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Meet Dartmouth’s New Endowed Professors: Darrin McMahon
This is the eighth in a series of profiles of the 10 new endowed professors in the arts and sciences.Darrin McMahon, the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock ProfessorSpecializing in Western intellectual history,...
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Dartmouth Hosts Conference on Spanish Surrealists
Hands crawling with ants, eyeballs slit with razors, men in nuns’ habits riding bicycles?If Hanover seems more surreal than usual next week, it’s because the international conference “Dalí, Lorca, and...
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Meet Dartmouth’s New Endowed Professors: Robert Staiger
This is the last in a series of profiles of the 10 new endowed professors in the arts and sciences.Robert Staiger, Roth Family Distinguished Professor in the Arts and SciencesRobert Staiger joined the...
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Celebrating Dartmouth’s Musical Maverick
The work of influential new music composer Christian Wolff, a Dartmouth professor emeritus, will be celebrated in a two-day series of concerts and events called “The Exception and the Rule,” set for...
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New Institute Will Bridge Science and Humanities
“There are questions that scientists are dealing with right now that science alone cannot answer,” says theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy.Marcelo...
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Salman Rushdie Calls for a Return to Magic in Fiction
To a full house in Spaulding Auditorium on Monday, author Salman Rushdie, in his first visit to Dartmouth, made an impassioned call for the fantastical in fiction.In his first-ever visit to Dartmouth,...
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Slideshow: ‘Don Juan Comes Back From the War’
The cast performed a dress rehearsal two days before opening night. (Eli Burakian ’00)The Department of Theater recently took on the production of Don Juan Comes Back From the War, in which the iconic...
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Original Student Composition Enjoys World Premiere
In addition to their performance of Mozart’s Requiem and sections of The Magic Flute at their fall concert on Nov. 1, the students in the Glee Club premiered a composition by one of their own: a...
View ArticleDartArt: Nick Moolenijzer ’17 on Allan Houser’s ‘Peaceful Serenity’
Video of DartArt: 'Peaceful Serenity,' by Allan HouserIn Peaceful Serenity, a sculpture by Native American artist Allan Houser, Nick Moolenijzer ’17 found on the Dartmouth campus a...
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Professors Win Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies Julie Hruby. (Photo by Robert Gill)Two Dartmouth professors, Julie Hruby, an assistant professor of classical studies, and Deborah Nichols, the William J....
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$20 Million in Gifts Furthers Hanlon’s Cluster Initiative
Dartmouth has received gifts totaling $20 million to establish two interdisciplinary faculty groups, called academic clusters, to help elevate the institution as a global leader in the fields of...
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Far-Flung Thanksgiving: Off-Campus Programs Celebrate
As the Dartmouth community prepares for Thanksgiving, Dartmouth Now asked students and faculty participating on the College’s fall foreign study and language study abroad programs in Peru, Scotland,...
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Dartmouth Community Mourns John Rassias, 1925-2015
John Arthur Rassias, the William R. Kenan Professor of French and Italian, Emeritus, and creator of the Rassias Method of teaching languages, died Dec. 2 at his home in Norwich, Vt. He was 90.Professor...
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This Year’s Christmas Revels Go to Scottish Highlands
This year’s annual holiday show at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, The Christmas Revels: A Scottish Highlands Celebration of the Winter Solstice, is based on the magical Celtic tale of Tam Lin,...
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Visiting Lecturer In Line for PEN Award
By Charlotte AlbrightA poet who was a visiting lecturer at Dartmouth this fall has just landed on a select list of authors in line for a prestigious PEN literary award. Vievee Francis is among nine...
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Exchanging Ideas at College’s Audio Visual Synthesis Workshop
Computer scientists, programmers, musicians, and visual artists from far and wide met to exchange ideas and collaborate on projects at Dartmouth’s Audio Visual Synthesis Workshop, a gathering made...
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Mark Williams and Media Ecology Project Receive NEH Grant
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Mark Williams and John Bell, lead applications developer in Dartmouth’s Academic Commons, have been awarded a two-year research and development grant from...
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The Hood: ‘Fully Engaged’ Throughout Construction
Asked what he thinks about joining the Hood Museum of Art just before a $50 million expansion and renovation project begins, incoming Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director John Stomberg laughs. “You...
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Hood Museum of Art Prepares to Expand
Work is set to begin this spring on a $50 million expansion and renovation of the Hood Museum of Art.Artist rendering of the north façade of expanded Hood Museum of Art. (Image courtesy of Tod Williams...
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Across Disciplines, Students Connect to Orozco Mural
Mrynna Cervantes ’16 grew up in El Centro, Calif., not far from the Mexican border. But though her family is Mexican-American, she says she never learned about Mexican history until she came to...
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