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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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Daily Debriefing

By Soumya Gupta | November 4, 2010

Taylor Stevenson '10 the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate for the seat for Brainerd, Minn., in the state senate was defeated by Republican Paul Gazelka in Tuesday's midterm elections, according to the Brainerd Dispatch.

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Aegis receives second ‘Benny' in two years

By Matthew McNierney | November 4, 2010

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Aegis became the third college yearbook ever to win back-to-back "Benny" awards after winning the Best of Category in the 2010 Premier Print Awards for its 2009 edition, according to Elena Mustatea '11, co-president of The Aegis. Based on the overall look of the finished product, judges from the Printing Industries of America last month selected The Aegis to receive the award from a pool of approximately 100 entries, according to Mustatea.

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Kerr '98 plans to take on green groups' rifts

November 3, 2010

Rosi Kerr '98, the College's new sustainability director, has run the gamut of wide-ranging work in the field of sustainability working in advocacy, business and institutions of higher education.

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Daily Debriefing

By Claire Groden | November 3, 2010

Smaller college endowments performed better than large endowments in average returns in fiscal year 2010, according to The New York Times.

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GOP House may cut NIH funding

By Gavin Huang | November 3, 2010

Americans woke up on Wednesday morning to the largest change in the House of Representatives since 1948, when Democrats gained 75 congressional seats.

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