Daily Debriefing
Yale University announced Monday that it will increase financial aid in the 2008 - 2009 academic year.
Yale University announced Monday that it will increase financial aid in the 2008 - 2009 academic year.
Courtesy of Joseph Mehling The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a year-long fellowship to associate professor of music Steve Swayne to complete a book about 20th-century composer William Schuman.
Representatives from 34 Dartmouth student support offices, such as Computer Services and the Research, Writing and Information Technology center, set up displays in Baker Main Hall yesterday for the first-ever Teaching and Learning Fair, intended to demonstrate how the offices can collaborate with faculty to improve education. The event, organized by the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, was open to students but intended primarily for faculty members.
In Siuna, Nicaragua, a Catholic lay minister wakes his parishioners regularly with 4 a.m. mass celebrations.
Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth physics and astronomy professor Robyn Millan received a $9.3 million grant from NASA this December for her research project on the Van Allen Belts.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff Student voters in Hanover were eager to head to the polls for Tuesday's New Hampshire primaries, according to representatives of Vote Clamantis, a non-partisan group.
As the New Hampshire primary comes to a close, another competitive race is just beginning: the race for one of the New Hampshire Senate seats. Incumbent Sen.
When not working on papers, projects and a thesis, Brian Lawson of Massachusetts, a senior at Saint Anselm College, is an avid political blogger with subscribers ranging from national media sources to everyday New Hampshire citizens.
In May 31, 1969, a young student body president named Hillary Rodham delivered her commencement address at Wellesley College.
Today, students at Dartmouth and citizens all across the Granite State have a historic opportunity to vote for change, change for the better. When we make our decision for change, we must be sure that we are not voting for a change of face or the empty rhetoric of change, but rather substantive policy change.
As Dartmouth students scream slogans on street corners and proudly don their candidates' pins in the last hours before voting in the New Hampshire primaries begins, campus religious organizations remain largely uninvolved in preparations for the primary.
Young people lead the voter increase at the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3, breaking voter turnout records and launching Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., to a first-place finish.
With only four days between the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary -- compared to a seven-day margin in 2004 -- candidates split their focus between the two states in the month leading up to the votes.
Enthused by the power of the youth vote that was proven in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, political interest groups at the College are encouraging fellow students to get involved and vote in today's primary. "People have written young people off as political force for a long time, but now that's changing," Owen Roberts '09, a supporter of Democratic candidate Sen.
Digital mammography holds few comparative advantages over traditional film screening methods of breast cancer detection, according to a study led by Anna N.A.
Lawrence Kritzman, professor of French and comparative literature, won the Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association of America last month for his book, The Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought. The compilation, which was chosen from 600 admissions, has won two other awards. The book is a collection of more than 200 articles written by leading Anglo-Saxon and French scholars.
Three years ago, Jordana Beeber '08 decided she wanted to provide politically neutral aid to Israeli children left injured by terrorist attacks.