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Kim sees off DHMC Haiti response team

January 15, 2010

College President Jim Yong Kim met Friday with several Dartmouth-based surgeons, physicians and nurses involved in the College's response to the ongoing crisis in Haiti.

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Doctors must embrace patients' backgrounds

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | January 14, 2010

Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff The audience reacted with intermittent bursts of laughter as Danielle Ofri, professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine and internist at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, recounted her experiences with cultural rifts between doctors and patients in her Thursday night lecture "Journeys With Our Patients: Multiculturalism in a Two-Person Canoe." In order to treat their patients more effectively, doctors should work to be more cognizant of the cultural backgrounds of their patients, Ofri said. Ofri began with a reading from her book, "Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients," which told the story of Nazma Uddin, a 35-year-old woman from Bangladesh, who repeatedly visited Ofri's office complaining of countless ailments.

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Kim, students respond to earthquake in Haiti

By Robert szypko | January 14, 2010

Haitian President Rene Preval has said he does not know where he will be sleeping after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck his country Tuesday destroyed the National Palace, his home. Preval is not the only president having trouble sleeping, however. College President Jim Yong Kim, the global health pioneer who has worked in the devastated country, stayed up until 3 a.m.

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Daily Debriefing

By Christy O'Keefe | January 14, 2010

The AFL-CIO, a national organization of labor unions, announced it will create an online college for union members and their families in an effort to help them find jobs and continue their education, The New York Times reported Thursday.

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After fire, Phi Delt starts recovery

By Conrad Scoville | January 14, 2010

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Phi Delta Alpha fraternity has continued to receive donations to help its members cope with the aftermath of the Sunday morning fire that left its physical plant severely damaged and uninhabitable, Phi Delt Vice President Ethan Lubka '10 told The Dartmouth.

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DMS researchers violate animal-use procedures

By JOY CHEN | January 13, 2010

Reports published following two federal inspections at Dartmouth Medical School catalogue over a dozen violations against the Animal Welfare Act, including an incident in which a live hamster was accidentally placed in a freezer, according to an article in the New Hampshire Union Leader.

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Panel discusses mobile device future

By Laura Bryn Sisson | January 13, 2010

Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Enter a hotel room a few years from now and one's mobile device will automatically communicate one's personal viewing preferences to the television, at least according to a panel of experts gathered Wednesday at the Tuck School of Business's ninth annual Tech@Tuck event. The Tech@Tuck program this year focused on mobile strategy and included vendor demonstrations and a speaker panel focused on mobile technology's present state and projected changes over the next few years. The panel included Terry Kramer, regional president of Vodafone Americas, Emily Green, president and CEO of Yankee Group Research, a technology research firm, Mark VandenBrink, vice president of technology solutions at Samsung Telecommunications America, and Kevin Bradshaw, CEO of buzzd, a mobile social networking company. VandenBrink predicted that converged devices, or devices that communicate and coordinate their activity, will be the future of mobile technology. "The big opportunity in mobile is how do you rethink convergence," VandenBrink said.

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Daily Debriefing

By The Dartmouth Staff | January 13, 2010

Evaluations of peer universities a key component of U.S. News & World Report's college rankings have little to do with graduation rates, faculty or selectivity, according to new research published in the American Journal of Education.

The record 18,500 applications received by the College so far this year mark the sixth year of steadily increasing application numbers.
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Applications reach record numbers

By Conrad Scoville | January 12, 2010

Deidra Willis / The Dartmouth Staff Deidra Willis / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth has received a record 18,500 applications for the Class of 2014 so far this year, an increase of 4 percent from this time last year, according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris. College administrators are currently deciding whether to increase the size of the incoming first-year class, which will ultimately determine the overall acceptance rate, Laskaris said. "Right now, we're looking at an 11-to-12 percent rate of admission," she said.

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Implementation of OAC student board postponed

By Emma Fidel | January 12, 2010

The College will postpone the implementation of the Organizational Adjudication Committee student board until Spring term due to the preparation of College budget reduction proposals, Nathan Miller, assistant director of Undergraduate Judicial Affairs, said Tuesday in an e-mail to student board members.

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Daily Debriefing

By BRIDGETTE TAYLOR | January 12, 2010

Harvard University said in financial documents that it is one of 40 colleges that the Internal Revenue Service will audit this year as part of its review of some non-profit organizations' tax-exempt status, Bloomberg reported Monday.

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Stevenson '10 plans state Senate run

By Eliza Relman | January 12, 2010

Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Sophie Novack / The Dartmouth Staff Tay Stevenson '10, College Democrat and former student body vice presidential candidate, will officially announce his intention to run for a seat in the Minnesota state senate this week, Stevenson said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

Construction of the proposed Visual Arts Center was made possible by an anonymous $50 million donation.
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Arts Center approaches construction as planned

By Angie Yang | January 12, 2010

Courtesy of www.dartmouth.edu Courtesy of www.dartmouth.edu Construction for the College's Visual Arts Center is proceeding towards its scheduled completion in spring 2012, according to Chief Facilities Officer Linda Snyder. Site work on the Center began shortly after Commencement in June 2009, according to Snyder. The building will take approximately 22 months to complete, and should be open and ready for use during Fall term 2012, she said. "We will have plenty of time to move the film and media studies and studio art departments into their new home," she said. A series of site-enabling projects have to be completed before actual construction of the Center can begin, Snyder said.

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Personal trainers test fitness at gym

By Christina Wray | January 12, 2010

Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Correction Appended### Students, College employees and members of the general public can now receive hour-long physical fitness assessments from personal trainers at the Fitness Center, according to Fitness Center director Hugh Mellert.

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