Dartmouth Research Adds Detail to the Climate Picture
Anyone who travels on the highways of Northern New England is well aware of how much temperature and precipitation can vary from hilltop to valley. Now a Dartmouth-led research team has scaled down...
View ArticleOlivia Sacks ’10, Geisel ’19, Changing the Narrative
Read the full story by Susan Green, published by the Geisel News Center.When Olivia Sacks ’19 was 4 years old, she announced her professional intentions to her parents—she wanted to deliver babies....
View ArticleProfessor Christopher Sneddon Wins 2016 Meridian Book Award
Professor Christopher Sneddon has won the prestigious 2016 Meridian Book Award, presented by the Association of American Geographers (AAG) for Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics and...
View ArticleTrekking, Mapping, and Blogging Along China’s Great Wall
The Great Wall in northern China is attracting more and more tourists every year. That’s the good news and the bad news about the longest man-made structure in the world, says Oliver Engelhart ’18, who...
View ArticleGeisel Students Find Their ‘Match’
Read the full story by Susan Green, published by The Geisel News Center.Spirits were high as graduating medical students and their friends and family gathered to celebrate Match Day 2016. One of the...
View ArticleGeisel Introduces New Department of Medical Education
Read the full story by Timothy Dean, published by the Geisel News CenterThe Geisel School of Medicine has announced the formation of a new Department of Medical Education, which was recently approved...
View ArticleTen Posse Veterans to Join Class of 2020
As more and more members of the armed forces end their military service and return to civilian life, Dartmouth is finding new ways to encourage them to seek higher education. The College has launched a...
View ArticleInnovation Center Creates ‘Playing Field’ for Start-Ups
On a recent evening, the DEN Innovation Center is full of people: students, faculty, alumni and community members, many with new ideas and high hopes. Jeff Crowe ’78 gives a high-octane presentation,...
View ArticleSugaring Season at the Organic Farm
Over spring break, students at the Dartmouth Organic Farm participated in a quintessential Northern New England tradition: maple sugaring.After collecting sap, students boil it in the sugarhouse at the...
View ArticleLee Mun Wah to Lead Discussions on Diversity
Lee Mun Wah, an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, storyteller, educator, community therapist, and diversity trainer, is coming to Dartmouth on Thursday,...
View ArticleDonnie Brooks Lands His Dream Job
The good news? Donald Brooks, who has served as Dartmouth’s assistant director of athletics for Peak Performance since 2011, has landed his dream job.The bad news (for his students and colleagues in...
View ArticleStudents Persuade Library of Congress to Drop the I-Word
Against steep odds, a small but persistent group of Dartmouth students has persuaded the Library of Congress to change the way it catalogs holdings that refer to noncitizens who have entered the United...
View ArticleArea Youth to Participate in Science Day at Dartmouth
Dartmouth graduate student organizers are gearing up for Science Day 2016, Saturday, which takes place April 9. This will be the fourth in a series of annual events that offer scientifically inclined...
View ArticleDartmouth Trip to Cuba Coincides With Historic Moments
During spring break, about a year after President Obama’s executive order re-opening cultural and commercial pathways to Cuba, a group of Dartmouth faculty and staff went to Havana to celebrate the...
View ArticleAngélique Kidjo and Her Band Return to the Hop
A Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, UN-appointed human rights activist and, more recently, author and actor, Angélique Kidjo and her band will return to the Hopkins Center for the Arts at 7 p.m. on...
View ArticleTerry Tempest Williams to Speak at Climate Change Conference
Environmental activist and author Terry Tempest Williams will be the keynote speaker at “Changing Climate, Changing Minds,” a Dartmouth conference taking place April 8 and 9 that will explore the...
View ArticleMellon Grant Supports Pilot Programs for Faculty Diversity
When the Office of the Provost released its report on faculty diversity and inclusion during winter term, it identified several areas in which Dartmouth seeks to increase minority representation on the...
View ArticleRabbi Daveen Litwin Named Tucker Center Dean and Chaplain
Rabbi Daveen Litwin has been named the inaugural dean and chaplain of the William Jewett Tucker Center for Spiritual Life, Vice Provost for Student Affairs Inge-Lise Ameer announced today.“I am...
View ArticleTwo Dartmouth Professors Win Guggenheim Awards
Cynthia Huntington, a professor of English and creative writing, and Darrin McMahon, the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor in the Department of history, have been awarded prestigious Guggenheim...
View ArticleJoRee LaFrance ’17 Preserves Native American Stories
Growing up on a ranch on the Crow reservation in Montana, surrounded by family—her mother, father, twin sister, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents—JoRee LaFrance ’17 knows the power of...
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