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Nurses discuss global health role

By Vera Bergengruen | September 22, 2009

Nurses working in the global context must avoid imposing their own cultural views on the communities with which they are working, lecturers at the conference "The Role of Nursing in Promoting Global Health: The Power of One" held at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Monday, told the more than 50 nurses who attended the event. "We have to be careful not to become ethnocentric in the relationships with our partners," Devon Berry, a University of Cincinatti College of Nursing nursing professor, said in his lecture.

Several news outlets sent reporters to cover the inauguration of College President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday.
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Kim sparks buzz in Korean press

By Katie Gonzalez | September 22, 2009

BEN GETTINGER / The Dartmouth Staff The inauguration of College President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday drew unprecedented international attention, as multiple Korean news outlets sent reporters to Dartmouth to cover the event.

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Kim to echo past presidents, emphasize social change in inaugural address

By Emma Fidel | September 21, 2009

JESSICA GRIFFEN / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Behind College President Jim Yong Kim's desk hangs a collection of 16 portraits, one of each of his predecessors individuals that Kim said he will keep in mind as he is officially inaugurated this morning. "I get that I have been given an unbelievably important, sacred trust," Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth last week. In an interview with The Dartmouth this week, Kim said he plans to convey his appreciation for his place in Dartmouth's history during his inaugural address on Tuesday. He also said he will pledge to "take care of this institution, to preserve it, to make it grow, to help it adapt to the times" as Dartmouth's past presidents have. "I need to show [the Dartmouth community] that I've thought deeply about what previous presidents have done, and that anything that I do will be very much in keeping with the spirit of my 16 predecessors," Kim said. Kim said he also plans to discuss what he believes makes a liberal arts education, and specifically a Dartmouth education, so valuable. He will speak to the responsibility that Dartmouth students have to make a difference in the world, he said. THE HISTORIC MOMENT In his 1987 inaugural address, then-College President James Freedman acknowledged the historical weight of the ceremony in which he was participating. "These inaugural ceremonies, like education itself, are an exercise in reflection and renewal," Freedman said.

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H1N1 vaccine likely to be available in October

September 21, 2009

The first batches of vaccine for the H1N1 virus will likely be made available to Dartmouth's Health Services in late September or early October, according to Health Services Director Jack Turco.

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PIH co-founders share close bond

By Tatiana Cooke | September 21, 2009

College President Jim Yong Kim used to joke that he and Harvard Medical School professor Paul Farmer were "twin sons of different mothers," Tracy Kidder wrote in his 2004 book "Mountains Beyond Mountains." This friendship which has prompted some students to ask whether Farmer will join the Dartmouth faculty may now lead to a partnership between Dartmouth and Partners in Health, the non-profit organization Farmer and Kim co-founded. Partners in Health executive director Ophelia Dahl brought up the possibility of such a collaboration during last Wednesday's "first lecture" to the incoming Class of 2013, which featured Dahl, Kim and Farmer. Kim and Farmer first met in 1983 during a snowstorm in Cambridge, Mass., when they were both students at Harvard Medical School.

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Kim's arrival, admin. turnover mark summer

By Ann Baum | September 21, 2009

The arrival of a new College president, the departure of several high level administrators and continued debate over alumni governance marked Dartmouth's Summer 2009 term. NEW COLLEGE PRESIDENT Jim Yong Kim took over as College President on July 1, citing his belief in Dartmouth students' bility to tackle global problems as one motivating factor in his decision to assume the post. ADMINISTRATIVE TURNOVER Several senior officials left the College, in addition to former College President James Wright, who stepped down when Kim took office.

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Daily Debriefing

By Katherine Paxton | September 21, 2009

Dartmouth is among five colleges and universities that have signed an agreement pledging their commitment to open-access publication, according to a Harvard University Library press release.

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Kinne to serve as associate Dean of College temporarily

By Greg Berger | September 21, 2009

Director of Safety and Security Harry Kinne is temporarily serving as interim associate Dean of the College, filling in for Marcia Kelly, who is acting as interim secretary to the Board of Trustees, The Dartmouth confirmed on Monday. The administrative shift occurred shortly before the resignation of Dean of the College Tom Crady, who had been in office for less than two years, and the recent departure of several other senior deans. "I am just on loan to help the division in the time of transition to fill in for Marcia," Kinne said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Keiselim Montas, associate director of Safety and Security, is filling in as interim director. In his interim position, Kinne is in charge of overseeing Safety and Security, Career Services and the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Kinne said he has been workingclosely with several of the other deans on a variety of projects. Kinne, who said he expects to return to his role as director of Safety and Security by Jan.

Leaders in business and academia took part in a panel,
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Kim's colleagues reflect on leadership, change

By Katie Gonzalez | September 21, 2009

Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff College President Jim Yong Kim can enhance Dartmouth by drawing on his experience as a leader in social issues, emphasizing Dartmouth's traditions and diversity of opinion, and committing the College to solving international issues, panelists said at "Reflections on Leadership for Social Change," a pre-inauguration discussion held in Spaulding Auditorium on Monday. The informal discussion, moderated by Tuck School of Business professor Sydney Finkelstein, featured several of Kim's friends and colleagues, including Dartmouth Board of Trustees Chairman Ed Haldeman '70, GE CEO and College Trustee Jeffrey Immelt '78, Harvard Medical School professor and Partners in Health co-founder Paul Farmer, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Brown University President Ruth Simmons. Panelists discussed the early experiences that determined the direction of their careers, citing academic mentors as an important resource for students. "When I was a girl, I had the good fortune to walk into a classroom one day and find a teacher who had the ability to show me what was possible in life," Simmons said.

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Spring trustee race begins to take shape

By Kate Farley | September 20, 2009

The Dartmouth Alumni Council has voted to nominate only one candidate to seek election for each of the two Board of Trustee seats vacant in the spring 2010 trustee race, the Council announced in a statement released Sept.

Partners in Health co-founders Ophelia Dahl, Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, the College's president, addressed the Class of 2013 on Wednesday evening.
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PIH co-founders address newly matriculated Class of 2013

By Fan Zhang | September 17, 2009

Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Partners in Health began as a small organization with board meetings held over pizza and Chinese food, but was able to grow to provide medical care to low-income communities across the world because of the friendship of the organization's founders, PIH president and executive director Ophelia Dahl said before a packed Spaulding Auditorium Wednesday night. College President Jim Yong Kim and Harvard University professor Paul Farmer fellow PIH co-founders joined Dahl to deliver the traditional "first lecture" to the incoming Class of 2013, billed as a discussion of the students' summer reading assignment, Tracy Kidder's 2004 best-seller "Mountains Beyond Mountains." Dahl, at the end of the event, hinted that efforts are underway to explore a partnership between PIH and Dartmouth. The discussion among the three panelists which touched on a wide range of topics, including leadership and social justice was marked by friendly banter and playful jibing.

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