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Samwick earns new professorship

By John Michel | November 2, 2010

Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment in a four-part series profiling professors who were recently awarded endowed chairs. Even while working in Washington, D.C., as chief economist on the Council of Economic Advisors, economics professor Andrew Samwick's love for his post at Dartmouth never waned even next to the prospect of more time in the capitol. "Washington for a second year or [coming] back to Hanover?" he said.

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Talk emphasizes study of politics

By Lindsay Brewer | November 2, 2010

Many researchers who study Arctic social-ecological systems the interplay between human societies and nature do not gain a comprehensive understanding of factors affecting these networks because they do not include the role of politics in their analyses, Dickey Center visiting fellow Amy Lovecraft said in a Tuesday lecture, "Politics in Social-Ecological Systems: The Case of the Arctic Transition." Lovecraft explained that many academics focus on the study of governance, but said she thinks the focus should be widened to include governments and political actors, which are the driving forces of change. "Social-ecological system studies is focused largely on the concept of policy and has recently used the term governance, but has largely ignored politics," she said. Social-ecological systems are dynamic, complex and oftentimes unpredictable, Lovecraft added. "We tend to think of social and ecological systems as separate, but I would like to at least point out that I think this is more of a spectrum," she said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Jay Webster | November 2, 2010

A group of Chinese students has filed suit against the United States Educational Testing Service after its decision to not consider test scores on a Graduate Record Examination issued in China on Oct.

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Staiger: Doctors work fewer hours

November 1, 2010

The number of hours logged by physicians has steadily declined over the last 15 years due to lower per-patient compensation and increasing government regulations, according to a study conducted this year by Dartmouth economics professor Douglas Staiger.

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Daily Debriefing

By Alison Polton-Simon | November 1, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case regarding university rights to faculty inventions at the urging of the Obama administration and a collection of research universities, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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Students fall victim to anonymous ‘blitzjacks'

By Campbell Sechrest | October 31, 2010

Correction Appended Students across campus received an e-mail Thursday night apparently from their own BlitzMail accounts purporting to be a "blitzjack" and directing them to a website labeled "Bored at Berry." The source of the e-mails, which appears to also be behind an e-mail sent out to campus Sunday that seems to be sent from College President Jim Yong Kim's account, remains unclear as of Sunday night. Although students have long sent messages from logged-on BlitzMail accounts not belonging to them a practice referred to as "blitzjacking" the e-mails sent Thursday and Sunday are the first to be sent to such a large group in recent memory. The first e-mail, sent out late Thursday evening, had the subject line "blitzjack?" and appeared to be sent by the recipient of each e-mail.

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Ross: Investment spurs health care

By Joseph Singh | October 31, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Despite a decade-long decline in funding, venture capital will continue to play an important role in driving health care industry innovations, according to Thayer School of Engineering board member Michael Ross '71.

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Daily Debriefing

By John Biberman | October 31, 2010

The family of late Tuck School of Business professor Leonard Morrissey has made a donation to Hanover's Howe Library that will allow it to be open seven days a week, the Valley News reported.

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Freshmen rush field, touch fire

By Gavin Huang | October 31, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff At least three students touched the bonfire and five students rushed the football field during Homecoming weekend, according to multiple students interviewed by The Dartmouth.

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Professors get grant for radiation study

By Claire Groden | October 28, 2010

Dartmouth Medical School researchers are taking charge in the field of assessing radiation exposure in survivors of radioactivity-related disasters, according to Dartmouth Medical School radiology professor Harold Swartz. As the principal investigator and director of the Dart-Dose Center for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation, Swartz negotiated a $16.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, which was awarded to the Center to fund research over the next five years.

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Hayes asks to die for Petit murders

By Eliza Relman | October 28, 2010

Steven Hayes who earlier this month was convicted of murdering Hayley Petit, her mother and her sister in 2007 has exhibited "suicidal tendencies" and expressed his desire to receive the death penalty for his crime, CNN reported.

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Ethicist talks campaigns and voters

By Matthew McNierney | October 28, 2010

Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth Patton Lowenstein / The Dartmouth The ethics of political campaigns should not be judged by their fairness, but instead by whether voters retain their free choice, Dennis Thompson, director of the Edmond J.

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Science and theology converge at College's Veritas Forum

By Jasmine Wang | October 28, 2010

Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Staff Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Staff Both speakers and audience grappled with the challenge of finding a common ground between science and theology at Thursday's Veritas Forum, "Are We Significant Figures?" Dartmouth physics and astronomy professor Marcelo Gleiser and Massachusetts Institute of Technology nuclear science and engineering professor Ian Hutchinson co-led the panel, with Dartmouth classics and linguistics professor Lindsay Whaley serving as moderator. Gleiser started his portion of the panel by harkening back to 1543, when "Copernicus was on his deathbed." Prior to Copernicus's heliocentric theory, humans believed that God had created humans as the "cream of the crop," Gleiser said.

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