Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff and students
Two Dartmouth students won first prizes at a recent film festival for works
by New England college and university students. Deus ex Plume, an
animated film by Adam Belanich '08, with a score by
Charlie DeTar, a student in the graduate program in
electro-acoustic music, placed first in the categories of "Best
Animation" and "Best Music" at the 4th Annual SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University in March. The film,
which contemplates God and the difference between spirituality and religion,
was created as a final project for an animation class taught by David Ehrlich,
visiting professor of film and television studies. Belanich estimates that he
produced about 1,000 drawings—on paper and overhead transparencies—to complete
the 3:49-minute project.
George Brothers, turf manager in the Facilities, Operations and Management
(FO&M) grounds department, was named the 2006 Sports Turf Manager of the
year by the New England Regional Turfgrass
Foundation. An employee at Dartmouth for 10 years, Brothers maintains the
turf on all of Dartmouth's athletic fields and lawns. He was chosen by
Turfgrass "for his work ethic and commitment to the fields under his care
so as to provide a safe playable field at all times," according to the
organization. "Brothers has provided Dartmouth with high-quality athletic
fields and manicured grounds," reads the award. He provides "the best
possible playing surfaces for all to enjoy."
Colin
Calloway, professor of history and Samson Occom Professor of
Native American Studies, received the annual book award from the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of
New York for his book, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the
Transformation of North America. The Society is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to preserving the history of the establishment of the colonies of
America. Publisher's Weekly said The Scratch of a Pen was
"A spellbinding tale of a year in American history" in a review on
the Oxford University Press Web site. Calloway will be honored by the society
during an event in New York City this spring.
Allen
Dietrich, professor of community and family medicine, has joined
the U.S. Preventive Services
Task Force, the nation's leading panel for prevention and primary care.
Dietrich is also associate director for population sciences at the Norris Cotton Cancer
Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of
Sciences, and chair of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Initiative on Depression and Primary Care. Previous task force recommendations
have included screening for obesity, prostate and cervical cancer, and
abdominal aortic aneurysm; the use of aspirin to prevent heart disease;
vitamins to prevent cancer and heart disease; and hormone therapy.
For his 787-page book, The Columbia History of Twentieth Century
French, Lawrence
D. Kritzman received the Ray and Pat Browne Book Award for the
Best Reference Work for 2006. Kritzman is the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor
of French and Italian and professor of comparative literature. The book was
chosen by the Philadelphia Inquirer as one of the best oversized books
of 2006. In a review on the Columbia University Press Web site, Peter Brooks of
the University of Virginia called it a "wonderfully eclectic and
astonishingly comprehensive volume." Kritzman also recently received a
grant from the Cultural Services of the French Government in Washington for the
Institute of French Cultural Studies.
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