015

Provost Carolyn Dever announced the appointment of interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer to the newly created position of vice provost for student affairs, effective July 1, 2015, in a campus-wide email circulated Monday morning. In addition, Dever announced the launch of an internal search for a new dean of the College, which will begin later in April.

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Campus reacts to AD derecognition

By Parker Richards | April 14, 2015

Following the derecognition of Alpha Delta fraternity, numerous Greek leaders and various students expressed reticence to comment on the decision while national media outlets picked up the news.

Alpha Delta fraternity was derecognized by the College in relation to incidents of branding.
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Alpha Delta fraternity derecognized, will appeal

By Parker Richards | April 13, 2015

The College has derecognized Alpha Delta fraternity as a student organization, effective April 20, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. The decision was related to the branding of new members last fall, when the fraternity was already under suspension.

Dartmouth's chapter of the NAACP hosted a panel yesterday to discuss faculty diversity
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Panelists talk faculty diversity, importance to campus

By Max Gibson | April 13, 2015

“This room doesn’t look like Hanover,” panelist and vice president of institutional diversity and equity Evelynn Ellis said, to laughs from the audience, later adding that underrepresentation of minority faculty can be disadvantageous to all students, not just students from underrepresented groups.

College students worked on projects at the hackathon this weekend
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200 students participate in first hackathon

By Michael Qian | April 13, 2015

Computer science department chair Tom Cormen said that in this age of technology, his mantra is “if you can’t compute, you can’t compete.” This weekend, about 200 students — including students from the College and several other schools — put this idea into practice at HackDartmouth — the College’s inaugural student-run hackathon — where they divided into teams to develop a web or mobile application.

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College hires 24 new faculty members

By Erin Lee | April 12, 2015

Based on faculty turnover and changing student enrollments by department, the College hired 24 new faculty members in the arts and sciences this academic year, associate dean of faculty for the sciences and computer science professor David Kotz said. In addition, Thayer School of Engineering hired one new professor and Tuck School of Business hired five.

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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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