Anthropology professor Dale Eickleman, history professor Gene Garthwaite and government professor Anne Sa’adah highlighted the multi-faceted nature of Islam in a panel discussion on Monday night in Carson L02. Following Robert Spencer’s controversial speech on Friday about what he termed “Islamo-Facism,” the panel discussed the importance of understanding that, like many other religions, Islam has many different denominations and cannot be seen as a single entity.
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From questioning his teachers about rocks and meteorites as a middle schooler to knocking on professors’ doors at the University of Iowa and later, to receiving the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1989, Thomas Cech has always been passionate about science. Cech, whose daughter is currently a senior at Dartmouth, is the last of three Montgomery Fellows to visit the College this fall.
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Dartmouth Medical School, working with four other universities, received a $3.89 million grant at the end of September from the National Institute of Health to create the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research. The grant, lasting five years, will enable the center to conduct research on disasters ranging from hurricanes to bombings.
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Palestinian and Israeli identities are not as disparate as many believe, professor Carol Bardenstein told a crowd of 60 students and faculty during her Monday-night lecture at the Rockefeller Center. Bardenstein, who spoke about Israeli and Palestinian literature, is currently the Brownstone visiting professor for Jewish studies.
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