Dartmouth News Headlines

Dartmouth sells its property at the summit of Mt. Washington

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:37:49 -0400

At a ceremony on July 2, Dartmouth College officially transferred to the State of New Hampshire the deed to 8.2 acres of land at the summit of Mt. Washington. The property was sold to the state at a price of $1.64 million, to be financed by Dartmouth over 10 years.

The new issue of Vox of Dartmouth is available

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:35:04 -0400

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Statement on termination of lawsuit against Dartmouth College

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:35:21 -0400

On June 24, lawyers for Dartmouth College and the College's Association of Alumni filed in New Hampshire Superior Court a stipulation voluntarily dismissing the lawsuit brought by the Association in October 2007, effective immediately.

The new issue of Dartmouth Life is available

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:19:15 -0400

The new issue of Dartmouth Life is available

$5.5 million donation funds history professorship, Life Sciences auditorium at Dartmouth

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:23:45 -0400

Two gifts totaling $5.5 million from Kathy and Rick Kimball, Class of 1978, will advance teaching and learning at Dartmouth, funding important academic priorities in the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience. One gift will create an endowed chair in history, the other an auditorium in the new Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center.

Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies launches SISMAT

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:35:52 -0400

Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS) recently welcomed seven undergraduates from different colleges for a two-week intensive introduction to computer security in an inaugural program called SISMAT, which stands for Secure Information Systems Mentoring and Training. Students from Dartmouth, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Evergreen State, and the College of New Jersey are on campus from June 16-27.

Committee named to lead search for Dartmouth's 17th President

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:02:21 -0400

Fourteen members of the Dartmouth community have been named to begin the process of identifying candidates for the College's 17th president, Ed Haldeman, chair of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, announced today.

Dartmouth singing group to perform in the City of Brotherly Love Tuesday

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:53:28 -0400

The Dartmouth Cords, an all-male a cappella group, will perform the national anthem at Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia, PA at the Boston Red Sox-Philadelphia Phillies game on Tuesday, June 17. The event will be extra special for the Cords as current group members will be joined by several alumni at what is expected to be a sold-out stadium crowd of over 40,000.

Major gift to Dartmouth establishes Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:09:39 -0400

In a season when Dartmouth baseball was ranked first in the region, won its fourth Red Rolfe Division title in eight years, had Bob Whalen named New England Coach of the Year and two of his players make first-team All-New England, comes more good news. A $5.2 million gift from Mike, Class of 1979, and Cindy Ginn Biondi, Class of 1980, will support major renovations to Red Rolfe Field and a new ballpark. Robert "Red" Rolfe, Dartmouth Class of 1931, played ten seasons with the New York Yankees and was his alma mater's athletic director from 1954 to 1967.

Dartmouth Alumni Association Election Results: Record number of alumni voters elect new association leaders committed to ending lawsuit against College

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:55:58 -0400

The Dartmouth College Office of Alumni Relations today announced that a record number of Dartmouth alumni voted to elect new leadership of the Association of Alumni (AoA) committed to ending a lawsuit against the College.

Dartmouth launches network security study

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:03:29 -0400

A team of Dartmouth researchers is preparing to launch a project that examines the campus wireless computer traffic in an effort to learn how the network is used and how to best maintain its security. The project is called the Dartmouth Internet Security Testbed, or DIST.

Commencement 2008

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:22:51 -0400

Speeches, honorary degree citations, notes and images

Three-way tie for Valedictorian a first in Dartmouth history

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:01:27 -0400

For the first time in Dartmouth's recorded history, three graduating seniors will share the title of valedictorian, having each earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average over the course of their college careers. The three honorees are Nicholas Christman of Falmouth, Mass., Jean Ellen Cowgill of Lexington, Ky., and Margaret Fitchet of Etna, N.H. Daniel J. K. Mahoney of Brookline, Mass., is the salutatorian with a 3.99 grade point average.

Dartmouth Trustees approve budgets advancing key educational initiatives in undergraduate education, financial aid and important new facilities

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:47:01 -0400

Board also approves temporary freeze of current Board membership until resolution of lawsuit; approves appointments to endowed professorships and tenured faculty positions; and participates in Commencement activities featuring President of Liberia

"My motto is to always push myself" - Ian Tapu '08 is the first in his family to graduate from college

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:30:24 -0400

When Ian Tapu leads his classmates as Class Marshall at Dartmouth's Commencement ceremony this Sunday morning, the majority of the other Polynesians he'll see will be his family. Tapu, from Hauula, Hawaii, is the first in his family to graduate from college, and twenty-five family members have traveled from Hawaii, Virginia, and Alabama to see him receive his diploma from Dartmouth.

"Something to come back to" - Graduating senior fought cancer through swimming

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:30:03 -0400

Elizabeth Mancuso, who goes by Liz, was more or less a typical first-year student four years ago. Recruited to the Dartmouth swim team, the Andover, Mass. native chose Dartmouth, in part, for its New England location and proximity to her family, to whom she is very close.

K-12 teachers recognized with 2nd annual Dartmouth Teaching Award

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:02:03 -0400

On a day when Dartmouth graduates leave their college life behind and look toward their future as adults, four seniors will get to see their former teachers recognized for their inspiration, dedication and steadfast support for young learners.

Dartmouth College seniors make record-breaking class gift

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:42:40 -0400

Dartmouth seniors have a milestone to celebrate this week in addition to the end of exams and, with Commencement on Sunday, the culmination of their college careers. They attained the highest participation rate for class giving in recent memory, with 92.5 percent contributing to their Senior Class Gift. Fifteen coed, fraternity, and sorority organizations reached 100 percent participation.

Dartmouth students heading to Ukraine to restore Jewish cemeteries

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:17:06 -0400

By the end of June this year, Dartmouth students will have restored seven Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe through Project Preservation, an annual trip to repair and sometimes rebuild cemeteries abandoned since the Holocaust. The 2008 trip, taking place June 9-19, will visit Stojanov, Ukraine.

Dartmouth appoints first director of its Institute for Writing and Rhetoric

Wed, 28 May 2008 09:05:21 -0400

Dartmouth's Office of the Dean of Faculty has announced that University of Maine Professor Christiane Donahue has been appointed to serve as the inaugural director of the new Institute for Writing and Rhetoric at Dartmouth (related press release). It was also announced that Josh Compton from Southwest Baptist University has been appointed as a lecturer in speech and rhetoric for the Institute. They will start their new positions Sept. 1 and July 1, 2008 respectively.

Podcast: Veterans and Higher Education, with President James Wright

Fri, 23 May 2008 13:57:17 -0400

Since 2005, Dartmouth President James Wright has made several trips to visit wounded U.S. veterans at military hospitals in Washington, D.C. and in San Diego, Calif. Wright, who served three years in the U.S. Marine Corps (1957-60) before enrolling in college, feels both a special connection to and a particular responsibility to help wounded veterans attend college. Wright worked with American Council on Education, the largest U.S. higher education association, to launch an educational counseling program for wounded veterans.

In this podcast, Wright talks about this work and about his efforts to support a new GI Bill to help all veterans pursue a higher education.

Podcast: Undergraduate Veterans, with Samuel Crist '10

Fri, 23 May 2008 09:07:52 -0400

Samuel Crist, a member of the class of 2010, is a founding member and president of DUVA, the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association. In this podcast, he talks about the purpose of the new organization and discusses some of his experiences here on campus and as a marine.

Economic worries top list for Granite Staters, Dartmouth poll finds

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:36:02 -0400

In a recent State of the State Poll of New Hampshire voters conducted by the students and faculty of the Policy Research Shop at Dartmouth College's Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, more than half of the respondents reported that they believe the economy is weak and 28 percent consider building the economy to be the most important issue facing lawmakers, but more than 43 percent of those surveyed say they will use their economic stimulus tax rebate to pay bills or augment savings.

Dartmouth designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:02:20 -0400

Dartmouth College has been designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R) by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security for the academic years 2008 through 2013. The CAE-R program supports a national strategy to secure cyberspace by promoting education and research that address threats and vulnerabilities to the information infrastructure.

Military service connects Dartmouth undergraduates from many countries

Mon, 19 May 2008 11:42:07 -0400

While their personal experiences are vastly different, a group of ten undergraduate Dartmouth students have a common bond: military service. They've recently come together to form the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association (DUVA), and there is currently international representation from Israel, Norway, Singapore, and the United States. They all share a familiarity with the mental and physical rigors of military service, as well as questions about college life.

Podcast: Project Preservation, with Rabbi Edward Boraz

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:05:00 -0400

Since 2002, the Tucker Foundation and Dartmouth's Hillel have coordinated student trips to Europe to restore Jewish cemeteries long neglected in once-thriving Jewish communities. The small groups have visited Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine. In this podcast, Edward Boraz, the Michael Steinberg '61 Rabbi of Dartmouth College Hillel and the rabbi for the Upper Valley Jewish community, talks about these annual trips and the impact they have on students and on the villages they visit.

Udall Scholarship winner explores consequences of Indian Child Welfare Act

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:53:32 -0400

Dartmouth junior Daniel Becker is one of 80 national winners of a 2008 Morris K. Udall scholarship. Becker is Yup'ik and is from Anchorage, Alaska. He was awarded the scholarship based on his essay about the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), and his personal family connection to the Act.

Podcast: The Hop as a Center of Creativity, with Margaret Lawrence

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:33:13 -0400

Margaret Lawrence, the director of programming at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, says that The Hop is a multidisciplinary arts presenter and a center of creativity on campus. In this podcast she describes the many activities at The Hop and also talks about what's on the minds of arts presenters around the country.

Dartmouth undergraduate publication celebrates 10 successful years

Wed, 14 May 2008 10:11:33 -0400

Colleges, by nature, are always changing. Students come and go, and often their on-campus initiatives fade after graduation. That's why it's a notable milestone when a campus student journal can celebrate 10 years of continuous publishing history, which the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science will do this spring.

Podcast: The Rockefeller Center, with Andrew Samwick

Tue, 13 May 2008 11:11:20 -0400

Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center is celebrating two milestones this year - the center turns 25, and it's also the centennial of Nelson Rockefeller's birth. In this podcast, Andrew Samwick, professor of economics and director of the Rockefeller Center, reflects on Rockefeller's career and the activities at his eponymous center.

New Dartmouth dorm cluster gets gold LEED rating

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:27:53 -0400

Dartmouth's recently completed McLaughlin Cluster residence halls have been recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council for their environmental sustainability, winning Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certifications. The recognition makes the fourth such certification for Dartmouth buildings in four months. Gold LEED certifications were recently awarded to residence halls McLane and Fahey; academic facilities Kemeny Hall and the Haldeman Center received silver LEED certifications in February.

2008 Dartmouth Pow-Wow coming up May 10-11

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:37:54 -0400

Organized by the student group Native Americans at Dartmouth (NAD), the 36th Annual Dartmouth Pow-Wow will take place on the Dartmouth Green on Saturday, May 10 and Sunday, May 11, with the Grand Entry taking place at noon on both days. In case of rain, the event will move to Thompson Arena.

Manton Foundation gift endows Dartmouth's Digital Library Program and Orozco mural conservation

Thu, 08 May 2008 11:10:05 -0400

A major gift from the Manton Foundation will create a $3 million endowment to support the Dartmouth College Library's Digital Library Program. An additional $1 million endowment will support preservation and education programs for The Epic of American Civilization, a mural in the Reserve Reading Room of Baker Library painted by Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco between 1932 and 1934. In recognition of the Manton gift, the Reserve Reading Room on the lower level of Baker Library will be renamed The Orozco Room.

Africa's first elected female president to be Dartmouth Commencement speaker

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:16:47 -0400

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia, will deliver the main address at Dartmouth College's 2008 Commencement exercises on Sunday, June 8, on the Dartmouth Green. She is also one of eight individuals who will receive honorary degrees at the event.

Read the full news release at:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2008/04/22.html

Earth Day at Dartmouth

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:38:07 -0400

On Earth Day (and every day) the Big Green really goes green. Today, and throughout the year, activities with a focus on sustainability are planned, in keeping with Dartmouth's ongoing commitment to sustainability and environmental awareness.

Holly Sateia named new VP for Institutional Diversity and Equity

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:34:17 -0400

Dartmouth President James Wright has appointed Holly Sateia the Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity at Dartmouth. In this position, she will work to promote Dartmouth's efforts around diversity and inclusion.

Impact of digital culture to be considered by panel of journalists

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:48:07 -0400

On Wed., April 30, four national journalists will be on campus to consider the ways in which digital advancements have played out in society. Part of their visit includes a free panel discussion titled "Our Digital Lives: Successes and Failures in the Digital Age." The discussion will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Silsby 028.

DMS professor honored by American Cancer Society

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:58:39 -0400

Ethan Dmitrovsky, the Andrew Wallace Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, has been named a Clinical Research Professor by the American Cancer Society. This honor, only awarded to two or three people each year, is the ACS's leading grant award, and it recognizes a researcher's contributions to science and to patient care, and supports their work in mentoring future generations of researchers.

Green screen

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:04:47 -0400

Dartmouth students living in the McLaughlin Cluster residence halls enjoy a living space designed for efficient and sustainable energy use, and beginning on April 24, the residents of four floors of the new residence halls will also have the opportunity to see exactly how much their own behavior affects their buildings' energy use.

Dartmouth researchers discover chromium's hidden magnetic talents

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:58:45 -0400

Two Dartmouth researchers have determined that the element chromium displays electrical properties of magnets in surprising ways. This finding can be used in the emerging field of "spintronics," which might someday contribute to new and more energy-efficient ways of processing and storing data.

Dartmouth artist named 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:26:27 -0400

Enrico Riley, an artist from Norwich, Vt. and a senior lecturer in studio art at Dartmouth, has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The award supports Riley's work in painting.

Mellon New Directions Fellowship awarded to Dartmouth professor

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:31:12 -0400

Larry Polansky, the Jacob H. Strauss Professor in Music, has been awarded a New Directions Fellowship by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his emerging interest in American Sign Language (ASL) poetry and performance. This type of award, according to the Mellon Foundation, is for advanced training in pursuit of a specific research agenda outside the recipient's own discipline, and as a long-term investment in his intellectual range and productivity.

Dartmouth professor named Carnegie Scholar

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:00:11 -0400

Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor in Jewish Studies and professor of religion, has been named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. As one of 20 scholars appointed this year, Heschel will receive funding that will give her two years of sabbatical from teaching in order to concentrate on research and writing. During her time as a Carnegie Scholar, Heschel plans to write a book tentatively titled, "The Monotheistic Triangle: Judaism and Islam in the Modern Christian World." The 2008 awardees are the fourth consecutive annual class to focus on Islam, bringing to 91 the number of Carnegie Scholars devoted to the topic since the program began in 2000.

Dartmouth institute bestows cyber security collection on Naval Postgraduate School

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:17:30 -0400

In a ceremony on the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) near Washington, D.C., Dartmouth's Institute for Information Infrastructure (I3P) recently transferred responsibility for its cyber security library to the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterey, California.

Recovering the music and culture of an Asian nation's colonial past

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:08:58 -0400

An international and interdisciplinary symposium at Dartmouth College April 30 through May 2 will celebrate the unique music and culture that flowered in the Philippine Islands in the late stages of its colonial rule by Spain.

New sugarhouse ushers in spring

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:49:14 -0400

On a recent late-winter day, Dartmouth Organic Farm Manager Scott Stokoe, Andy Rowles '65, DMS '72, and Peter Van Deventer '08 selected prime sugar maples in the farm's hilly woodlands above the Connecticut River. As they wrapped plastic tubing around the soon-to-be-tapped trees, their goal was to select the optimal route so the watery sap would travel smoothly down the hill. Though there was still a foot of snow on the ground, it was sunny and above 40 degrees. "It felt like a good day to get out," said Van Deventer. "My parents have sugar taps in Vermont, and I miss it."

From its largest pool of applicants for undergraduate admissions to date, Dartmouth invites 2,190 to join the Class of 2012

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:16:48 -0400

Dartmouth announced today that it has extended offers of admission to 2,190 applicants for its Class of 2012, from a pool of 16,536 - the largest of number of applicants in the College's history and 2,361 more than applied for last year's entering class.

What's it like to work at Dartmouth?

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:59:32 -0400

Nearly 50 eighth graders from schools around the Upper Valley will spend the morning of Wednesday, March 26, in 16 different Dartmouth College areas of operation as part of the annual "Job Shadow Day" run by the Upper Valley Business and Education Partnership (UVBEP).

Green grad comes home

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:36:03 -0400

"Building bridges has been a hallmark of my career," says Kathy Fallon Lambert '90, and she plans to bring that spirit to her new role as Dartmouth's incoming sustainability manager. Lambert, who is scheduled to take office in August 2008, will help the College develop a strategy to integrate sustainability principles and practices into Dartmouth's operations and culture. She has worked extensively with both public and private institutions to bridge the gap between science and environmental policy, and will be looking for opportunities to bring together the diverse constituencies at Dartmouth to make Dartmouth more sustainable.

Dartmouth symposium to consider mechanisms that underlie humanity

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:05:23 -0400

Can computers simulate the complex workings of the human brain? Can algorithms replicate our humanity? What brain mechanisms separate humans from apes? From robots? On May 9-10, Dartmouth's Neukom Institute will host "The Human Algorithm," a conference that will examine work currently underway to computationally analyze the rules that govern the human brain and human behavior.