After suffering a loss of $1.7 million during the first four months of the fiscal year, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has reduced the amount of money available for staff raises. The cut in funds will force the hospital to tighten its merit-based pay increase system. As a result, some staff members may not receive raises this year. More »
Kathy Lambert ‘90 will become the College’s sustainability manager, who helps to generate and implement plans to improve Dartmouth’s sustainability efforts, in August 2008. The College has not had a full-time sustainability coordinator since the departure of former sustainability director Jim Merkel last August. More »
It could have been the legendary hostile white mobs. Or the infamous legal battles. Maybe it was the fact that freed slave couple Abijah and Lucy Terry Prince encountered such obstacles while they were moving to Guilford, Vt., 200 years ago. Whatever the reason, biographer Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina — the chair of Dartmouth’s English department and a resident of Guilford — was drawn to the freed slaves’ story. After two years of extensive research, Gerzina has traced the couple’s history in a rather unpredictable pattern — one that led to the biographer’s own family tree. More »
Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School have discovered a new model to study antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in cystic fibrosis patients. DMS professors George O’Toole and Bruce Stanton recently outlined their findings in the April issues of Infection and Immunity and the American Journal of Physiology: Lung and Molecular Physiology. More »
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