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Dartmouth completes $1.3 billion campaign

By Emma Fidel | January 7, 2010

Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff After a seven-year fund-raising effort, the College reached its $1.3 billion target for the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience by the Dec.

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Medical education must improve, speakers say

By BRIDGETTE TAYLOR | January 7, 2010

Medical centers around the country must alter their continuing medical education practices to improve the overall health-care system and ensure that medical professionals are free from bias, according to Richard Rothstein, associate dean for continuing education at Dartmouth Medical School, and Mary Turco, director of the Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. The doctors spoke at a DHMC Grand Rounds event on Thursday in a lecture called "Continuing Health Sciences Education in the Era of Health-care Reform." Rothstein emphasized the need to reduce lecturing and increase active engagement in classes. "Too much continuing education relies on standing here as a talking head," he said. Clinicians should also incorporate new knowledge into their practices instead of relying on familiar but potentially less effective practices, according to the speakers. Many government and medical leaders question "the value of continuing medical education credit and accreditation in assuring valid content free of commercial bias," Rothstein said. The lecturers also highlighted the need for a revised relationship between health-care professionals and industry.

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Alumni react to trustee candidates

By Greg Berger | January 7, 2010

Courtesy of www.foxnews.com and www.erie.psu.edu Courtesy of www.foxnews.com and www.erie.psu.edu The two candidates nominated by the Alumni Council for the two open alumni-elected seats on the Board of Trustees Morton Kondracke '60 and John Replogle '88 will refrain from deciding whether they support maintaining parity between alumni-elected or charter-selected trustees on the Board until after the election, both candidates said in interviews with The Dartmouth. The issue of parity between alumni-elected and charter-selected trustees has been at the center of College governance debates since the Board voted to end the parity between trustees in 2007, and has been the crux of two lawsuits brought against the College, one of which is ongoing. Some alumni have contended that the Board's decision to increase the number of Board-selected members is a violation of an 1891 Board resolution which they say legally requires parity between the two types of trustees. "My view is that I do not have a yes or no' answer on parity, simply because I am still listening to the arguments on both sides," Kondracke said.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Fletcher | January 7, 2010

Lei Zhang, a 2002 graduate of the Yale School of Management, donated a record $8,888,888 to the school, the Yale University Office of Public Affairs announced in a press release Monday.

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U.S. harmed by "commoditization"

By Lindsay Brewer | January 7, 2010

As national economies become more globalized, companies risk becoming less competitive, causing products and services to lose their uniqueness, according to Tuck School of Business professor Richard D'Aveni.

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Dartmouth completes $1.3 billion capital campaign

By The Dartmouth Staff | January 7, 2010

Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff Zach Kuster / The Dartmouth Staff Following a seven-year fund-raising campaign, the College announced Thursday that it had reached the $1.3 billion target in the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, a capital campaign aimed at raising funds for academic enterprises, residential and campus life, and financial aid. A press release posted on the College's web site stated that the campaign had received $1.308 billion as of the official Dec.

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Students launch online drink delivery service

By Linda Chen | January 6, 2010

Dartmouth students preparing for Winter term hibernation can soon have drinks delivered in bulk directly to their dorm rooms or off-campus houses with the launch of ThirstD.com, a new business founded by four members of the Class of 2010.

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Nationwide, students seek MD-MBA degree

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | January 6, 2010

Facing an increasingly complicated health-care industry, more students are turning to joint MD-MBA programs to become informed about the business and clinical sides of health care administration, MD-MBA program directors from several universities around the country told The Dartmouth. As interest peaks, more universities are beginning to offer joint MD-MBA programs to accommodate student demand, the program directors said. A typical medical education does not necessarily train future doctors to manage the business-related aspects of medicine, according to Andrew Vogel, associate director of graduate programs at the University of Cincinnati.

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Daily Debriefing

By JOY CHEN | January 6, 2010

The percentage of law students expecting to work in private law firms dropped to 50 percent this year, from 58 percent in each of the last three years, according to an annual survey by the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Wednesday.

Benjamin Herson '02 and Jeff Deck '02 travel the nation editing typos on signs and billboards.
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Alums have a mission: editing nation's typos

By Emily Fletcher | January 6, 2010

Courtesy of picasaweb.google.com Courtesy of picasaweb.google.com Jeff Deck '02 and Benjamin Herson '02 once hopped a barbed wire fence and skirted cacti to chalk over a giant apostrophe on a sign welcoming them to Arizona.

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Profs examine impact of inflation

By Eliza Relman | January 5, 2010

Increasing inflation rates could curtail the national debt, according to a Dec. 9 working paper by economics professor Nancy Marion and Joshua Aizenman, a former Dartmouth professor now working at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Funds not aided by management

By JOY CHEN | January 5, 2010

Active managers of mutual funds are employed for their skill in increasing investment yields, but according to a study co-authored by a finance professor at the Tuck School of Business, investors who hire managers may actually lose money in the long run.

Dartmouth was the fourth largest recipient of funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in New Hampshire and the sixth largest in the Ivy League, according to Recovery.gov.
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College researchers receive $38.7 million

By Christina Wray | January 5, 2010

Yoon-Ji Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Yoon-Ji Kim / The Dartmouth Staff Nearly 100 Dartmouth projects have received a total of $38.7 million of federal funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, according to a College press release.

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Daily Debriefing

January 5, 2010

Fouad Saleet, associate director of Coed, Fraternity and Sorority system, told The Dartmouth he will be leaving this term to fill a position at Colgate University.

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Tuck honored as ‘best-value school' for vets.

By Christy O'Keefe | January 4, 2010

The Tuck School of Business was named a "best-value school" for veterans in a review published in December by Military MBA, an education and employment network for military officers interested in pursuing a Masters degree in Business Administration.

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Students active at Copenhagen

By Jamila Ma | January 4, 2010

Courtesy of tuckatcop15.wordpress.com Courtesy of tuckatcop15.wordpress.com Editor's Note: This is part one of a two-part series on Dartmouth's presence at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Inspired by the involvement of two Dartmouth delegations in the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen in December, students and professors at Dartmouth have become focused and motivated to pursue creative solutions to climate change. Alumni at the conference included U.S.

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