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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Although colleges and universities nationwide have recently begun increasing the numbers of off-campus regional admissions officers on staff, Dartmouth has bucked the trend by maintaining only one admissions officer working remotely, and has no immediate plans to expand, according to the College admissions office. A recent study by The Chronicle of Higher Education found that colleges across the nation were placing full-time representatives in distant zip codes in the hopes of attracting a greater number and diversity of applicants. Dartmouth is one of several colleges not following this pattern.
Harvard Medical School has announced that it will soon open a primary care research center using a $30 million anonymous gift, according to an HMS release.
When College President Jim Yong Kim addressed the issue of alcohol abuse and sexual assault at Monday's termly Faculty of Arts and Sciences general meeting breaking from the trend of focusing on academics and the College's financial standing many professors in the audience appreciated his departure from the budget conversation, professors interviewed by The Dartmouth said. "I thought it was a really interesting presentation," John Carey, the chair of the government department, said.
Update Appended The Student Assembly Course Guide which hosted rankings and ratings of courses at the College until it was replaced with the independent CourseRank service in spring 2010 is no longer available online, leaving students without access to the guide's course reviews from previous years.
Clouds of particles floating in space may affect the strength of magnetic fields protecting the Earth from cosmic rays, according to research by Dartmouth professor Hans-Reinhard Mueller.
Dartmouth received an A- on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card, and was named one of 52 "Overall College Sustainability Leaders," according to the organization's website.
Correction Appended A team led by Dartmouth biology professor Kevin Peterson may have just resolved a long-standing debate in the scientific community over the evolution of vertebrate animals. Peterson along with University of Bristol professor Philip Donoghue, graduate students Alysha Heimberg and Richard Cowper Sal Lari and University of Lyon professor Marie Semon published a study that refutes the popular view that the lamprey, a jawless vertebrate, was the most closely related creature to subsequent vertebrate species.
Gavin Huang/The Dartmouth; Zach Ingbretsen/The Dartmouth Senior Staff Gavin Huang/The Dartmouth; Zach Ingbretsen/The Dartmouth Senior Staff As Election Day approaches, politicians in New Hampshire are making their final attempts to attract voters' support.
Alina Politzer / The Dartmouth Staff Alina Politzer / The Dartmouth Staff Amid growing student concern over the recent felony charges levied against Greek organizations for serving to minors, and in anticipation of Homecoming weekend, local attorney George Ostler '77 met with students on Tuesday night to clarify their legal rights when it comes to alcohol-related issues and to define the legal boundaries facing police when dealing with Greek organizations.
The cost of scholarship is steep and growing. Last year, Dartmouth spent over $7 million out of a $9 million information budget on subscription fees to scholarly journals, according to associate librarian for information resources Elizabeth Kirk.
Acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears and Provost Carol Folt discussed the College's voluntary reaccreditation process, overseen by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, at Tuesday's Student Assembly meeting in Collis 101.
Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a four-part series profiling professors who were recently awarded endowed chairs. During his 17 years at Dartmouth, computer science professor Prasad Jayanti has balanced his "two loves" of research and teaching, and has succeeded in both.
Although several trustees of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic hold positions at other organizations related to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, DHMC Public Affairs Manager Clarence Adams said there are "no conflicts of interest" in DHMC's hiring practices.