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Hall gives MLK keynote address

By Ashley See | January 21, 2013

Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Critically acclaimed playwright Katori Hall addressed the challenges of being a black woman during a speech in Moore Theater on Monday. Katori was chosen as the keynote speaker for this year's Martin Luther King Jr.

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Geisel keynote lecture starts MLK celebrations

By Ashley See | January 17, 2013

Pulling from his vast personal experience in the field and classroom, pediatric clinician Roy Wade Med'07 focused on reducing income disparity in health care and encouraged attendees to discuss improvements to working with underserved communities in a lecture on Thursday as part of Geisel School of Medicine's Martin Luther King Jr.

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Daily Debriefing

By Heather Szilagyi | January 17, 2013

One in four campus police departments are unprepared to respond to a shooter on campus, and another 46 percent say they are understaffed, according to a recent survey by Campus Safety Magazine.

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Online courses create new learning methods

By Stephanie McFeeters | January 17, 2013

Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth Staff Online learning tools are revolutionizing higher education, and universities across the nation are facing pressure to decide if and how they will join the movement, according to for-profit online education company Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller.

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Science Pub discusses black holes

By Colby Ye and Amelia Rosch | January 17, 2013

In a process called "spaghettification," a person falling into a black hole would be ripped apart by its gravitational forces before they were able to feel anything, according to astronomy post-doctoral researcher Kevin Hainline.

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Daily Debriefing

By Charlie Rafkin | January 16, 2013

San Jose State University announced on Tuesday that it will develop a pilot program to create three online introductory math courses in cooperation with the for-profit massive online open course provider Udacity, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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Students design turbine for use in African town

By Laura Weiss | January 16, 2013

Using only local supplies like aluminum, bricks, fuel, sand and wood, Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering plans to build a hydropower turbine in the Rwandan town of Musange this summer. The group's hydropower team has been building water turbines systems of small aluminum buckets that are forced into motion by a stream of water to generate power in Rwanda since 2008.

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Lu shares archaeological research

By Lily Fagin | January 16, 2013

Chinese archaeologist Lu Liancheng shared photographs of architectural sites and artifacts from the Shang, Zhou and Qin dynasties with students and faculty members on Tuesday night. Lu explained the significance of his own archaeological discoveries relative to China's history, emphasizing what artifacts can reveal about the places they were found. Speaking in Mandarin Chinese, Lu described the various religious, social and political systems in the three dynasties as he narrated slideshow with bronze vessels, jade sculptures, oracle bones and floor plans of homes or temples, Chinese professor Juwen Zhang translated his work into English. One of the most compelling parts of Chinese archeology is comparing different dynastical artifacts, which are often discovered at a single archeological site, Lu said. "Chinese history is layers piled up," he said. The lecture spanned nearly 1,400 years of Chinese history, and bounced between anecdotes of individual finds and generalizations about each dynasty and the relationships between them.

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Alpha Phi Alpha to face hazing sanctions

By Jasmine Sachar | January 16, 2013

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity has been sentenced to three terms of College probation following investigations into hazing allegations filed against the fraternity in October, according to a hazing report published by the Office of Judicial Affairs on Wednesday.

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Budget, venue affect PB concerts

By Michelle Deloison-Baum | January 15, 2013

Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Programming Board, which has not hosted a large concert since Avicii came in Winter 2012, plans to bring a "popular" artist to campus this Spring term, according to Programming Board public relations executive Zakia Lghzaoui '13. While some peer institutions have had more success inviting major artists to campus each year, each university's ability to bring in performers varies based on venue options, location, budget and reputation. Members of Programming Board have decided not to host a winter concert because of the difficulties involved in securing an indoor venue with enough space for the entire student body, director Alex Martin '13 said. "Leverone is used year-round by various sports groups and as far as we've been told, it is hard to convince these teams to let us borrow the field for the two plus days it takes to get concerts of this scale set up," he said.

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Profs. study Irene's effect on streams

By Rebecca Rowland | January 15, 2013

A group of Dartmouth researchers trying to assess the impact of Tropical Storm Irene on streams hopes that their results will help policymakers improve regulations for future storms, research group co-leader and geography professor Frank Magilligan said. The research team, which was headed by Magilligan and earth science professor Carl Renshaw, received a three-year, $345,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the study, following an initial $45,000 grant to conduct a damage assessment immediately after the August 2011 storm, Magilligan said. Irene provided an opportunity to gain insight into how natural systems respond to and recover from disturbances. "Irene was a really great example of an unprecedented flood in New England and that led to lots of geomorphic change things like hill slope erosion, landslides, overbank flooding and overbank deposition of material," he said. Magilligan's research also has implications for the effectiveness of "hard engineering," or human interference in order to produce faster stream recovery, he said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Karna Adam | January 15, 2013

Effective next school year, Lynn University will require all of its students to purchase iPad minis pre-loaded with summer reading and curriculum texts, Inside Higher Ed reported.

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