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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