Free Public Breast Cancer Conference Slated for Oct. 4
Posted On Sunday, September 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, VERMONT Tags: Alumni, Burlington, Faculty, largest breast cancer conference, parents, Sheraton, STAFF, UVM students, young women
UVM students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents and friends are invited to attend this year’s breast cancer conference on Friday, Oct. 4 at the Sheraton, Burlington. This event, the largest breast cancer conference in the Northeast, has content for everyone — from those who wish to learn more about breast health ...
Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling Called Important Step
Posted On Friday, June 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Bill Platt, Department of Government, Faculty, Society, Women’s and Gender Studies Program
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional is truly a landmark decision symbolically on a par with “the fall of the Berlin Wall,” but the ruling granting all federal spousal benefits to married same-sex couples is only a step on the road to ...
The Life Sciences Greenhouse Is Many Things to Many People
Posted On Thursday, May 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Community, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty, Joseph Blumberg, Life Sciences Greenhouse, Research, Science
Dartmouth’s 6,000-square-foot greenhouse sits atop the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center like a crown of gleaming glass. This living botanical museum opened in August 2011, offering resources for research, serving as a classroom for budding botanists and veteran horticulturists, and providing an inviting space for casual visitors.
Half the greenhouse ...
A Biologist Considers Apples And Oranges, Rice And Rubber
Posted On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Department of Biological Sciences, Eric Schaller, Faculty, green bags, greenhouse, Joseph Blumberg, Research
There is a scientific basis to the old adage “one rotten apple spoils the whole bunch,” says Dartmouth plant biologist Eric Schaller.
“As an apple ripens and rots, it releases the gaseous plant hormone ethylene,” says Schaller, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. “We know that ethylene stimulates the ...
New UNC Chancellor Accustomed to Challenges (The News & Observer)
Posted On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Administration, Carol L. Folt, David Bucci, Faculty, Office of the President
Described by many as an “eternal optimist,” Interim President Carol L. Folt will bring her problem-solving abilities and wide-ranging academic experience to her new job as chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, writes The News & Observer. Folt, who assumes her new position in Chapel Hill ...
Dartmouth Space Physicists Explore Earth’s Radiation Belts
Posted On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, Faculty, Global, Joseph Blumberg, Mary Hudson, NASA, Research, Robyn Millan, Science
They say that it’s sunspots. That is the typical explanation you hear when your television goes on the fritz or your cellphone quits working or the GPS in your car tells you you’re driving in the middle of the ocean. Certainly, the sun is at the root of your problem, ...
Dartmouth’s von Reyn Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Posted On Sunday, March 3, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Faculty, Geisel School of Medicine, International, Lisa Adams, Research, Tuberculosis
In 2008, after seven years of efficacy testing on a tuberculosis vaccine on which he led development, C. Fordham (Ford) von Reyn ’67, Geisel ’69 received a phone call from the data and safety monitoring board that oversaw the study.
They told von Reyn to stop the trial. “The vaccine has ...
Challenging Assumptions About Health And Wealth Choices
Posted On Sunday, February 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Business, Carol L. Folt, Faculty, Health, James O. Freedman, Office of the President, Paul Danos, Punam A. Keller, Tuck School of Business
If you ask Professor Punam Anand Keller, who teaches social marketing at the Tuck School of Business and strategic health marketing in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program, to describe her work, she has a simple answer.
Keller, the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management at Tuck, ...
Dartmouth Professor Eric Fossum Elected To National Academy of Engineering
Posted On Monday, February 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Awards, Engineering, Eric R. Fossum, Faculty, Ph.D. Innovation Program, Thayer School of Engineering
Professor of Engineering Eric Fossum has been elected to The National Academy of Engineering (NAE)—a part of the National Academies, which includes the NAE, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and the National Research Council (NRC).
Fossum is professor of engineering at Thayer School of Engineering ...
Did Lucy Walk On The Ground Or Stay In The Trees?
Posted On Friday, February 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Faculty, International, Joseph Blumberg, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Research, Science
Much has been made of our ancestors “coming down out of the trees,” and many researchers view terrestrial bipedalism as the hallmark of “humanness.” After all, most of our living primate relatives—the great apes, specifically—still spend their time in the trees. Humans are the only members of the family devoted ...
Chemistry In Action Transcends The Classroom
Posted On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Chemistry, F. Jon Kull, Faculty, Joseph Blumberg, Research, Roger Sloboda, Science, Students
With a pyrotechnic demonstration, Professor F. Jon Kull ’88 initiates students into the mysteries of chemistry while simultaneously engaging, educating, and entertaining them. Kull presented the show as part of “Biology/Chemistry 9,” a course he and Roger Sloboda teach that is a combination of introductory chemistry and biology. This is ...
Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive Plays Host To Rare Recordings
Posted On Thursday, January 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Alexander Hartov, Archives, Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive, Faculty, Hebrew studies, Keith Chapman, Lewis Glinert
Radio broadcasts from Israel’s Independence Day in 1962. A children’s choral group singing folk songs in Fes, Morocco, in the 1940s. A 1951 address by the Israeli Prime Minister at a Jewish college in Massachusetts. These are just a few of the sounds housed in the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive ...
Professor Donald E. Pease to Debate at The Renowned Oxford Union Society
Posted On Sunday, January 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Adrian Randolph, Debate, Donald E. Pease, Faculty, International, Keith Chapman, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Oxford Union Society
When Professor Donald E. Pease taught at Oxford more than a decade ago, he often strolled past the gothic buildings of the Oxford Union Society. But he didn’t imagine he would ever speak in the chambers that have hosted Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa, and Gandhi.
“It came to me as a ...
