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Publisher to Deliver Dartmouth Library’s Stephen Harvard Lecture

On April 10, 2013 By

“Rural Vermont seems an unlikely place to find a commercial printer dedicated to impeccable design and the craft of book making,” notes the introduction of a new exhibition in the Baker Library Main Hall, “but it was in Lunenburg that Roderick Stinehour ’50 established one of the finest commercial printing houses in America.” The exhibition, [...]

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Greenways Marks 40 Years of Coeducation

On April 2, 2013 By

The innovation and dynamic contributions of women whose lives were changed by the transformation to coeducation at Dartmouth College in 1972 will be highlighted at the Greenways: Coming Home celebration over the weekend of April 5 to 7. “Forty years later,” President Carol Folt says, “Dartmouth alumnae have made an impact on virtually every academic [...]

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Dartmouth Professor Honors the Father of African Literature

On March 25, 2013 By

Ayo Coly has taught Chinua Achebe‘s Things Fall Apart in all of her courses since she began as an associate professor of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth six years ago, and she has found that nearly every one of her students read the book in high school. That is as clear a picture [...]

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New Alumni Trustee Elected to the Board of Trustees

On March 18, 2013 By

The Dartmouth College Board of Trustees has elected Mitchell Kurz ’73 as a new member of the Board following a nomination vote by Dartmouth’s alumni. He will join the Board on June 9, following Commencement ceremonies. The Board of Trustees has ultimate responsibility for the financial, administrative, and academic affairs of the College. Dartmouth alumni [...]

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The Lemurs: Our Primate Cousins Face Impending Doom

On March 11, 2013 By

“Splendid isolation” is what the British labeled their foreign policy in the late 19th century, and it is also how Kathleen Muldoon describes the island of Madagascar as the ancestral lemurs found it more than 65 million years ago. The 309,000-square-mile island was devoid of predators or any other animal life, and offered a wide [...]

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Dartmouth’s von Reyn Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

On March 3, 2013 By

In 2008, after seven years of efficacy testing on a tuberculosis vaccine on which he led development, C. Fordham (Ford) von Reyn ’67, Geisel ’69 received a phone call from the data and safety monitoring board that oversaw the study. They told von Reyn to stop the trial. “The vaccine has been shown to be [...]

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Challenging Assumptions About Health And Wealth Choices

On February 24, 2013 By

If you ask Professor Punam Anand Keller, who teaches social marketing at the Tuck School of Business and strategic health marketing in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program, to describe her work, she has a simple answer. Keller, the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management at Tuck, delivers the 25th Presidential [...]

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New Haitian Ensemble Shares Bill With Hop’s World Music Group

On February 17, 2013 By

Dartmouth’s World Music Percussion Ensemble will be joined by a new touring ensemble from Haiti for its winter concert, “Carnival Time—Hot, Hot, Hot!” on Friday, February 22, at 8 p.m., in the Hopkins Center’s Spaulding Auditorium. The concert features music of the season of Carnival, in which the Christian season of Lent merges with traditional [...]

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Dartmouth Professor Eric Fossum Elected To National Academy of Engineering

On February 11, 2013 By

Professor of Engineering Eric Fossum has been elected to The National Academy of Engineering (NAE)—a part of the National Academies, which includes the NAE, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the National Research Council (NRC). Fossum is professor of engineering at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and one [...]

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Seacoast Science Cafe Explores Lyme Disease, Lead Poisoning Feb. 13

On February 7, 2013 By

Durham, N.H. – Public health in New Hampshire is the subject of the next Seacoast Science Café at the Portsmouth Brewery Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, at 6 p.m. At the first in the spring series of cafes, University of New Hampshire professors Michael Palace and Rosemary Caron will discuss two health threats familiar to New [...]

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