“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
