Kim announces changes to admin. structure

By Kate Farley, The Dartmouth Senior Staff

Adam Keller will step down as executive vice president for finance and administration on Dec. 1, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in an e-mail to students Thursday morning. Keller will not be replaced, Kim said, and senior vice president and strategic advisor Steve Kadish will assume many of Keller’s current responsibilities in an effort to “streamline” the current administrative structure.

CHILD'S PLAY: Sculpture 2 students have a “sterile birthday” as part of a class presentation in Tiltfactor’s “play cube” on Thursday on Massachusetts Row.

CHILD'S PLAY: Sculpture 2 students have a “sterile birthday” as part of a class presentation in Tiltfactor’s “play cube” on Thursday on Massachusetts Row.

Order this photo | Photo: IAN BLUMENTHAL, The Dartmouth Staff

Biologist Zamecnik ’33 passes away at 96

By Jackie Donohoe

Renowned scientific researcher Paul Zamecnik ’33, who is credited with the discovery of a molecule critical for protein synthesis, died Oct. 27 of cancer in his home in Boston at the age of 96, according to his daughter, Elizabeth Coakley. Zamecnik, long considered a front-runner for the Nobel Prize, enrolled in Dartmouth Medical School — at the time a two-year program — in 1934, and later finished his medical degree at Harvard University, where he spent the majority of his career.

Alum. nominated to be ambassador

By Katie Gonzalez, The Dartmouth Staff

Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis ’89 — nominated by President Barack Obama to be the ambassador to Hungary last month — was praised by Democrats and received little criticism from Republicans during her hour-long Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

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Daily Debriefing

  • Universities rarely report their researchers’ financial conflicts of interest to the government as is required for government-funded research, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report issued on Thursday. More »
  • New Hampshire will offer expanded H1N1 vaccination clinics for all children aged six months to five years and people between the ages of 18 and 24 with chronic health conditions, the Concord Monitor reported on Thursday. More »
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