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June 30, 2011

College President Jim Yong Kim's Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking has reached its full membership of 32 colleges and universities and will conclude its first learning session Friday, the College announced Wednesday.

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Alumni market sustainable stove

By Jay Webster | June 30, 2011

Paper, sticks and dried manure are among the "organic, burnable materials" that can serve as fuel for an ecologically-conscious and affordable stove developed by BioLite, a company run partly by Thayer School of Engineering alumni that specializes in energy-efficient products, according to Clay Burns '87, BioLite's vice president of product development. BioLite was founded by Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Cedar '03, Chief Technical Officer Alexander Drummond and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan den Hartog '03 Th '05.

Following a year-long College prohibition on swimming in the river, the student dock will reopen Saturday to students with Dartmouth IDs.
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Swim dock to reopen Saturday

By Laura Bryn Sisson | June 30, 2011

Katharine Pujol / The Dartmouth Staff The tradition of sun-filled days spent at the student swim dock will return to sophomore Summer as the year-long College prohibition on swimming in the Connecticut River comes to an end this weekend.

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Kim expresses support for DREAM Act

By Angie Yang | June 30, 2011

Drawing on personal experience and a "strategic" viewpoint, College President Jim Yong Kim voiced "strong support" for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act in a letter addressed to Sen.

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Vandewalle to advise United Nations' Libya efforts

By Angie Yang | June 29, 2011

Government professor Dirk Vandewalle has been named political advisor to United Nations Special Advisor Ian Martin, who is organizing the U.N.'s arrangements for post-conflict Libya, according to a College press release. Vandewalle will work alongside Martin to aid and advise U.N.

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Schaub to concentrate on image of Greeks

By Angie Yang | June 27, 2011

Wes Schaub, Greek life director at Case Western Reserve University, will take over as Dartmouth's permanent director of Greek Letter Organizations and Societies on July 11, according to April Thompson, associate dean of the College for campus life.

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Jennrich to lead CWG, focus on student needs

June 27, 2011

Correction appended Jessica Jennrich, director of advising, curriculum and programming for the University of Missouri's women's and gender studies department, will replace Samantha Ivery as the director of the College's Center for Women and Gender in August.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner '83 discussed the ongoing economic recovery in Spaulding Auditorium on Friday.
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Geithner praises crisis response

By Jay Webster | June 27, 2011

Katharine Pujol / The Dartmouth Staff Politicians on Capitol Hill are working to overcome partisanship and reverse the trends of a "lost decade" of economic and fiscal decisions, according to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner '83, who spoke to a crowd of over 900 people in Spaulding Auditorium on Friday.

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ALS linked to water, researchers find

By Nathan Yeo | June 27, 2011

A toxin present in blue-green algae and consumed by sealife may be a cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease and other neurological diseases in humans who ingest contaminated water or seafood, according to research conducted by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center neurologist Elijah Stommel. Stommel's research, which began in 2000, is still ongoing and was recently featured in Discover Magazine. Beta-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), a compound found in cyanobacteria such as blue-green algae, has been thought to cause neurological defects since the 1960s, when foods containing the compound were linked to a neurological disease outbreak in Guam. Stommel and students at Dartmouth Medical School plotted the addresses of about 800 ALS patients onto a computer map of northern New England and found that they were heavily concentrated around lakes and other bodies of water.

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O'Brien advises student comedians

June 23, 2011

About 20 years ago, Conan O'Brien a young comedian looking to launch a career in television joked with his friends about the ridiculous possibility of a brilliant scientist being afraid of the skeleton hanging in his laboratory.

Judd Gregg explained the dangers of expanding federal budget deficits and national debt in a Wednesday lecture in Moore Theater.
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Gregg calls for gov't. spending cuts

By Angie Yang | June 23, 2011

Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff The United States could face fiscal and economic collapse unless the federal government addresses expanding deficits and federal debt, former U.S.

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Michael Taylor named new director of Hood

By Matt McNierney | June 23, 2011

Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Staff Michael Taylor, the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, has been appointed the director of the Hood Museum of Art, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College.

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Daily Debriefing

By Ashley Blum and Jay Webster | June 23, 2011

An envelope containing a suspicious white substance, since determined to be harmless, was found in Thornton Hall on June 8, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College.

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Envelope containing suspicious substance found at College

By The Dartmouth Staff | June 9, 2011

An envelope containing a suspicious substance, since determined to be harmless, was found in Thornton Hall on Wednesday evening, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College. The FBI, Hanover Police, Hanover Fire Department, Lebanon Fire Department, Safety and Security and the College's Environmental Health and Safety Department all responded and secured the building, Anderson said. EHSD, the hazardous materials response team, tested the substance on site and found it to be harmless, according to a campus-wide safety alert email from Director of Safety and Security and College Proctor Harry Kinne. Representatives from the FBI were on campus on Wednesday because the incident had "homeland security implications" given the history of anthrax attacks in the country after Sept.

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