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Rhimes '91 addresses graduates at 2014 Commencement

By Zac Hardwick | June 8, 2014

About 13,500 people gathered on the Green Sunday morning to celebrate Commencement, at which 1,116 students received undergraduate degrees. In her address to the graduates, screenwriter Shonda Rhimes ’91 emphasized the importance of action over dreams, maintaining perspective and understanding that no one is perfect.

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Environmental science, opera among MOOC topics selected for 2015

By Amelia Rosch | May 27, 2014

The College will offer four massive open online courses through a partnership with edX beginning in early 2015, focusing on introductory environmental science, 19th-century American literature, introductory opera and engineering structural forms. Dartmouth is the final Ivy League institution to offer free courses accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.

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Board anticipates membership changes

By Josh Koenig | May 27, 2014

Based on charter and alumni trustee term limits, which permit the trustees to serve up to two four-year terms, eight trustees who were elected before 2012 are expected to leave the 26-member Board in the next three years.

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Institute to explore patient choice

By Kate Bradshaw | May 27, 2014

Patient advocates and medical, legal, ethics and policy professionals will come to campus this summer for the 2014 Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice, discussing the implications of informed consent and patient choice, as well as improvements in health care transparency and patient-based care.

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Transfer term applicants decrease

By Rebecca Asoulin | May 27, 2014

Over the last two years, the number of applications for transfer terms has decreased, in part because students now have to complete a more extensive application to participate, Registrar Meredith Braz said. In 2011, the College’s non-refundable transfer term application fee increased from $25 to $1,100 for the fall term and $2,200 for the winter, spring and summer terms. In 2012, the Committee on Instruction instituted an application policy and limited the number of students who can participate in a particular transfer program to an average of five.

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Focus group to tackle Banner Student flaws

By Roshan Dutta | May 26, 2014

Starting this fall, director of academic and campus technology services Alan Cattier will lead a focus group dedicated to improving Banner Student, an online student information system. The decision was made earlier this month following a winter term Improve Dartmouth post that urged the College to “Modernize Banner,” currently the site’s seventh most popular suggestion.

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Students seek funding online

By Miguel Pena | May 26, 2014

As thousands of students prepare to work internships this summer for little or no pay, some have turned to crowdfunding to cover basic living and travel costs.

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Gallira '12 forays into artisanal tomato sauce

By Amelia Rosch | May 26, 2014

After returning from a consulting stint in South Sudan and quitting his job at a Boston executive search firm, Matt Gallira ’12 took inspiration from the dinners he would cook for friends and decided to start the Atlantic Ave. Company, a start-up that makes artisanal tomato sauce at a firehouse kitchen in Wayne, New Jersey.

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For some, a new dean’s former position will best decide fit

By Charles Rafkin | May 22, 2014

As Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson prepares to pack up her Parkhurst Hall corner office, the College must choose a new administrator to oversee undergraduate academic and campus life. While the future dean could come from a corporate, legal or academic background, faculty and higher education experts interviewed said someone with strong academic distinction could best fit into the position.

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Visiting profs to teach summer courses

By Sean Connolly | May 22, 2014

A total of 126 professors will teach an undergraduate course on campus this summer, around 14 percent of whom are visiting faculty, including three in their first year at Dartmouth. Faculty and department chairs have negotiated the 2014 summer course schedule since last fall, government department chair John Carey said.

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Lodge may see renovations

By Chris Leech | May 21, 2014

As part of an ongoing series of renovations, the College is considering updating or rebuilding the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge to better meet safety codes and host a growing number of guests.

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Veteran fly-in program brings five to campus

By Zac Hardwick | May 21, 2014

Over the past few days, five veterans visited Dartmouth through the first veteran fly-in program, a 24-hour admitted students session. After discussing about new ways to attract more veterans to the College, the Dartmouth Uniformed Service Alumni organization created the pilot program with the admissions office.

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Cellar provides freshmen with revamped social space

By Claire Daly | May 21, 2014

With lighting that changes from red to blue to purple and a chalkboard that covers the expanse of a wall, a basement room in Russell Sage, the College’s oldest first-year dorm, has been converted into a new social space. Called the Cellar, the space is one of three major renovations made to Russell Sage and Butterfield halls as part of an initiative overseen by the student-run organization Dartmouth Roots to improve residential life.

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