A $340,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers to investigate the correlation between reading performance and neurological changes from intense reading instruction in third grade students in the Lebanon school district.
About half of Dartmouth students participate in at least one off-campus program. The College’s off-campus programs office offers two types of programs: foreign study programs and language study abroad programs.
Just because there’s no placement test for “Dartspeak” doesn’t mean that students of the College haven’t developed our own form of communication, and as with any language, Dartspeak cannot be mastered until one lives alongside those who speak it.
Members of the Class of 2018 will fill Butterfield Hall in the fall in an effort to accommodate the largest class in College history, which contains roughly 100 more students than the Class of 2017, undergraduate housing director Rachael Class-Giguere said. While all freshmen and sophomores are guaranteed on-campus accommodations, some junior and senior students who submitted housing applications have been placed on the waitlist, she said.
This week, The Dartmouth caught up with Janine Leger ’15, who finished a month-long trip biking trip across Spain this week. Leger rode in memory of her friend and former roommate Blaine Steinberg ’15, who died of a heart attack March 7.
The College’s library is conducting its triennial survey this week, an examination that in past years has led the library to extend its hours from midnight to 2 a.m. and add more group study rooms. The survey, conducted by the Dartmouth library assessment committee, will be sent to 1,528 undergraduates and 771 graduate students over the next few days.
Whether making the pilgrimage back to Hanover to see campus in full winter swing or to participate in College-sponsored alumni events, alumni flock to the College for Carnival weekend each year.
After Vermont reduced funding for emergency cold weather programs last year, Haven staff realized they needed to provide a safe place for people to get out of the cold, volunteer services coordinator Laura Perez said.
Using data from the office of the registrar, the website displays trends in class medians through bar graphs.
Changes to this year’s winter sorority recruitment reflect minor shifts in a long, evolving history of rush processes at the College. This year, a talk on dues, philanthropy and financial aid, as well as an anonymous question-and-answer session, replaced song-and-dance routines.