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Volume XXIV • Issue 18
In the
Spotlight
New members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Deep
Vision
Dartmouth physicians and engineers are collaborating to test new imagining
techniques to find breast abnormalities, including cancer.
Employee
Survey Results Reported
Results of survey conducted by Resource Systems Group, Inc. finds most
administrative employees are satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs and
would recommend Dartmouth to a friend as an employer.
Nine
Seniors Win Fulbrights to Study Overseas
Destinations for students range from Sweden to Qatar as these members of
the Class of 2006 pursue research and study around the world.
ALPS Turns
25
The unorthodox, but successful, Accelerated Language Programs celebrates
its 25th anniversary. Languages are taught using theatrical methods,
intense language immersion, and profound personal engagement of students.
Alumni
Council Endorses Proposed Constitution
A secret ballot vote at the Alumni Council's May meeting unanimously
endorses the new Proposed Constitution of the Dartmouth Alumni Association.
Kudos
Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students
Full
Circle
Award winning author and Professor of Religion and of African and African
American studies, Ifi Amadiume, receives the 2006 Flora Nwapa Society
Award.
Iraqi Kids
Project
Students provide tangible aid to Iraqi children and adults by donating
cast-off clothes, school supplies, and other miscellany left in dorm rooms at
the end of the term.
Intercultural
Interest
Visiting Chinese scholar, Huilin Qiu, studies Native American tribes and
clans which, she says, can be a point of reference for studying the various
minority populations throughout China.
Call for 2007
Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Justice Awards Nominations
Deadline for nominations is August 1
Hurricane Still
Life
On display at the Hood Museum of Art, Viktor Schreckengost's Hurricane
Still Life honors the artist's 100th birthday.
On the Path to
Leadership
Mita Sharma '08 becomes one of only 100 higher education students worldwide
to be selected as this year's Goldman Sach's Global Leaders and will return to
New York City this summer to participate in the Goldman Sachs Global Leadership
Institute.
Empowerment
Through Performance
Rena Fried '08 studies how performance arts might affect an inmate's life while
incarcerated in a women's prison and after release and how the arts may aid in
prison reform.
Research
Awards
Dartmouth researchers were awarded $14.7 million during April, including
$3.1 million in new and competing awards.
CECS Study Calls
for Overhaul in Treatment of Chronic Illness
A new study uncovers staggering variations in how hospitals care for
chronically ill elderly patients.
Deep Freeze
Rachel Obbard, a graduate student at Thayer, receives a grant from the
Geographical Society of Philadelphia.
Interludes:
Upcoming in Faulkner Recital Hall
Dartmouth students and their friends will present a variety of free concerts
that are open to the public.
Editor's Picks
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