Dartmouth Alumni Council Nominates Trustee Candidate
Posted On Sunday, November 4, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Alumni, Board of Trustees, Mitchell Kurz, Trustee, Vox the Vote
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Kurz is a leading education advocate who serves as treasurer of the Harlem Children'e2'80'99s Zone and academic dean of the Bronx Center for Science and Math. A retired president of Young & ...
UNH Closes Oct. 29 and 30 in Anticipation of Hurricane Sandy
Posted On Thursday, November 1, 2012 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Durham campus, Hurricane Sandy, travel safely, UNH campus
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DURHAM, N.H. -- University officials have announced that the Durham campus will be closed (curtailed operations, only essential personnel) Monday, Oct. 29, and Tuesday, Oct. 30, in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy'e2'80'99s impact on the area. While weather models and forecast are still not certain, the anticipated scope and the severity ...
Dorfsman-Hopkins ’13 Is Dartmouth’s Prize-Winning Math Wizard
Posted On Monday, October 29, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Awards, Gabriel D. Dorfsman-Hopkins, Mathematics, Students
When Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins ’13 headed for a summer research program at the University of California, Berkeley, he didn’t know he would return home a prize winner.
The son of two University of New Hampshire professors, Dorfsman-Hopkins enrolled in Dartmouth’s Comparative Literature Program. He became a fellow in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship ...
Welcome Home: Dartmouth Night and Homecoming 2012
Posted On Friday, October 19, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Dartmouth Night, Events, Harry Sheehy, Homecoming, Martha J. Beattie, Maya E. Herm, Office of Alumni Relations, Patrick M. Lahey, Students
The Baker Bell Tower will be green next weekend for Homecoming 2012, October 26 through 28.
Some of Dartmouth’s most cherished traditions—the parade, bonfire, and football game—as well as a slate of intellectual and cultural activities, will take place in Hanover.
“Homecoming weekend is an important touchstone for many alumni,” says Vice ...
Dartmouth Professor Cynthia Huntington, Louise Erdrich ’76 Are National Book Award Finalists
Posted On Thursday, October 18, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE
Dartmouth Professor Cynthia Huntington received a phone call last week from the National Book Foundation informing her that Heavenly Bodies, her most recent book of poetry, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Huntington was also given special instructions: She could not tell anyone about the news until the official announcement the following day.
So ...
Professor Bafumi to Answer Questions About the Presidential Debates
Posted On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Faculty, Government, Joseph Bafumi, Multimedia, Politics, Video
“If there is a winner, it may be determined less by the candidates’ debate performance and more by the media coverage the debate receives afterward,” said Dartmouth’s Joseph Bafumi before the first of the 2012 presidential debates.
The associate professor of government also told Dartmouth Now what each candidate’s goals should be ...
August Carlson Surprised By $25,000 Milken Educator Award
Posted On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Commissioner Virginia Barry, Educator Awards result, Milken Educator Award
Dubbed “the Oscars of teaching” by Teacher Magazine, the Milken Educator Awards were conceived by Milken Family Foundation Chairman and Co-Founder Lowell Milken, to recognize the importance of outstanding educators and encourage talented young people to enter teaching. By honoring outstanding educators, the program strives to celebrate, elevate and activate ...
Dartmouth Puts Visual Arts Front and Center (Valley News)
Posted On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Amy Lawrence, Arts, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Carol L. Folt, Colleen Randall, Crouching Spider, Dartmouth Panels
The Valley News reports that early reviews of the new Black Family Visual Arts Center and neighboring Maffei Arts Plaza are “beyond favorable.” The latest additions to Dartmouth’s Arts District are making visual art “a more universal topic of conversation,” the newspaper says.
The Visual Arts Center houses all studio arts at Dartmouth under one ...
The Forgotten 1% (Huffington Post)
Posted On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: History, James E. Wright, Politics, Veterans
While the current political campaigns include debates about tax cuts for the nation’s wealthiest population—the top 1 percent—writes Dartmouth President Emeritus James Wright, there is another 1 percent being ignored—veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Less noticed, this same ratio of privilege also describes, although reversed, those who fight ...
Two Paths Through Dartmouth Meet in a U.S. Senate Race (The New York Times)
Posted On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Alumni, Kirsten Gillibrand, Politics, Wendy E. Long
Two women who are running against each other for the United States Senate in New York have vastly different political views and world views, reports The New York Times, but the same alma mater: Dartmouth. The two, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88 and challenger Wendy E. Long ’82, entered Dartmouth in the ...
Dartmouth Professor Leads Research on Enslaved Potter’s Writings
Posted On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: ceramics studio, Chaney’s book projec, David Drake, Michael Chaney
Dartmouth Professor Michael Chaney believes one of the most important writers of early African-American texts might not have considered himself a writer at all—but rather, a potter.
Chaney is editing a book of essays that focus on the literature of David Drake—also known as Dave the Potter—an enslaved potter who inscribed poems into ...
Igniting Imagination
Posted On Saturday, October 6, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Alumni, Arts, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Events, Hopkins Center, Year of the Arts
Actor and comedian Aisha Tyler ’92 hosts a multimedia show, “Igniting Imagination—A Salute to the Hop’s 50 Years!,” of inspirational music, theater, and dance by distinguished guests, Dartmouth student artists, faculty, and alumni on October 12 as part of the Hopkins Center for the Arts’ 50th anniversary celebration. The show ...
Scientists Create Fertile Eggs From Mouse Stem Cells (NPR)
Posted On Saturday, October 6, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Faculty, Research, Ronald M. Green, Science
On NPR’s All Things Considered, Ronald M. Green, the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Dartmouth, says a report that Japanese scientists have created eggs from stem cells in a mammal and have bred healthy offspring from the eggs evokes some concern.
“Any skin cell ...
Is Twitter Good for Democracy? (BBC News Magazine)
Posted On Saturday, October 6, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Brendan J. Nyhan, Department of Government, Faculty, Journalism, Politics, Society
Assistant Professor of Government Brendan Nyhan signed off of his Twitter account during the October 3 presidential debate, he told BBC News Magazine. “I think it is too easy to be influenced by other people’s reactions, especially for something as subjective as a presidential debate,” he says.
“The political science take on debates is ...
The E.E. Just Symposium: A Success in Physics and Beyond
Posted On Saturday, October 6, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Astronomy, E.E. Just Program, E.E. Just Symposium, Ernest Everett Just, Events, Marcelo Gleiser, Physics, Research, Science, Stephon Alexander, Sylvester James Gates Jr
The E.E. Just Symposium was a special kind of conference. Over three days—September 27-29, 2012—eminent physicists, astronomers, and others discussed the state of their scholarly and experimental work. Scientists and students in standing-room-only sessions shared the enthusiasm of the speakers as they heard about scientific theory, historical developments, and what ...
Dartmouth Symposium to Celebrate Achievement (Union Leader)
Posted On Friday, October 5, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Gordon Ferrie Hull, Miles P. Blencowe, Physics, Pressure of Light Symposium, Research, Wilder Physical Laboratory
In the early 1900s, at Dartmouth’s Wilder Physical Laboratory, professors Ernest Fox Nichols and Gordon Ferrie Hull recorded the first accurate measurements of the radiation pressure of light, notes the Union Leader.
On October 5 and 6, Dartmouth’s “Pressure of Light Symposium” will recognize the groundbreaking achievement of Nichols and Hull and celebrate the ...
Dartmouth Film and Media Studies Professor Directs Documentary About Pilobolus
Posted On Friday, October 5, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Alumni, Department of Film and Media Studies, Events, Faculty, film, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, Pilobolus, Students
In June 2010, when Pilobolus staged the world premiere of its latest dance piece,Hapless Hooligan in “Still Moving,” in the Hopkins Center for the Arts’ Moore Theater, Jeffrey Ruoff’s cameras were rolling.
Jeffrey Ruoff has directed several films, including the documentary Hacklebarney Tunes: The Music of Greg Brown. (photo by Eli Burakian ’00)
The associate ...
After Renovations, Dartmouth Can See Orozco’s Mural in a New Light
Posted On Friday, October 5, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Arts, Baker-Berry Library, Events, Hood Museum of Art, Jay Oles, José Clemente Orozco, Lecture, Manton Foundation, Orozco Room
The Orozco Room in Baker-Berry Library, which houses one of Dartmouth’s greatest treasures, José Clemente Orozco’s major mural cycle The Epic of American Civilization, has reopened after undergoing a three-and-a-half month renovation. A new lighting system has been installed that dramatically improves the display of the fresco masterpiece, and the ground-level ...
