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      <description><![CDATA[From July 12 through July 23, a group of public school teachers from Mexico will be at Dartmouth learning new and more dynamic ways to teach English to their own students at home.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Dartmouth Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt has announced the appointment of Bruce Sacerdote as the inaugural endowed chair holder of the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professorship in Economics.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[U.S. policymakers need to act quickly in order to save the Arctic, according to a report released yesterday by Dartmouth's Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Carnegie Endowment and the University of the Arctic.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dartmouth’s Big Green Bus, the student-run, vegetable oil-powered coach that advocates sustainable living, has officially begun their fifth-annual cross country trek.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dartmouth’s 58-year tradition of bagpipe music at Commencement continues this year with graduating senior Sharon Dauson ’09 joining College Piper Joshua Marks ’96 to lead the senior class procession.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ryan Yuk is graduating with the Dartmouth Class of 2009 at the College’s commencement activities this Sunday. However his “Five Chairs” exhibition will remain on display at Baker-Berry Library until the end of the month. Five Chairs” is a collection of chairs and benches inspired by the images, landscape and architecture he saw while on an English Foreign Study Program in Glasgow, Scotland; his travels in and around Italy and even the iconic overlapping circles found in the logo of car manufacturer Audi.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Matthew S. Alkaitis of the Dartmouth Class of 2009 has received a prestigious Keasbey Scholarship, which he plans to use to study at Oxford University after he graduates from Dartmouth on June 14.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dartmouth Professor David “Danny” Blanchflower knows that the immediate outlook for the UK labor market is grim. For the past three years, he’s been a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), and he’s been on the front lines of guiding economic policy in the UK.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In his forty years at Dartmouth, James Wright has been a professor, dean of faculty, provost, and president. Susan DeBevoise Wright, over three decades, has been a career services director, class dean, and executive director of the Montgomery Endowment, a program that brings extraordinary figures to campus to teach and engage with students and faculty. But no matter the position, for the Wrights, the job has always been about enabling students and supporting faculty.]]></description>
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      <title>Podcast: Senior Fellow Lilian Mehrel</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lilian Mehrel ’09 is one of four Senior Fellows this year. The program allows students to pursue individual projects that go beyond the existing curriculum. Mehrel has completed an illustrated book that highlights the experiences of her grandmothers: her father’s mother who survived the Holocaust and still lives in Germany, and her mother’s mother who lived through the Iranian Revolution in Tehran.]]></description>
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      <title>&quot;The Perils of Apology: What Japan Shouldn’t Learn From Germany&quot;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Apologies for a country’s past wrongdoing can be counterproductive because they can incite nationalist backlashes at home, says Jennifer Lind, assistant professor of government, in the May/ June issue of the scholarly journal Foreign Affairs. Lind compares the post-World War II experiences of South Korean relations with Japan and French relations with Germany as examples of how countries remember past atrocities and the subsequent political outcomes in “The Perils of Apology: What Japan Shouldn’t Learn From Germany.” The article is adapted from her book Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics, a book that examines the effect of war memory on international reconciliation (Cornell University Press, 2008).]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Damaris Walker '09 and Mark Wilson '09 chose to attend Dartmouth after completing the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program (SEAD), which expands educational opportunities for adolescents from under-resourced high schools. In this podcast the Philadelphia natives are interviewd by SEAD Director Jay Davis '90 who talks with them about their Dartmouth experience and their plans for next year.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dartmouth’s a la carte dining operation isn’t necessarily conducive to sustainability efforts, but that’s motivation to be more creative, according to David Newlove, the Acting Director of Dartmouth Dining Services, also known as DDS. Newlove and Dartmouth’s Sustainability Manager Kathy Lambert have teamed up to make Dartmouth’s 12 dining areas across the campus less wasteful and more sustainable.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Linda Snyder has been appointed Chief Facilities Officer at Dartmouth effective August 3, 2009, announced Adam Keller, Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This summer, 14 Dartmouth students will embark on the fifth-annual cross-country trek of the Big Green Bus to raise awareness of energy conservation and environmental responsibility. This year’s crew will travel in a 1989 MCI coach-style bus with an engine re-built to run on waste vegetable oil and an interior renovated to drive home the message (so to speak) about green living.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Afra Zomorodian, an assistant professor of computer science, was recently honored with an award from the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award recognizes and supports the activities of teacher/scholars early in their careers, and the awardees are often considered emerging leaders in their respective fields. Recipients are selected for career development plans that integrate research and teaching.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Office of the Dean of the Faculty is pleased to announce the appointment of James Russell Muirhead, Jr. to be the inaugural holder of the Robert Clements Professorship of Democracy and Politics at Dartmouth. Muirhead is currently Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, and he will join the Dartmouth faculty on July 1.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) and Dartmouth’s Dickey Center for International Understanding have been awarded $250,000 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the Global Health Initiative (GHI) at Dartmouth. The two-year “Framework Programs for Global Health” award, funded through the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the federal stimulus package recently passed by Congress), is from NIH’s Fogarty International Center.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Rockefeller Center’s second annual State of the State poll of New Hampshire registered voters (N=403) indicates that only 4.2 percent of respondents find the stimulus package to be “very effective” while over half of the respondents find it to be “not very effective” (33.3 percent) or “not effective at all” (19.1 percent). In addition, Rep. Paul Hodes polls slightly better among respondents regarding the 2010 U.S. Senate race for retiring Sen. Judd Gregg’s seat than Republican challengers former Rep. Charlie Bass and former Sen. John Sununu, but it also within the margin of error.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dartmouth President-Elect Dr. Jim Yong Kim has appointed Steven Kadish as Senior Vice President and Strategic Advisor, effective June 15, Provost Barry Scherr announced today. Scherr leads Dr. Kim’s transition team.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth will host the third-annual Formula Hybrid International Competition – a collegiate engineering contest that embraces clean technologies and design in automotive racing. Thirty teams representing 5 countries will convene at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H., on May 4-6 to see who has designed the best high performance hybrid-powered formula-style racecar.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Louise Erdrich, a 1976 graduate of Dartmouth who has won acclaim as a writer in multiple genres — most recently she was a finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Plague of Doves — will deliver the main address at the College’s 2009 Commencement exercises on Sunday morning, June 14, on the Dartmouth Green. She is one of seven individuals who will receive honorary degrees at the event.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gabrielle Ramaiah, a member of the Class of 2010, is one of 21 students nationally to win the Beinecke Scholarship.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dartmouth researchers have determined that the presence of the rare element osmium is on the rise globally. They trace this increase to the consumption of refined platinum, the primary ingredient in catalytic converters, the equipment commonly installed in cars to reduce smog. A volatile form of osmium is generated during platinum refinement and also during the normal operation of cars, and it gets dispersed globally through the atmosphere.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Dartmouth Outing Club (DOC) will continue its yearlong Centennial celebration by hosting the 63rd annual Woodsmen’s Weekend April 24-25. The DOC, founded in 1909, started this forestry competition in 1947 to sharpen students’ outdoor survival skills. Typically, the DOC hosts the weekend every three years, but this year Dartmouth’s turn was moved up to 2009 so it would coincide with the DOC’s 100th anniversary.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The March/April 2009 issue of Foreign Policy — an award-winning magazine covering economics, politics and ideas globally — once again ranks Dartmouth’s international relations curriculum as a leading program for undergraduates among the nation’s top institutions.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dean of the College Tom Crady has appointed Daniel M. Nelson as Director of Outdoor Programs at Dartmouth. Nelson, a member of the Dartmouth Class of 1975, is currently the Senior Assistant to President James Wright, and he will transition to his new role this summer. Earl Jette will continue to serve as interim director through Nelson’s transition.]]></description>
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