DARTMOUTH COLLEGE NEWS

Feature: Transformational Change (Click Here to View) Through its new Health Care Delivery Science master's degree program, Dartmouth is creating a new kind of health care professional. In the second installment of this week-long series, MHCDS student Dr. Kenneth Rosenfield '77 of Massachusetts General Hospital explains how he's bringing new knowledge to the national cardiology programs he organizes.

 

OTHER DARTMOUTH COLLEGE NEWS

Event: April 3: Discussion—“Fallout: What We Think About the Military Matters”
ReEntry playwright KJ Sanchez, acclaimed author Nancy Sherman (The Untold War), and a Dartmouth student veteran discuss the challenges posed by public perceptions of the military, including civilian response and representations in the arts. Moderated by Associate Professor of Philosophy Susan Brison. Co-sponsored by the Center for Women & Gender and the Department of Philosophy.


Event: April 2: Department of Philosophy Sapientia Lecture—“Recovering Lost Goodness: Guilt, Shame, and Self-Empathy,” with Nancy Sherman
Nancy Sherman is University Professor and Fellow of The Kennedy Institute, Georgetown University. Her talk is part of the Department of Philosophy's Sapientia Lecture Series, which is funded by The Mark J. Byrne 1985 Fund in Philosophy. It is free and open to all, and a reception will follow.


Event: April 1: Film—Young Adult
Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) is the former head cheerleader and prom queen whom all the girls in high school wanted to be and all the boys wanted to be with. Now a disillusioned writer of young adult fiction, Mavis returns home to try to recapture her faded glory. Diablo Cody’s (Juno) screenplay is a funny and brutally honest look at life after high school. D: Jason Reitman, US, 2011, 94 minutes


Event: March 31: Performance—India Jazz Suites
Two master “hoofers” riff on each other’s rhythmic imaginations in this joyous collaboration between Pandit Chitresh Das, one of the world’s foremost masters of the barefoot, bell-bedecked North Indian dance called kathak; and Emmy Award-winning Jason Samuels Smith, one of the world’s fastest tappers and a veteran of Broadway’s Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk. The two men solo with their own and each other’s bands—Smith’s jazz trio and Das’ sitar-based trio—before coming together in a show-stopping duet exploding with power, grace and beauty.


Event: March 31: Women’s Tennis vs. Boston University
Come see Big Green women's tennis take on Boston U at the Boss Tennis Courts at 1 p.m.


Event: March 30: Thayer School Jones Seminar—“Planes, Trains, Automobiles ... and Cells?” with Philip LeDuc
Two areas that have always interested me are the mechanics of machines and the wonders of nature. My interest in mechanics, first beginning as a youth taking apart machines like lawn mowers, has intersected with my fascination with nature at the cellular and molecular levels.


Event: March 30-31: Performance—India Jazz Suites
Two master “hoofers” riff on each other’s rhythmic imaginations in this joyous collaboration between Pandit Chitresh Das, one of the world’s foremost masters of the barefoot, bell-bedecked North Indian dance called kathak; and Emmy Award-winning Jason Samuels Smith, one of the world’s fastest tappers and a veteran of Broadway’s Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk. The two men solo with their own and each other’s bands—Smith’s jazz trio and Das’ sitar-based trio—before coming together in a show-stopping duet exploding with power, grace and beauty.


News: Dartmouth Offers 2,180 Students Acceptance to the Class of 2016
Dartmouth has offered 2,180 students—9.4 percent of the applicant pool—acceptance to the Class of 2016. This includes the 465 students who were admitted through early decision in December 2011. The Admissions Office processed a record 23,110 applications. The rate of admission (9.4 percent) for acceptance was the most competitive ever.


Feature: Visual Arts Center Named in Honor of Leon Black Family
Dartmouth has announced the naming of its visual arts center in honor of Leon Black, Class of 1973, and his wife Debra. Designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates and set to open in September, the Black Family Visual Arts Center will house the Departments of Studio Art and of Film and Media Studies, as well as the Digital Humanities program. The Black family has also commissioned a new site-specific wall sculpture by renowned American abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly that will hang on the east façade of the Hopkins Center for the Arts.


Event: March 29: Presentation—“Masters and Gurus: Experimental Learning through Mentorship,” with Jason Samuels Smith and Chitresh Das
Using as an example their friendship that crosses all boundaries of age, race and culture, 32-year-old Jason Samuels Smith and 66-year-old Chitresh Das discuss the power of great mentors to encourage achievement in coming generations of artists. Moderated by Dean of the College Charlotte H. Johnson. Co-sponsored by The Tucker Foundation. Reception to follow.


Event: March 29: Hopkins Center Film—National Theatre Live in HD: She Stoops to Conquer
One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.


News: Airborne System Allows Researchers to Look Beneath the Antarctic Surface
A research team that includes Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science Ross Virginia has successfully tested equipment to map features under the ice in Antarctica that were formerly inaccessible by other methods.


Event: March 28: Lecture—“Causing Their Names to Live: Collectors, Scholars, Dealers, and the Hood’s Egyptian Objects,” with Christine Lilyquist
Christine Lilyquist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art's former head of the Department of Egyptian Art and Lila Acheson Wallace Research Curator in Egyptology, and recent advisor and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Visiting Scholar at the Hood.


Event: March 28: Baseball vs. Amherst College
Watch Big Green baseball at Red Rolfe Field at 3 p.m.


In the News: A Doctor’s Quest To Offer The ‘Best Care’ At Life’s End (NPR)
In an extensive interview with NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Dartmouth Medical School Professor Ira Byock discusses the changes that he would like to see made within the health care system to ensure that patients and their families are receiving the best end of life care as possible.


News: Workforce of the Future Is Focus of April 5 Staff Forum
All Dartmouth staff are invited to share ideas and input on the strategic planning process at a Staff Forum on Thursday, April 5.


Event: March 27: Lecture—“Laboratory Medicine in Developing Countries,” with Jack H. Ladenson
Dr. Ladenson is the Oree M. Carroll and Lillian B. Ladenson Professor of Clinical Chemistry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. He is also Director of Clinical Pathology for Pathologists Overseas, Inc.


Event: March 27: Tucker Tuesday—“What Matters to Me and Why,” with Hany Farid
Come have a cup of delicious soup and hear Hany Farid, the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, discuss what matters to him. "What Matters to Me and Why" is part of the "Tucker Tuesdays" lunchtime discussion series, serving soup, bread, and food for thought. Brought to you by the Tucker Foundation, Dartmouth's center for service, spirituality, and social justice.


In the News: Global Media Focus on Dartmouth with Nomination of President Jim Yong Kim to World Bank Leadership
Jim Yong KimOn March 23, President Barack Obama announced that the United States is nominating Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim to be the next President of the World Bank. The announcement has generated a tremendous amount of media attention from outlets around the globe, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and major television networks including ABC and CBS.


News: Dartmouth’s Life Sciences Center Wins Platinum Award for Green Building Practices
Dartmouth’s new Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center has just been award a Platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) highest level of recognition for energy efficient and sustainable building practices.


Ask: What is Daniel Webster’s connection with the College?
Lawyer, member of Congress, orator, and statesman Daniel Webster, an 1801 graduate of Dartmouth, never served as the College’s president. But he is remembered as one of the College’s great alumni, primarily for his defense of Dartmouth in the famous Dartmouth College Case of 1819.


Event: March 24: Hop Stop Performance—Tap, Tap, Tapping
Jessica’s quick and intricate footwork taps out rhythms in a variety of styles including soft shoe, Irish, and swing. New to Hanover, Jessica has studied dance since the age of 14 and was a member of the Youth Jazz Dance Project and the UNH Dance Company. Learn how to tap basic rhythms with your own feet and see how tap dancers use their entire bodies as musical instruments!


Event: March 24: Women’s Lacrosse vs. Columbia University
Big Green's first Ivy League matchup is versus Columbia at Scully/Fahey Field at noon.


Event: March 26: Book Arts Program Orientation—Letterpress Workshop
The Letterpress workshop requires a mandatory introductory orientation session for all newcomers to learn the basics of typesetting and press work. The session will begin with a brief discussion of the history and process of Letterpress printing. After a tour of the workshop participants will set a short poem in type that will be printed on a Vandercook press. Emphasis will be placed on the proper techniques of setting hand type, press work and the selection of appropriate type faces.


Event: March 23: Lecture—“The Cajal-Retzius Neuron,” with Miguel Marin-Padilla
Miguel Marin-Padilla, M.D., is an Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical Schoo. Dr. Marin-Padilla is a Dunaway/Burnham Guest Speaker hosted by Hermes Yeh, Ph.D.


News: E. E. Just Professor Named
Leading theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander will join the Dartmouth faculty this summer as the Ernest Everett Just 1907 Professor. Alexander, a native of Trinidad who was raised in the Bronx, specializes in particle physics and cosmology and is also an accomplished jazz saxophonist.


Feature: President Barack Obama Nominates Jim Yong Kim to World Bank Presidency
At 10 a.m. today, President Barack Obama announced the nomination of Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim for the presidency of the World Bank. In a message to the Dartmouth community, President Kim said, "When I assumed the presidency of Dartmouth, I did so with the full and deep belief that the mission of higher education is to prepare us for lives of leadership and service in our professions and communities. ... the prospect of leaving Dartmouth at this stage is very difficult. Nevertheless, should the World Bank's Board of Executive Directors elect me as the next president, I will embrace the responsibility."


In the News: Face Blindness: When Everyone is a Stranger (60 Minutes)
A person who suffers from prosopagnosia—or face blindness—has difficulty recognizing faces. They have trouble identifying faces that are very familiar to them, such as their spouse or children, or even their own face in the mirror.


In the News: Charlie's Greenroom with Jim Yong Kim, President of Dartmouth (Charlie Rose)
During President Jim Yong Kim’s appearance on The Charlie Rose Show last October, he also gave a Charlie’s Greenroom interview that was recently published by online.


News: Social Psychologist Roy Baumeister Speaks Next in 'Leading Voices' Lecture Series
Social psychologist Roy Baumeister is the next speaker in the “Leading Voices in Higher Education” lecture series. His lecture will take place on Tuesday, March 27, at 4:30 p.m., in Moore Hall’s Filene Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.


Feature: E. E. Just Professor Named
Theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander will join the Dartmouth faculty this summer as the Ernest Everett Just 1907 Professor. "Dartmouth's focus on both teaching and research ... presented a unique situation that very few, if any, other institutions could offer," says Alexander, who specializes in particle physics and cosmology and is also an accomplished jazz saxophonist.


Event: March 22: March 22: ILEAD Lecture—“The Selling of Kony 2012,” with Jay Heinrichs
Kony 2012-the campaign to capture the child-abducting African warlord-is the most successful viral social-media effort ever conducted. The video has been viewed 80 million times on YouTube. George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, and Bono have spoken in favor of the campaign. But take a closer look: Kony 2012 comprises the most sophisticated use of social-media tools to date-along with persuasive devices that have been around for 3,000 years. This multi-media lecture will, according to our guest speaker, .take apart the campaign and reveal its unsavory innards. In the wrong hands, the same tools could be devastating to our democracy.. (While it.s not required, you might want to see the Kony 2012 video on You-Tube before coming to the lecture.)


Feature: When Everyone is a Stranger
In an extended segment on prosopagnosia, or “face blindness,” broadcast on March 18, 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl speaks with Dartmouth’s Bradley Duchaine, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences. Duchaine, an expert on the neurological condition that keeps people from recognizing faces, led Stahl in an exercise to demonstrate what it feels like to have face blindness.


News: Theoretical Physicist Stephon Alexander to Join Dartmouth as E.E. Just Professor
Leading theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander will join the Dartmouth faculty this summer as the Ernest Everett Just 1907 Professor. Alexander, a native of Trinidad who was raised in the Bronx, specializes in particle physics and cosmology and is also an accomplished jazz saxophonist.


Event: March 26: Spring Term Classes Begin
Students return from Spring Break


Event: march 17: Women’s Lacrosse vs. Duke University
Watch Big Green take on the Blue Devils at Scully/Fahey Field at noon in a nationally-ranked showdown!


News: Smartphones Can Aid People with Schizophrenia
Psychiatry is employing smartphone technology as an innovative tool in the assessment and treatment of schizophrenia and other serious mental illness. Prominent in this endeavor is Dror Ben-Zeev, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and director of the Thresholds-Dartmouth Research Center in Chicago.


Feature: Pay it Forward
Through Dartmouth’s First-Year Student Enrichment Program (FYSEP), Francisco Herrera ’13 helps the students he mentors make a smooth transition to college. A chemistry major with plans to become a doctor, Herrera is a first-generation college student himself.


Event: March 21: ILEAD lecture—“Defining Mother: The ‘Brave New World’ of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Modern Family,” with Susan B. Apel
Recent technologies have enabled people to form families in ways different from the traditional. In a nod to Aldous Huxley (and Shakespeare), some refer to these changes as a dystopian .brave new world,. while others laud the advances of science. As the debate continues, the law must deal every day with changes in family formation, and answer questions about assisted reproductive techonolgies, surrogacy, and the rights and responsibilities of parenthood. These new technologies have caused a legal tsunami, in which the law struggles to define what used to be, but are no longer, simple concepts: mother, father and child. Susan B. Apel is a Professor of Law at Vermont Law School, where she has taught for 30 years in the areas of family law, women and the law, and general practice. She is also an adjunct professor at Dartmouth Medical School, where she co-teaches a course in law and medicine to both law and medical students about assisted reproductive technologies. She has published several scholarly articles on issues concerning assisted human reproduction, family law and legal education. More information about her can be found in her faculty biography at www.vermontlaw.edu.


News: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation awards research grant to Dartmouth Medical School’s Madan
Under a grant of almost $300,000 from a non-profit affiliate of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) neonatologist Juliette C. Madan, MD, MS, will spend the next three years tracking the development of microbes in the lungs and intestines of infants with cystic fibrosis, in search of new approaches to treatment of patients with the genetic disease that causes life-threatening infection of the lungs and premature death.


Feature: Adventures of the Book Doctors
Whether it’s replacing missing pages in a working copy of a library book, tending Dartmouth’s Dr. Seuss collection, or setting standards for the care of digital files, the Dartmouth Library’s Preservation Services team is always on the lookout for innovative ways to care for Dartmouth’s collections.


Event: March 16: Neuroscience Day at Dartmouth
You are cordially invited to attend and participate in the 25th Annual Neuroscience Day at Dartmouth, to be held on March 16, 2012 in Alumni Hall on the Hanover Campus. The Neuroscience Day at Dartmouth has traditionally provided an informal forum to encourage and facilitate scientific and social interactions and discussions among members of the Dartmouth community and our neuroscience colleagues in New Hampshire and surrounding states. Poster sessions will be held throughout the day. Awards will be presented just prior to the Keynote Address for the best presentation by an undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral participant. Poster submission and registration is now open and will close on February 15th, 2012. Please submit your abstract as a Word document to: tncd@dartmouth.edu


Event: March 15: Norris Cotton Cancer Center Grand Rounds—“Kinase Inhibitors in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: From B-cell Receptor to the Bedside and Back,” with Alexey Danilov
Kinase inhibitors in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: from B-cell receptor to the bedside and back Speaker: Alexey Danilov, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine, DHMC Live/archived webcast, podcast at http://cancer.dartmouth.edu/rounds_online


Feature: Mobile Phones and Mental Health
Here’s one more thing a smartphone can do: Dror Ben-Zeev, assistant professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, is exploring how mobile phones can serve as an interactive tool to gather and evaluate information about mental health patients’ symptoms, moods, and medication use.


Event: March 13: Pathology Research and Review Seminar—"To Catch Bird Flu, We Need to Innovate Like It's 1942," with Kendall L. Hoyt
4pm-5pm, 658 West Borwell Conference Room - DHMC


In the News: More Than Just Fun and Games, Apps Drive U.S. Economic Growth (U.S. News & World Report)
In this opinion piece for U.S. News & World Report, M. Eric Johnson, the Benjamin Ames Kimball Professor of Science of Administration at the Tuck School, shares his thoughts on how digital apps are impacting businesses. Read more.


Feature: Big Ice
Follow Bob Hawley, assistant professor of earth sciences, to Antarctica and Greenland, lands covered in miles-deep ice. The massive ice sheets Hawley and his team study are sensitive to climate change and are potential contributors to rising sea levels globally.


Event: Monday March 12: Microbiology/Immunology Seminar—"Kin Recognition and Cell-Cell Fusion in Bacterial Biofilms," with Daniel M. Wall
4pm-5pm, Chilcott Auditorium, Dartmouth Medical School


Feature: Star Struck
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine drops in on Professor Brian Chaboyer's course "Exploring the Universe," where studying entry-level astronomy teaches students just how much our lives are ruled by the sun.


Event: Sunday March 11: Vaughn Recital—Elizabeth Gunlogson, clarinet, and Eileen Cornett, piano
4pm-5:30pm, Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center


News: Five More All-Americans for Nordic Teams
Each of the top six spots of the women’s race were claimed by the Big Green and Catamounts — the first time two teams took the top six spots at the NCAA Championships — while Dartmouth got a pair of top-10 finishes in the men’s 20K. Read more.


Event: March 10: Tour—"Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art"
2pm-3pm, Hood Museum of Art


In the News: Two U.S. Women Have Big Day on Snow (Chicago Tribune)
In her first-ever Biathlon World Championship 15-kilometer race, former collegiate NCAA All-American cross-country skier, Susan Dunklee ’08, recorded the highest finish (fifth place) ever by a U.S. woman in the event. Read more.


Ask: Is it true that rubbing Warner Bentley's nose will help me pass my exams?
Probably not. Read more.


Event: March 10-14: Winter Term 2012 Final Exams
March 10, Saturday -- Final examinations begin March 14, Wednesday -- Final examinations end


Event: March 9: Physics and Astronomy Seminar—"Quantum Dot Based Photonic Devices," with Muhammad Usman
11am, Wilder 202


News: 'We Need Strong Partners,' Kosovo President Tells Dartmouth
As one of the five youngest heads of state in the world, the 37-year-old Jahjaga was hailed as an inspiration by Dartmouth students; she also impressed female faculty members with her drive to improve the status of Kosovo women, and made connections with Dartmouth Medical School physicians who are exploring ways to help Kosovars improve their country’s health care. Read more.


Feature: Weaving a Life
Work by Jason Curley '13, aspiring physician and Navajo weaver, hangs in the Hood Museum's exhibition "Native American Art at Dartmouth" alongside a rug made by his late grandmother. In a video interview, Curley considers his culture, life at Dartmouth, and how his art connects the two. The show closes this Sunday, March 11.


Event: March 7: Film and Lecture—Finding Farley, with filmmaker Karsten Heuer
4:30pm-6pm, 041 Haldeman Center


Event: March 7: Women's Lacrosse vs. Boston University
3pm, Scully/Fahey Field


In the News: Drinking Scenes in Movies May Spur Teens to Do the Same (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World ReportNew research released by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center reveals that young European teens who watch Hollywood movies featuring alcohol use are twice as likely to start drinking themselves, compared to their peers who watch relatively few such films. The study also shows that these same teens are significantly more likely to indulge in binge drinking. Read more.


News: Dartmouth Physician and Dean Honored by Kosovo President at Public Lecture
Former Dartmouth Medical School dean and physician James Strickler ’50, DMS ’51, has been awarded a humanitarian prize by Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga. Read more.


Feature: Tracking Radiation
Researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center are working on revolutionary technology that will drastically improve doctors' ability to diagnose radiation exposure from unexpected events—like the radiation release at the Fukushima power plant following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Read more about the ongoing development of a portable dosimeter at Dartmouth.


Sights & Sounds: Video: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax is a Dartmouth Tale
Did you know that Dartmouth played an important role in Geisel’s penning of The Lorax? Read more.


Event: March 6: Tucker Tuesdays—"What Matters to Me and Why," with Anne Kapuscinski
Noon-1pm, Tucker Living Room


Event: March 5: Microbiology/Immunology Seminar—"Cytotoxic Mechanisms of Immunotherapy: Harnessing Effector Functions," with Ronald P. Taylor
4pm-5pm, 658W Borwell


Feature: Head of State
Atifete Jahjaga, the President of Kosovo, tells her nation's story in a public lecture tomorrow, Tuesday, March 6, in the Hopkins Center's Moore Theater. "The Kosovo Story: Challenges and Successes in State-Building Processes," begins at 4:30 p.m. Dartmouth's connections to Kosovo began in 1999 with support for the country's medical system, and have grown to include a partnership with the American University in Kosovo.


Event: March 4: Performance—Staccato's Unity Step Off: Step to Autism
7pm, The Moore Theater, Hopkins Center


Event: March 4: Performance—Dartmouth Wind Symphony
2pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center


March 3: Film—The Descendants
Set in Hawaii, Alexander Payne’s (Sideways) new film is the sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey of Matt King (George Clooney): an indifferent husband and father who must to show up for life when his wife is hospitalized. Wrestling with his estranged young daughters and a decision to sell the family land, Matt must re-examine his past to embrace his future.


Dartmouth Althletics Events Schedule
Women's lax hosts Yale at noon. Men's lax hosts Sacred Heart at 2 p.m. Women's basketball hosts Columbia at 7 p.m. Go Big Green!


In the News: Countering Misinformation: Tips for Journalists (Columbia Journalism Review)
Brendan Nyhan, an assistant professor of government, recently co-authored the report “Misinformation and Fact-checking: Research Findings from Social Science,” which offers journalists techniques to counter political misinformation.


Feature: Dartmouth and The Lorax
If you bleed green, you might know that Ted Geisel, Class of 1925—aka Dr. Seuss—graduated from Dartmouth College. But, did you know that Dartmouth played an important role in Geisel’s penning of The Lorax?


News: Dartmouth Announces Room, Board, Tuition, and Fees for 2012–13
The College also expands financial aid by raising the family income threshold for free tuition and no loans from $75,000 to $100,000


Event: February 29: Lecture—"Climate, Archeology, and the Future of the Arctic," with Dr. William W. Fitzhugh '64
4:30pm-6pm, 041 Haldeman Center


Event: February 29: Astronomy Seminar—"The Observation of CID-42, A Candidate Recoiling SMBH," with Francesca Civano
2pm, Wilder 202


In the News: Discovery at Dartmouth (Library Journal)
“If [the] halls [of Baker-Berry Library] could talk,” writes Library Journal’s The Digital Shift, “they might say, ‘Treasure the past, but also look to the future.’” Read more.


The Global Education Marketplace
Former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents "The Great Brain Race: Rise of the Global Education Marketplace" today, Wednesday, February 29, as part of Dartmouth's Leading Voices in Higher Education lecture series. Wildavsky presents his perspectives on recent developments in global higher education at 4 p.m., in Room 03 of the Rockefeller Center.


Event: February 28: Lecture—"Rez Life: Moving Beyond the Tragic Trap," with David Treuer
4pm-5pm, Carson L01


Event: February 28: Tucker Tuesdays—"What Matters to Me and Why," with Dean Maria Laskaris
Noon-1pm, Tucker Living Room


In the News: In Rice, How Much Arsenic Is Too Much? (NPR)
In continuing coverage of Dartmouth research that revealed high levels of arsenic in foods sweetened with organic brown rice syrup, NPR checks in with other scientists and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Read more.


News: Professor Michael Bronski Wins Prestigious Stonewall Book Award
Michael Bronski, senior lecturer in women’s and gender studies, has received a 2012 Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association for his nonfiction work, A Queer History of the United States (2011). Read more.


Feature: Why Music Matters
Theodore Levin, the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music, will present Dartmouth's 24th Presidential Lecture, "Why Music Matters," today, Tuesday, February 28, at 5 p.m. in Dartmouth Hall 105. Levin, the first executive director of the Silk Road Project, recently completed the 10-volume Music of Central Asia project. The Presidential Lecture Series honors the contributions of outstanding faculty members.


Event: February 27: 2011 Chase Senior Thesis Prize Lecture, with Charles Dameron '11
4:30pm-6pm, 041 Haldeman Center, Kreindler Conference Center


Event: February 27: Rudelson Lecture—"Novelty and the Architectural Culture of Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century Speaker," with Shirine Hamade
4:30pm-6pm, 13 Carpenter Hall


Feature: Libraries and the Digital Future
Imagine the riches of America's research libraries available, free of charge, to everyone within range of the Internet. Historian and author Robert Darnton explores the benefits and challenges of "The Digital Public Library of America and the Digital Future" today, Monday February 27. His talk begins at 5 p.m., in Moore Hall's Filene Auditorium.


Event: February 26: Met Opera Live in HD—Ernani
1pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center


Event: February 26: Film—The White Ribbon
7pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center


Event: February 25: Performance—Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra
8pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center


Event: February 25: Film—The Iron Lady
6:30pm and 8:45pm, Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art


News: Dartmouth Professor Granted France's Top Award, the Legion d'Honneur
Lawrence Kritzman, professor of French and of comparative literature, has been named to the Legion d’Honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Read more.


Feature: Artist-in-Residence
Laylah Ali, says the Boston Globe, is an artist to reckon with. Ali is Dartmouth's Artist-in-Residence for Winter 2012. An exhibition of her work is on display in the Hopkins Center's Jaffe-Friede Gallery through March 4.


Ask: Where does the Theater Department get all of its costumes?
Costumes for each production at Dartmouth are obtained in a number of ways. Read more.


Event: February 24-26: Women's Ice Hockey—ECAC Playoffs
The Dartmouth women's hockey team will take on St. Lawrence in a best-of-three ECAC Hockey quarterfinal series this weekend at Thompson Arena. Read more.


Event: February 24: Jones Seminar—"Radar Sounding and Imaging of Glacial and Sea Ice: Status and Future," with Prasad Gogineni
3:30pm, Spanos Auditorium


In the News: Lights, Action, Drinking: Movie Scenes Tempt Teens To Binge (NPR)
Recent Dartmouth Medical School research has found that children who watch movies featuring alcohol use are more than twice as likely to try drinking themselves, reports NPR. The study also found those children are more likely to engage in binge drinking. Read more.


News: Rocket Reaches into the Northern Lights to Illuminate Aurora Activity
On the Saturday evening of February 18, Lynch and her colleagues launched a 46-foot NASA rocket arcing 217 miles above the Earth to collect space physics data straight from the heart of the aurora. It sent a stream of real-time data back to the researchers before landing 200 miles downrange. Read more.


News: Music Professor Theodore Levin to Present 24th Presidential Lecture
Ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin, the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music, will present Dartmouth’s 24th Presidential Lecture, “Why Music Matters,” on Tuesday, February 28, at 5 p.m. in Dartmouth Hall 105. Read more.


Feature: Test Today: Outdoor Emergency Warning System
Today, Thursday, February 23, at 1:15 p.m., Dartmouth College with the support of the Town of Hanover will test its Outdoor Mass Notification System (OMNS). The system contains both sirens and voice speakers and is capable of providing a loud and immediate warning to the Dartmouth campus and surrounding communities in case of an emergency. The test of OMNS will last approximately 5 to 15 minutes while the system installers and other necessary personnel assess that the system is functioning properly.


Feature: High Honors
Lawrence Kritzman, professor of French and of comparative literature, has been named to the French Legion d’Honneur. Created by Napoleon in 1802 to recognize meritorious service to France and granted by decree of the President of France, it is the highest honor that the country bestows on anindividual.


Event: February 22: Film—War Horse
7pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center


Event: February 22: DAMELL Colloquium: "To Be or Not To Be, That is the Question: The Problematics of 'Being' in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, and Japanese"
4pm-6pm, 13 Carpenter Hall


Feature: Taking on the World's Troubles
William Jewett Tucker, Dartmouth's ninth president, believed that students should not be "content with the commonplace in character any more than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment." The Tucker Foundation, Dartmouth's center for service, spirituality, and social justice, has launched a series profiling student volunteers who, through their work with the foundation, are making the world a better place.


Event: February 21: Performance—Hugh Masekela
7pm, Spaulding Auditorium


Event: February 21: Film—Education Under Fire
4:30pm-5:30pm, Rockefeller 2


In the News: The Bank of England Gets it Wrong Yet Again (The Independent)
Writing in The Independent, David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics, questions both the methods and the continuing optimism of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. Read more.


News: Dartmouth to Test Outdoor Mass Notification System on Thursday, Feb. 23
On Thursday, Feb. 23 at 1:15 p.m., Dartmouth College with the support of the Town of Hanover will test its Outdoor Mass Notification System (OMNS). The OMNS is a commercially available warning system that has been customized for the Dartmouth College campus. The system contains both sirens and voice speakers and is capable of providing a loud and immediate warning to the Dartmouth campus and surrounding communities in case of an emergency. Read more.


Feature: Soaring Scientifically
Launching a research career in the biomedical sciences takes more than just the right degrees and training. Dartmouth Medicine magazine reports on several new Dartmouth Medical School initiatives that are helping junior faculty learn to soar.


Event: February 20: Lecture—"The Artist's Role as Activist," with Hugh Masekela
MON | FEB 20 | 6:30 PM FILENE AUDITORIUM


Event: February 19: Film—A Boy and His Dog
SUN | FEB 19 | 7 PM SPAULDING AUDITORIUM


Event: February 20: Africa Highlight Week—Center for International Business, Tuck School
This series of events will explore some of the reasons why there is still hesitation when it comes to investing in Africa, in spite of the growth potential that appears to be on the African horizon. Our panelists and speakers will provide valuable insights into some of the business risks, discuss the balance between profits and social responsibility, and talk frankly about their personal experiences on the continent. Africa Highlight Week programs are free and open to the public. No registration is necessary.


Event: February 20: Genetics Seminar—"Combining Complexity in Neurogenetics: Better Phenotypes + Better Analysis Methods = Better Translational Science," with Tricia Thornton-Wells
2pm-3pm, 758 W Borwell, DHMC


Feature: Arts and Activism!
For five decades, Hugh Masekela has been a defining force in world music, the preservation of South Africa's musical heritage, and the struggle for freedom and human rights in Africa and beyond. Today, Monday, February 20, he speaks on "The Artist's Role as Activist," at 6:30 p.m., in Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall. Masekela performs at the Hopkins Center on February 21.


Event: February 18: Women's Ice Hockey vs. Brown University
4pm, Thompson Arena Rink


Event: February 18: Tour—"Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art"
2pm-3pm, Hood Museum of Art


In the News: Arsenic hidden in baby formula, energy bars, and energy shots? (The Boston Globe)
Dartmouth researchers have discovered arsenic in organic brown rice syrup, and the news is making headlines around the globe. Read more.


News: Organic Food Sweetener May Be a Hidden Source of Dietary Arsenic
As people seek healthier dietary regimens they often turn to things labeled “organic.” Lurking in the background, however, is an ingredient that may be a hidden source of arsenic—an element known to be both toxic and potentially carcinogenic. Read more.


Feature: Hairspray!
Get swept away to 1960s Baltimore, where heroine Tracy Turnblad has a passion for dancing. Transformed from outsider to teen celebrity, can she find true love without messing her hair? The Dartmouth theater department presents the musical Hairspray this Saturday and Sunday, February 18-19, and well as Thursday through Sunday, February 23-26.


Feature: How Healthy?
As people seek healthier dietary regimens they often turn to foods labeled "organic." But new research by Brian Jackson and others at Dartmouth has found that lurking in the background is an ingredient that may be a hidden source of arsenic.


Sights & Sounds: Video: Dartmouth and the Peace Corps: 50 Years
Created by Jim Brown, senior lecturer in the Department of Film and Media Studies, this documentary chronicles the relationship between Dartmouth and the Peace Corps over the past fifty years.


Event: February 17: Women's Ice Hockey vs. Yale University
7pm, Thompson Arena Rink


Event: February 17: Performance—Hairspray
8pm, The Moore Theater, Hopkins Center


News: Galaxies' Glory Days Are Past but They Sparkle Still
As a Yale undergraduate, Ryan Hickox studied particle physics and played rugby—two exploits that set him on the path that eventually led to Dartmouth and his discoveries about starburst galaxies in the early universe, as recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Read more.


In the News: Tiny Primates With Ultrasonic Vocal Skills (The New York Times)
A Dartmouth professor and his colleagues have discovered that tarsiers, tiny primates found in southeast Asia, communicate with calls that are inaudible to humans. Read more.


News: New Yorker Writer Louis Menand to Deliver 'Leading Voices in Higher Education' Lecture
Louis Menand, a keen observer of the role of higher education in society, will deliver the William Jewett Tucker lecture, “Are the Great Books the Moral Heart of Liberal Education?” on February 16 at 4 p.m. in Moore Hall, Filene Auditorium. Read more.


Feature: Sweetest Carnival Ever
The 101st Winter Carnival, "Carnival in Candyland: The Sweetest Carnival Ever," continues through Sunday, February 12. The weekend's events include the Occom Pond party—a community celebration on ice—and a Webster Avenue chili cook-off, both Saturday; plenty of sports, and tours of the Baker Library bell tower both days.


Event: February 12: Vaughan Recital, with Marco Pereira, guitar
4pm-5:30pm, Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center


Event: February 12: Men's Tennis vs. Marquette University
11am, Boss Tennis Courts


Event: February 8: Lecture—"'Liberty is a Slow Fruit': Reconsidering the Emancipation Proclamation," with Louis Masur
4pm-5:30pm, Rockefeller 2


Event: February 8: Hood Museum Artist Talk—"A Conversation with Artist Kay WalkingStick"
5:30pm-6:30pm, Hood Museum of Art


In the NEws: Two Museums Show Native American Art, Then And Now (The Boston Globe)
The Boston Globe has given the Hood Museum of Art’s ongoing Native American exhibition a rave review, calling it one of “the most thrilling shows you are likely to see this year.” Read more.


News: Former Obama Official to Speak Today on New Economy, Political Polarization
A look at why policymaking in the United States has become so polarized will be the topic when former Obama Administration official Peter Orszag speaks at Dartmouth on Wednesday, February 8. He served as director of the Office of Management and Budget from January 2009 until July 2010. Read more.


Feature: Enduring Alliance
Writing in the New York Times on the 50th anniversary of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's visit to Japan in the wake of a treaty crisis, Assistant Professor of Government Jennifer Lind suggests that those events hold important lessons for the present. The recent political transitions in North Korea have put Lind's expertise on East Asia in demand as well.


Event: February 7: Performance—2012 Dartmouth Idol Semi-Finals
7pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center


Event: February 7: Tucker Tuesdays—"What Matters to Me and Why," with Richard Wright
Noon-1pm, Tucker Living Room, Fairbanks Hall


In the News: Spotlight On The Phantom Limb & 69°S Shackleton Project (CBS Boston)
CBS BostonThe Phantom Limb Company’s 69°S: The Shackleton Project brings Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 trip across Antarctica to the stage February 7-12 in Boston. The production was co-commissioned by the Hopkins Center, and made its North American premiere there, on Friday, September 30, 2011. Read more.


In the News: Learning to Share the Stage (The New York Times)
New York TimesWriting on the fiftieth anniversary of Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s visit to Japan in the wake of a 1960 security treaty crisis that nearly killed the U.S.-Japan alliance, Assistant Professor of Government Jennifer Lind suggests that those events “hold important lessons for today’s problems in the alliance, and indeed for U.S. alliance relationships all over the world.” Read more.


Feature: The Artist in the Laboratory
Jane Prophet has been a key member of a number of internationally acclaimed projects that break new ground in art and science. Her collaborations with stem cell researchers, mathematicians, and heart surgeons radically re-envisage the human body. Prophet speaks about her work today, Tuesday, February 7 at 4:30 p.m., in the Hood Museum of Art's Loew Auditorium.


Event: February 5: Film—World on a Wire
7pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center


Event: February 5: Men's Tennis vs. Army
10am, Boss Tennis Courts


Event: Dartmouth Athletics Events Schedule
All Sport Schedule


Event: February 4: Performance—Dartmouth College Glee Club
8pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center


In the News: Two Museums Show Native American Art, Then and Now (Boston Globe)
The Boston Globe has given the Hood Museum of Art’s ongoing Native American exhibition a rave review, calling it one of “the most thrilling shows you are likely to see this year.” Read more.


In the News: Hearing Screening an Imperative for HIV Patients (The Hearing Journal)
The Hearing JournalWorking in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Jay Buckey, MD, Dartmouth Medical School professor and adjunct professor of engineering, is conducting leading-edge research on the relationship between HIV and hearing loss. Read more.


Sights & Sounds: Dartmouth Glee Club: Pirates of Penzance Act 1 Finale
Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" Finale Act I


Event: February 3: Lecture—"Why Civil Resistance Works: Nonviolence in the Past and Future," with Erica Chenoweth
4:30pm-6pm, Rockefeller 3


Event: February 3: Jones Seminar—"Creative Confidence," with David Kelley
3:30pm, Spanos Auditorium


In the News: Facebook Files Initial Public Offering Papers (NPR)
On the day Facebook filed papers for an initial public offering, Anant Sundaram, a visiting professor of business administration at the Tuck School, was interviewed alongside NPR journalist Steve Henn about what a Facebook IPO might mean for investors. Read more.


Feature: Wheel of Fortune
The Dartmouth College Glee Club's presentation of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana kicks off a month of performances by the talented dancers, musicians, and actors of the College's student ensembles. Catch the drama and humor of the Carmina's songs of love and life, and see what the rest of ensemble season has in store. The Glee Club performs Saturday, February 4, at 8 p.m. in the Hopkins Center's Spaulding Auditorium.


In the News: Cold Hard Facts (Mission Critical)
Engineering Professor Laura Ray has worked with undergraduate students to build a robot that can monitor climate change in the most remote areas of Greenland. Read more.


In the News: Doctors Track Patients' Mood, Social Life to Manage Illness (WSJ)
Medicine is largely based on numbers and statistics. But Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Spine Center is bringing feelings and other difficult-to-measure elements into the mix. Read more.


Feature: Technology Trends, 2012
From his perch at the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies, Tuck School of Business Professor M. Eric Johnson has a good view of the future of technology. Following the Center's latest CIO Roundtable on Digital Strategies, Johnson offers a list of five tech trends, as well as thoughts on what they might mean for consumers and businesses.


Event: February 2: Great Issues Lecture—"Liberal Arts Vision in a Global Age: Romance or Realism?" with Mariet Westermann
4:30pm-5:30pm, Haldeman Center, Kreindler Auditorium, Room 041


Event: February 1: Film—Perdida
7pm, Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art


News: "Sweetest Carnival Ever" Begins February 9
The 101st Winter Carnival, “Carnival in Candyland: The Sweetest Carnival Ever,” will be held February 9 through 11. The three-day event includes a mix of lighthearted outdoor activities and athletic contests such as the Polar Bear Swim, the family-friendly Occom Pond Party, and the Division I downhill races at the Dartmouth Skiway. Read more.


Feature: Transformational Change
Through its new Health Care Delivery Science master's degree program, Dartmouth is creating a new kind of health care professional. In the second installment of this week-long series, MHCDS student Dr. Kenneth Rosenfield '77 of Massachusetts General Hospital explains how he's bringing new knowledge to the national cardiology programs he organizes.


Event: January 30: Lecture—"The End of Time: Maya Apocalypse Soon?", with Anthony Aveni
4:15pm-5:30pm, Filene Auditorium


News: Former Obama Official to Speak on New Economy, Political Polarization
A look at why policymaking in the United States has become so polarized will be the topic when former Obama Administration official Peter Orszag speaks at Dartmouth on Wednesday, February 8. He served as director of the Office of Management and Budget from January 2009 until July 2010. Read more.


News: US Immunologists to Honor William Green of Dartmouth Medical School
The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) will honor Dartmouth Medical School's chair of microbiology and immunology, William Green, for his work on public policy issues and his advocacy of research funding on behalf of fellow immunologists and other scientists. Read more.


Feature: Faceblind
Prosopagnosics—people who are unable to recognize faces—are the focus of research at Dartmouth led by Brad Duchaine, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences. Recent work by Duchaine, just published in the journal Brain, sheds new light on what takes place when one person looks at another.


Event: January 29: Film—Children of Men
7pm, Spaulding Auditorium


Event: January 29: Men's & Women's Swimming vs. Princeton
11am, Karl Michael Pool, Alumni Gym


Event: January 28: Film—Margaret
6:30pm & 9:15pm, Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art


Event: January 28: Men's Ice Hockey vs. Yale
7pm, Thompson Arena Rink


In the News: Chinese Musician Bridges East and West In Dartmouth Residency (Vermont Public Radio)
Vermont Public Radio interviews Dartmouth’s visiting artist Wu Man, virtuoso performer on the pipa, a Chinese lute that dates back 2,000 years. As part of her week-long residency, she has been teaching Dartmouth students alongside ethnomusicologist Ted Levin, the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music in Dartmouth’s Department of Music. Read more.


In the News: "Starbursts" and Black Holes Lead to Biggest Galaxies (BBC)
An international research team led by Dartmouth’s Ryan Hickox has discovered that today’s largest galaxies began as “starbursts.” Read more.


Feature: Ice Pick
When a Dartmouth medical student picked Antarctica as the place to serve one of his elective rotations, he knew he was consigning himself to seven weeks of ice, snow, and cold. But he came away with warm feelings for those who work at the far end of the Earth and a deepened appreciation for wilderness medicine.


Event: January 27: Biological Sciences Seminar—"Diverse Roles of Ethylene Receptors in Plants and Cyanobacteria," with Brad Binder
4pm-5pm, 201 Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center


In the News: An ACO Visionary Talks Implementation, Healthcare Reform (Medscape Today News)
Professor Elliott Fisher has been involved with the medical field’s accountable-care movement since day one. He recently sat down with Medscape Today News to discuss its history and implications. Read more.


News: Dartmouth's United Way Campaign Wraps Up a Record-Setting Effort
Dartmouth’s United Way Steering Committee has announced that the 2011 Dartmouth United Way campaign raised a record $282,000. Read more.


News: Dartmouth Professor Investigates Neural Basis of Prosopagnosia
For Bradley Duchaine, there is definitely more than meets the eye where faces are concerned. With colleagues at Birkbeck College in the University of London, he is investigating the process of facial recognition, seeking to understand the complexity of what is actually taking place in the brain when one person looks at another. Read more.


Event: January 26: EYEWASH Film and Video Series, with Xander Marro
7pm, Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art, FREE


Event: January 26: Lecture—"Empire And Nation In 19th Century America: Reconsidering the Monroe Doctrine," with Jay Sexton
4pm-6pm, L02 Carson Hall


In the News: Smiley & West: Susannah Heschel (PRI)
Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, is writing a study of Jewish scholars of Islam who flourished from the 1830s through the 1930s, and their impact at the time on the relationship between the two religions. Read more.


In the News: Gingrich's Electability Argument Doesn't Make Much Sense (The Atlantic)
The Atlantic recently asked Assistant Professor of Government Brendan Nyhan to weigh in on Newt Gingrich’s claim that he is the GOP presidential candidate most capable of winning the general election. Read more.


Feature: Leading Voices in Higher Education: Cathy Davidson
As the Dartmouth community looks to the future through strategic planning, ideas from beyond campus are critical to the conversation. Today, January 26, humanities scholar Cathy Davidson discusses Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. Her talk begins at 5 p.m. in Filene Auditorium in Moore Hall.


Event: January 23: Book Arts Program Orientation—Letterpress Workshop
6:30pm-9pm, Baker Library Room 23


Event: January 23: Lecture—"Counter Strike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda," with Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker
4:30pm-6pm, 041 Haldeman Center, Kreindler Conference Center


Feature: Musical Ambassador
Wu Man, virtuoso on the ancient lute-like pipa, one of China's most popular instruments for the past two millennia, and an advocate for the music of China's rural ethnic minorities, brings her music and her message to Dartmouth for a week-long residency. Her time at Dartmouth includes a performance in the Hopkins Center's Spaulding Auditorium on Friday, January 27.


Event: Through January 22: Exhibition—"Mateo Romero: The Dartmouth Pow-Wow Suite"
In spring 2009, the Hood Museum of Art commissioned Mateo Romero, Class of 1989, to paint a series of ten portraits of current Native American Dartmouth students as they danced at the college’s annual Pow-Wow. Read more.


Event: January 22: Performance—Chamberworks: Dave Newsam and Friends
2pm, Rollins Chapel, FREE


Event: January 21: Men's Basketball vs. Harvard
7pm [new time], Berry Leede Arena


Event: January 21: Hop Stop Performance—The Dragon King
11am, Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center


In the News: First Ladies (Valley News)
Valley NewsToday, the Dartmouth women’s ice hockey team is frequently ranked one of the best in the country. But it all began with a group of lacrosse players in figure skates. Read more.


News: Writer and Activist Larry Kramer Visits Dartmouth as Montgomery Fellow
Larry Kramer, author of the play The Normal Heart and the screenplay Women in Love, the co-founder of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GHMC), and the founder of ACT UP, is in residence at Dartmouth as a Montgomery Fellow this month. Read more.


Feature: The Content of Our Character
A second week of Dartmouth's annual celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is underway. In the coming days, events marking this year's theme, "The Content of Our Character," include two Dartmouth Medical School offerings and the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Awards.


Event: January 19: Performance—"Words and Their Consequences," with spoken word artist Taylor Mali
7pm-9pm Collis Common Ground


Event: January 19: Panel Discussion—"Dartmouth Alumni of the Civil Rights Movement"
Noon-1:30pm, Collis Common Ground


News: Shanée Brown '12 Awarded National Fellowship for Future Teachers
Shanée Brown ’12 of Bridgeport, Conn., has been selected as one of 25 nationwide recipients of the 2012 Aspiring Teachers of Color Fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The fund was created to help recruit, support, and retain individuals of color as public education teachers and administrators. Read more.


News: Top Thinkers, Innovators Headline "Leading Voices in Higher Education" Lectures
As the Dartmouth community looks to the future through strategic planning, ideas from beyond campus are critical to the conversation. Beginning this month, the new “Leading Voices in Higher Education” strategic planning speaker series brings influential scholars and writers to Hanover for public lectures. Read more.


Feature: Leadership Lives at Dartmouth
What makes a great leader? How does leadership live in our own lives, and in our universities, businesses, organizations, and communities? In the second of a three-part video series, Dartmouth Medical School student Jessica Linden Swienckowski discusses how Dartmouth's class size and its opportunities for student clinical research help to build leaders.


Sights & Sounds: Photos: 2012 Student Forum on Global Learning
Helping midwives deliver babies in Ghana, studying the impact of global warming on the Sami culture in Finland, and teaching brass music in Cape Town are among the first-hand experiences that students will discuss during the third annual Student Forum on Global Learning on January 16, 2012. See more.


Event: January 17: Lecture—"Miniaturization and Integration: The Basis of Future Diagnostic Systems?" with Axel Scherer
4pm-5pm, 658 West Borwell Conference Room - DHMC


Event: January 17: Presentation—"What Matters to Me and Why," with writer and actor Tayo Aluko
Noon-1pm, Tucker Foundation Living Room


In the News: Biotechs Strike Partnerships to Spread their Costs, Risks (The Boston Globe)
In a story surveying a recent flurry of partnerships, buy-outs, and alliances among various pharmaceutical companies, entrepreneurs, and research labs, the Boston Globe spoke with Thayer School’s Tillman Gerngross about his efforts on behalf of his Lebanon, N.H.-based company Adimab LLC. Read more.


Feature: Watch and Learn
In a new paper, Professor of Economics Douglas Staiger explores the best ways to measure what is observed in a teacher's classroom. Staiger is a lead researcher for the Gates Foundation's Measuring Effective Teaching project.


Event: January 15: Men's and Women's Squash vs. University of Pennsylvania
Noon, Berry Squash Exhibition


Event: January 15: Community Faith Celebration
2pm-3:30pm, Rollins Chapel


Event: January 14: Film—Anonymous
7pm, Spaulding Auditorium


Event: Dartmouth Athletics Events Schedule
All Sports Schedule


News: Lucky Mkosana '12 Selected for Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer SuperDraft
Dartmouth men's soccer forward Lucky Mkosana (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) became the Big Green's third MLS draftee when the Chicago Fire selected him with the No. 23 overall pick of the 2012 MLS SuperDraft on Thursday (Jan. 12). Read more.


Feature: Honoring Dr. King
In 1962, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. urged a Dartmouth audience "Towards Freedom." On Sunday, January 15, a community faith celebration is among the first of events of Dartmouth's annual month-long series honoring the life and work of Dr. King. The theme this year: "The Content of Our Character."


Event: January 13: Performance—Everett Dance Theatre: Brain Storm
8pm, The Moore Theater


In the News: Will Kim Jong-il's Death Spark Change in North Korea? (New Atlanticist)
Assistant Professor of Government Jennifer Lind told the New Atlanticist that the United States should see Kim Jong-un’s rise to power as an opportunity. Read more.


News: Dartmouth Among First Schools Showcased in Google Maps Feature
Prospective students, alumni wanting to stroll down memory lane, and others curious about Dartmouth can now take a virtual walk around campus and explore far beyond Main and Wheelock Streets thanks to the recent inclusion of the campus on the Google Maps feature called Street View. Read more.


News: Herman Boone is Keynote Speaker for 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Celebrated football coach Herman Boone, who led a newly-integrated high school football team to the 1971 Virginia state championship and was the subject of the movie Remember the Titans, will be the keynote speaker at Dartmouth’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on January 16. Read more.


Feature: Shark, Rattle, and Roll
Associate Professor of Anthropology Nathaniel Dominy recently joined a research team in Western Australia investigating what attracts sharks. One item of interest: rattles made from shells, seed pods, or coconuts used by Aboriginal hunters—examples of which are found in Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art.


Event: January 12: EYEWASH Film and Video Series, with Amy Beste
7pm, Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art


Event: January 12: Panel Discussion—"Occupy Dartmouth: Voices Crying in the Wilderness?"
4pm-5:30pm, Collis Common Ground


In the News: Analysis: Late Voting Decisions Make N.H. Primaries Unique (WBUR)
Speaking on WBUR’s Morning Edition on the day of the New Hampshire primary, professor of Government Linda Fowler affirmed that old-style “retail politics” are still alive and well in the state. Hear more.


News: Dumais Sends Women's Hockey Home a Winner at Frozen Fenway
The Dartmouth women's hockey team, playing in the center of the baseball diamond at Fenway Park, came away with a 3-2 victory over Providence on Tuesday after junior Camille Dumais (Beaconsfield, Quebec) scored the game-winning goal with 1:14 left in the third. Read more.


Feature: Walk This Way
Prospective students, alumni wanting to stroll down memory lane, and others curious about Dartmouth can now take a virtual walk around campus, thanks to the recent inclusion of the College in Google Maps' Street View. Dartmouth is one of the first schools to be featured in the Street View update, which was announced this week by Google.


In the News: Dartmouth President Hopes to Apply Public-Health Lessons From Rwanda and Peru to Binge Drinking (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
As the 32-member Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking convenes in Austin, Texas, this week for its second meeting, the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed President Jim Yong Kim about the project. Read more.


Feature: The Beauty And Mystery of the Brain
Art meets neuroscience this week at Dartmouth, with the Everett Dance Theatre's world premiere of Brain Storm at the Hopkins Center on Friday and Saturday, January 13 and 14. The performance combines dance, theater, and visual art; related public events begin Wednesday, January 11.


Event: January 12: William H. Timbers '37 Lecture—"Our Foreign Affairs Constitution: The President, Congress, and the Making of International Law," with Oona A. Hathaway
4:30pm - 6pm, Rockefeller 2


Event: January 11: Film—Melancholia
7pm, Spaulding Auditorium


Feature: Breaking Point
Students studying solid mechanics at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering put their studies to a hands-on evaluation, constructing model bridges for strength-testing. But it's the students' ability to accurately predict the experiment's outcome that's truly on the line.


Event: January 9: Book Arts Program—Letterpress Workshop Orientation
6:30pm - 9pm, Baker Library Room 23


Event: January 9: Pre-N.H. Primary Public Program: "America at a Crossroads: The Fiscal Challenges and a Way Forward," with the Hon. David M. Walker
4:30pm - 6pm, Filene Auditorium


Feature: Impact on Business
From learning from corporate failures to building better financial systems, the reach and real-world impact of research by the faculty of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business is profound—and it resonates far beyond the classroom.


Event: January 8: Performance—The Met Opera Live in HD presents Faust
1pm, Spaulding Auditorium


Event: January 6-8: Track and Field 43rd Annual Dartmouth Relays
Multiple times, Leverone Field House


Feature: Compelling Ideas
In this Dartmouth Alumni Magazine interview, President Jim Yong Kim considers the first years of his presidency and talks about his search for "compelling ideas" to drive what comes next.


Event: January 6: Jones Seminar—"Upper Valley 20/20: Using Systems Thinking to Engineer a New Economic Model," with William Bittinger
3:30pm, Spanos Auditorium


In the News: Republicans Look Toward N.H. Next (WPTZ)
WPTZ television logoInterviewed on the day of the Iowa caucuses, Research Associate Professor of Government Ron Shaiko, associate director of curricular programs at the Rockefeller Center, highlighted the “winnowing” function of early contests like Iowa and New Hampshire. Read more.


In the News: What The Close Race In Iowa Means for N.H. (NPR)
NPR’s Talk of the Nation tapped Linda Fowler, professor of Government and Frank J. Reagan 1909 Chair in Policy Studies, for a morning-after analysis of the January 3 Iowa caucuses and a look towards the next contest for Republicans contending for their party’s Presidential nomination: the New Hampshire primary, set for Tuesday, January 10. Read more.


News: Dartmouth Professor Offers New Insights on Left Brain/Right Brain Paradigm
The left brain/right brain dichotomy has been prominent on the pop psychology scene since Nobel Laureate Roger Sperry broached the subject in the 1960s. The left is analytical while the right is creative, so goes the adage. Read more.


Feature: Art and Life: Kayla Gebeck '12
Artist Mateo Romero '89 chose Kayla Gebeck '12 as the subject for a portrait in "The Dartmouth Pow-Wow Suite," now on display at the Hood Museum of Art. In this video, Gebek, a double major in linguistics and Native American studies, discusses the Romero exhibition and her own work as a dancer and an artist.


Event: January 5: Discussion—"The Ethics of Political Speech"
12:30pm, Ctr Straus Conf. Room (125)


Event: January 5: Panel—"The End Of The World As We Imagine It," presented in conjunction with Baby Universe
5pm, Faculty Lounge, FREE


In the News: Winter Carnivals (National Geographic Traveler)
National Geographic TravelerProfiling winter carnivals in Japan, across Canada, and throughout the United States, National Geographic Traveler magazine highlights the range of events on offer at Dartmouth. Read more.


News: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Psychiatrist Co-authors Report on Novel Treatment for Depression, Bipolar Disorder
Dartmouth-Hitchcock psychiatrist Paul E. Holtzheimer, MD, is the lead author of a new study showing how deep brain stimulation (DBS) in a particular region of the mind can safely and effectively treat depression in patients with either unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) or bipolar II disorder (BP). Read more.


Feature: Rethinking Right Brain vs. Left Brain
Looking at how the brain processes faces, Professor Ming Meng is unlocking the mysteries of the right brain/left brain paradigm. His study of facial perception, just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, combines fMRI, computer vision, and psychophysics to take our understanding of brain function in a new direction.


News: Orangutans in Borneo Offer a New Evolutionary Model for Early Humans
Starving orangutans in Borneo may be teaching us new lessons about human evolution.


Feature: Time Out
Take off sophomore winter and study off campus junior fall or study abroad sophomore winter and take off junior spring? The D-Plan—Dartmouth's signature quarterly calendar—offers flexibility and opportunity. And as these life-altering stories from alumni in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine attest, one term away can make all the difference.


Sights & Sounds: Photos: Christmas Revels 2011
An Elizabethan celebration of the Winter Solstice. Performed at Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center.


Ask: What is the oldest book that Dartmouth owns?
The oldest printed book in the Dartmouth College Library collection is a Catholicon, a Latin dictionary by Giovanni Balbi and one of the first books to be printed. Read more.


Event: January 4: Winter term classes begin
Winter 2012 January 4, Wednesday -- Winter term classes begin at 7:45 a.m. January 16, Monday -- Martin Luther King Jr. day - classes moved to x-periods except 3A classes to 3B on Tuesday; laboratories meet as scheduled February 10, Friday -- Carnival holiday (Classes moved to x-periods) March 7, Wednesday -- Winter term classes end at 5:20 p.m.; start of Pre-Examination Break March 10, Saturday -- Final examinations begin March 14, Wednesday -- Final examinations end


In the News: 40 Years After the National Cancer Act (VPR)
Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act, creating a nationwide program to fight cancer. DMS Professor Mark Israel spoke to VPR about the progress that has been made since.


Feature: Happy Holidays
The goings-on at Dartmouth this year have kept the College's news team busy covering and sharing stories. Dartmouth's news has also caught the attention of reporters and media outlets around the globe. Enjoy the Dartmouth Now team's selection of 11 favorite stories published in 2011, and these other seasonal offerings from Dartmouth.


Event: Dartmouth Athletics: Upcoming Events
All Sport Schedule


Feature: A League of Their Own
Hockey is more than just a game at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. It's woven into the fabric of the school, an all-comers activity that builds on Tuck's time-honored traditions of teamwork and community.


In the News: If Kim Jong-un Fails to Control Arsenal, North Korea Could Be 'Truly Terrifying' (PBS Newshour)
Assistant Professor of Government Jennifer Lind appeared on PBS Newshour Monday night to discuss the handover of power in North Korea following the death of Kim Jong-il. Read more.


Event: Hopkins Center for the Arts: Upcoming Performances
The Hop’s 2011/12 season features outstanding performances covering tremendous creative ground.


In the News; Fewer Veterans with PTSD Using Anti-anxiety Drugs (Reuters)
Professor Matthew Friedman has co-authored a study that shows doctors are moving away from an addictive class of drugs when treating veterans for posttraumatic stress. Read more.


Feature: The Most Famous Reindeer of All
You no longer have to wait for a foggy Christmas Eve to see Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Santa's most famous flyer can be found year-round in a more protected habitat, high above the Rauner Special Collections Library on the fourth level of the glass-enclosed rare book stacks. Read more about why Rudolph makes his home at Rauner.


Feature: Year in Review
The goings-on at Dartmouth this year have kept the College's news team busy covering and sharing stories. Dartmouth's news has also caught the attention of reporters and media outlets around the globe. As the year draws to a close, the Dartmouth Now team shares a selection of 11 favorite stories published in 2011.


Event: December 19: Microbiology/Immunology Seminar—“Diversity and Posttranslational Modifications of Prokaryotic Sec and Tat Substrates,” with Mecky Pohlschrvder
4pm - 5pm, Chilcott Auditorium


Event: December 18: Performance—The Christmas Revels
Dec 18, 1pm and 5pm Spaulding Auditorium


Event: December 20: Genetics Seminar—"Chromatin in the Circadian System," with William Belden
4pm - 5pm, Chilcott Auditorium


News: Men's Basketball Defeats Elon, 62-54
Freshmen Gabas Maldunas and John Golden each registered double-doubles to help host Dartmouth, playing its first home game in four weeks, defeat the Elon Phoenix on Saturday afternoon at Leede Arena, 62-54.


Event: December 16-18: Performance—The Christmas Revels
Dec 16, 7pm Dec 17, 2pm and 7pm Dec 18, 1pm and 5pm Spaulding Auditorium


Event: December 16: Lecture—“Metabolic Activation of Arsenic: A Potential Cell Type Specific Mechanism for Endocrine and Enzyme Disruption,” with Jack E. Bodwel
4pm - 5pm, Auditorium E


In the News: Worst CEOs of 2011: Netflix’s Reed Hastings Tops Tuck Prof’s List (The Daily Ticker)
Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management at Tuck, has released his 2011 listing of the worst CEOs. Finkelstein appeared on The Daily Ticker to discuss his choices.


In the News: U.S. Trade Policy “Avoided Disaster,” Irwin Says (Bloomberg)
Economics Professor Douglas Irwin appeared on Bloomberg’s Surveillance Midday to discuss his new book, Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s.


Feature: Evolutionary Clues from Orangutans
The quality of food available to orangutans living in Borneo varies dramatically year to year. In the apes' enduring adaptations to periodic scarcity, anthropologist Nathaniel Dominy sees clues to what happened to human ancestors in deep time. Read more about his research, just published in Biology Letters.


News: Hanover Conservancy Celebrates 50 Years of Collaboration with Dartmouth
Some of Hanover, New Hampshire’s most beautiful public natural areas—including Balch Hill and Mink Brook—might not exist in their current state without the nonprofit organization, the Hanover Conservancy. Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the organization thanked Dartmouth for its ongoing support during the Conservancy’s annual meeting this month.


News: Dartmouth Admits 465 Early Decision Applicants to the Class of 2016
Dartmouth has admitted 465 students into next year’s entering Class of 2016 from a pool of 1,801 Early Decision applicants. The prospective students were notified via a secure website on December 9.


Feature: Advancing Science
Five Dartmouth faculty members have been selected as 2011 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society. Professors Duane Compton, Russell Hughes, Lee Lynd, Jason Moore, and George O'Toole are among those newly recognized by the AAAS for their distinguished efforts to advance science.


Event: Ongoing: Exhibition—Hood Museum of Art: "Native American Art at Dartmouth"
through March 11, 2012, Hood Museum of Art


Event: December 15-18: Performance—The Christmas Revels
Dec 15 & 16, 7pm Dec 17, 2pm and 7pm Dec 18, 1pm and 5pm Spaulding Auditorium


News: Dartmouth Researchers Evaluate Rice as a Source of Fetal Arsenic Exposure
A study just published by a Dartmouth team of scientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) advances our understanding of the sources of human exposure to arsenic and focuses attention on the potential for consuming harmful levels of arsenic via rice. Read more.


News: Five Dartmouth Faculty Elected AAAS Fellows
Five Dartmouth faculty members have been selected as 2011 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science. Professors Duane Compton, Russell Hughes, Lee Lynd, Jason Moore, and George O’Toole are among 539 new fellows recognized by AAAS this year for their distinguished efforts to advance science. Read more.


Feature: Know Ye, Therefore...
The Dartmouth College Charter was signed on December 13, 1769—242 years ago today. Before getting to the legal language officially establishing the College, the charter recounts Dartmouth's beginnings. Do you know the story? Read the text of the charter—and go visit a facsimile of the original displayed at the west end of Baker Library's main hall.


Sights & Sounds: Video: A Conversation with Yolanda Griffith
To the Dartmouth women's basketball team she's Coach Yo. To the rest of the world she's Yolanda Griffith, seven-time WNBA All-Star, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and widely considered to be one of the best players ever to play the game. Griffith, who helped lead the Sacramento Monarchs to a WNBA title in 2005, was named an assistant to head coach Chris Wielgus in August.


Event: December 10: Performance—Hopkins Center Film Presents The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD: Faust
4pm - 5pm, Auditorium G


In the News: Where's the Stimulus? (The Hospitalist)
With much of the national discussion on healthcare policy still dominated by the Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law March 23, 2010, it’s easy to forget that the healthcare industry received a big influx of money through 2009’s federal stimulus. In all, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act gave the go-ahead for roughly $160 billion in new health-related spending. Read more.


In the News: Debating Genetically Modified Salmon (NPR)
The biotech company AquaBounty has developed a genetically engineered salmon that grows twice as fast as normal fish. Are they safe for consumers and the environment? The Food and Drug Administration is trying to determine the answer.


Feature: A Talented Team
The Christmas Revels are a long-standing tradition at the Hopkins Center. When the 2011 edition of the show, An Elizabethan Celebration Of The Winter Solstice, opens on December 15, another tradition will be upheld, as Dartmouth employees take the stage alongside the production's profession performers. Read more about these talented members of the College community.


Feature: Dartmouth Research Addresses Arsenic and Rice
A study just published by a Dartmouth team of scientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) advances our understanding of the sources of human exposure to arsenic and focuses attention on the potential for consuming harmful levels of arsenic via rice.


Event: December 7-8: Performance—Dartmouth College Gospel Choir Holiday Show
6pm and 8pm, Rollins Chapel


Event: December 7: Hood Museum of Art Holiday Open House
5:30pm - 7pm, Hood Museum of Art


In the News: Arsenic in Rice Poses Health Risks for Pregnant Women, Researchers Find (Bloomberg)
Dartmouth researchers are calling for the government to monitor arsenic in food after detecting increased levels of the element in pregnant women who had recently eaten rice. The team at Dartmouth Medical School studied pregnant women because scientists believe arsenic may be linked to premature births and low birth-weights. Read more.


Feature: Remembering Pearl Harbor
Seventy years ago, the weeks following December 7, 1941, were filled with a good deal of uncertainty and anxiety for the entire nation and the world. For a Japanese student on campus during the Pearl Harbor bombing, a Dartmouth president proved a reassuring presence. Dartmouth Alumni Magazine publishes an excerpt from the memoirs of Takanobu Mitsui '43.