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  • November 20, 2008
    Sharing polar adventures - “Where do you sleep?” is one child’s question that Becky Ball, a post-doctoral fellow in environmental studies at Dartmouth, answered on her blog last year about being a field researcher in Antarctica. “The interaction with the kids was fun,” says Ball, who will blog again during the field season in January and February 2009, which is summertime in Antarctica.
  • November 19, 2008
    Lessons in Dying Well - Most physicians have far more experience with death than the average person does. Even so, when they experience the death of a parent, it shakes them personally and affects them professionally. Four physicians with Dartmouth ties share final, powerful lessons they learned from a parent—how best to care for someone facing the end of life.
  • November 18, 2008
    Game on - Dartmouth’s men’s soccer team, Ivy League co-champions for 2008, has drawn the 16th seed in the 48-team NCAA Men’s Soccer Championship. That seed earns the Big Green a first-round bye; Dartmouth will host the winner of Friday’s Colgate-Boston College game in Hanover on Nov. 25.
  • November 17, 2008
    Grow solar - Since 2004, Thayer School of Engineering graduate Chris Polashenski ’07 has bettered the Dartmouth Organic Farm greenhouse one innovation at a time. For one engineering class project, Polashenski and Luke Wachter ’06 retrofitted the structure to run on solar power instead of fossil fuels. This idea reflects one of their major criteria: every adjustment must be profitable.
  • November 16, 2008
    Soulful celebration - Hear the glorious sound of Dartmouth's Gospel Choir with live band when they perform selections from Handel's Messiah, Sunday at 2 in Spaulding Auditorium. The Gospel Choir sings several soul-stirring arrangements from the recording, including the famed celebratory Hallelujah Chorus.
  • November 14, 2008
    On the budget - Dartmouth President James Wright has announced that Dartmouth will be taking steps to address the impact of the world financial crisis on the College. After meeting with Dartmouth Trustees over the weekend, Wright, along with Provost Barry Scherr and Executive Vice President Adam Keller, have outlined some preliminary steps to bring Dartmouth’s current budget in line with declining endowment returns, as well as to plan for future budgets.
  • November 13, 2008
    Girl power - An innovative website to emphasize smoking prevention for young girls has been launched through Children's Hospital at Dartmouth and Dartmouth Medical School. The safe, online patient education site was created by a Dartmouth pediatrician to prevent smoking in girls 8-11 years old.
  • November 12, 2008
    Changes - "'Obama' is not a magical incantation," says Dartmouth Professor of English and of African and African American Studies J. Martin Favor, in a blog posting on the Huffington Post. "The presence of Barack Obama and his family in the White House, however, is going to lead us to have to rethink how we view our ideas of 'race,' nationality and ethnicity."
  • November 11, 2008
    The few, the proud ... - On Veterans' Day, Americans pause to honor those members of the Armed Forces who have defended, and continue to defend, the rights and liberties we all enjoy. Recently, Dartmouth President James Wright and U.S. Marine Corps veteran Samuel Crist '10 we interviewed on National Public Radio's "Here and Now" program, about President Wright's continuing involvement with higher education opportunities for military veterans.
  • November 10, 2008
    A look back - Dartmouth President James Wright will join alumni panelists with professional expertise in American politics for a symposium titled "Reflections on the 2008 Campaign: Challenges for the New President." The event will be held this afternoon in Murdough Center's Cook Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. Panelists include historians Annette Gordon-Reed '81 and Jim Kloppenberg '73, Democratic National Committee Chief of Staff Rev. Leah Daughtry '84, former Congressman Rob Portman '78, and journalists David Shribman '76 and Jacques Steinberg.

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