Alumni find careers from consulting to the Great Wall
Members of the Class of 2009 may wonder where they will go after completing their four years at the College.
Members of the Class of 2009 may wonder where they will go after completing their four years at the College.
In addition to the more than 1000 members of the College's Class of 2009, students from the Tuck School of Business, the Thayer School of Engineering and Dartmouth Medical School will also participate in their respective graduation ceremonies this weekend.
The College has received a $50-million gift the largest in the College's 240-year history from an anonymous donor, the Board of Trustees announced on Friday at its June meeting, the last of College President James Wright's tenure.
This year's valedictorians, Geoffrey Kirsch '09, a transfer student, and Yangyang Liu '09, who is graduating at the age of 19, both maintained a 4.0 grade point average while at Dartmouth.
NEWS ANALYSIS
Courtesy of the Associated Press Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner '83 named fellow Dartmouth alumnus David Dollar '76 as the economic and financial emissary to China on Monday.
Akikazu Onda / The Dartmouth The United States needs to "wake up" and address the country's looming budget crisis, a panel of economics professors told a packed auditorium of Hanover residents and students in the Rockefeller Center on Monday.
Many members of the Class of 2009 have made remarkable achievements while at the College. The following four seniors have had particularly unique experiences at Dartmouth. Bill Lundin After learning to speak Chinese fluently at Dartmouth, Bill Lundin '09 used this skill to intern at the U.S.
State and federal legislators are pushing to require colleges and universities to report crime statistics associated with study abroad programs, which currently do not fall under the direct jurisdiction of any federal agency, USA Today reported on Thursday.
Creating products ranging from specialized microprocessors to gourmet burritos, an above-average number of students at the Tuck School of Business have worked to launch their own start-up companies this year, according to Tuck professor Gregg Fairbrothers, director of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network. "To me, the first litmus test is if they are actually going to work on their project full time out of school," Fairbrothers said.
The Dartmouth It made The Huffington Post, USA Today and a variety of blogs across the political spectrum.
The Cutting Edge
With one out and two men on base in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C., Dartmouth grounded into its sixth double play of the weekend to end its game against the University of Kansas and its run in the NCAA tournament.
Dartmouth Trustee T.J. Rodgers '70 will no longer participate in evaluations of sitting trustees up for reelection a protest of the manner in which he says the Board of Trustees' made its April decision not to reelect Trustee Todd Zywicki '88.
The Undergraduate Finance Committee increased funding for Programming Board and the Committee on Student Organizations, but reduced Student Assembly's budget by about $10,000 for the 2009-2010 academic year, UFC President Neil Kandler '09 announced on Thursday.
Harvard University professor Paul Farmer was tapped to succeed Dartmouth President-elect Jim Yong Kim as chair of the department of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School on Wednesday.
Fatima, a one-year-old girl from southeastern Iraq, suffered third-degree burns over 70 percent of her body after a gas explosion.
EMILY VAN GEMEREN / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended### Five months after College officials announced they would cut the institutional budget by $72 million over the next two years, academic departments and College organizations are working to limit the effects of the new budgetary constraints by reducing administrative operating costs and cutting back on new programming and guest speakers.