LAURA DIEZ Anxious sophomore students nearing the deadline to choose a major are getting an extra hand from the College this year.
Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the department of bioethics at the National Institute of Health Clinical Center, described his proposal to reform the U.S.
Liz Guzman / The Dartmouth Staff When asked to summarize his time at the Tuck School of Business, Yvan Baker Tu'08, president of Tuck's graduating class, said, "the experience has been wonderful." Baker participated in Tuck's Investiture ceremony, which was held on Saturday along with the ceremonies of the Thayer School of Engineering and Dartmouth Medical School.
COURTESY OF THE DARTMOUTH AEGIS Three years after the College ended its speech program, Josh Compton will assume the role of lecturer of speech and rhetoric at the College's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric on July 1, 2008, according to a press release from the Office of Public Affairs.
Michael Hanitchak '73 opened Dartmouth's fourth annual symposium on substance abuse on Friday with a Native American blessing, asking the Creator for guidance in reconciling two gifts bestowed upon humanity -- tobacco, which Hanitchak said "we sometimes use unwisely," and the power to "heal our brothers and sisters who have become unbalanced." Hanitchak's cautionary words commenced the all-day event, held in Collis Common Ground and sponsored by the Dartmouth Center on Addiction, Recovery and Education, a joint effort between the College and Dartmouth Medical School that aims to address substance abuse at the College. Though the symposium's list of speakers ranged from forensic psychiatrists to pediatricians, all presenters said they shared the goal of mitigating substance abuse.
Heralding cell transplantation as a potential cure for diabetes, Gordon Weir, chair of the Research and Wellness Foundation at the Joslin Diabetes Center, spoke on the use of stem cells as a form of treatment on Tuesday before an audience in the Haldeman Center. "I'm a little depressed we haven't cured diabetes yet," Weir said. Weir hopes scientists make progress towards finding a cure for diabetes by researching beta cells, an insulin-producing cell located within the pancreas, he said.
A survey by the scientific journal, Nature, revealed that twenty percent of respondents admitted to having used common stimulating drugs for nonmedical purposes, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Friday.