Kathryn S. Twyman ’09 has won a Canadian Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford in England. Twyman was notified of the award after Canadian national competitions Nov. 22.
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Seven Dartmouth College faculty members were recently awarded Fulbright scholarships to support innovative teaching and research activities abroad. Christiane Donahue, the new director of Dartmouth’s Institute for Writing and Rhetoric and associate professor of linguistics; Ursula Gibson, professor of engineering; Pamela Jenkins, associate professor of community and family medicine and of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School; David Kotz, professor of computer science; and Michael Mastanduno, the Nelson Rockefeller Professor of Government, were named Fulbright Scholars by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, which is part of the U.S. Department of State. Ioana Chitoran, associate professor of French and of linguistics and cognitive science, and Jonathan Smolin, assistant professor in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, each received Fulbright-Hays fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education.
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“He talked about everything I hoped he would, like character development and how writers make inroads into a story,” says Gretchen Gerzina, the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography and the chair of Dartmouth’s Department of English.
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A team of Dartmouth students recently placed second in the District 1 College Fed Challenge, a national intercollegiate competition in the field of economics. The competition, held Nov. 17 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, featured 17 New England teams. After two rounds of debate-style deliberation, the judges declared first place for the Harvard team, and Dartmouth’s team took second.
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Blog for schoolchildren describes life in Antarctica at http://polarsoils.blogspot.com/
“Where do you sleep?” is one child’s question that Becky Ball, a post-doctoral fellow in environmental studies at Dartmouth, answered on her blog last year about being a field researcher in Antarctica.
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Two Dartmouth researchers call for greater scrutiny of the relationship between medical journalists and the health care industries they cover. Their study was published online today, Nov. 19, in the British Medical Journal, or BMJ.
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Dartmouth College and the University of Alaska at Fairbanks have partnered with Urbana University to create an institute aimed at examining scientific research about the Arctic and its effect on policy making. The new Institute on Applied Circumpolar Policy, headquartered at Dartmouth’s Dickey Center for International Understanding in Hanover, N.H., celebrates its opening on Friday, Nov. 14, 2008, at the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Scandinavia House in New York City. The New York Times journalist Andrew Revkin, who writes about climate change, is the featured speaker at this event. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski will also address the opening through a video message.
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In this podcast Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Adam Keller explains that College’s endowment is being impacted by the country’s financial crisis. Keller talks about planning underway to trim the College’s budget.
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At their fall-term meeting in Hanover Nov. 7-8, the Trustees of Dartmouth College reviewed the institution's current and anticipated financial situation in detail with administrators and discussed preliminary plans for keeping the College financially strong in the current economically challenging environment.
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For the past three years, nationally known playwright and artist Anne Galjour has immersed herself in Dartmouth College's physically close, yet emotionally divided rural New England backyard, examining the marked class divide that mirrors a national class divide. In this podcast, Galjour discusses her one-woman play, "You Can't Get There From Here," and the characters that emerged from the personal testimony of people within Upper Valley communities who met with Galjour in story circles to voice their own experiences with socio-economic class. Galjour's play is a key component of the Hop's Class Divide project, a three-year iniative enlisting the arts to examine class.
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