The deans of Dartmouth’s Class of 2008 announced the results of the election for the Senior Executive Committee, the primary governing body for the class following graduation, on Tuesday. More than 500 seniors voted to elect 12 members to the SEC out of a pool of 66 candidates. The elected SEC officials will appoint eight additional members on Monday. More »
Computing Services deactivated the Kiewit Wireless network Tuesday morning in the final step of a campus-wide switch to the encrypted wireless network, Dartmouth Secure. Computing Services said that no unexpected technical issues arose during the transition, although many users required assistance from the student help desk to configure their laptops for the new network, More »
Fabio Pellacini, a professor of computer science at the College and Reza Olfati-Saber, a professor at the Thayer School of Engineering, have been awarded grants for five-year research projects by the National Science Foundation as part of the Faculty Early Career Development program CAREER awards. Olfati-Saber, who was awarded $400,000, intends to develop technology to improve military rescue missions and Pellacini, who was awarded $59,602, plans to work to simplify computer image editing. More »
The Student Assembly voted to update its website by rebuilding its operating system and adding new applications, including a Dartmouth wiki encyclopedia and a student-generated Dartmouth calender, at the Assembly meeting on Tuesday. More »
Economics professor Bruce Sacerdote and Owen Zidar ‘08 found that the frequency with which politicians use certain words is indicative of themes and rhetorical styles of their speeches in a study that examined the word content of each speech delivered by the 2008 presidential candidates in the past two years. Sacerdote and Zidar were able to draw conclusions about candidates’ similarities to famous orators in the study, published in January. More »
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