New Alumni Trustee Elected to the Board of Trustees

Posted On Monday, March 18, 2013 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , ,   
New Alumni Trustee Elected to the Board of Trustees 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 ...

Notre Dame And Alabama To Join Forces For Miami Service Project

Posted On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 By . Under INDIANA  Tags: , , , ,   
Notre Dame and Alabama to join forces for Miami service project Alumni and fans from the University of Notre Dame will join their counterparts from the University of Alabama for a service project in Miami in conjunction with the BCS National Championship football game between the two institutions, to be played Jan. 7 (Monday) at Sun Life Stadium in Miami. In partnership ...

Dartmouth Lombard Fellow Helps Coordinate Emergency Response to Superstorm Sandy

Posted On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , ,   
Dartmouth Lombard Fellow Helps Coordinate Emergency Response to Superstorm SandyWhen Dave Seliger ’12 applied for a Dartmouth Lombard Fellowship, he figured a good place to do emergency response work was New York City. He had no idea he would respond to the greatest natural disaster the city has faced in decades. “My logic was that if I wanted to get ...

Alumni Eligible For Merchant Scholarship

Posted On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 By . Under IOWA  Tags: , , ,   
Alumni Eligible For Merchant Scholarship CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- University of Northern Iowa alumni are invited to apply for a 2013 Merchant Scholarship. Merchant Scholarship recipients must be attending or planning to attend an accredited graduate or professional school at an educational institution as a full-time student. The scholarships are awarded from a trust established in ...

Dartmouth Alumni Council Nominates Trustee Candidate

Posted On Sunday, November 4, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , ,   
par par The Dartmouth Alumni Council has nominated Mitchell Kurz 'e2'80'9973 for a seat on the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees.par par 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 & ...

Two Paths Through Dartmouth Meet in a U.S. Senate Race (The New York Times)

Posted On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , ,   
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 ...

Igniting Imagination

Posted On Saturday, October 6, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , ,   
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 ...

Dartmouth Film and Media Studies Professor Directs Documentary About Pilobolus

Posted On Friday, October 5, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , , , ,   
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 ...

A Conversation With: Author and Filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza (The New York Times)

Posted On Friday, October 5, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , ,   
In an interview with the New York Times blog “India Ink,” Dinesh D’Souza ’83, president of The King’s College in New York City, discusses the success of his controversial new documentary, 2016: Obama’s America, his reasons for making the film, the presidential election, and how his Dartmouth experience influenced him. At Dartmouth, D’Souza tells the Times, ...

Video: Black Family Visual Arts Center at Dartmouth

Posted On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , ,   
The dedication of the Black Family Visual Arts Center and installation of Ellsworth Kelly’s Dartmouth Panels are celebrated in a video featuring lead donors Leon Black ’73, Greg Maffei ’82, Charlie Nearburg ’72, Thayer ’74, and the Stern family—Michael ’59, Tuck ’60 and Marjorie and their children, Betsy ’84, Mark ’85, and ...

Dartmouth Alumna Terry Plank ’85 Named MacArthur Fellow

Posted On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , , , ,   
Dartmouth alumna Terry Plank ’85 has been named one of 23 new MacArthur Fellows for 2012. She is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. At Dartmouth, Terry Plank ’85 majored in earth sciences-geology and graduated summa cum laude with high honors.   The fellowships, widely known as ...

'Indispensable' experience led grad to fulfilling career

Posted On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 By . Under KANSAS  Tags: , ,   
Sep 10, 2012 If Joel Escarpita could tell current Wichita State students one thing, it would be to take action for their future. It's what he did. Within two weeks of starting as a freshman art education major at WSU, Escarpita was already exploring his options for internships and other experience-based learning ...