News and Announcements

• Dartmouth is the #1 Ivy for study abroad
• Why choose Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering?
• Dartmouth sees rise in the number of early decision applications
• Watch Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim discuss global health and health care reform on Friday's episode of PBS's "Bill Moyers' Journal."
• The Inauguration of Dartmouth's 17th President, Jim Yong Kim. September 21st & 22nd (Notice: The Admissions Office will be closed to visitors from 10am to 2pm on Tuesday, September 22nd and no tour will be offered that day)
• Dartmouth receives $3 million from the National Science Foundation for Trustworthy Information Systems for Healthcare (TISH)
• Dartmouth receives funding for global health project from Green Mountain Coffee. Dartmouth's Dickey Center for International Understanding has received an award from Green Mountain Coffee of Waterbury, Vt., to support a project aimed at improving health, sanitation, and energy supply in villages of the Kigoma region of Tanzania.
• Jim Yong Kim officially became Dartmouth's 17th president on July 1, 2009. View highlights of President Kim's first days.
• Dartmouth's Summer Arts Festival merges technology, creativity. "This is a celebration of the arts in all their diversity: concerts, performances, three-dimensional films, alternate reality games, as well as installations," says Adrian Randolph, professor of art history and director of the Leslie Center of Humanities, which organized the festival. 
• Dartmouth Commencement 2009 - Speeches, honorary degree citations, notes and images
• Dartmouth College has received the largest commitment in its history, $50 million, from an anonymous family. Their extraordinary gift will enable the College to move forward with plans for the Visual Arts Center.
• Dartmouth College admits 12 percent of applicants for the Class of 2013. Scholarship budget projected to increase by 13 percent.
• Internationally recognized physician and humanitarian Dr. Jim Yong Kim has been elected the 17th President of Dartmouth by the College's Board of Trustees.
• Dartmouth has accepted 401 students into the Class of 2013 through the early decision admissions program. Students admitted in the early decision program will comprise approximately 35 percent of the class that matriculates in the fall of 2009.
• Dartmouth undergraduates turned out in unprecedented numbers to take part in this year's history making Presidential election. What were they thinking as they voted, most for the very first time?
• An Education Resumes: In Syria, Sarah Aziz '12 discovers Dartmouth. In the winter of 2008, Sarah Aziz '12, David Nutt '09, and Katrina Roi '08 would take a break from their responsibilities and walk the cobbled streets of the old city of Damascus, Syria.
• The remarkable story of Dartmouth alumni Milton and Fred Ochieng' is the subject of a new award-winning documentary, "Sons of Lwala: Here, You Belong to Everyone."
• For the third consecutive year, Dartmouth has received the highest grade granted, an A-, on the 2009 College Sustainability Report Card for its environmentally active campus and its transparent endowment holdings.
• Dartmouth has received a major gift to support financial aid, a top priority for the College and a program that was recently restructured to offer more generous assistance to a wider range of incoming students.
• Tanzeem Choudhury, an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth, has been named to the 2008 TR35, an annual listing from Technology Review magazine that features the world's top innovators under the age of 35.
• Graduates of America's smallest and most rural Ivy League school have the highest median salary, $134,000, 10-20 years out of college, according to PayScale.com's 2008 Education and Salary Report, a study of pay for graduates of 300 colleges and universities. The top employers for Dartmouth's Class of 2008 were McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Teach for America and the Peace Corps.
• Dartmouth joins Clinton Global Initiative on Latin American Outreach. Approximately 40 educators from throughout Mexico are at Dartmouth through July 20, working with Dartmouth's Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures, in a new collaborative effort to transform English teaching in Mexico's public schools and universities.
• Dartmouth students are well represented in national scholarships this year, with three current students and five alumni winning Fulbright Scholarships, two current students chosen as alternates for Fulbright scholarships, and a Beinecke Scholarship and Udall Scholarship awarded to current students. These students join Adam Levine '08, who will attend Oxford university as Dartmouth's Rhodes Scholar this fall.
• The Three I's: In a rapidly changing, rapidly diversifying world, there are several modes of learning that many consider essential to modern higher education. Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt says these modes include the "three I's": Interdisciplinary learning; international and global study; and independent, hands-on learning in small groups.
• Ian Tapu '08 says, "My motto is to always push myself, because if I don't, I won't know how much I can offer until I really put myself out there." At Dartmouth's Commencement on June 8th, Ian became the first in his family to graduate from college.
• Elizabeth Mancuso '08 was more or less a typical first-year student four years ago until doctors discovered that Mancuso was suffering from cancer and that her entire thyroid would have to be removed. Finding out she had cancer was "pure shock. It feels like your whole life stops."
• Throughout his tenure, Dartmouth President James Wright has focused on enhancing the student experience and expanding academic programs.
• On January 22, Dartmouth President James Wright announced a major new financial aid initiative, designed to keep Dartmouth accessible to academically talented students regardless of their financial situation and which will extend the College's need-blind admissions program to all international students as well.
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