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Dartmouth researcher questions FDA failures

By Gavin Huang | November 10, 2010

The alleged failure of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ensure the safety of medical devices is the subject of an investigative report, "Why the FDA can't protect the public," co-authored by Dartmouth researcher Shannon Brownlee. Brownlee, a Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice instructor, and Jeanne Lenzer, a medical investigative journalist, released a year-long study examining the 1997 approval of Cyberonics's vagus nerve stimulator.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Fletcher and Jenny Che | November 9, 2010

Student Assembly and the College's Alcohol and Other Drug Education Program are looking for students to design a poster that outlines the risks of mixing energy drinks and alcohol.

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Haiti efforts revamp following outbreak

By Amelia Acosta | November 9, 2010

Correction Appended Expanding upon a campus-wide response to the January earthquake in Haiti, Dartmouth students, faculty and administration have revamped relief efforts to address the recent outbreak of cholera in Port-Au-Prince and surrounding towns, according to Presidential Fellow Molly Bode '09, who serves as the Dartmouth Haiti Response Coordinator. "We sent medical supplies such as antibiotics, as well as sanitary supplies like Clorox, mops, buckets and diapers," Bode said.

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Media criticizes Class Gift pressure

By Angie Yang | November 9, 2010

After one student's refusal to donate to the Senior Class Gift sparked controversy last Spring, Dartmouth has faced criticism from several national media outlets in recent weeks for allegedly encouraging student volunteers to directly pressure individual students to donate.

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Race discussion evolves at College

By Marina Villeneuve and Emily Baer | November 9, 2010

Editor's Note: This is the first installment in a three-part series investigating race at the College. The Dartmouth College Charter states that, "there be a College erected in our said Province of New Hampshire by the name of DARTMOUTH COLLEGE for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of Learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans." Through the College's evolution from that 1769 document to today when the College is led by a Korean-American College President Jim Yong Kim students and staff have continued to engage in activism and sought to increase the diversity of the student body, often challenged by those opposed to such change. The Charter's expressed goal of educating Native Americans was not fully embraced until 200 years after it was written, though attempts to promote diversity have been made throughout history.

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War and peace minor discontinued

By John Biberman | November 9, 2010

Emily Van Gemeren / The Dartmouth Staff Emily Van Gemeren / The Dartmouth Staff The Dickey Center for International Understanding decided to discontinue its War and Peace Studies minor in February, due to both the declining interest in the minor and the rise in popularity of the new International Studies minor, according to Victoria Hicks, the assistant to the director of the Dickey Center. The War and Peace Steering Committee began deliberations about eliminating the minor in March 2008 after enrollment in the program declined, government professor Daryl Press said.

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Political groups look ahead to 2012

November 8, 2010

Following a hotly contested election season, College Democrats and Republicans are working to show how their policies directly impact students' lives in order to build support for the 2012 elections, according to political activists.

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Jury calls for Hayes's execution in Petit trial

By Eliza Relman | November 8, 2010

Almost three and a half years after the deaths of Hayley Petit, her mother and sister, a Connecticut jury recommended on Monday that Steven Hayes who was convicted of their murders this October be sentenced to death for his crimes.

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Researchers highlight PTSD treatment stigma

November 8, 2010

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking medical treatment from Department of Veterans Affairs facilities are far more likely to require medical assistance for mental health difficulties than for physical injuries, according to a study published this month by researchers from Dartmouth Medical School and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

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Daily Debriefing

By Jay Webster | November 8, 2010

Universities with Division I sports teams are seeing an increase in graduation rates for student-athletes, The Washington Post reported.

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Casey discusses music technology

By Jenny Che | November 7, 2010

Music professor Michael Casey may have broken from the typical approach to a Thayer School of Engineering lecture when he asked audience members to make conversation while listening to the chorus of Madonna's "Lucky Star." Casey played the song to demonstrate advances in audio identification software in his lecture "From Vinyl to YouTube: Engineering the 21st Century Music Industry" in Spanos Auditorium. Casey's lecture described the evolution of music technology since 1900, noting the development of phonographs, vinyl records and synthesizers, as well as the Synclavier, a digital synthesizer constructed by researchers at the Thayer School of Engineering in 1976. As the availability of music has exploded over the last decade, so has technology used to record and identify music evolved, according to Casey, who chairs the music department and heads the Bregman Music and Audio Research Studio, a lab that explores connections between music and neuroscience. In his lecture, Casey discussed the recent expansion and development of audio identification software.

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Daily Debriefing

November 7, 2010

The government of India has invested $1 million in a partnership between Yale University and two top Indian universities to help Indian university leaders learn American methods of academic administration and institutional management, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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Jury still deciding Hayes sentence

By Eliza Relman | November 7, 2010

After three days of deliberation, a Connecticut jury has not yet reached a decision in the sentencing of Steven Hayes, who was convicted in October of the 2007 murderer of Hayley Petit, her mother and her sister, WFSB reported.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed '81 was selected to replace Al Mulley '70 on the Board of Trustees.
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Gordon-Reed '81 to become new Trustee

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | November 7, 2010

Courtesy of womensvoicesforchange.org Courtesy of womensvoicesforchange.org The Dartmouth Board of Trustees selected Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed '81 to fill the seat vacated by outgoing Trustee Al Mulley '70 at its November meeting, according to College President Jim Yong Kim.

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Mulley chosen to lead DCHCDS

By Emily Fletcher | November 7, 2010

As a young attending physician, Al Mulley '70 helped a family to decide whether to perform a tracheotomy on their elderly relative with end-stage lung disease.

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Group creates safer surgical sponge

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | November 4, 2010

Following its creation of a bioresorbable sponge that could eliminate tens of thousands of dollars in revisionary surgery costs, a team of Thayer School of Engineering graduates Nathan Niparko '09 Th'10, Devon Anderson Th'10 and Jonathan Guerrette Th'10 received second place in the undergraduate category of the Collegiate Inventors Competition, judges announced last week. The team's research attempted to address the issue of retained surgical sponges.

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NIH director calls for investment

By Amelia Acosta | November 4, 2010

Maximizing available resources and emphasizing innovative research exploration are crucial to determine what causes disease and to facilitate the creation of effective drugs, Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, said in a Thursday speech "Exceptional Opportunities in Biomedical Research" at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. "We need to take advantage of new developments that have happened, many in the last few years, to understand fundamental biology at a deeper level than we have before, and use that information to uncover the causes of specific diseases," he said.

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Prof. touts ‘freespeaking' method

By Jay Webster | November 4, 2010

Talking to oneself can be an effective way to improve public speaking skills, according to Josh Compton, a senior lecturer in speech at the College who discussed a technique he has termed "freespeaking." Compton led an exercise on Thursday designed to help students improve public speaking, called "Freespeaking: Speaking With (and Listening Up) Before Speaking Out," held in the Hopkins Center for the Arts. Compton began his interactive workshop by discussing the conventional model of public speaking education, known as the "linear model." He demonstrated the model by displaying two circles to represent the speaker and the audience with an arrow from the speaker circle to the audience circle.

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