Media Tip Sheet

Posted 05/18/01

How colleges memorialize war: Nearly every generation of U.S. college students has been touched by war. So how do campuses, the sites of both patriotic rallies and anti-war protests over the years, remember alumni who served in the military? Dartmouth Professor Emeritus Charles T. Wood offers some insights, using his own campus as an example.

New archaeology etiquette and attitudes: The interests of Native Americans and archaeologists have been at odds for much of the past century. However, a Dartmouth conference on May 25-27 will feature archaeologists of Native American heritage offering their visions of the future relationship between tribal groups and archaeologists.

The next frontier for cosmologists-dark energy: Now that astronomers know that the universe is expanding and accelerating, the next step is to determine how and why. The cause is thought to be due to a new form of energy with unusual anti-gravitational properties called "dark energy." Dartmouth Professor Robert Caldwell is one of a handful of cosmologists trying to develop and test theories to better understand this mysterious dark energy to learn about the earliest moments of the universe.

Recovering a forgotten city: Czernowitz, a booming city known as "The Vienna of the East" during its heyday, boasted a multi-ethnic population that included 70,000 Jews before World War II. The city's vibrant German-Jewish culture vanished, however, during the war, and now, 60 years later, even the city's residents have forgotten the Jewish community ever existed. Dartmouth Professors Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer have set out to recover this lost history with Czernowitz Album, a book that follows the fates of four of the town's Jewish families through the Holocaust and beyond.

Measuring public school success: Research by three Dartmouth undergraduates could affect how New Hampshire public school children are educated if state legislators heed their advice. The Dartmouth seniors wrote a 48-page single-spaced paper on educational accountability, which they twice presented to officials at the N.H. Department of Education, most recently on May 9.

Clams offer cell insight: Like many who visit Cape Cod in the summer, Dartmouth Professor Roger Sloboda goes for the clams, and he prefers them ripe with eggs. Sloboda's work aims to better understand the phase of cell division when the chromosomes separate. Surf clams are ideal for this research because of the large volume of eggs they produce, and how easily the cells can be manipulated to divide at the same time.

Orozco protection effort breaks new ground: Art lovers and construction workers have come together to protect Dartmouth's world-famous Orozco murals. While construction continues around the rare frescoes, college officials are using remotely monitored seismographs, demolition robots and art history lectures for construction workers to preserve the Epic of American Civilization, one of only three examples of Orozco's mural art in North America.

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