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April 10, 2026
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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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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.

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