Academics

Student Curators

Each year, the Hood's five student interns cull the museum's collection of more than 65,000 objects to curate and design their own exhibitions for the museum's lobby space. "This is really something that's quite unique for Dartmouth students," says Katherine Hart, the Barbara C. and Harvey P. Hood 1918 Curator of Academic Programming.

The Off-Campus Experience

Though they take place off-campus, the College's study abroad programs are as much a part of the Dartmouth experience as a late night in Baker-Berry Library or a spring afternoon on the Green. Sixty percent of Dartmouth undergraduates study abroad before graduating, which places the College among the top ten nationally according to a recent report.

"The World is Our Classroom"

A group of sophomores had front row seats in a new course bringing national policy makers and politicians to campus in the summer of 2011. The leaders—including presidential candidates, current and former members of Congress, brand-name executives, and high-level government appointees—met with students in the classroom, and most presented public lectures in the series "Leading Voices in Politics and Policy."

Dartmouth Engineering Students Help Tackle Binge Drinking

It's not standard practice to ask engineers to take on a social problem, but that's just what President Jim Yong Kim and Professor John Collier did recently when they challenged students in an introductory engineering course to come up with solutions to campus binge drinking.