Applications Are in for the Class of 2020
The number of students applying to Dartmouth has held steady this year. The Admissions Office announced today it has received 20,550 applications for the Class of 2020. This year’s figure is within 1...
View ArticleDartmouth Mourns Death of Doctoral Student Scott Smedinghoff
Scott Smedinghoff, remembered by his colleagues as a brilliant mathematician and a gifted pianist, died suddenly at his Lebanon, N.H., home last week. He was 28.Scott Smedinghoff performs during the...
View ArticleA Memorial Service for Tate Ramsden ’17
At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, the Dartmouth community is invited to celebrate the life of Tate Ramsden ’17, who died suddenly last month while on vacation with his family in Florida.Friends,...
View ArticleKasich Returns to Dartmouth as GOP Primary Heats Up
Speaking at the Tuck School of Business Monday, Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich highlighted his work balancing budgets as a U.S. congressman and as governor of Ohio, saying that a knack for...
View ArticleDartmouthX Course Connects Communities Through Literature
In July 1838, when Dartmouth students invited Ralph Waldo Emerson to speak on the subject of “Literary Ethics,” he was no canonical figure—more of an outsider to the academy who had recently caused a...
View ArticleNine Professors Honored With Faculty Awards
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences recognized nine members of the faculty for their outstanding work as scholars, teachers, and mentors in 2015.“These colleagues exemplify what we mean when we say...
View ArticleSociety of Fellows: Sharing Research, Finding Common Ground
A select group of postdoctoral scholars from across the country are on campus as members of the first-ever Society of Fellows at Dartmouth. They are sharing their expertise in timely topics such as...
View Article'White Teeth' Author Zadie Smith to Speak
The daughter of a Jamaican mother and an English father, novelist Zadie Smith writes stories about people who straddle different cultures and ideologies, from Bangladeshi immigrants in London to...
View ArticleForeign Study on an Upswing With New Locations
Adventurers who want to take full advantage of Dartmouth might want to bring their passports: More than half the students study abroad before they graduate. And as demand for international learning...
View ArticleFive New DartmouthX Courses Announced
With topics ranging from an examination of the materials that go into modern sports equipment to the nature of reality itself, five new DartmouthX courses will begin production in 2016 and 2017. They...
View ArticleA Next-Day Conversation About Iowa
With only a few days remaining before Iowa holds its first-in-the-nation caucuses, presidential hopefuls are making their final push for grassroots support. At Dartmouth, the results are being closely...
View ArticleFaculty Panel Discusses the Teaching of 'Black Lives Matter'
It was an experimental course that “put Dartmouth on the map for all the right reasons,” Richard Wright, the Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs and a professor of geography, told a crowd in...
View ArticleSocial Justice Award Honorees Share Insights at Ceremony
By Joni B. Cole“Why is freedom ruled by our birth?”Dartmouth’s all-female a capella group, the Rockapellas, helped kick off yesterday’s 15th annual Social Justice Awards ceremony with a performance...
View ArticleInaugural Grants Bring Research Closer to Aiding Patients
Read the full story by Jennifer Durgin, published Jan. 26 by the Geisel School of Medicine.In 1987, three Dartmouth Medical School scientists cofounded a successful biotech company, Medarex, based on...
View ArticleDaniel Rockmore on the Beauty and Topicality of Math
By Kathryn StearnsThis Focus on Faculty Q&A is part of a series of interviews exploring what keeps Dartmouth professors busy inside—and outside—the classroom.“In today’s quantified world, people...
View ArticleJeb Bush Tells Hanover Crowd He Will Rise in New Hampshire
Calling the New Hampshire primary a “reset button” for presidential campaigns, Jeb Bush held a detailed policy discussion with voters in Hanover Tuesday, the day after finishing in the lower tier of...
View ArticleVideo: Dartmouth Students Size Up Potential Presidents
Video of Dartmouth Students Size Up Potential PresidentsEvery four years, Dartmouth students get an early look at the field of Republican and Democratic candidates for president in the run-up to the...
View ArticleDartmouth Launches Initiative for Inclusive Excellence
The College today announced the creation of three linked working groups to review existing efforts to foster greater diversity among Dartmouth’s faculty, staff, and student body, and to propose ways to...
View ArticleLee Coffin to Lead Enrollment, Admissions, and Financial Aid
Lee Coffin, dean of undergraduate admissions and enrollment management for Tufts University, has been appointed to the newly created position of vice provost for enrollment and dean of admissions and...
View ArticleJake Tapper ’91 Views the Primary from the Green Friday
CNN anchor Jake Tapper '91 will interview students and possibly some presidential candidates live from the Green Friday, Feb. 5, for his show, The Lead with Jake Tapper.Jake Tapper ’91, a former...
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