Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students
Life at McMurdo
Station, the scientific outpost in Antarctica, involves its own rituals and
traditions, among which is the annual Scott's Hut race, held each year in early
January. Running in the eight-kilometer dash for Dartmouth this year were
Abigail Adams '06, Ian McKay '10, and Amber Morse
'97 (who is working for Raytheon Polar Services). McKay, who deferred
matriculation for a year to work at McMurdo Station for Raytheon as a field
assistant, finished first overall in the race among roughly 50 runners. Adams,
a research assistant to Dartmouth Professor of Environmental Studies Ross
Virginia, was the second woman to finish the race. She is currently helping
Virginia with research on the ecology and biogeochemistry of soils in the
McMurdo Dry Valleys.
Lori Alvord '79, assistant professor of surgery and
associate dean for student and multicultural affairs at Dartmouth Medical School, is featured in
Take a Closer Look:
Opening Doors, Changing Lives, a new publication produced by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education
(COFHE). Alvord was chosen because she is the first Navajo woman to become
board certified in surgery, and because she has "demonstrated a lifetime
commitment to the service of others." COFHE is a 31-member consortium
composed of private colleges and universities, including Dartmouth, whose
mission includes helping member institutions remain accessible and affordable
for students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.
David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner 1978 Professor of
Economics, was recently offered an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from
his alma mater, the University of Leicester, in recognition of his contribution
to economics. Blanchflower has taught at Dartmouth since 1989, serving as chair
of economics from 1998 to 2000 and as associate dean of the faculty for the
social sciences from 2000 to 2001. He was also recently appointed to the Bank
of England's Monetary Policy Committee. The degree will be conferred in July
2007.
Colin Calloway, professor of history, Samson Occom
Professor of Native American Studies, and Native American Studies
program chair, will serve as the general editor for a new series of books on
Native American history. In July 2007 the Penguin Group will launch the Penguin
Library of American Indian History with two titles, The Shawnee and the War
for America and The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears.
Penguin currently plans to publish at least eight titles. Calloway has taught
at the College since 1990 and has published numerous books and articles on the
history of Native Americans. His current research focuses on a study of the
comparative experiences and interactions of highland Scots and Native
Americans.
The Dartmouth Medical
School (DMS) Urban Scholars program was recently
awarded $25,000 by
The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation. The Urban Scholars program
provides opportunities for DMS students to gain experience working in urban
areas. It is modeled after DMS's successful Rural Scholars program. Plans for
Urban Scholars include sending DMS students to work with Boston Health Care for
the Homeless, neighborhood clinics, and other venues for underserved
populations in Boston and Manchester, Mass. The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Foundation promotes health and prevents disease through community service,
medical education, and research.
Jody Diamond, senior lecturer in the Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies (AMES) program and the music department has been awarded a
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Fellowship for 2007-2008 to prepare and publish annotated performance editions
of the gamelan music of American composer Lou Harrison. Diamond also received
an NEH fellowship in 1991. The NEH awarded the $40,000 grant as part of its
Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars program. Diamond has
taught at Dartmouth since 1990 and is currently teaching Global Music and a new
performance lab in Indonesian Gamelan. She also regularly teaches History and
Culture of Indonesia in the AMES program.
Hany Farid, Carl Pomerance, and
Dan Rockmore will present this month at the annual meeting of
the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. AAAS is an international nonprofit
organization dedicated to advancing science around the world. Farid is an
associate professor of computer science and will speak on "Digital
Forensics" as part of the symposium "New Mathematical Methods in the
Visual Arts." Rockmore is the John G. Kemeny Professor in Mathematics and
will serve as organizer for the same symposium while speaking on "Digital
Stylometry." Pomerance is a professor of mathematics and will speak on
"Primal Screens" as part of the symposium "Prime Numbers: New
Developments on Ancient Problems."
Kenneth R. French, the Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt
Professor of Finance at the Tuck
School of Business, has been elected president of the American Finance Association (AFA) for 2007.
He was also chair of the AFA's annual meeting held in January. The AFA, which
publishes the Journal of Finance, is the premier academic organization
devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about financial economics.
French, whose research focuses on empirical estimates of the cross-section of
expected stock returns, the cost of capital, dividend policy, and capital
structure, teaches the popular Investments course that nearly half of all
second-year Tuck students elected to take last fall.
John A. Hall, professor and chair of sociology, has been
awarded a National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for 2007-2008 to prepare and publish An
Intellectual Biography of Ernest Andre Gellner. Gellner was a modern
polymath, at once philosopher, social anthropologist and liberal thinker, who
ended his career directing the Centre for the Study of Nationalism at the
Central European University in Prague. He died in 1995. The NEH awarded the
$40,000 grant as part of its Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent
Scholars program. Hall's research and teaching focus on nationalism, nation
states, comparative politics, European integration, political sociology, and
social theory.
Sergei Kan, professor of anthropology and Native
American Studies, is co-organizing a major conference of Native American
scholars in Sitka, Alaska, to be held in March. The conference, Sharing our
Knowledge: A Conference of Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian Tribes and Clans, will
feature presentations by over 90 Native and academic experts from the United
States and Canada. It is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation; the Southeast
Alaska Native Educators Association and the Sitka Tribe of Alaska are among its
sponsors. Kan specializes in Native American (particularly Native Alaskan)
ethnology and ethnohistory, the history of anthropology, and the anthropology
of death and dying.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, professor of philosophy and Hardy
Professor of Legal Studies, recently sat on a panel titled "The Legal,
Ethical, and Privacy Implications of Imaging" as part of an American Academy of Arts and Sciences
symposium, "Is There Science Underlying Truth Detection?",
held in Boston on Feb 2. The panel discussion focused on the legal and ethical
questions raised by the potential uses of brain imaging to detect lies.
Sinnot-Armstrong, who has worked previously on the moral implication of brain
scanning, is currently focusing his research on the legal ramifications of
rapidly evolving scanning technology.
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