Andrew Samwick, a Dartmouth professor of economics and director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Social Sciences at Dartmouth, is the 2009 New Hampshire Professor of the Year.
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Dartmouth once again ranks first among Ivy League schools for study abroad participation rate. More than 650 Dartmouth undergraduates studied abroad in 2007-2008, reflecting 61 percent participation, sixth among all doctorate-granting institutions, according to data released today in the Institute of International Education's 2009 “Open Doors” annual report.
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More and more workers are expected to handle all the minute details related to their own retirement. With little financial knowledge and no planning, many people are taking on this task without the resources to help them. Professor Annamaria Lusardi has been named the inaugural director of a new financial literacy center that hopes to change all that.
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Dartmouth College Associate Professor of Geography Susanne Freidberg recently won the prestigious Berkshire Conference Article Prize for 2008, awarded by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, for her article The Triumph of the Egg.
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James Wright, President Emeritus of Dartmouth, will be among speakers to a crowd expected to number in the thousands on Wednesday at an annual Veterans Day ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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President Jim Yong Kim discussed strategic priorities and long-term budget projections with the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College at the Board’s fall term meeting in Hanover on Nov. 6-7.
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Dartmouth researcher Jason Moore is part of a new multi-institution research team called the eagle-i consortium. The group will create a enormous database that enables biomedical scientists from anywhere in the US to search resource inventories at all participating sites and request access to data that will assist in their work. The effort is funded by a $15 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grant from the National Center for Research Resources (part of the National Institutes of Health), and it is led by Lee Nadler at Harvard Medical School.
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Dartmouth Computer Scientist Hany Farid has new evidence regarding a photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, digitally analyzed an iconic image of Oswald pictured in a backyard setting holding a rifle in one hand and Marxist newspapers in the other. Oswald and others claimed that the incriminating photo was a fake, noting the seemingly inconsistent lighting and shadows. After analyzing the photo with modern-day forensic tools, Farid says the photo almost certainly was not altered.
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Dartmouth has received more than 1,600 applications for the Class of 2014 through the early decision admissions program. This is up from 1,551 from last year, about a 3 percent increase. The numbers are approximate as the Admissions Office is still processing the applications.
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Nuclear deterrence may become far harder in the coming decades, argues Daryl G. Press, Associate Professor of Government, in a paper published on Oct. 22 in Foreign Affairs magazine. Whereas deterring nuclear attacks during peacetime is a relatively simple mission, preventing nuclear escalation during a conventional war among nuclear-armed states is a far more difficult challenge. As more potential U.S. adversaries acquire nuclear weapons, the risks of escalation will grow.
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