UChicago advisor takes College dean position
Rovana Popoff, senior advisor in the undergraduate college at the University of Chicago, accepted an offer to fill the position of dean of upperclass students.
Rovana Popoff, senior advisor in the undergraduate college at the University of Chicago, accepted an offer to fill the position of dean of upperclass students.
He wants to eliminate homelessness, ban guns and replace the kitchen knife -- and, he's running for president.
When phototropic fungus gets brought up, a genus of fungus that grows on dung may come to mind before a world-renowned dance company does.
In an attempt to answer students' questions about the ongoing trustee elections, Palaeopitus Senior Society sponsored an event Tuesday night in Morrison Commons featuring College President James Wright, Alumni Relations Vice President David Spalding '76 and Assistant Director of Young Alumni and Student Programs Rex Morey '99.
The scene at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity Wednesday night did not appear out of the ordinary at first.
Students and faculty in the Asian and Middle Eastern studies and women and gender studies departments have been working to form a Foreign Study Program to India.
The Pavilion will extend its hours of operation to allow students more accessibility to kosher-for-Passover dining options during the eight days of the holiday.
U.S. News and World Report rated the Tuck School of Business the seventh best graduate business program in the country in the magazine's annual rankings, published March 30.
Thayer School of Engineering professor and co-founder of the Mascoma Corporation Lee Lynd was awarded the inaugural Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability on Monday.
At the beginning of every term, Heather Strack '07 makes sure to check the library on the first floor of Sigma Delta sorority to see if any of the books that she needs for her courses are hiding among the shelves. "The library is loosely organized by subject," Strack said.
Alice Mathias '07, a former columnist for The Dartmouth Mirror, has been named a contributor for the New York Times on an online blog called "The Graduates." The blog can be accessed on TimesSelect, recently made free for those with a college e-mail address.
The parents of Christina Porter '06, a student who died after a physical education skiing accident at the Dartmouth Skiway in 2004, have filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against the College. Porter's parents, Brent Porter and Mary Salstrom, of Brooklyn, N.Y., filed the suit in the Concord, N.H., Federal District Court on Feb.
Carmen Twillie Ambar, currently the dean of Rutgers University's all-women Douglass College, is one of four finalists being considered by the Dean of the College search committee to fill the position vacated last May by James Larimore.
Speaking about the future of democracy in Morocco, Aziz Mekouar, the Moroccan ambassador to the United States, gave a speech to Dartmouth students and community members Monday at the Rockefeller Center.
Two years after Dartmouth's only speech professor resigned in protest of what he deemed administrative neglect, the College's speech program may be resuscitated.
Economics professor David Blanchflower, in his capacity as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, has found that the Scottish people are more likely than their peers in the United Kingdom to be unhealthy, unhappy and suicidal.
Writing a paper with no end in sight at the end of last Winter term, Allen Odeniyi '10 turned for aid to a popular campus study buddy: an energy drink.
When Jack Groetzinger '07 and Russell D'Souza '07 started Evolving Vox last fall, they never imagined that students from around the world would ask to open franchises in their institutions.
Student Assembly quickly responded to an e-mail sent to the entire student body by "The Dartmouth Wiki" -- a new website unaffiliated with the college that allows registered users to post and respond to questions -- through a follow-up e-mail sent to students on March 30. The follow-up e-mail stated that the Assembly and the Computer Science Department are in the process of creating an official Dartmouth wiki and that the Dartmouth University Wiki, as it is titled on the website, is an unfiltered "outside commercial venture" unaffiliated with the College. "We wanted to discourage the student body from using this wiki because there could be a lot of negative consequences," Ruslan Tovbulatov '09, treasurer of the Assembly, said.
For the first time in his tenure as College President, James Wright has spoken out against what he terms inaccuracies in the statements of trustee candidates, given his remarks in a Feb.