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May 16, 2005 Issue

Volume XXIII, Issue 17

Campus convergence
Telephone, video and Internet communications come together

Dartmouth meets Kresge challenge for Kemeny Hall
Generous and broad-based support from alumni and friends helped Dartmouth College secure a $1 million challenge grant from the Kresge  Foundation. Nearly 2,000 donors contributed $10.7 million during the 15-month challenge period to support the construction of Kemeny Hall.

Grad students win NSF Fellowships
Three Arts and Sciences graduate students have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships and six have received honorable mentions.

Magnetic Forces
On Mon., May 2, a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine was lowered into a specially shielded underground room in Moore Hall via an outdoor grate.

Brokaw to speak at Commencement
Tom Brokaw, former anchor and managing editor of  "NBC Nightly News" who recently stepped down after more than two decades in that position, will deliver the main address at Dartmouth's 2005 Commencement exercises on Sun., June 12, on the Dartmouth Green.

The games of summer
On Sat., May 21, a dedicated team of 15 Dartmouth student volunteers will coordinate the Upper Valley Special Olympics Summer Games in Lebanon, N.H. The event is the first Summer Special Olympics to be held in the region.

Dartmouth civic leaders recognized with Presidents' Awards

United Way campaign exceeds goal
On April 25, the Dartmouth College United Way Campaign announced that it had raised a total of $235,784, exceeding its goal of $235,000 by almost $800.

Undue Influence
DMS study finds celebrity endorsements of cancer screening may influence public to ignore possible harms

Seniors receive scholarships to study in Germany
This fall, four students who couldn't be more different will all be heading to the same place: Germany.

Dartmouth appoints first Sustainability Director
With its long history of environmental stewardship and conservation, Dartmouth will now join many of its Ivy League peers in creating the position of Sustainability Director.

Fogelin, Wolff are American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows

Keeping the "noise" down
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Lorenza Viola is among a group of physicists throughout the nation and the world who are working to make highly-theoretical quantum-mechanical computers a reality.

All-nighter
May 20 Relay for Life supports cancer research

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