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Elliot officials question DHMC policy

By Robert szypko | May 18, 2010

A recent decision made by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Manchester to partner with the Catholic Medical Center instead of Elliot Hospital for obstetric care has drawn criticism from Elliot about the effects and underlying motives of the decision, according to Doug Dean, president and CEO of the Elliot Health System. Elliot recently published a full-page advertisement in the Manchester Union Leader in the form of a letter drafted by the doctors and nurses in the obstetrical unit at Elliot, Dean said.

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Study: Doctors should not treat some cancers

By Clare Coffey | May 17, 2010

The nearly identical rate of survival between treated and untreated patients with papillary thyroid cancer may indicate that not all cancers need treatment or even detection, according to a new study by Dartmouth researchers Louise Davies and Gilbert Welch. "Small abnormalities that meet the pathological definition of cancer often tend not to cause health problems in human beings," Welch said in an interview.

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DCERT trains students in emergency response

By Ann Baum | May 17, 2010

The Dartmouth College Emergency Response Team a student group formed this term to assist in response logistics has begun training approximately 15 students to respond to crises such as a fire, violent threat, disease outbreak, natural disaster or other campus emergency, according to founder David Seliger '12.

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Panel considers aid for human rights

By JOY CHEN | May 17, 2010

Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Ashley Mitchell / The Dartmouth Staff Doctors, lawyers and engineers must work alongside government bureaucrats and corporate executives to fight the environmental and health problems faced by people around the world to ensure that everyone has access to the same basic human rights, according to the three panelists at the "Health, Human Rights and the Environment" panel held in Filene auditorium on Monday. The three panelists Emma Wright, a former Peace Corps volunteer and first-year student at Dartmouth Medical school, Deborah Peterson, co-founder of a Tibet-based environmental non-governmental organization, and Thayer School of Engineering professor Daniel Lynch discussed the relationship between human rights, health and environmental issues, as well as the role that health professionals can play in improving these aspects of global human rights. "Natural resources underpin everything we do and they are the framework within which we flourish on this planet; they are the necessary footing and [the rights of access to them] imply responsibilities," Lynch said.

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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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