Daily Debriefing
The Commission on Presidential Debates chose four colleges to host presidential and vice presidential debates for the 2012 general election next October, according to the organization's website.
The Commission on Presidential Debates chose four colleges to host presidential and vice presidential debates for the 2012 general election next October, according to the organization's website.
The College extended its early decision application deadline from Nov. 1 to Nov. 7 for students affected by last week's East Coast snow storm, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris.
In an attempt to increase collaboration and communication among students, alumni and the Career Development Office, the Tuck School of Business has launched two new technology platforms, according to Rebecca Joffrey Tu'97, Tuck's director of career education and innovation. Tuck Jobs, a career management system, and Chatter, a private social network, were designed in collaboration with Salesforce, a company that offers cloud-based computing resources.
New Hampshire will hold its 2012 general election primary on Jan. 10, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner announced Wednesday in a press conference at the state capitol building.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff With the creation of seven working groups and two advisory committees, the College's strategic planning process is now fully underway, according to faculty members and administrators interviewed by The Dartmouth.
As deputy coordinator for diplomacy for the Feed the Future initiative, Jonathan Shrier '85 is at the forefront of the Obama administration's comprehensive plan to fight hunger in sub-Saharan Africa.
MAGGIE ROWLAND / The Dartmouth Staff James Weinstein, director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and president of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, was named chief executive officer and president of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health care system on Tuesday, according a Dartmouth-Hitchcock press release.
Nearly half of primary care physicians believe that they or their colleagues are over-providing health care to their patients, according to a recent study conducted by Dartmouth Medical School professor Brenda Sirovich published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. "Physicians are constantly being asked, Did you do enough?' not Did you do too much?'" Sirovich said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
Facebook-inept companies across the country are looking to Rob Leathern '97 to solve their social media woes. Leathern's social media aggregator, XA.net, helps companies utilize social media websites as advertising platforms.
Student Assembly members discussed a proposed amendment to change Student Body president and vice president election procedures from approval voting to preferential voting during Tuesday's General Assembly meeting.
MAGGIE ROWLAND / The Dartmouth Staff The Waban-Aki people's culture, traditions and history are slowly surfacing after being stifled for thousands of years, Montgomery Fellow Alanis Obomsawin said Tuesday in a lecture in Filene Auditorium.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and Southwestern Vermont Health Care signed an agreement earlier this month to establish a group of multi-specialty physicians to care for patients in southwestern Vermont, according to Kevin Robinson, director of media affairs for SVHC.
By EVELYN MALDONADO Dartmouth Medical School professor Harold Sox has received national attention for his analysis of the two studies funded by the National Cancer Institute that evaluated the effectiveness of X-rays and CT scans in screening cancer patients.
Dismissing orders to vacate by 9 p.m. on Oct. 29, supporters of the Occupy Providence movement continued their protest in Burnside Park.
While all Dartmouth undergraduate students have switched over to Blitz the new Microsoft Outlook-operated email and calendaring system that replaced BlitzMail students have yet to experience the full breadth of the new system, which will include video chat and instant messaging, according to Susan Zaslaw, associate director of administrative computing and project manager for the BlitzMail transition. The Blitz transition team is currently working on plans for implementing Microsoft Lync, the program that will enable these capabilities, Zaslaw said in an interview with The Dartmouth. "It's like Skype, that's what I always compare it to," Zaslaw said. The transition team will implement Lync during Winter 2012, and the remaining elements of Microsoft SharePoint which provides the ability to create shared documents and arrange virtual meetings are scheduled to be unveiled to campus in the "latter half of next year," Zaslaw said. While some features of the new Blitz system, like video conferencing and desktop screen sharing, will use more bandwidth than the old BlitzMail system, the transition team tested these features extensively and found "nothing alarming" in terms of bandwidth use, Zaslaw said.
Windy City residents will benefit from the newly-created Rauner Scholarship, which supports graduates of Chicago public high schools who qualify for financial aid at Dartmouth, according to Christen O'Connor, scholarship coordinator for the Financial Aid Office.
Amid increasing threats to the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Program budget, seven recent Dartmouth graduates are currently pursuing academic research and cross-cultural exchanges as Fulbright scholars.
Lee Forest, who was hired by Harvard University in September as its first director of bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender student life, declined the position citing personal and professional reasons just days before he was slated to assume the role, The Harvard Crimson reported.
Independence in Latin America is an ongoing process rather than a single event, according to scholars at the three-day Independence Effect Symposium hosted at the College this past weekend and sponsored by the Spanish and Portuguese department.