Committee supervises ethics of human testing
From new cardiology studies to students that go overseas and want to interview people, the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects answers ethical questions about human research at Dartmouth.
From new cardiology studies to students that go overseas and want to interview people, the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects answers ethical questions about human research at Dartmouth.
Cirrus Foroughi / The Dartmouth Staff Deciphering course requirements will no longer require as much effort as understanding James Joyce's "Ulysses," thanks to the English department's decision to simplify its major structure and clarify its offerings for future classes.
A college diploma is becoming the lowest minimum requirement for low-level positions in many industries, The New York Times reported.
Assistant vice president of finance Kevin Weinman will leave the College on May 1 to become Amherst College's first chief financial officer.
Zonia Moore / The Dartmouth Staff A Haitian proverb says that the goat's business is not the sheep's business.
Since her first day at Dartmouth in 1979, Jean Hanff Korelitz '83 knew she wanted to become a writer.
Jin Lee / The Dartmouth Staff Of all American students who received a bachelor's degree in computer science in 2011, only 11.7 percent were female.
Cecelia Shao / The Dartmouth Staff Climate change activists Craig Altemose and Shea Riester passionately advocated for the College to divest from fossil fuel companies in a panel discussion organized by Divest Dartmouth on Wednesday evening. Altemose, executive director of the Better Future Project, has extensive involvement in climate change activism, said Leehi Yona '16, who introduced the speakers.
For the second consecutive year, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center received no reimbursements for its pro bono care of Medicaid patients, vice president of government affairs Frank McDougall said.
A report released by the Council for Aid to Education found that universities experienced an increase in charitable donations during the 2012 fiscal year, The Chronicle for Higher Education reported.
Zonia Moore / The Dartmouth Staff After losing consciousness for several hours in a fraternity basement one night during her freshman fall, Paige '14 woke up in an unfamiliar setting and came to the horrific realization that she was being sexually assaulted by a male student. Paige was one of six speakers who shared their stories at Speak Out, an event designed to enable survivors of sexual assault and abusive relationships to share their experiences out in the open, putting a "human face" to the campaign against sexual assault and unhealthy relationships, said Rebekah Carrow, Sexual Assault Awareness Program co-coordinator and a Sexual Assault Peer Advisor. Over 150 students and staff listened attentively as Paige shared her story. When she managed to return to her dorm room after the traumatic incident, she began vomiting and found herself physically injured, but the long-term repercussions of the assault proved far more serious than her initial symptoms.
Anna Davies / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Beginning last spring, the Organizational Adjudication Committee and the Committee on Standards merged their processes for choosing student members.
Roger Woolsey, the career center director at Colby College, will fill the vacant Career Services director position beginning June 1.
In an unconventional lecture to first-year Columbia University students on Monday, physics professor Emlyn Hughes stripped off his clothing, played video footage featuring clips of 9/11 and sat in a fetal position, all to the background music of Lil Wayne's "Drop It Like It's Hot," before later giving a lecture on quantum physics, The Columbia Spectator reported.
From a young age, Belle Verwaay '14 knew she wanted to serve her native country of Haiti, even as she moved away to attend high school in Miami.
Emory University President James Wagner infuriated campus community members and scholars when he published a letter in the latest issue of Emory Magazine citing the three-fifths compromise in the Constitution as an example of people with different ideologies working together for "a common goal," Inside Higher Ed reported.
Defying Dartmouth norms, former Board of Trustees member Sally Frechette Maynard led a Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trip in the summer of 1981 alongside her two sons, who were trip leaders at the time.