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The Center was named after Nelson A. Rockefeller, Class of 1930 and former Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States. Physically connected to each other, Silsby Hall and the Rockefeller Center house many of the Social Science departments, including Economics, Government, Education, Sociology, and Anthropology as well as such interdisciplinary programs as African and African-American Studies and Mathematical Social Sciences.
Mathematical Social Science is an undergraduate honors major combining mathematical training with one or more of the social sciences. Dartmouth's Education Department offers a minor in Education, and elementary and secondary teacher preparation programs. Teacher prep offers students the opportunity to be certified as a public school teachers when they graduate.
The Rockefeller Center is a catalyst for teaching, research, and deliberation about public policy. It offers a wide array of programs, including faculty seminars, workshops, and conferences; student public affairs and leadership programs, a minor in public policy, an exchange program at Oxford University's Keble College, and funding for research projects and leave-term internships. The Center also brings distinguished speakers to campus — Nobel laureates, policymakers, journalists, and scholars — and sponsors debates during the New Hampshire presidential primary. Its many student organizations foster lively discussion of important issues with Center guests in an informal setting.
Webster Avenue
 Fraternity and Sorority Life
Webster Avenue is home to the majority of the fraternities and sororities on campus. About 37% of Dartmouth students are affiliated with these organizations. There are 14 fraternities, 8 sororities, and 3 coed houses, in addition to 2 undergraduate societies and numerous senior societies. Dartmouth's coed fraternity and sorority (CFS) system is different from that at other schools in many ways. The majority of events are open to the entire campus so that students may take part in the social options provided by the system without joining. Students cannot rush a house until their sophomore winter. The houses are largely non-residential; the majority of members of CFS organizations live in the residence halls. There are no dining facilities attached to the houses. Also located on Webster Avenue is the President's House, a beautiful Georgian mansion that has housed the last five college presidents.
Religious Life
Located at the end of Webster Avenue are Aquinas House, the Catholic student center, and the Roth Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth. Both facilities are open to all and include study space and computers for students. The Roth Center also features a kosher kitchen and offers students a social space where meetings and dinners are held.
Center for Women and Gender
The Center for Women and Gender, located behind Webster Avenue within the Choate Residential Cluster, was founded in 1988. The CWG sponsors programming events to promote discussion, address issues and encourage communication with each other on issues that pertain to gender as well as the intersecting forms of self-identity by which people define themselves and others.
Make a right on Webster Avenue, and proceed to the corner. Turn left on N. Main Street. The newly constructed Berry Library will be on your right. Proceed up the street to many of the affinity/special interest housing options and toward the Dartmouth Medical School Admissions Office.
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