Olmert Examines Peace, the Arab Spring in Dartmouth Address

Posted On Sunday, November 10, 2013 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , ,   
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 ...

Publisher to Deliver Dartmouth Library’s Stephen Harvard Lecture

Posted On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   
Publisher to Deliver Dartmouth Library’s Stephen Harvard Lecture “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 ...

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

Posted On Sunday, February 17, 2013 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , , , ,   
New Haitian Ensemble Shares Bill With Hop’s World Music Group 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 ...

Patterson Hood Opens Alys Stephens Center’s 2013 Season Jan. 12

Posted On Thursday, December 13, 2012 By . Under ALABAMA  Tags: , , , ,   
Patterson Hood opens Alys Stephens Center’s 2013 season Alabama’s own alternative-country rocker Patterson Hood will make his debut at UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center (ASC) on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. The ASC welcomes the Drive-By Truckers co-founder, a native of Muscle Shoals, for an introspective show spotlighting his third solo recording, “Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance,” which ...

Kosovo Minister of Health to Talk About Building a Health Care System in Wartime

Posted On Wednesday, November 7, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , ,   
par par Kosovo'e2'80'99s Minister of Health Dr. Ferid Agani will be on campus November 12 and 13, meeting with students and faculty, touring Dartmouth facilities, and giving two public lectures. Agani aims to strengthen the relationship between Kosovo and Dartmouth as experts exchange ideas about medical systems and processes. His visit is ...

Welcome Home: Dartmouth Night and Homecoming 2012

Posted On Friday, October 19, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   
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 ...

Joel Sanders to Discuss 'Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture' on Oct. 22

Posted On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 By . Under ARKANSAS  Tags: , ,   
Joel Sanders will present a lecture titled “Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 22, at Hembree Auditorium (Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences Building, Room 107E) on the University of Arkansas campus. Sanders is principal of his New York-based studio, Joel Sanders Architect. He is also a professor ...

Moroccan Musicians Visit Campus for Workshop, Fayetteville for Concert

Posted On Thursday, October 11, 2012 By . Under ARKANSAS  Tags: , , ,   
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Majid Bekkas Gnawa Ensemble and Brahim Fribgane, Moroccan musicians who draw on different traditions of their nation’s musical heritage, will present a concert at the Walton Arts Center on Thursday, Oct. 18 and a free public workshop at the University of Arkansas on Friday, Oct. 19. These ...

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 ...

The E.E. Just Symposium: A Success in Physics and Beyond

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

After Renovations, Dartmouth Can See Orozco’s Mural in a New Light

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

Tournées Film Festival: New French Films on Campus

Posted On Thursday, October 4, 2012 By . Under ARKANSAS  Tags: , ,   
Wednesday, October 03, 2012 The department of world languages, literatures and cultures at the University of Arkansas will present five new French films at the Arkansas Union Theater. Admission is free. The films have English subtitles. The films include Un Amour de Jeunesse,La Princesse de Montpensier, Les Femmes du 6éme Étage, Les Hommes Libres, and Les ...

Quarterly Business Analysis Luncheon Set

Posted On Thursday, October 4, 2012 By . Under ARKANSAS  Tags: , ,   
Wednesday, October 03, 2012 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Kathy Deck, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research, will present her regular Quarterly Business Analysis as a luncheon event Nov. 1. Deck’s popular sessions feature business highlights of the previous quarter, key economic trends and projections and immediate and long-term issues ...

Educator David Helfand is Next ‘Leading Voices’ Speaker

Posted On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , ,   
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 David Helfand, president of Quest University, will speak at Dartmouth as part of the “Leading Voices in Higher Education” strategic planning speaker series. The October 1 talk, free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center 003. His lecture, “Undergraduate Education for ...

Life-Size Puppets Perform ‘Woyzeck’ At Dartmouth (VPR)

Posted On Friday, September 21, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , ,   
  SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 The Tony Award-winning Handspring Puppet Company from Cape Town, South Africa, has spent the past week in residence at Dartmouth, giving workshops and lectures. The company’s co-directors, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones, are on campus asMontgomery Fellows. On September 21 and 22, the puppet company will perform Woyzeck on the Highveld at the Hopkins ...

Spring International Celebrates 20 Years on Campus

Posted On Thursday, September 20, 2012 By . Under ARKANSAS, FEATURED  Tags: , , ,   
Many of its graduates enroll at University of Arkansas Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Students and staff from Spring International Language Center FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — In fall 1992, Spring International Language Center at the University of Arkansas opened its doors with 12 international students from nine countries, two instructors, and one staff member. ...

Judd Gregg Says U.S. Faces a ‘Perfect Storm of Fiscal Policy’

Posted On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , , ,   
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 In his first lecture on campus as the inaugural Dartmouth Distinguished Fellow, former U.S. Senator Judd Gregg called the Senate a “great institution” that must remain a forum where difficult issues are debated and addressed. Early in his lecture, entitled “The Role of the Senate in the Coming ...
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