Dartmouth’s release of architectural plans for a $52 million visual arts center to be located in downtown Hanover earlier this week has prompted criticism from some members of the College’s Liaison Committee, which serves as a link between Dartmouth and town residents. The proposed three-story structure has a bold slate, stone and glass facade near the intersection of Lebanon and Crosby Streets where Clement Hall and Brewster Residential Hall are currently located.
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A team of researchers at Dartmouth has shown for the first time that different forms of the autoimmune disease scleroderma can be classified solely by variations in gene expression, according to findings published on July 16 in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS One, an online, open-access publication. This research may have wide-ranging implications for the diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
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Writer Caryl Phillips was a mere 10 years old when his father first decided to leave him alone while he worked a night shift.
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Women must understand the dynamics of the workplace in order to make their ideas heard, according to Lisa Liswood, a senior advisor to Goldman Sachs who led an open discussion forum Thursday hosted by Women in Business. For an hour and a half, Liswood dissected the unconscious impact of diversity in people’s interactions and cautioned the women in attendance not to be afraid to be assertive.
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Six dollars a year is all it takes to end the power of corporate lobbyists and create a national public campaign finance system, John Rauh, founder and president of Americans for Campaign Reform, told an audience of approximately 400 local residents at Spaulding Auditorium on Tuesday. Rauh’s speech was the second in the summer lecture series “Positive Solutions,” sponsored by the Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth.
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