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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...

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Dartmouth 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...

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A 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,...

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Kasich 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...

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DartmouthX 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...

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Nine 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...

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Society 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...

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'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...

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Foreign 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...

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Five 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...

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A 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...

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Faculty 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...

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Social 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...

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Inaugural 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...

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Daniel 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...

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Jeb 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...

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Video: 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...

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Dartmouth 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...

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Lee 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...

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Jake 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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