Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students
Lori Arviso Alvord '79, assistant professor of surgery and
of psychiatry and associate dean of Dartmouth Medical School, will speak at
commencement ceremonies at three universities. Alvord, who is the first Navajo
woman surgeon, will give commencement addresses for Drexel University College of Medicine,
where she will also receive an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, and the University of Illinois at Chicago College
of Medicine. She will give the keynote speech for class day at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.
Alvord has studied Navajo ceremonies and developed models for healing
environments and wellness programs based on Navajo healing principles. She
holds a faculty appointment at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where she
teaches Native American Health/Cross Cultural Medicine. Alvord also has an NIH
grant to examine surgical outcomes in Native American populations.
Jessica Spradling '06 won the 83rd Kathryn Irene Glascock
Intercollegiate Poetry Competition at Mount
Holyoke College on April 29. The invitation-only competition is sponsored
by the English department at Mount Holyoke and counts many well-known poets,
including Sylvia Plath and James Merrill, among its past winners. This year's
judges were professional poets Eamon Grennan, Elizabeth Spires, and Greg
Williamson. Spradling is an English major currently completing her honors
poetry project under the guidance of Cleopatra Mathis, Frederick Sessions Beebe
'35 Professor in the Art of Writing.
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