As snow drifted down outside Moore Hall Thursday evening, Dr. Paul Epstein, an expert on the intersection between public health and climate change, lectured on the dangers of hotter weather to a packed crowd inside in Filene Auditorium. Epstein, the associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, documented the “pain” global warming has already inflicted on inhabitants of a heating earth. More »
The social networking website Facebook.com is generally considered to be a place for students to keep in touch with friends at other college and universities, post pictures of their latest weekend exploits, or electronically poke their lab partner. But another group is joining in on the fun: Dartmouth professors. More »
After the nightly 2 a.m. announcement of Baker-Berry Library’s close, custodian Dan Faulkner remains behind the gate that descends between Berry from Novack Cafe to continue his work vacuuming and mopping the library floors. More »
University of North Carolina cancer researcher Dr. Etta Pisano ‘79 was one of a group of 13 doctors to discover that MRI scans are more effective in detecting breast tumors than mammograms in women who already have cancer in one breast. More »
When Yale University decided last week to revamp its tenure and appointment policy in an effort to become more competitive in recruiting and retaining faculty, it shifted its strategy closer to plans of comparable institutions — including Dartmouth. The new policy provides junior faculty more resources during the tenure process, a departure from a policy that Yale found to put the university at a competitive disadvantage in attracting qualified professors. More »
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