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  • July 3, 2008
    The other side of the stethoscope - Physicians, for all their knowledge about health, sometimes fall prey to serious illness and injury. Dartmouth Medical School's award-winning magazine, Dartmouth Medicine, has received another honor recently for this 2007 look at doctors who find themselves on the receiving end of the stethoscope.
  • June 30, 2008
    National honors - Dartmouth students are well represented in national scholarships this year, with three current students and five alumni winning Fulbright Scholarships, two current students chosen as alternates for Fulbright scholarships, and a Beinecke Scholarship and Udall Scholarship awarded to current students and recent graduates.
  • June 27, 2008
    Deep thoughts - Though he says his first lecture in 1959 was not his best (paper airplanes flew from the balcony of 105 Dartmouth Hall) Bernard Gert has since become one of Dartmouth's most respected philosophy professors. "I benefited so much from my colleagues, and from how good the Dartmouth students are," says Gert, now wrapping up a half-century of teaching.
  • June 23, 2008
    Summer at Dartmouth - No "lazy, hazy days of summer" here. At Dartmouth, the campus teems with summer activity, from students hurrying to classes to sports campers lining the playing fields to conference participants gathering in seminar rooms. Of special interest this year is the Leslie Center for the Humanities' Summer Arts Festival, now underway.
  • June 20, 2008
    Presidential Search Committee named - Fourteen members of the Dartmouth community have been named to begin the process of identifying candidates for the College's 17th president, Ed Haldeman, chair of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, announced today. The committee includes six trustees, six members of the Dartmouth faculty, one alumna and one student.
  • June 18, 2008
    What are the risks? - If you're a 55-year-old male who has never smoked, how likely is it you will die from heart disease over the next 10 years? From prostate cancer? Pneumonia? Researchers at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice have created charts to provide patients with information-based on actual records-of their risk of death.
  • June 17, 2008
    Cords sing in Philly - The Dartmouth Cords, an all-male a cappella group, will perform the national anthem at Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia, PA at the Boston Red Sox-Philadelphia Phillies game on Tuesday, June 17. This is the second consecutive year the Cords, recognized by their trademark corduroy pants, have been invited to sing the national anthem at a major sporting event.
  • June 16, 2008
    Making the leap - The discovery of a drug that could arrest cancer--or even prevent it--without nasty side effects would be big news. So findings by Dartmouth pharmacologist Michael Sporn, M.D., and his colleagues will indeed be big news, if they can make the leap from mice to humans.
  • June 12, 2008
    Association of Alumni election - Dartmouth's Office of Alumni Relations has announced that a record number of Dartmouth alumni voted to elect new leadership of the Association of Alumni (AoA) committed to ending a lawsuit against the College. Every member of the "Unity" slate of candidates for the eleven-member executive committee was elected with approximately 60 percent of the votes cast. With 24,940 ballots cast, a record number of Dartmouth College's more than 60,000 alumni participated in the election, approximately 38 percent.
  • June 7, 2008
    Valedictorians - For the first time ever, Dartmouth has three - count 'em, three - valedictorians. Nicholas Christman, Jean Ellen Cowgill, and Margaret Fichet will all graduate Sunday with identical 4.0 grade-point-averages. Salutatorian Daniel Mahoney isn't far behind, with a 3.99 GPA.

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