Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff and students
Andrew
Bernard, Jack Byrne Professor of International Economics and
senior associate director of the Center for International
Business at the Tuck School of
Business, has been appointed independent director on the National Stock
Exchange Inc.'s (NSX) Board of Directors. NSX is the nation's first
all-electronic stock exchange and a cost-effective provider of exchange
services. Professor Bernard has been on the Tuck faculty since 1999, and is
internationally renowned for his research in international trade and
investment. He is a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic
Research, as well as for the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, the Centre
for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and the Industrial
Performance Center at MIT.
Dartmouth College
Library's Search360 database search
system was recognized at the 2007 American
Library Association Midwinter Meeting with the WebFeat President's Award
for Innovation. Library Communications and Web Manager Mary LaMarca, who
accepted the award, co-chaired the Library WebFeat Implementation Team with
Reinhart Sonnenburg, reference bibliographer for German, classics, linguistics,
and humanities. The Library introduced WebFeat's federated database search
system to Dartmouth as Search360. A federated search system allows users to
efficiently search multiple article indexes at once. WebFeat and the Library
worked together to incorporate security and access features into Search360 via
the Shibboleth software system. The Library has also integrated Search 360 into
Blackboard, Dartmouth's course-management system, and developed
subject-targeted Search360 "Quick-search" boxes in the Biomedical,
Feldberg, and Kresge Library Web pages. More databases and subject categories
will be added during spring term.
Christian
Wolff, the Strauss Professor of Music emeritus and professor of
classics emeritus, was recently honored by The Wire, an independent, monthly
music magazine based in London. The Wire chose Wolff's CD, titled
ten exercises, as one of the 50 best records of the year for 2006. The
music on the CD is part of a set of pieces for various freely chosen
instruments and is usually performed by two to eight players. The recording
also includes performances by Larry
Polansky, who is the current holder of the Jacob H. Strauss Professorship
in Music. The CD was made possible by a Mellon Foundation grant, which supports
work by emeriti professors. Says Wolff, "I'm pleased that it was chosen by
The Wire to be among its best 50 of last year, because those 50
include every kind of music-pop, jazz, classical, world, etc. In fact, my CD is
among maybe just three or four others in the classical category."
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