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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
George Trumbull IV On Teaching The History of Islamic Africa
Posted On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Faculty, George R. Trumbull IV, Global, History, International, Islamic Africa, North Africa, Podcast, Politics, Research
“This is a particularly gratifying time to teach the history of Islamic Africa,” says George R. Trumbull IV, an associate professor of history who has taught at Dartmouth since 2008. “When we see contemporary events like what just happened over the past two years in North Africa, in northern Mali, ...
Dartmouth Milton Expert Joins ‘Paradise Lost’ Event in Dublin
Posted On Friday, December 14, 2012 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Department of English, Faculty, International, John Milton, Kelly Sundberg Seaman, Milton Reading Room, Paradise Lost, Thomas H. Luxon
In a city better known for cover-to-cover readings of James Joyce’s 20th-century epic Ulysses, Dartmouth professor Tom Luxon will be joining a start-to-finish recitation of John Milton’s monumental Paradise Lost at Trinity College Dublin on December 14, 2012. It will be, the organizers note, Ireland’s first-ever public marathon reading of ...
