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Research team launches data-collecting balloons

By Rebecca Rowland | January 15, 2014

Carefully constructed, technologically advanced balloons soar in the Antarctic sky, transmitting space weather updates to a team of scientists. For the past month, physics and astronomy professor Robyn Millan has lived on the southernmost continent, using instrument-laden balloons to gather data on radiation belts that impact space activity around the Earth.

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Sustainability efforts focus on older campus buildings

By Michael Qian | January 15, 2014

From the south side of campus, the Dartmouth College Heating Plant releases wispy plumes of steam into cool air. The plant, which supplies approximately 45 percent of the electricity on Dartmouth’s main campus, is just one part of a large network of heating and sustainability programs.

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College doubles salting efforts in icy season

By Priya Ramaiah | January 14, 2014

Massachusetts Row became an ice rink. Students stumbled across the Green. Webster Avenue threatened to trip any who braved its slick sidewalks. Though Campus Planning and Facilities has used 515 tons of salt in de-icing efforts so far this winter, more than double the amount used by this time last year, the season’s weather has made it more difficult than usual to ensure safe walking conditions, said campus planning and facilities labor shop supervisor Greg Frost, adding that this is the worst winter he has witnessed in the past 20 years.

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Spectra boosts LGBTQ social life on campus

By Jorge Bonilla | January 14, 2014

Spectra, a new campus organization, seeks to enhance community among LGBTQ students by holding social events throughout the term. Andrew McKee ’15 and Jacqueline Panichello ’16 founded the group in the fall after hearing rumors that Gender Sexuality XYZ, was disbanding.

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Boral '16 launches new leadership program

By Michael Qian | January 14, 2014

Freshmen will discuss leadership and their roles at the College in a new program created and facilitated by other students. The Leadership Attitudes and Behaviors program, launching on Jan. 27, will combine peer bonding and student-facilitated discussions to encourage students to consider new meanings of leadership.

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Panhell holds discussion

By Sera Kwon | January 13, 2014

Approximately 40 students gathered at the Center for Gender and Student Engagement on Monday evening to discuss the decision of five Panhellenic Council executives to abstain from this week’s sorority recruitment.

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New seminar series to explore economics and government

By Roshan Dutta | January 13, 2014

Over a meal of summer steak and buffalo chicken burritos, students interested in the link between government and economics gathered in the Rockefeller Center on Monday night for the first of a series of faculty-student dinner seminars hosted by the College’s new Political Economy Project. An interdisciplinary academic initiative launched in the fall, the program aims to further the study of political economics at the College.

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Student body shifts from Blackboard to Canvas

By Priya Ramaiah | January 13, 2014

Almost half of undergraduate students have begun the switch from Blackboard to Canvas, a new online learning management system, following a positive response to the 13-class pilot last term, assistant director of educational technologies Barbara Knauff said. A total of 110 courses transitioned to Canvas this winter, and an additional 150 faculty members are slated to adopt Canvas in the spring. Knauff said she expects Blackboard to be phased out by the end of the calendar year.

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Phi Sigma Nu approaches approval

By Hannah Hye Min Chung and Emily Rutherford | January 13, 2014

Though Preston Wells ’15 has worked for over a year to establish a charter of the historically Native American fraternity Phi Sigma Nu at Dartmouth, he said the fact that the organization is coming to fruition feels surreal. Wells and two other students received provisional approval to form a chapter from the fraternity’s chief council last November, and members say they hope to receive an official College charter by this fall.

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Sororities add aid talk, Q&A to winter rush

By Sera Kwon | January 12, 2014

Sorority presidents sent an email to members of their respective houses on Sunday evening announcing changes made to this year’s winter recruitment cycle. These changes include replacing the choreographed song-and-dance presentations that traditionally follow recruitment parties with financial aid presentations and anonymous question-and-answer sessions, as well as relaxing dress code expectations.

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Lessig to lead New Hampshire Rebellion

By Jasper Bingham | January 12, 2014

Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig does not look like someone who would advocate for an uprising. Thin and bespectacled, he carries no weapons. But this week, he calls for a New Hampshire Rebellion, a march through the state to protest corruption in the American government and promote campaign finance reform.

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Polli '94 develops recruitment tools

By Bryn Morgan | January 12, 2014

One screen shows five colored discs on three pegs, ready for the user to manipulate. Another presents faces and a word bank of possible emotions.

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Former professor leads MLA conference

By Brian Chalif | January 12, 2014

The Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Chicago last weekend drew over 7,000 people, including over 20 Dartmouth professors. The conference’s theme, “Vulnerable Times,” was selected by association president and former College French and comparative literature professor Marianne Hirsch.

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College selects Carolyn Dever for provost seat

By Laura Weiss and Hannah Hye Min Chung | January 9, 2014

Carolyn Dever, dean of the college of arts and sciences at Vanderbilt University, will serve as Dartmouth’s next provost beginning July 1, College President Phil Hanlon announced Thursday in an email to campus. Dever, an English professor known for her efforts in furthering diversity, has served in academic administrative roles for over a decade.

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Recruitment will proceed despite Panhell executives' abstention

By Sera Kwon | January 9, 2014

In a meeting that began at 10 p.m. and lasted until around midnight on Thursday, the College’s eight sorority presidents met with nine executive members of Panhellenic Council and voted to proceed with winter recruitment.

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Tucker hires new Muslim and multi-faith advisor

By Jorge Bonilla | January 9, 2014

As the new Muslim and multi-faith advisor of the Tucker Foundation, Sharif Rosen will serve as a resource for students grappling with faith-based issues. Rosen, who joined the Tucker Foundation in December, provides support for the Tucker Foundation’s various multi-faith programs, including Tuesday evening multi-faith conversations and the Inter-Faith Living and Learning Community located on first floor of Rauner Hall.

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Student, alum summit Kilimanjaro in annual Prouty hike

By Rose Wang | January 9, 2014

Hiking high above the Tanzanian plains, Anna Condino Med ’14 and Wes Chapman ’77, Tu’81 pushed forward, leading a group bearing yellow ribbons inscribed with the names of cancer survivors and victims. They stepped toward the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak at 19,340 feet. In the months leading up to the trip, which lasted from Dec. 26 to Jan. 6, the group of 11 raised nearly $50,000 to benefit research at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

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College picks Carolyn Dever as next provost

By Laura Weiss | January 9, 2014

Carolyn Dever, dean of the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University, will serve as Dartmouth’s next provost, the College announced Thursday. Dever, who will begin on July 1, has served in administrative roles in higher education for over a decade.

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Five Panhell executives to abstain from next week's winter recruitment

By Stephanie McFeeters and Lindsay Ellis | January 8, 2014

Five of nine Panhellenic Council executives will abstain from sorority recruitment this winter. Forgoing recruitment for one term, participating executives said, could provide the council with time to develop policy to improve the Greek system internally.

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Public policy class to investigate environmental issues

By Jose Burnes Garza | January 8, 2014

Students in a new environmental policy workshop will learn the tools necessary to conduct research on environmental issues while preparing to present their findings to the Vermont and New Hampshire legislatures. The course, launched by the Rockefeller Center and the environmental studies department, will serve as a prerequisite for students hoping to continue their projects in the Policy Research Shop.

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