DHMC to eliminate hundreds of job slots
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Correction Appended Robert McCollum, the former dean of Dartmouth Medical School, died in his home in Etna, N.H., on Sept.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After the College's unexpected announcement in July that it would end fiscal year 2010 with a $5.6-million budget surplus rather than the anticipated $2.5 million deficit the administration has begun to ease some of the policies made during the budget crisis, particularly concerning College staff. A salary freeze implemented last year for non-unionized was lifted in July, The Dartmouth previously reported.