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April 19, 2004 Issue

Volume XXII, Issue 18

Understanding Rwanda as it really was
Close examination reveals greater complexity than previously thought

ARTS & SCIENCES

• Professors receive Guggenheim Fellowships
  Two Dartmouth faculty members, Larry Polansky, Associate Professor of Music, and Susan Jane Walp, Lecturer in Studio Art, have been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
• Study shows states with high Medicare spending provide lower quality care
  States with higher Medicare spending often provide lower quality, less effective care to Medicare beneficiaries, according to a new study by Dartmouth economists
• Connecting classical, quantum physics
  In the April 2 issue of Science, a Dartmouth researcher comments about a new experiment that brings us closer to connecting the macroscopic and the microscopic worlds.
• Emeriti receive Mellon Fellowships
  Two Dartmouth emeritus professors have been awarded fellowships by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

KUDOS

• Recognition for the Dartmouth faculty, staff and students

Computing History
April 30 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late George R. Stibitz, former professor emeritus at Dartmouth Medical School and according to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the father of modern computing.

ADMINISTRATION

• Learning center plans announced
  Honoring its historic commitment to providing outstanding teaching, Dartmouth has announced plans to create the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning.
• Luxon to direct new center for learning
  For all the great teaching resources available to the Dartmouth faculty, Associate Professor of English Thomas Luxon thinks something is still missing.
• Samwick named Rockefeller director
  Andrew A. Samwick, Professor of Economics, has been appointed director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, effective July 1.

EVENTS

• Concert: Shoghaken Ensemble
• Sports: Men's lightweight crew
• Concert: Morimur
• Film: Big Fish
• Creativity from every angle
  Creativity is not solely the province of the arts, as two upcoming panel discussions on creativity by artists, scientists and athletes will show.
• How do we define real success?
  Sound finances, rewarding career, family, marriage, community service - what defines real success? On April 23, the sixth annual Tuck Work/Life Symposium will take place at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth to discuss the issue.
• GE's Jeffrey Immelt to speak at Dartmouth Entrepreneurship Conference
  On Saturday, April 24, Jeffrey Immelt '78, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, will deliver the keynote address at Greener Ventures 2004, Dartmouth's annual one-day entrepreneurship conference.

STUDENTS

• Lumberjack games at Woodsmen's Weekend
  Dartmouth teams compete against colleges with forestry majors, serious 'woodsmen'
• Brains in high gear as College Bowl approaches
  Advertised as "the varsity sport of the mind," the 2004 College Bowl National Championship will be held April 23-25 at the Montgomery campus of Alabama's Auburn University.

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