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DHMC to eliminate hundreds of job slots
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Casey Aylward
| September 22, 2010
Correction Appended Officials at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center plan to cut 300 full-time positions over the next 12 months, according to Rick Adams, DHMC media relations manager.
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Titcomb reconstruction continues over summer
September 22, 2010
Courtesy of Greg Sokol Courtesy of Greg Sokol While many Dartmouth students spent their summers working, participating in internships or taking summer classes, one group of students spent its time on a somewhat less conventional project cabin construction.
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Dartmouth researchers find race, mortality link
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Christy O'Keefe
| September 22, 2010
Black patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer commonly known as colon cancer face a greater risk of mortality than white patients affected by the same disease, according to a study published in August by a team of researchers led by Samir Soneji, an assistant professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.
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Dining hall renovations push ahead
September 22, 2010
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff As renovation work on the Class of 1953 Commons formerly known as Thayer Dining Hall continues, students have alternately voiced concerns about the limited seating during the renovation process and found the temporary arrangements in the dining hall to be more spacious, several students interviewed by The Dartmouth said.
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New site advocates social privacy
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BRIDGETTE TAYLOR
| September 22, 2010
For students worried about snooping parents or potential bosses with penchants for Facebook stalking, a new social networking site available only to college students, CollegeOnly, may provide a solution, according to its founder, Josh Weinsten.
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Daily Debriefing
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Grace Afsari-Mamagani
| September 22, 2010
The United States produces relatively few college graduates, placing the United States behind other major countries, with only 37.9 percent of Americans between the ages of 25 and 60 holding two- or four-year degrees in 2008, according to a report released by the Lumina Foundation for Education, according to a Tuesday report by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
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Dartmouth launches 241st year
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Paulina Karpis and Ping Khuan Sim
| September 21, 2010
Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Staff Aki Onda / The Dartmouth Staff Speakers at Convocation emphasized the importance of building community at Dartmouth and encouraged students to make the most of their time at the College during the ceremony, held at Leede Arena on Tuesday.
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Judge faces scrutiny in Petit trial
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Eliza Relman
| September 21, 2010
The trial of Steven Hayes has faced a two-day delay following the hospitalization of presiding superior court judge Jon Blue, according to several media outlets.
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McCollum, former dean of DMS, dies at home
By
Angie Yang
| September 21, 2010
Correction Appended Robert McCollum, the former dean of Dartmouth Medical School, died in his home in Etna, N.H., on Sept.
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Daily Debriefing
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Casey Aylward
| September 21, 2010
For the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, Harvard University has told its schools to expect a 4 percent rise in the value of the endowment payout for the next fiscal year, The Harvard Crimson reported.
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College receives $12.8-million grant for cancer research
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Conrad Scoville
| September 21, 2010
The National Cancer Institute named Dartmouth a Center of Nanotechnology Excellence on Friday, awarding researchers a $12.8-million grant that will fund large-scale research on nanotechnology treatments for cancer, intended to cause fewer side effects than current treatments.
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College will reinstate benefit for some staff
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Casey Aylward
| September 21, 2010
In response to public disapproval from employees, College officials will partially reverse their previous decision to terminate employee death benefits, Provost Carol Folt announced last Wednesday.
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College reverses death benefits decision
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The Dartmouth Staff
| September 16, 2010
The College has reversed its decision to terminate employee death benefits, Provost Carol Folt and Executive Vice President Steven Kadish wrote in an e-mail message to College staff on Wednesday.
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GOP Sen. race remains uncertain
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Lindsay Brewer
| September 15, 2010
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff In a day of volatile primary elections featuring upsets in several Republican races around the country, New Hampshire's battle for the Republican Senate nomination between former state attorney general Kelly Ayotte and Manchester attorney Ovide Lamontagne remained too close to call well into early Wednesday morning. As of press time, Ayotte led Lamontagne by little under 1,000 votes, taking 38 percent of the vote to Lamontagne's 37 percent, the Associated Press reported.
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Daily Debriefing
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The Dartmouth Staff
| September 14, 2010
A 26-year-old man died Sept. 4 after the car he was riding in struck a guardrail and utility pole at the intersection of Greensboro and Etna Roads, about four miles from campus, according to a Hanover Police press release.