Olmert Examines Peace, the Arab Spring in Dartmouth Address
Posted On Sunday, November 10, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: campus, Daniel Benjamin, Ehud Olmert, Events, Global, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who many say came as close as any politician to a peace agreement with the Palestinians, welcomes the opportunity to outline his thoughts on the prospects for peace amid the Arab Spring in an address at Dartmouth, “where so many heads of state and ...
Historic Climate Conference Comes East for the First Time
Posted On Saturday, November 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Environmental Protection Agency, Onondaga nation, Oren Lyons, SUNY College of Environmental Science, U.S. Geological Survey
Tribal college faculty and students, government officials, and researchers from around the country will come to Dartmouth next week for an Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Working Group conference, hosted by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. The Working Group is a tribal college- and university-centered network of organizations ...
International Economist Is Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Posted On Saturday, October 26, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Department of Economics, Economics, Michael Mastanduno, Robert W. Staiger, Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Steven Roth
Robert W. Staiger, an expert in global trade and international economics and the Stockwell Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth for the current academic year.
Staiger researches international trade and the policies, institutions, and behavior of firms that manage, regulate, ...
Students Join Tsunami Clean-up Effort While Studying Abroad in Japan
Posted On Saturday, October 19, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Dartmouth students, earthquake broke, Faculty, Global, James Dorsey, Language Study Abroad, Students
Dartmouth students capped a term of language study in Japan with a week of volunteer service tackling the lingering effects of the March 11, 2011, earthquake.
Accompanied by Associate Professor of Japanese Jim Dorsey, who led the Dartmouth Language Study Abroad program in Tokyo during summer term 2013, the eight students ...
Geisel School of Medicine Board Member Wins Nobel Prize
Posted On Friday, October 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Geisel School of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine Board of Overseers, Health, Medicine, Nobel Prize, Randy Schekman
Randy Schekman, a member of the Geisel School of Medicine Board of Overseers, was selected this week as a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2013.
In addition to serving on the Geisel Board, Schekman is a professor of cell and developmental biology in the Department of ...
Neukom Fellow Probes Ancient Lives With High-Tech Tools
Posted On Friday, October 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: electrical-resistance meters, Jason Herrmann, Neukom Fellow, Saruq al-Hadid, Zincirli Höyük
Jason Herrmann is a wizard of sorts—an electronic archaeologist. Herrmann’s is the face of the modern archaeologist, revealing the relics of ancient peoples without even planting a shovel in the dirt. The tools of remote sensing—ground-penetrating radar, orbital satellites, magnetometers, and electrical-resistance meters—are his stock in trade.
Herrmann came to Dartmouth ...
President Hanlon Announces Founding of Student Innovation Center
Posted On Thursday, September 26, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator, Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer, Office of Public Affairs, Philip J. Hanlon, Students
In his inaugural address on September 20, President Phil Hanlon ’77 announced the founding of the Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator for Dartmouth students. The new center will provide flexible work space and an environment where students have access to the resources, connections, experiences, and capital to put ideas ...
Geisel Researchers to Establish HIV-TB Research Institute
Posted On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: C. Fordham von Reyn, Geisel School of Medicine, Global, grant, Health, Research
Researchers from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have been awarded a five-year, $1.4 million grant from the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a first-of-its-kind, HIV-TB-specific research institute in East Africa.
The award helps continue Dartmouth’s successful DarDar programs, which have built ...
Inaugural King Scholars Arrive From Across the Globe
Posted On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Alumni, campus, International, Keith Chapman, Robert E. King, Robert King, Scholarships, Students
In 2012, Dorothy and Robert King ’57 gave $14.7 million to Dartmouth to help address the problem of global poverty by establishing a scholarship program for exceptional students from developing countries.
“We’re not interested in naming buildings,” Robert King said at the time. “We’re interested in people who can make a ...
Fast-Food Ads Aimed at Kids Focus on Toys, Not Food (Philly.com)
Posted On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Faculty, Geisel School of Medicine, Health, James Sargent, Research
According to a new study led by James Sargent, a professor of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine and co-director of the Cancer Control Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center, fast food television advertisements aimed at children focus more on toys, movies, and giveaways than on food, reports ...
Professor Builds Bridges Across Disciplines and Cultures
Posted On Monday, August 26, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Angela Parker, Environmental Studies Program, Native American Studies Program, Professor Nick Reo
Growing up the son of working class parents outside of Detoit, Professor Nick Reo says he didn’t envision a career in academia. In fact, he had little idea of what he wanted to do after high school.
“It was mow lawns, wash dishes, or go to school,” says Reo.
He chose the ...
Dartmouth-Led Team Receives NSF Health Care Cybersecurity Grant
Posted On Monday, August 19, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Geisel School of Medicine, grant, Institute for Security Technology and Society, Lisa Marsch, National Science Foundation, Research
Dartmouth has been awarded a $10-million, five-year grant from the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support research into ways of safeguarding the confidentiality of personal health and medical information as these records make the transition from paper files to electronic systems.
David Kotz, Dartmouth’s ...
As he rose to prominence in Washington, Rudman never forgot his Nashua roots, friends say
Posted On Sunday, August 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Boston College Law School, Chester Street, Gerry Nash, University in New York, Warren Rudman
NASHUA – Warren Rudman’s name may front the federal court building in Concord, but even in death, Rudman’s heart remains in Nashua, according to friends and colleagues.
The former U.S. senator was born in Boston, and he died Monday night in Washington, D.C. But he was raised in Nashua, in a ...
Experts Discuss the “Dark Side of the Digital Revolution”
Posted On Saturday, August 3, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Bonnie Barber, ILEAD, Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth, Lecture, Rand Beers, Richard A. Clarke, Video
Cyber espionage and the threat of a cyber war are two of the biggest challenges facing the U.S. government and American corporations, said Under Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Protection and Programs Directorate Rand Beers ’64, and international security expert and author Richard A. Clarke, during ...
Heavenly Science: Student Balloons Video Earth Below, Space Above
Posted On Saturday, July 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Coe-Brown Northwood Academy, Londonderry High School, SMART mentors, Timberlane, University of New Hampshire
DURHAM, N.H. –– High school students and their University of New Hampshire Project SMART mentors successfully flew twin weather balloons that carried miniaturized scientific payloads designed to measure cosmic rays and environmental parameters and captured images of Earth from nearly 100,000 feet up at the edge of outer space.
Launched from ...
‘Courageous Moral Leadership’: A Message From James Tengatenga
Posted On Saturday, July 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Anglican Consultative Council, Episcopal Church, James Tengatenga, Office of Public Affairs, University of Malawi, William Jewett Tucker Foundation
On July 16, Dartmouth announced the appointment of James Tengatenga, diocesan bishop of Southern Malawi and chair of the Worldwide Anglican Communion’s Anglican Consultative Council, as the Virginia Rice Kelsey ’61s Dean of the Tucker Foundation.
Churches—including the Anglican Church—have struggled with issues concerning gay rights. Here, Dartmouth Now shares a message ...
Jodie Mack: Searching for Questions Rather Than Answers
Posted On Saturday, July 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Arts, Department of Film and Media Studies, Faculty, Jodie Mack, Research
Jodie Mack is a whirlwind. She blew into a Hanover restaurant for an interview about her research and recent exhibit at the Hopkins Center, “No Kill Shelter,” with a burst of energy. Mack is an assistant professor of film and media studies, teaching animation theory and history. The show was ...
Arizona Wildfire Tragedy Echos Montana’s Mann Gulch
Posted On Friday, July 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Alumni, Donald Pease, Faculty, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Norman Maclean
Many fire companies will display tributes in Fourth of July parades this year to the 19 young men killed June 30, 2013, in Arizona fighting the Yarnell Hill wildfire.
Firefighters, very much a part of our civic celebration of independence, are ever mindful of the sacrifice of their own. And in ...
