Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was named one of the nation's top cardiovascular hospitals in Thomson Reuters' annual ranking of U.S.
DOUG GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Senior Staff DOUG GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Senior Staff A basic knowledge of geography is essential, though often lacking, when politicians decide to invade countries such as Afghanistan, according to Harm de Blij, former geography editor for ABC's "Good Morning America." Blij's lecture which took place Wednesday morning in Spaulding Auditorium was titled "Afghanistan, Key to the Future of South Asia." The United States lags behind other nations in geographic knowledge because American education focuses more on history rather than geography, Blij said. "We are not nearly as good as Nigerians, Australians, Brazilians or I hate to say it even the French," he said. Ignorance about geography still persists among politicians today and was prevalent prior to the invasion of Afghanistan, Blij said. Blij said he wanted to shoot a "bazooka through the television" after hearing Sen.
Former professor and chair of the sociology department Elise Boulding died at age 89 due to liver failure on June 24 in Needham, Mass., The New York Times reported.
Protecting First Amendment rights should be a primary focus of government officials and American citizens in order to encourage shared global knowledge and maintain a commitment to national progress, Narain Batra, communications professor at Norwich University, said at the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday.
A candidate who salted his soup after sampling it during an interview was chosen for the job over another candidate who salted his soup immediately after receiving it because the employer viewed the first candidate as a better decision maker.
The 10-person search committee responsible for choosing the new athletic director to succeed acting Athletic Director Bob Ceplikas '78 will consist of faculty members, staff, alumni and students, according to committee chair Joseph Belbruno, chemistry professor and faculty advisor to the football team.
As hundreds of students pulled at their hair, guzzled iced coffee and commiserated with strangers while preparing for their Astronomy 003 test, it might have been easy to dismiss large Summer term classes as nothing more than distributive-fulfilling burdens.
The Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program invited program alumni, former volunteers and staff members, and friends to sit in on activities and special events in celebration of SEAD's 10th anniversary on Saturday.
Susan Wright, former College administrator and wife of former College President James Wright, will serve on the Board of Trustees at Colby-Sawyer College, according to a June press release from the New Hampshire college.
In a phenomenon known as the "feminization of AIDS," women have become the predominant victims of the human immunodeficiency virus in recent years, according to several speakers at a lecture held at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Friday.
AKIKAZU ONDA / The Dartmouth Staff AKIKAZU ONDA / The Dartmouth Staff As part of a series of changes intended to improve Dartmouth's recycling rate and divert solid waste from the local landfill, old waste receptacles were replaced with smaller trash and recycling containers around campus on June 20, Gary Hill, director of custodial and recycling services at Facilities, Operations and Management, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
DOUG GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Senior Staff DOUG GONZALEZ / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The College has contracted Pyramid Hotel Group a private hotel company based in Boston to assume day-to-day management responsibilities of the Hanover Inn, Paul Olsen, director of Dartmouth's Real Estate Office, said in an interview with The Dartmouth.
Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Senior Staff After an outpouring of student disagreement with the closing of the Connecticut River swim docks last Wednesday, student leaders and College officials have met to discuss "options and alternatives" to the new policy, according to 2012 Class Council Vice President Satoshi Harris-Koizumi '12.
After more than five years at the College, Brian Kennedy, director of the Hood Museum of Art, will leave to become the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Toledo Museum of Art in September, Provost Carol Folt announced in an e-mail to the Dartmouth community Wednesday. Kennedy said he believes his "community-oriented" approach to museum management helped his candidacy for the position.
By using a stream of electrons to cause vibrations in a crystal, a team of Dartmouth physicists established a link between the traditionally separate worlds of classical and quantum mechanics in a study published July 1, according to physics professor and head researcher Alex Rimberg.
The College has contracted Pyramid Hotel Group -- a private hotel company based in Boston -- to assume the day-to-day management responsibilities at the Hanover Inn, according to an e-mail sent to the Dartmouth community by Senior Vice President Steven Kadish on Friday. Pyramid -- which has operated hotels at other peer institutions such as Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania -- will begin its supervision of the Hanover Inn on August 1, the e-mail said. "The Inn has changed over the past 200 years and this is part of its ongoing evolution," Kadish said in the e-mail. Dartmouth employees at the Inn can elect to become Pyramid employees, the e-mail said. "We expect Pyramid to bring opportunities to the employees and also make improvements that should benefit the overall guest experience," Kadish wrote in the e-mail. Pyramid will report to the College's campus planning and facilities department.
Francis Ricciardone '73 has been nominated to fill the position of United States Department of State Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey by President Barack Obama, according to a July 1 White House press release.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed the District Court of New Hampshire's ruling that the College did not violate theater professor Mara Sabinson's contract in a written opinion issued Wednesday.
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff One year after stepping down as Dartmouth's 16th president on June 30, 2009, former College President James Wright has visited veterans hospitals, traveled to Korea, worked with the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund and started research for a book he is working.