AD Harper announces June retirement
Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper today announced her decision to retire at the end of June, according to a College press release.
Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper today announced her decision to retire at the end of June, according to a College press release.
Chris Oldenburg, a candidate for the new lecturer in speech position at the College's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, delivered a public talk on Monday at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning.
A January study calling for more stringent warning labels on energy drinks has rekindled a national dialogue about the beverages' health risks.
Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff With the conclusion of the 2008 presidential campaigns, the College's political organizations are working to restructure in an attempt to avoid significant decreases in membership.
A new foreign study program in Hyderabad, India, which was expected to begin in Winter 2010, will not be offered until at least Winter 2011 because adequate funding has yet to be secured, according to Lindsay Whaley, associate dean for international and interdisciplinary programs.
Courtesy of the United States Department of Defense President-elect Barack Obama tapped former defense lobbyist William Lynn '76 as his pick for deputy secretary of defense on Thursday.
Arguing that "human wealth" will sustain Dartmouth through the current economic crisis, College President James Wright, now in the last sixth months of his presidency, looked back on his tenure in a 10-year report, "Forever New," released Monday.
Dartmouth College was ranked seventh in Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine's list of the "Top 50 values in private universities" for 2009.
To succeed in the global economy, information technology companies must share information within the industry without sacrificing their competitive edge, David McQueeney '80, chief technological officer of IBM's federal division, said in a Friday lecture at the Thayer School of Engineering.
A Dartmouth research team has determined the structure of a protein vital to cell division, publishing its results in the Jan.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Bilal Mahmood DMS '12 had never participated in a demonstration before he learned about the current conflict between Israel and Hamas and the resulting humanitarian crisis in Gaza. "I'm actually a first-year medical student, and I read about the situation in Gaza," Mahmood said.
Dartmouth engineering professor Victor Petrenko and his colleagues at Ice Engineering LLC have developed a new de-icing system for power lines, according to a College press release.
Correction appended Dartmouth's reported endowment loss of six percent is lower than that reported by many of its peer institutions, some of which posted deficits as high as 25 percent. Dartmouth has lost a smaller percentage of its endowment than both Harvard University, which announced on Dec.
Students underestimate the full magnitude of the College's upcoming budget cuts, Dean of the College Tom Crady said Thursday night in an open forum to discuss the effect of the national economic downturn on the College.
While students consider undergraduate research opportunities, Dartmouth Dining Services and College traditions such as Homecoming to be particularly important to their Dartmouth experience, the Native American Program, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and the Hood Museum of Art are deemed to be of lesser importance, according to a Student Assembly survey released late Thursday night.
While several of the plaintiffs in the ongoing alumni lawsuit against the College maintain they do not know who is funding the legal effort, alumni leaders said they believe the financial support is coming from the Hanover Institute, a non-profit organization that was also implicated in funding the now-dismissed lawsuit by the Dartmouth Association of Alumni. These alumni leaders include Dartmouth Alumni Council President John Daukas '84, said he believes the Institute is responsible for orchestrating the current litigation.
Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended While the national economic crisis has prompted Dartmouth's undergraduate and professional schools to slash their budgets, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center continued to offer salary increases as late as October and November 2008 and recently began construction on a new outpatient center. DHMC already had funding in place for both initiatives prior to the stock market crash, according to DHMC spokesperson Jason Aldous.
The Dartmouth computer science department has implemented the College's first paperless office, according to department administrator Joseph Elsener.
Franklin Rea '08 expected to get a job as the intern director for the Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information, where he had previously worked as a research assistant, after he graduated from Dartmouth.