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Yale University released its first sexual misconduct report Tuesday, describing sexual harassment complaints that have been made on campus from July 1 to Dec.
Yale University released its first sexual misconduct report Tuesday, describing sexual harassment complaints that have been made on campus from July 1 to Dec.
The College's master's in health care delivery science program has exceeded the expectations of both students and faculty since it welcomed its first class of students last summer, according to Katy Milligan '90 Tu '07, the program's director.
While Dartmouth's Greek system has come under fire for allegations of fraternity hazing and subsequent administrative inaction, the College's peer institutions maintain comparable anti-hazing regulations and procedures for dealing with violations, although a higher percent of eligible Dartmouth students are affiliated with a Greek organization than at similar colleges and universities. After Cornell University's Greek organizations came under national scrutiny last winter when a student died at a fraternity pledge initiation event, university president David Skorton responded with an opinion column in The New York Times urging colleges and universities to address hazing and binge drinking on campuses. "We need to face the facts about the role of fraternities and sororities in hazing and high-risk drinking," Skorton wrote in the column.
On Saturday, members of the New Faculty Majority, an advocacy group for college faculty members across the country, hosted a national summit in Washington, D.C.
Although he is still in the process of earning his business degree, Phil McDonnell Tu '12 has already founded two start up companies.
Following approximately 27 years devoted to teaching American literature at the College English professor emeritus James Cox, died on Jan.
Richard Yu / The Dartmouth Staff With the opening of the King Arthur Flour cafe in Baker-Berry Library last June, the award-winning bakery's on-campus site joined the Bagel Basement shop located in Dartmouth Medical School as the only other independently run dining establishment on campus.
When pediatric cardiologist David Crowley walks the halls of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester, his Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center identification card swings with the pace of his stride, hanging from the Boston Children's Hospital lanyard around his neck.
Returns on college and university endowments averaged 19.2 percent in 2011, a rate closer to pre-recession levels than the past few years, Inside Higher Ed reported.
Courtesy of The State Hornet Alysson Satterlund, the current director for student organizations and interim director of the Women's Resource Center and PRIDE Center at California State University, Sacramento, will assume the position of director of the College's Office of Pluralism and Leadership on Feb.
Courtesy of Dartmouth Medical School The American Association of Immunologists plans to honor Dartmouth Medical School professor William Green with the AAI Distinguished Service Award at the annual AAI convention in May, according to Green.
The persistence of hazing at Dartmouth goes against the College's principle of community and its core values, according to members of the College faculty interviewed by The Dartmouth.
Despite the strong hazing accusations recently leveled by Andrew Lohse '12 against his former fraternity in a Jan.
Alysson Satterlund, the current director for student organizations and interim director of the Women's Resource Center and PRIDE Center at California State University, Sacramento, will assume the position of director of the College's Office of Pluralism and Leadership on Feb.
College officials and financial aid experts are raising questions about U.S. President Barack Obama's proposals regarding the affordability of college education, first outlined in last Tuesday's State of the Union address, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Hazing allegations are rarely brought against Dartmouth Greek organizations, sports teams and other student groups due to the difficulty of finding witnesses to corroborate such accusations, according to Hanover Chief of Police Nicholas Giaccone.
Students and faculty crowded into Haldeman 41 Monday afternoon to discuss the works of William Butler Yeats, Paul Cezanne and Sigmund Freud with Yale University comparative literature professor Peter Brooks.
Experts in psychology have long known that prosopagnosia a condition also known as face blindness is caused by brain damage, but it was unknown until recently that roughly 2 percent of the population is born with the facial recognition disorder, according to psychological and brain sciences professor Brad Duchaine, who devotes his time to studying the condition. People with prosopagnosia often cannot recognize the faces of close friends or even family members and have to rely on other clues, such as voice or gait.
Aditi Kirikar / The Dartmouth Anthony Aveni has made a career of the history behind the current media fad surrounding the allegedly upcoming Maya-predicted apocalypse.
The 2012 Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips directorate, announced in a campus-wide email on Friday, will aim to extend a "sustainable welcome" to the Class of 2016, according to Trips director Emily Mason-Osann '11 Th '12. Farzeen Mahmud '12 will take on the role of assistant director.