Of the 735 Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center employees who were offered early retirement plans in August as part of DHMC's attempt to address a $100 million budget deficit, 291 individuals accepted the offer, DHMC Director of Media Relations Rick Adams said in an interview with The Dartmouth. In order ...
An $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow Dartmouth Medical School researchers to collaborate with other biologists and statisticians from across New England to study environmental toxins and humans' susceptibility to disease, according to researchers interviewed by The Dartmouth.
Although the College has often featured political figures as Commencement speakers in the past including former President Bill Clinton, and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson '68 Dartmouth's choice of comedian Conan O'Brien follows a trend at other Ivy League schools of recruiting celebrities as Commencement speakers.
Student Assembly chose its Summer term executive board, acting Student Body Vice President Rohail Premjee '14 said in an email to The Dartmouth.
Lotta Nygren / The Dartmouth In his first year as dean of Dartmouth Medical School, Wiley Souba made efforts to "revitalize" DMS' curriculum through a dual degree program and focused on enhancing the relationship between the medical school, the College and other graduate schools, Souba said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Through the implementation of new programs and partnerships with the College, Souba hopes to make DMS the most "prestigious" and "unique" medical school in the country, DMS Associate Dean and Chief Operating Officer Charles Mannix said. By working closely with College President Jim Yong Kim, Provost Carol Folt and various deans, Souba has forged "cross-institutional" links such as a joint bioengineering program with Thayer School of Engineering, according to Mannix.
For decades before Dartmouth became coeducational in 1972, women filled the role of imported playthings bussed to Hanover for the social activities of the annual Green Key weekend.
Six female seniors recounted the lessons they have learned from abusive relationships, financial struggles and issues of sexual identity, among other challenges, at the 22nd annual Women of Dartmouth panel held in Collis Common Ground on Wednesday.
Dean of the Tuck School of Business Paul Danos was reappointed to serve a fifth four-year term on Wednesday, according to an email from Provost Carol Folt sent to the Tuck community on May 11 and obtained by The Dartmouth.
Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School received an 18-month $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant to examine the way polio vaccines work in resource-limited countries with high population densities and poor sanitation, according to DMS pediatrics professor Peter Wright.
Of the 680 students who applied to be Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips leaders this year, 286 students were accepted and 85 others were wait-listed, according to Trips director Emily Unger '11.