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Smolowe '81 dies of colon cancer
By Madeline Sims | August 23, 2010Ann Smolowe '81, who served as senior managing director for leadership giving in the College's Office of Development, died on Aug.
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Hudak, Trunzo '11 participate in national hockey festival
By Madeline Sims | August 19, 2010Mark Hudak, head coach of the Big Green women's ice hockey team, spent the past week developing and evaluating some of the nation's top players at the 2010 Women's National Festival in Lake Placid, N.Y.
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Relationships Unraveled
By Madeline Sims | August 12, 2010This past weekend, my three best friends from high school decided to road trip up to Hanover to pay me a visit.
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Donors give $153 million in 2010
By Madeline Sims | August 9, 2010Dartmouth received approximately $153 million in donations in fiscal year 2010, representing an 11 percent increase of philanthropic contributions from 2009, according to Senior Vice President for Advancement Carolyn Pelzel.
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DailyDebriefing
By Madeline Sims | August 5, 2010Conservative radio host, author and political commentator Laura Ingraham '85 appeared on "The Colbert Report" Tuesday evening to discuss her New York Times bestselling book, "The Obama Diaries." Ingraham defended her satirical piece while talk show host Stephen Colbert who has long claimed to be a Dartmouth alumnus despite never attending the College questioned her about the "terrible" writing quality and instances of racial insensitivity.
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Haitian students adjust to classes, life at College
By Madeline Sims | July 19, 2010Jon Odland / The Dartmouth Staff Jon Odland / The Dartmouth Staff Prior to the Jan.
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Mastanduno named Dean of the Faculty
By Madeline Sims | July 15, 2010Michael Mastanduno, associate dean of the faculty for the social sciences and government professor at the College, has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences following a two-month search process, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in an e-mail to the Dartmouth community Thursday afternoon. Mastanduno, who has served as an associate dean of the faculty since 2003, will begin his five-year term on August 1, according to the e-mail.
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Rassias teaches Mexican educators
By Madeline Sims | July 12, 2010Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Staff Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Staff When Judith Hernandez, a teacher in the Mexican city of Leon, arrives at work each day she must struggle to motivate a class of over 50 students, many of whom have personal lives plagued by drug use and familial violence. Hernandez is one of 40 English teachers from Mexico who arrived at Dartmouth on Sunday morning for the Inter-American Partnership for Education Teachers' Collaborative, a program that offers 12 days of intensive instruction aimed at helping attendees become more effective English teachers, according to Jim Citron '86, the director of IAPE. "I want to be able to make a difference for these students," Hernandez said.
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Professor discusses First Amend.
By Madeline Sims | July 8, 2010Protecting First Amendment rights should be a primary focus of government officials and American citizens in order to encourage shared global knowledge and maintain a commitment to national progress, Narain Batra, communications professor at Norwich University, said at the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday.
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Ricciardone '73 chosen to serve as ambassador
By Madeline Sims | July 5, 2010Francis Ricciardone '73 has been nominated to fill the position of United States Department of State Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey by President Barack Obama, according to a July 1 White House press release. As a career minister in the Foreign Service, Ricciardone has served as deputy ambassador ...