Program teaches healthy eating habits

Courtesy of Sarah Schewe For the past month, Sarah Schewe '12 and Julia Schneider '12 have worked with 40 students from fourth to eighth grade enrolled in South Bronx's Point Development Center's summer camp to help them learn from and cultivate fruit and vegetable plots at the Bryant Hill Community Garden.

Prof. creates biotechnical company

A Thayer School of Engineering professor has helped start a biotechnical company Adimab that is working to drastically reduce the time it takes to produce antibodies used in therapeautic drugs.

Deans Offices merged to increase efficiency

The First-Year Office and the Upperclass Dean's Office have been merged together to create the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students in order to more consistently provide advising to students, the College announced Wednesday. Dean of the College Tom Crady was out of the office Thursday and unable to comment on how the decision was made to restructure the advising system or whether the restructuring was done in response to budget cuts. Each dean will work with an equal number of students from all four undergraduate classes, Rovana Popoff, one of seven deans in the new office, said. In the past, students were assigned a first-year dean when they arrived at the College and a different dean for their final three years.

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Correction appended A series of bonds totaling approximately $236 million issued on behalf of the College has received AAA long-term ratings the highest possible rank from Fitch Ratings, an international credit rating agency.

Computing to maintain services despite staff cuts

Although 9 percent of its staff was lost this Spring in response to budget cuts, Computing Services will continue to focus on student and faculty support, according to Ellen Waite-Franzen, vice president of information technology and chief information officer at the College.

AoA creates reform committee

Correction appended The College's Association of Alumni announced Thursday that an Election Reform Study Committee has been formed to assess whether current campaign rules should be modified for Board of Trustee elections and Association Executive Committee elections.

Wagner '82 gets U.S. Attorney nod

Mathias '69 chairs ABA Project

Association of Alumni President John Mathias '69 has been selected to chair the American Bar Association's Death Penalty Representation Project, an organization that advocates for defendants facing capital punishment.

Editor Schroth '43 dies at age 88

Acclaimed editor Thomas Schroth '43 Tu'44, founding editor of National Journal and former editor of Congressional Quarterly, died July 23 of congestive heart failure in his home in Sedgwick, Maine at the age of 88, according to The New York Times. Schroth was committed to rigorous impartiality and full disclosure in journalism throughout his career, according to his daughter, Amy Schroth '84. "I think he had several conversations with various owners and backers of [publications] that he worked for, making sure that the business interests didn't interfere [with the publications' impartiality]," she said. Schroth became executive editor of Congressional Quarterly in 1955.

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Forbes Magazine ranked the Tuck School of Business second after the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in their 2009 MBA rankings, released last week.

Fourth Fieldstock weekend sees higher participation

Correction appended Last weekend's fourth annual Fieldstock competition saw significant changes from the past two years, as the event organizers attempted to bring the weekend up to par with the College's other "big weekends" by encouraging involvement beyond the Greek system, according to 2011 Class Council President Alex Maceda '11. In the past, most groups competing in Fieldstock events have come from Greek houses, but this year Maceda estimated that roughly 15 of the teams in contention were fielded either by non-Greek organizations or by independent groups of interested students.

Tuck, Graduate Studies offer new joint degree

Students who have completed a doctorate degree at Dartmouth will now have the opportunity to pursue an accelerated Masters degree in Business Administration under a new agreement between the College's Graduate Studies Program and the Tuck School of Business, Provost Barry Scherr announced on Monday.

Health debate looks to DMS data

Correction appended As legislators and public officials in Washington continue the push for U.S.

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Doug MacGinnitie '89, a Sandy Springs, Ga. City Council member, announced Thursday that he will be running for Georgia's Secretary of State in 2010.

College ranked 98th by Forbes

Dartmouth was ranked 98th up 29 spots from last year in Forbes Magazine's 2009 ranking of "America's Best Colleges," according to Forbes' web site.