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 ...
Dartmouth Professor Honors the Father of African Literature
Posted On Monday, March 25, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: African and African American Studies, Ayo Coly, Chinua Achebe, Dartmouth Medical School, John Kemeny
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 ...
New Alumni Trustee Elected to the Board of Trustees
Posted On Monday, March 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Alumni, Association of Alumni, Board of Trustees, Elections, Mitchell H. Kurz, Stephen F. Mandel Jr
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 Lemurs: Our Primate Cousins Face Impending Doom
Posted On Monday, March 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Department of Anthropology, Geisel School of Medicine, IUCN, Madagascar, Splendid isolation
“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 ...
Dartmouth’s von Reyn Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Posted On Sunday, March 3, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Faculty, Geisel School of Medicine, International, Lisa Adams, Research, Tuberculosis
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 ...
Challenging Assumptions About Health And Wealth Choices
Posted On Sunday, February 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Business, Carol L. Folt, Faculty, Health, James O. Freedman, Office of the President, Paul Danos, Punam A. Keller, Tuck School of Business
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, ...
New Haitian Ensemble Shares Bill With Hop’s World Music Group
Posted On Sunday, February 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Arts, Events, Hopkins Center, International, Lakou Mizik, Music, Porter Foundation Symposium, World Music Percussion Ensemble
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 ...
Dartmouth Professor Eric Fossum Elected To National Academy of Engineering
Posted On Monday, February 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Awards, Engineering, Eric R. Fossum, Faculty, Ph.D. Innovation Program, Thayer School of Engineering
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 ...
Seacoast Science Cafe Explores Lyme Disease, Lead Poisoning Feb. 13
Posted On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Earth System Research Center, Lyme Disease, New Hampshire, Seacoast Science Café
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 ...
Dartmouth’s 102nd Winter Carnival Kicks Off February 7
Posted On Monday, February 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Alex Welton ’14, Dartmouth Winter Carnival, jazz ensemble performance, Mandy Bowers ’14, Oak Hill, Occom Pond, Skiway
With the cold weather and short days, Michael Perlstein ’14 says, this is the time of year when students get immersed in schoolwork—and overlook something important.
“We forget the amazing place we’re living in,” says Perlstein. “Carnival helps us remember that.”
The 102nd annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival will take place February 7 ...
Did Lucy Walk On The Ground Or Stay In The Trees?
Posted On Friday, February 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Faculty, International, Joseph Blumberg, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Research, Science
Much has been made of our ancestors “coming down out of the trees,” and many researchers view terrestrial bipedalism as the hallmark of “humanness.” After all, most of our living primate relatives—the great apes, specifically—still spend their time in the trees. Humans are the only members of the family devoted ...
Chemistry In Action Transcends The Classroom
Posted On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Chemistry, F. Jon Kull, Faculty, Joseph Blumberg, Research, Roger Sloboda, Science, Students
With a pyrotechnic demonstration, Professor F. Jon Kull ’88 initiates students into the mysteries of chemistry while simultaneously engaging, educating, and entertaining them. Kull presented the show as part of “Biology/Chemistry 9,” a course he and Roger Sloboda teach that is a combination of introductory chemistry and biology. This is ...
Dartmouth Students Get A Taste of Foreign Relations Through Crisis Simulation
Posted On Monday, January 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Daryl Press, famine, Great Issues Scholars, political standoffs, refugees, War and Peace Fellows
Dartmouth students recently got a glimpse of what a collapse of the North Korean government might look like: famine, thousands of refugees, and political standoffs.
Not to mention one other concern: “about a dozen nuclear weapons somewhere in the north—which might become ‘loose nukes’ when the regime collapses,” says Daryl Press, ...
Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive Plays Host To Rare Recordings
Posted On Thursday, January 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Alexander Hartov, Archives, Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive, Faculty, Hebrew studies, Keith Chapman, Lewis Glinert
Radio broadcasts from Israel’s Independence Day in 1962. A children’s choral group singing folk songs in Fes, Morocco, in the 1940s. A 1951 address by the Israeli Prime Minister at a Jewish college in Massachusetts. These are just a few of the sounds housed in the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive ...
Professor Donald E. Pease to Debate at The Renowned Oxford Union Society
Posted On Sunday, January 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Adrian Randolph, Debate, Donald E. Pease, Faculty, International, Keith Chapman, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Oxford Union Society
When Professor Donald E. Pease taught at Oxford more than a decade ago, he often strolled past the gothic buildings of the Oxford Union Society. But he didn’t imagine he would ever speak in the chambers that have hosted Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa, and Gandhi.
“It came to me as a ...
Unique Partnership Between Dartmouth And Kosovo Pays Dividends For Students
Posted On Friday, January 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: American University of Kosovo, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Ferid Agani, Geisel School of Medicine, Health, International, Students
“It was like a window opening up,” says Dafina Pruthi, Adv’10, about her 2002 visit to Dartmouth as a medical exchange student from Kosovo, the small, ethnically Albanian nation that was once part of Yugoslavia. “It gave us an opportunity to observe very high-quality medical care. It truly gave us ...
Sculptor Sabrina Yegela ’13 Explores Art And Identity
Posted On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Arts, Department of Studio Art, Economics, Green at Dartmouth, International, Sabrina Yegela, Students
This story was originally published in the Dartmouth College Fund’s Fall 2012 issue of “GREEN at Dartmouth.”
Sabrina Yegela ’13, came to Dartmouth from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, excited to study studio art and economics. She talks to GREEN at Dartmouth about how she uses sculpture to help her explore issues ...
Dartmouth Leads Research On Digital Information Management
Posted On Sunday, January 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, digital age, Duke University, Ellen Waite-Franzen, Jeffrey Horrell
In the ever-evolving digital age, academic institutions have to make important decisions about records and information storage: What university records should be archived? How long should they be kept? Who should have access to them?
Thanks to support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dartmouth is a leader in finding answers ...
