Cultural Ambassadors: 2016 Fulbright and DAAD Recipients
Every year, several graduating seniors and alumni are offered the opportunity to study and teach around the world through Fulbright and Germany’s Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)...
View ArticleAn Ancient Greek Sword, a Pacifist, and a Senior Project
Thomas Rover ’16 is a student of warfare, specifically in ancient Greece, but philosophically he is a pacifist. This seeming contradiction lies in a lifelong fascination with weaponry, swords in...
View ArticleLibrary Honors Graduating Student Employees
This year marks the 10th year that the Dartmouth College Library has honored its graduating student employees with the Student Library Service Bookplate Program.Among the students honored in this...
View ArticleNivi Nagaraj ’16—an Engineer and a Dancer
Nivedita (Nivi) Nagaraj ’16 grew up in Michigan in a world of engineering. A computer science engineer mother and a mechanical engineer father were the inspiration for the undergraduate’s path of...
View ArticleStudents Receive Arts Awards at HOP ceremony
Dartmouth is a place where artists work and thrive every month in the calendar. But one day is special each year, when outstanding students are rewarded for their work, in a wide variety of media, at...
View ArticleBooks, Books, Books: Celebrating Arts and Humanities
On a recent afternoon, the Leslie Center for the Humanities hosted a reception for arts and humanities faculty who published books in 2015—works that included explorations of colonial West Africa and...
View ArticleAt Sanborn Hall: Some Enchanted Afternoon
On most days, the Sanborn Hall library, with towering bookshelves tucked into balconied alcoves, an imposing fireplace, heavy woodwork, and glittering chandeliers, is a formal room where serious...
View ArticleSenior Fellows’ Projects: Gay Identity, Climate-Change Activism
Senior fellows David Cordero ’16 and Leehi Yona ’16 have spent their final undergraduate year exploring timely issues.Leehi Yona ’16 and David Cordero ’16 take a break from their senior fellowship...
View ArticleSeven Scholars Named to the Society of Fellows
Dartmouth has named seven postdoctoral students from across the country to the Society of Fellows, the second cohort of rising scholars to be selected since President Phil Hanlon’77 laid out his vision...
View ArticleArt Contest Winners Receive Awards From Class of 1961
Sheltered by a grove of trees in College Park near Bartlett Tower, immortalized in bronze, sits Robert Frost. Over the past few months, artists studying or working at Dartmouth have made pilgrimages to...
View ArticleNew Faculty Bring Wide-Ranging Expertise to Dartmouth
Thirty-two scholars started teaching at Dartmouth this academic year. Many are researching solutions to challenging problems in medicine, business, and the arts and sciences.(Photos by Eli Burakian ’00...
View ArticleN. Bruce Duthu ’80 to Lead International and Interdisciplinary Programs
N. Bruce Duthu’80, the Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, will be the next Frank. J. Guarini Associate Dean for International Studies and Interdisciplinary Programs. He succeeds Lynn...
View ArticleParty Like It’s…Time for the Museum to Close
The galleries may be empty and the walls may be bare, but the public is invited to two final events in the Hood Museum of Art this week—the last hoorah before construction begins on the renovation and...
View ArticlePulitzer Prize-Winning Author Jhumpa Lahiri to Speak
When I first read Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story “The Third and Final Continent,” published in The New Yorker and later in Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, I...
View Article‘For Colored Girls’ Gives Voice to Women’s Struggles and Joy
Carene Mekertichyan ’16 has wanted to produce Ntozake Shange’s classic play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf since she came to Dartmouth four years ago.Theater...
View ArticleEnrico Riley ’95 Wins Rome Prize
Associate Professor of Studio Art Enrico Riley ’95 has won a 2016 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.Enrico Riley paints in his studio in Lebanon, N.H. (Photo by Robert Gill)Given annually to...
View ArticleBehind the Baton: Jacob Weiss ’16 Conducts Wind Ensemble
It’s not easy, being the drum major in a marching band. You often have to march backward while conducting musicians who are also moving around as they play. They need a leader who can establish the...
View Article“made@dartmouth” Showcases Arts and Innovation Events
There’s a vibrant block in the heart of Hanover bordered by East Wheelock, Lebanon, South Main, and Crosby Streets that President Phil Hanlon ’77 has designated the Arts and Innovation District. The...
View ArticleThomas Allen Harris Actually Wants to See Your Old Family Photos
“I feel like it’s my life’s mission to talk to people about their family photographs,” says Montgomery Fellow Thomas Allen Harris.“I feel like it’s my life’s mission to talk to people about their...
View ArticleThe Play’s the Thing: Thumbing Through a First Folio
Video of Thumbing Through Shakespeare's First FolioSeven years after William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, two actors from his King’s Men troupe compiled his greatest hits into a collection...
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