Former Dartmouth Board of Trustees chairman Thomas Braden '40 died on Friday at his home in Denver, Colo.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Correction appended### High school students donned suits and assumed new identities as United Nations delegates during the fourth annual Dartmouth Model United Nations conference, hosted by the Dartmouth Model U.N.
An additional candidate's entrance and two candidates' withdrawals transformed the race for student body president over the weekend.
Mohammad Usman, a former member of the Class of 2010, pled guilty last Thursday, April 2, to falsely claiming thousands of dollars in financial aid and grants from the College, including Tucker Foundation internship funding, according to court documents. Usman left the College after his 2008 Summer term.
Mohammad Usman, a former member of the Class of 2010 who left Dartmouth after his 2008 Summer term, pled guilty on Thursday to falsely claiming thousands of dollars in financial aid from the College, including Tucker Foundation internship funding, according to court documents. Dartmouth spokesman Roland Adams would not confirm whether Usman left the College voluntarily, citing privacy laws. Usman admitted in federal court to committing identify fraud and higher education student assistance fraud.
Two Brown University undergraduates who spent their spring break together in Trinidad have yet to return to the university, prompting the State Department to begin an investigation on Thursday, CBS KYTX-TV reported.
March 25, 3:08 p.m. South Street A group of teenagers approached a Hanover Police officer on patrol last Wednesday and complained about another group of teenagers that they said had been harassing them.
The memory of an infant sibling dying in a neonatal intensive care unit significantly affects older siblings for the rest of their lives, according to a recent study published in The Journal of Pediatrics by researchers at Dartmouth Medical School. The study's authors, DMS professors Joanna Fanos, George Little and William Edwards, drew their research from interviews with 13 adults and one adolescent whose siblings died in infancy at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center between 1980 and 1990. According to the study, six participants reported "veiled" or secretive family communication, seven gave accounts of parents' ongoing grief and 11 reported high degrees of anxiety, particularly concerning pregnancy and their mothers' well being. Siblings of deceased infants often experience depression, anger, guilt and helplessness, the study found.
The Dartmouth Note-sharing web sites, which allow students to exchange class notes and other related materials online, are growing in popularity at universities nationwide, but few Dartmouth students appear to be active users. Most of the more popular sites -- including GradeGuru, StudyBlue and UniversityJunction -- are free for users with university-affiliated e-mail addresses.
The Dartmouth Independent, a student-run general-interest magazine, plans to establish itself as a fully independent, incorporated publication next year, according to editor-in-chief Jamie Berk '11.
JON ERDMAN / The Dartmouth The partial ignorance of both policymakers and the public regarding scientific data about climate change has prevented the United States government from mitigating its effects, James Hansen, a leading climate scientist and director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told a packed Cook Auditorium on Thursday evening.
The Association of Alumni will work to reform campaign rules for Board of Trustee and Association elections if the currently proposed amendment to the Association constitution -- which calls for structural changes to the trustee election process -- is passed this spring, according to Association President John Mathias '69.
President Barack Obama intends to nominate Robert Groves '70 as Census Bureau director, the White House announced on Thursday.
Twenty-eight thousand students who were rejected by the University of California, San Diego mistakenly received congratulatory e-mails on Monday that said they were accepted and included an invitation to attend Admit Day, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Dartmouth may not have become coeducational until 1972, but Lynn Lobban remembers drinking from a keg and smoking a cigar at the College during the 1968-1969 school year when she formally joined Chi Heorot fraternity.
Zeke Turner / The Dartmouth Senior Staff When Jacob Jurmain '08 demonstrated a robot he built as a teenager -- a rudimentary scout robot for SWAT teams -- at the Thayer School of Engineering's annual open house last spring, his audience included fellow College students and local residents.
In an effort to explore Chinese business perspectives and cultural diversity, students from the Tuck School of Business travelled to China for a 10-day trip.
Rep. Paul Hodes '72, D-N.H., appears to be the likely Democratic candidate for the 2010 U.S. Senate after the announcement last month by Rep.
Student Assembly elected Gaelle Tribie '10 as treasurer for the Spring term at its first meeting following interim on Tuesday.