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DOC chooses new Trips directorate

By Sara McGahan | January 11, 2015

Charged with welcoming the vast majority of incoming freshmen to campus, director Peety Kaur ’15 and assistant director Sam Parker ’15 will lead the 2015 Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips directorate.

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Over 50 students audition for V-February

By Parker Richards | January 11, 2015

Roughly 50 students auditioned Sunday for roles and performances in V-February, an annual month-long campaign to promote gender equality through performances and discussions, sponsored by the Center for Gender and Student Engagement, event organizers said.

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Students visit startups on DEN trip to West Coast

By Lauren Budd | January 8, 2015

Over winter break, 13 undergraduates and four Tuck School of Business students traveled to the West Coast on a trip sponsored by the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network to work for three early-stage startups founded by Dartmouth alumni, as well as visit an array of Silicon Valley startups.

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NLRB union decision unlikely to affect Dartmouth

By Timothy Connor | January 8, 2015

The National Labor Relations Board asserted the right of non-tenured faculty members at private colleges to collectively bargain and unionize in a December ruling, rejecting claims by Pacific Lutheran University that its faculty occupies managerial positions. The ruling is unlikely to affect proceedings at Dartmouth, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences Michael Mastanduno said.

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Stamps Scholars' research projects are underway

By Parker Richards | January 8, 2015

With the support of $10,000 each from the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation, the projects of the six inaugural Stamps Scholars are underway, from studying ancient canals in Mexico to analyzing the environmental impacts of Dartmouth’s fuel source.

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Kim’s Dartmouth Center absorbed by Dartmouth Institute

By Katie Rafter | January 7, 2015

While the Dartmouth Center was originally founded by former College President Jim Yong Kim as a separate entity from the Dartmouth Institute — so it could focus on separate opportunities for health research — Institute director Elliott Fisher said in an email that the integration of the two programs was expected from the outset.

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My Brigadeiro brings more chocolate to Main Street

By Erin Lee | January 7, 2015

Store owner Ana Paula Alexandrescu began her online business two years ago from home, and although she has sold her chocolate in local stores — such as Dan and Whit’s General Store in Norwich and the Hanover and Lebanon Co-Op Food Stores — opening a store is something she always had in mind.

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Sixty-four students charged with honor code violations

By Parker Richards | January 6, 2015

A total of 64 students have been charged with various honor principle violations stemming from an investigation into a cheating incident in religion professor Randall Balmer’s “Sports, Ethics and Religion” course last fall, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said in an email.

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Community protests police brutality

By Annie Ma | January 5, 2015

Over the winter interim period, Dartmouth students, faculty and community members led two separate demonstrations in response to the non-indictments of officers involved in the deaths of unarmed black men Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

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Students learn policy in action in Ireland

By Lauren Budd | January 5, 2015

As Public Policy 85 students discussed Northern Ireland’s peace treaties of 1998 in Belfast’s parliamentary buildings, British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed an addendum to the very same treaties next door. This coincidence demonstrated the continued relevance of the class’s studies, program participant Nick Zehner ’15 said.

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Dartmouth teams up with Posse Veterans Program

By Emilia Baldwin | January 5, 2015

Dartmouth has become the third institution of higher learning to partner with the Posse Foundation as part of a program that aims to recruit exceptional post-9/11 veterans to various top-tier universities around the country, the College announced in early December.

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College admits 483 students early decision

By Kelsey Flower | January 4, 2015

The College admitted 483 students to the Class of 2019 through the early decision process, the College announced on December 12. The students were selected from a pool of 1,859 — the largest in Dartmouth history — for an acceptance rate of 26 percent.

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Three Dartmouth students named Rhodes Scholars

By The Dartmouth Staff | January 4, 2015

Miriam Kilimo ’14, Ridwan Hassen ’15 and Colin Walmsley ’15 have been named Rhodes Scholars and will follow Jonathan Pedde ’14 and Joseph Singh ’14, who won Rhodes Scholarships last year, to Oxford University. The three bring Dartmouth’s total Rhodes Scholars count to 78.

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$250k awarded to Geisel professor for cancer research

By Laura Weiss | January 4, 2015

Geisel School of Medicine pharmacology and toxicology professor Michael Spinella is being awarded a $250,000 two-year grant by the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to support his research, which could lead to a treatment for testicular cancer that is more effective and less toxic than current treatment options. Spinella is among five researchers across the country receiving a 2014 Reach Grant from the foundation, which gives the grants to move childhood cancer research from the lab to the clinic.

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College accepts 483 students early decision

By Kelsey Flower | December 12, 2014

The College admitted 483 members of the Class of 2019 early decision, about 26 percent of the 1,859-person applicant pool. The pool, originally reported by Dartmouth as 1,856 students, was the largest in College history.

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