In Their Own Words

New podcasts from Dartmouth voices

Project Preservation

Since 2002, the Tucker Foundation and Dartmouth College Hillel have coordinated student trips to Europe to restore Jewish cemeteries long neglected in once-thriving Jewish communities. The small groups have visited Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine. In this podcast, Edward Boraz, the Michael Steinberg ’61 Rabbi of Dartmouth College Hillel and the rabbi for the Upper Valley Jewish Community, talks about these annual trips and the impact they have on students and on the villages they visit.

The Hop as a Center of Creativity

Margaret Lawrence, director of programming at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, says that the Hop is a multidisciplinary arts presenter and a center of creativity on campus. In this podcast, she describes the many activities at the Hop and also talks about what’s on the minds of arts presenters around the country.

The Rockefeller Center

Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center is celebrating two milestones this year—the center turns 25, and it’s also the centennial of Nelson Rockefeller ’30’s birth. In this podcast, Andrew Samwick, professor of economics and director of the Rockefeller Center, reflects on Rockefeller’s career and the activities at his eponymous center.

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