Thursday, November 13, 2008

Holbrooke explores U.N. decline

By Fan Zhang, The Dartmouth Staff

The United Nations has floundered financially and is struggling to maintain relevance in 21st-century international politics, Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, stated in a lecture at the College on Wednesday. Holbrooke specifically blamed failed attempts at reforming the institution and the foreign policy of President George W. Bush's administration for the current state of the U.N. More »

Leb. features flights to Boston, but not to N.Y.

By Turia Lahlou, The Dartmouth Staff

Cape Air celebrated its new flight service from Lebanon Municipal Airport to Boston's Logan Airport with an official inauguration ceremony at the Lebanon Airport on Wednesday. The new service will include six nonstop flights daily, but the airport will cease direct flight services to New York's LaGuardia Airport. More »

I3P teams with Senate on cyber security

By Elise Quinones

Dartmouth's Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, in collaboration with members of the United States Senate, is in the process of creating a cyber-security research and development summary report for the next presidential administration, according to Martha Austin, the program's executive director. The institute organized three technology forums in Washington, D.C., earlier this term for a group of business executives, government officials and academics in order to conduct research for the report. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, respectively, served as honorary co-chairs for the I3P forums. More »

Lecturers visit for U.N. MDG week at Dartmouth

By Ana Bowens

Attempting to draw awareness to global poverty, disease and environmental degradation, the Dartmouth Coalition for Global Health and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding paired up this week to organize events and lectures devoted to the discussion of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. More »

Students participate in TB test clinic

By Julie Kim, The Dartmouth Staff

More than 200 students have expressed interest in a new Dick's House study exploring a new type of tuberculosis screening, called T-SPOT, that uses a blood test to produce clearer results than the traditional skin test, according to Elizabeth Talbot, researcher of infectious diseases at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. More »

Daily Debriefing

By Manisha Apte
  • Following the advice of a panel of experts, the U.S. More »
  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it will spend several hundred million dollars of its $3 billion education budget on efforts to increase access to higher education in the United States, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Wednesday. More »
  • The U.S. Department of Education has found that the college student aid process can be simplified, and Sara Martinez Tucker, the U.S. More »