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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Dartmouth slipped from an A- to a B+ in the annual Sustainable Endowments Institute’s Green Report Card, an annual evaluation of campus and endowment sustainability activities at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
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Amy R. Allen, the Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth and Professor of Philosophy and of Women's and Gender Studies, recently received the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung/Foundation.
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A new center dedicated to improving the financial literacy of the American public has been launched through a partnership between the RAND Corporation, Dartmouth and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Susan Dentzer, Dartmouth ’77 and editor in chief of Health Affairs, and John Rich, Dartmouth ’80 and professor and chair of the department of health management and policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health, have both been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, the membership recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.
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“Ethics is the foundation of higher education,” says Aine Donovan, the executive director of Dartmouth’s Ethics Institute, “and we’ve had to become more explicit in recent years about integrating it into teaching and learning.” Donovan’s remark reflects a growing trend in higher education to be increasingly deliberate in helping students chart an ethical course in their studies and in their careers. This fall, Dartmouth begins its sixth year of methodically teaching its master’s and doctoral students about ethics.
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