Tuesday, January 29, 2008

College to build more employee housing

By Susan Matthews, The Dartmouth Staff

In an effort to provide convenient and affordable housing for their employees, the College and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center will redevelop the Rivercrest houses in order to create 300 additional housing units. Construction of the houses a mile and a half north of the College, which will begin this summer, was approved by Hanover residents and the Hanover Planning Board on Jan. 22. More »

MacLean discusses social activism

By Turia Lahlou

__Correction appended.__ Nancy MacLean, a history professor at Northwestern University, spoke about the battle of social activists against employment discrimination in a speech given to Dartmouth students and community members in Filene Auditorium on Monday afternoon. More »

Parking problems rile faculty members

By Ben Nunnery, The Dartmouth Staff

For professor Lynn Higgins, chair of the French and Italian department, scouring the parking lots for half an hour with the faint hope of finding a spot is an unfortunate daily routine. Her quest -- which often leads her to drive behind Dartmouth Hall, by the side of the observatory, behind the Hopkins Center and near the cemetery -- is often in vain and she must resort to paying for a space at the Hanover parking garage. Higgins points to illegal student parking as one of the primary causes of the problem. More »

College to unveil new e-billing program

By , The Dartmouth Staff

Students will soon be able to view, print and pay their college bills online when the Office of Student Financial Services introduces D-Pay, a new electronic billing and payment system, in the next few weeks. The program will be available for Spring term bills and, once implemented, families will no longer receive paper bills from the College. More »

College tech staff works with Kuwait university

By Maria Fillas, The Dartmouth Staff

As part of the College's ongoing relationship with the American University of Kuwait, two members of Dartmouth's information technology team, Technical Services Director David Bucciero and Voice Network Engineer Peter Ejmont, traveled to Kuwait this December to share their technological expertise. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Katie Paxton
  • The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program at The National Science Foundation awarded honors to Engineering professor Reza Olfati-Saber and computer science professor Fabio Pellacini, according to a Dartmouth press release. More »
  • Roxanne Karimi received the Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' Superfund Basic Research Program (SBRP) in December, according to a Dartmouth press release. More »