Daily Debriefing
Twenty members of the Class of 2014 with the highest cumulative grade point averages were inducted as junior members into the Dartmouth chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in a ceremony in the Wren Room at Sanborn House on Tuesday.
Twenty members of the Class of 2014 with the highest cumulative grade point averages were inducted as junior members into the Dartmouth chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in a ceremony in the Wren Room at Sanborn House on Tuesday.
The College will renovate the Hopkins Center in the near future, potentially adding three performance or spaces and converting Alumni Hall to a performance space. The redesigned facility aims to allow easier navigation and visibility of the arts facilities.
Theta Delta Chi fraternity will be suspended through June 2014, followed by a probationary period until June 2016.
The College received 1,678 early decision applications for the Class of 2018 as of the Nov. 8 deadline, a 6.7 percent increase from last year, dean of undergraduate admissions and financial aid Maria Laskaris said. Last year early applications for the Class of 2017 dropped 12.6 percent.
A group of students protested former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Tuesday talk with a ‘die-in.’ The group handed out fliers in the hallway following the talk, which cited Israeli responses to terrorist attacks and Desmond Tutu’s 2002 article lamenting the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the West Bank.
The Big Green Bus, which embarks on a cross-country trip each summer, may no longer center around a biodiesel powered bus next summer.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will visit the College today and give a talk in the afternoon about Israel’s political position after the Arab Spring.
Leehi Yona ’16 will champion stricter climate change policies at a United Nations Conference in Warsaw, Poland this week alongside 16 other delegates from SustainUS, a nonprofit advocacy group that encourages youth participation in advancing sustainable development.
PromoteU, which will help connect students with employment opportunities at startup companies, hopes to officially launch its online program next year.
A new collaborative between Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Mayo Clinic enables vascular neurologists at academic medical centers to connect with emergency rooms in rural hospitals, which often do not have access to necessary resources and expertise to treat stroke patients.
An analysis conducted by the Institute of International Education in conjunction with the State Department found that a record number of international students came to study in the United States this year, up 7 percent from last year, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Josh Kim has been appointed to serve as director of digital learning initiatives for the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, Interim Provost Martin Wybourne announced in an email Friday.
Kicking off a two-day conference on Japanese studies at the College, New York Times Tokyo bureau chief Martin Fackler ’89 offered a journalistic perspective on the Fukushima nuclear disaster last Friday.
Over a third of young adults have experienced poverty in the past 50 years, The Atlantic reported.
The outgoing student body leadership provided little in the way of transitional exercises or relevant institutional information from the previous Assembly, meaning that student body president Adrian Ferrari ’14, student body vice president Michael Zhu ’14 and their cabinet essentially had to “start from the ground up,” even going to Rauner Special Collections Library to find previous years’ Assembly records, Ferrari said.
Bugle calls will ring across the country Monday as the country celebrates Veterans Day, and Dartmouth is no different.
Vice president for human resources Myron McCoo will step down from his role on Nov. 30, and former executive director Lynda Baker will serve as acting vice president during the search for a permanent replacement.
Twelve recent multiracial graduates share their personal experiences in the anthology “Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories,” which examines the identity development of mixed-race students.
While a PhD in computer science and a diploma in calligraphy and bookbinding may seem like an unconventional pairing, University of Washington professor David Levy ’71 discussed how the juxtaposition of the two disciplines can demonstrate the value of contemplation in a fast-paced world in a lecture Thursday evening.
Brown University will investigate a protest that led to the cancellation of an event with New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly to decide whether students involved should be disciplined, The New York Times reported.