Daily Debriefing
Student Assembly chose its Summer term executive board, acting Student Body Vice President Rohail Premjee '14 said in an email to The Dartmouth.
Student Assembly chose its Summer term executive board, acting Student Body Vice President Rohail Premjee '14 said in an email to The Dartmouth.
Wiley Souba, vice president for health affairs and dean of Dartmouth Medical School, announced 20x20 a set of development strategies that include new buildings and an altered curriculum that aims to make DMS one of the top 20 medical schools by 2020 in his inaugural State of the Medical School address at Kellogg Auditorium on Wednesday. "Right now we're number 32," Souba said.
Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth Staff Charlotte Johnson, vice president and dean of the college at Colgate University, will assume the role of the dean of the College on July 21, Johnson said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
New modifications to the College's SmartChoice dining options have been created to meet student demand for greater flexibility and choice, Dartmouth Dining Services Director David Newlove said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth Staff Charlotte Johnson, vice president and dean of the college at Colgate University, will assume the role of the dean of the College on July 21, Johnson said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
Six student orators addressed issues ranging from alcohol to privacy rights while demonstrating their skills at the Benjamin F.
Director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding Kenneth Yalowitz will leave the College in December, he said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
Yale University violated several regulations in the Clery Act by failing to correctly report statistics for crimes including sexual assault, the Yale Daily News reported.
AKI ONDA / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Students and staff members chanted, "Dartmouth is no corporation" and "Health care is a human right" as they circled Parkhurst Hall on Friday afternoon, insisting that the administration halt the subcontracting of College jobs and restore staff health care benefits, which were reduced by $15 million in January 2011 as part of the College's $100-million budget cuts. Approximately 70 people attended the 30-minute protest organized by Dartmouth Students Stand with Staff.
Five health care sites comprising the New Hampshire Accountable Care Organization pilot program, a health care system designed to increase cost efficiency, received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on May 20, according to Foster's Daily Democrat.
Lotta Nygren / The Dartmouth In his first year as dean of Dartmouth Medical School, Wiley Souba made efforts to "revitalize" DMS' curriculum through a dual degree program and focused on enhancing the relationship between the medical school, the College and other graduate schools, Souba said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Through the implementation of new programs and partnerships with the College, Souba hopes to make DMS the most "prestigious" and "unique" medical school in the country, DMS Associate Dean and Chief Operating Officer Charles Mannix said. By working closely with College President Jim Yong Kim, Provost Carol Folt and various deans, Souba has forged "cross-institutional" links such as a joint bioengineering program with Thayer School of Engineering, according to Mannix.
Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Staff Activists' roles in providing global health treatment are as important as those of physicians and policymakers, according to Matthew Kavanagh, an AIDS activist and director of United States advocacy for the Health Global Access Project.
While various organizations and experts that focus on addressing underage drinking have praised Dartmouth's newly announced Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking, some question how the initiative will work with current campaigns to promote alcohol safety and whether the initiative's members possess the requisite experience needed to successfully address underage drinking on college campuses. The College announced on May 2 that it would to collaborate with 13 other colleges and universities on a new initiative to address alcohol use on campuses across the country, The Dartmouth previously reported. Various public health officials interviewed by The Dartmouth agree that the Collaborative represents a positive step in addressing on-campus alcohol issues.
Chi Gamma Epsilon's physical plant was spray-painted with the words "no means yes, and yes means anal" and "rape" as well as other obscenities late Wednesday evening or during the early morning hours of Thursday, according to a Thursday email sent to fraternity and sorority presidents by Chi Gam president Sean Schultz '12 and obtained by The Dartmouth.
The Women in Science Project, founded in 1990, celebrated its 20th anniversary last Thursday and Friday with various events including an alumnae panel, a mentoring workshop and a student poster symposium, according to Assistant Dean of Faculty for Undergraduate Research and WISP Director Margaret Funnell.
Seventy-five faculty members have signed a draft of a letter expressing dissatisfaction with the College's decision to award an honorary degree to former U.S.
College President Jim Yong Kim was ranked ninth on Fast Company magazine's 2011 "Most Creative People in Business" list, published in the magazine's June issue.