Adam Keller will step down as executive vice president for finance and administration on Dec. 1, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in an e-mail to students Thursday morning. Keller will not be replaced, Kim said, and senior vice president and strategic advisor Steve Kadish will assume many of Keller’s current responsibilities in an effort to “streamline” the current administrative structure. More »
Renowned scientific researcher Paul Zamecnik ’33, who is credited with the discovery of a molecule critical for protein synthesis, died Oct. 27 of cancer in his home in Boston at the age of 96, according to his daughter, Elizabeth Coakley. Zamecnik, long considered a front-runner for the Nobel Prize, enrolled in Dartmouth Medical School — at the time a two-year program — in 1934, and later finished his medical degree at Harvard University, where he spent the majority of his career. More »
Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis ’89 — nominated by President Barack Obama to be the ambassador to Hungary last month — was praised by Democrats and received little criticism from Republicans during her hour-long Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday. More »
Senior men discussed the events that have shaped their identities in front of a packed audience on Thursday night in Collis Common Ground. At the third annual “Men of Dartmouth” panel, the students discussed experiences ranging from racial self-discovery to the challenges of socioeconomic diversity. More »
As a public school teacher, Deb Nelson said she has never had to worry about health insurance coverage and that the new health care legislation being debated in Washington is unlikely to affect her family. That did not prevent Nelson, who teaches English and American studies at Lebanon High School, from joining about 40 others, including Dartmouth students and community members, in a candlelight vigil in support of health care reform on the Green on Thursday. More »
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