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Volume XXVI • Issue 14
Sugar on
Snow
On a recent late-winter day, Dartmouth Organic Farm Manager Scott Stokoe,
Andy Rowles ’65, DMS ’72, and Peter Van Deventer ’08 selected prime sugar
maples in the farm’s hilly woodlands above the Connecticut River.
Update on
Administrative Initiatives
The College has implemented a number of changes to enhance communications
and establish procedures that better support institutional priorities.
Sutton Wins
Career Enhancement Fellowship
Craig Sutton, an assistant professor of mathematics who specializes in
differential geometry, has been awarded a prestigious research fellowship from
the Woodrow Wilson Foundation for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Portraitist
Kinstler to Speak
The Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment will present “A Conversation
with Everett Raymond Kinstler, Portrait Painter” on Tuesday, April 15, at 4:30
p.m. in Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall, moderated by Professor of Studio Art
Louise Hamlin, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Montgomery Fellows
program.
Library Seeks
Feedback with Survey
The Dartmouth Library invites faculty, staff, and students to participate
in a LibQUAL+ survey, a Web-based survey that will help the Library assess and
improve services.
Kudos
Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students
Daylight
Savings
A group of researchers, which includes faculty from Dartmouth, has
determined that organic nitrogen controls a genetic network in plants that
regulates both the plant’s nitrogen metabolism and its circadian clock.
The Roth
Center's First Decade
The Roth Center for Jewish Life will celebrate its 10th anniversary April
11 through 13, marking a milestone in its history as a gathering place for Jews
from Dartmouth and the wider Upper Valley community.
News
from the Board of Trustees
During its March meeting, the Board of Trustees made a preliminary
announcement about search plans for a successor to President James Wright, who
plans to step down in June 2009. Tuition, room, and board rates for academic
year 2008-09 were also set.
Hood
Opens Exhibition on Black Womanhood
This spring, the Hood Museum of Art opens a major traveling exhibition that
explores the historical roots of a charged icon in contemporary art—the black
female body.
Research
Awards
Dartmouth researchers were awarded $4.7 million during February, including
$2.6 million in new and competing awards.
Lambert ´90
Named Sustainability Coordinator
Kathy Fallon Lambert ’90, who is scheduled to take office in August 2008,
will help the College develop a strategy to integrate sustainability principles
and practices into Dartmouth’s operations and culture.
Lynd Named to
Queneau Chair at Thayer School
Professor of Engineering Lee Lynd has been appointed to Thayer School’s
Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professorship in Environmental
Engineering Design.
Healing What
Ails Us
Remarks by Joseph F. O’Donnell, senior advising dean and director of
Community Programs, professor of medicine, and professor of psychiatry,
Dartmouth Medical School
Informatics
Grand Rounds
John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center, and the Harvard Clinical Research Institute will inaugurate a regular
series of Informatics Grand Rounds with a lecture on “Connecting Patients,
Providers, and Payers.”
Another
kind of spring break
Spring break isn’t what it used to be – and for many Dartmouth students, that’s
a good thing in every sense of the word.
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