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Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students

John Butterly, associate professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, received the Medical Staff Award for outstanding service to hospital and community from the New Hampshire Hospital Association in September. Butterly is a cardiologist and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's (DHMC) executive medical director. He is chairman of DHMC's Business Ethics Task Force and serves on more than 16 DHMC committees that are focused on enhancing various aspects of quality and the delivery of patient care. He is also a committed advocate for medical malpractice reform.

The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) has been selected by the Carnegie Foundation to participate in a three-year partnership to improve undergraduate and graduate education. DCAL will now be a part of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning's new initiative called the Institutional Leadership Program. DCAL's group is focused on the theme of "Building Scholarly Campus Communities," and partners in this group include Ohio State University, Kwantlen University College, Queen's University, Ryerson University, Southeast Missouri State University, and the University of Glasgow.

Larry Polansky, Jacob Strauss Professor of Music, has been awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. The six fellowships awarded this year recognized artistic excellence and professional commitment as judged by peers in each artist's field. Polansky has taught at the College since 1990 and is currently chair of the Music Department and codirector of the Bregman Electronic Music Studio. His teaching interests include electro-acoustic music, computer music, theory, and composition. The award will allow Polansky and composer Daniel Goode to complete a major electro-acoustic/instrumental work titled Eine Kleine Gamelan Computer Music. He has also received the inaugural Henry Cowell Award and a Barlow Commission for a large new computer-composed work for two pianos and has been nominated for the prestigious Alpert Award in composition.

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