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Alumni Office to release directory

By Casey Aylward | May 17, 2010

The Office of Alumni Relations plans to release an updated alumni directory in December that will provide new services to alumni, including an online directory, a broadcast e-mail service and an electronic commerce service, according to Vice President for Alumni Relations David Spalding.

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Daily Debriefing

By Laura Bryn Sisson | May 17, 2010

The Rhode Island Central Falls school district which was lauded by President Barack Obama in March for holding its staff accountable for student performance after firing 87 district employees has reached an agreement with the teachers union that will allow all staff members to retain their jobs, the Associated Press reported Monday.

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Peterson stresses need for skepticism in science

May 16, 2010

*Editor's note: This is the second installation in a weekly series profiling professors' approaches to teaching and academics at Dartmouth.**## As biology professor Kevin Peterson discussed Velociraptor hunting techniques and apocalyptic meteors, students in his Winter "Dinosaurs" class passed around fossils that included petrified eggs, foot-long teeth and preserved skulls.

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Profs. discuss ‘digital humanities'

By Annie Jones | May 16, 2010

Professors, librarians and students from across the United States gathered at Dartmouth's Symposium on the Digital Humanities, held in the Haldeman Center on Friday, to discuss the intersection of humanist scholarship and digital technology.

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College forms Health Care Delivery Center

By Katie Gonzalez | May 16, 2010

Correction Appended### A commitment to a gift of $35 million from an anonymous donor will allow the College to establish a new center for health care education and research the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science by Summer 2011, according to College President Jim Yong Kim.

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Crime runs in family, reporter says

May 16, 2010

Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Tears of laughter came to Bobby Bogle's eyes when he recalled his fondest Christmas memory: the gift of a prybar he received from his father to help burglarize a drug store later that night.

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Daily Debriefing

By Nathan Yeo | May 16, 2010

Colleges nationwide are expanding the size of their waiting lists, showing that admissions office are becoming "increasingly cautious" in an uncertain economic climate, The Washington Post reported.

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Arrests down after policy change

By PAULINA KARPIS | May 16, 2010

Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff Nicholas Root / The Dartmouth Staff College Safety and Security recorded a slight increase in the number of Good Samaritan calls placed over this Green Key weekend, but as a result of the April change in Hanover Police policy, the calls did not lead to any Dartmouth students' arrests, according to Harry Kinne, director of Safety and Security and interim associate Dean of the College. Nine students were transported to Dick's House and six were taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center via ambulance, Kinne said.

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Dartmouth team sets off for Haiti

By Eliza Relman | May 16, 2010

A Dartmouth response team of 14 doctors, physical and occupational therapists and nurses left for Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday to reinforce ongoing post-earthquake relief efforts in the region.

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Prof. explains Alaskan climate shifts

May 13, 2010

Unless shifts in the global climate are addressed, they could pose major problems for local communities that rely on particular environmental conditions to maintain their traditional way of life, University of Alaska-Fairbanks ecology professor Terry Chapin said in a lecture on Thursday in Steele Hall. Chapin used native Alaskan communities to illustrate the hazardous impact of global climate change on regional ecosystems and societies.

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Daily Debriefing

May 13, 2010

Despite the current economic downturn, admissions yields at highly selective universities appear to be similar or greater than yields in past years, according to The New York Times.

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BBC reporter recounts experiences

By Molly Turner | May 13, 2010

Soo Jee Lee / The Dartmouth Soo Jee Lee / The Dartmouth James Reynolds made his career as a BBC foreign correspondent by reporting from bullet-strewn war zones and tear-gassed streets.

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Study probes lizard natural selection

By Angie Yang | May 12, 2010

Wrapping entire islands in netting and tracking lizards' stamina by running them on miniature treadmills may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but these techniques were recently used by two Dartmouth researchers in a recent study.

Several organizations that promote entrepreneurship among underprivileged women sold goods at SEEDS's Fair Trade Bazaar.
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SEEDS hosts bazaar to support female artisans

By Eliza Relman | May 12, 2010

Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Staff Anna Gaissert / The Dartmouth Staff Few students would suspect that the beads in the brightly-colored necklaces for sale outside the Collis Center on Wednesday were once plastic bags, discarded papers and scraps of metal from a landfill in Guatemala City.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Fletcher | May 12, 2010

The National Science Foundation awarded 2010 Graduate Research Fellowships to three current Dartmouth graduate students and 13 Dartmouth alumni, according to a College press release.

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College to create new sexual assault committee

May 12, 2010

College officials have formed a new Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, to improve "prevention, education, and support services" relating to sexual assault at Dartmouth, the Dean of the College Office announced in a campus-wide e-mail on Wednesday. The committee is the latest in a series of initiatives by the College to combat sexual assault at Dartmouth.

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Kim plans to alter student advising

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | May 12, 2010

In an effort to address students' perceived advising needs, College President Jim Yong Kim and other administrators have begun to develop a long-term plan to improve the effectiveness of the College advising system, Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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