Amid the turning leaves and October air, the Dartmouth Outing Club sponsored six day trips and two arduous overnight hikes this weekend during the annual DOC Fall Weekend event.
Dartmouth researchers from the Institute for Security Technology Studies will work on a project dedicated to protecting the nation's vulnerable power grid from attack or accidental failure for the next five years, the National Science Foundation announced August 15. The National Science Foundation has pledged $7.5 million for the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid Center project, to be led by teams from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cornell University, Washington State University and Dartmouth. Computer science professor Sean Smith, a researcher with ISTS's Cyber Security and Trust Research Center, will head up a research team investigating possible improvements to the hardware and cyber infrastructure of the computing base supporting the power grid. "The power grid is the infrastructure that enables all other infrastructures, like banking and finance and oil and gas," Smith said in a press release.
Three members of the Class of 2006 are among 25 rising seniors from 16 participating institutions to be named recipients of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's 2005 Fellowships for Students of Color Entering the Teaching Profession. Taica Hsu, David Jiles and Joanna Lau will receive up to $22,100 over a five-year period through this prestigious scholarship, that begins with a project of their choice this summer and ends after the completion of a master's degree and a two to three-year commitment to public school teaching. The RBF's fellowships, created in 1992, seek to address the strong need for minority teachers in American public schools.
Although it is often overshadowed by its massive campus counterpart, Baker-Berry, Hanover's public library, the Howe Library, is undergoing major renovations to improve the building's collection and facilities for town residents. On Friday, the Howe Library received a check from the Kresge Foundation for $250,000, a big step towards the building's capital campaign goal of $5.5 million.
While the majority of building projects will not be completed until Fall term 2006, construction across campus is on schedule.
Somewhere in between the madness of graduation, alumni reunions and the start of sophomore summer, a number of large and mysterious packages found their way into the basement of Robinson Hall.