Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Alum brothers start Kenyan clinic

Milton Ochieng ‘04 first dreamed of building the Lwala Community Clinic in his village of Lwala, Kenya, while on a Tucker Foundation Cross-Cultural service trip to Nicaragua during his sophomore winter. On that trip, Milton traveled with 30 other Dartmouth students to aid the construction of a women and children’s health clinic. More »

DDS weighs bump to better burgers, at a cost

By JR Santo, The Dartmouth Staff

Would you fork over an extra $2.35 for a grass-fed beef hamburger at Home Plate? Ninety out of 92 students saidthey would in a meat taste-test held earlier this month. But Dartmouth Dining Services is wary of raising the Home Plate grill hamburger price from $4.50 to $6.85. More »

College teams argue way to top grades at nationals

Correction appended Dartmouth’s Mock Trial and Policy Debate teams have argued their way to the top this year, both performing well enough during their seasons to qualify for their respective national competitions this March. More »

Researchers talk cyber security at conference

By Michael Coburn, The Dartmouth Staff

More than 60 researchers from 12 different countries gathered at Dartmouth for a three-day academic conference on cyber security last week. The brand-new event gave attendees the opportunity to review papers and listen to speakers discuss the need to protect critical computer systems from cyber-terrorism. More »

Daily Debriefing

  • Dartmouth French Professor Vivian Kogan pled not guilty to the misdemeanor charge of shoplifting in her arraignment on March 13 in the Lebanon District Court. More »
  • Dartmouth was ranked ninth in a new ranking of the United States’ strongest colleges and universities for studies in international relations among those universities that offer such programs at the undergraduate level. More »
  • The New York Times extended university students and faculty free subscriptions to TimesSelect — an online service which gives individuals access to certain Opinion/Editorial columnists, certain news columnists and New York Times archives dating back to 1851 — as of March 13. More »
  • To qualify for a free subscription, an individual must be a university student or faculty member with a valid university email address ending in . More »

College hosts arctic climate change conference over break

During Hanover’s own winter-end change of climate, scientists were dealing with climate change on a grander level at Dartmouth, as from March 14-20, the College hosted the first Arctic Science Summit Week ever to be held in the United States. More »