Dartmouth Milestones
Read stories about Dartmouth’s unique character, indelible spirit, and rich history.
The award celebrates the field of “click chemistry,” a name Sharpless coined.
Beilock is the first woman elected to the position in Dartmouth’s more than 250-year history.
Renamed the Frank J. Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies in 2018 in acknowledgment of an investment by the Honorable Frank J. Guarini ’46, Guarini supports more than 1,000 graduate students, doctoral candidates, and postdoctoral scholars.
The residence hall welcomes the LGBTQIA community and allied students who share a passion for social justice issues.
Dartmouth renamed its medical school, founded in 1797, in honor of Audrey and Theodor Geisel, Class of 1925.
(Photo by Jay Davis ’90)
The First Year Student Enrichment Program empowers first-generation students to thrive academically.
Alumna Andrea Hayes-Jordan ’87, MED ’91 became the nation’s first Black female pediatric surgeon.
(Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)
Sharpless credited a Dartmouth professor for helping set the course of his life’s work. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
(Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)
Each year the farm grows more than 2000 pounds of diverse, fresh, tasty, organic produce.
In September 1972, one hundred seventy-seven women matriculated as freshmen, along with 74 female transfer students.
(Photo by Robert Gill)
Today the program involves over 90 percent of the freshman class.
He won the Thayer Prize in Mathematics and the Kramer Fellowship at Dartmouth. He went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a seminal event for artificial intelligence as a field.
On Dec. 15, 1956, Polly Case straddled a small disk attached to a cable—a “poma lift”—and rode to the top of Holt’s Ledge in Lyme, N.H.
The lodge was constructed to serve some of the nation’s earliest competitive skiing.
Sanborn Library offers a tea service each weekday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
The library was designed by college architect Jens Frederick Larson, modeled after Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
A group of Dartmouth students gathered together with the goal of restoring a rowing team to the College.
Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, a talented linguist, created the Russian program at the College.
The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and Finance was the first institution in the world to offer a master’s degree in business administration. Edward Tuck, class of 1862, donated an initial grant of $300,000 to found the school in 1899, naming it in memory of his father Amos Tuck, class of 1835.
The medical x-ray, like many inventions, is the result of different people working simultaneously on the same idea.
(Photo by Robert Gill)
During Dartmouth Night and Homecoming, alumni return to join students in a revelatory celebration that includes a colorful parade and blazing bonfire.
Sylvanus Thayer, Class of 1807, established the engineering school at his alma mater.
American-born and raised in Liberia, Samuel Ford McGill—Class of 1839—was the first black graduate of a U.S. medical school.
A landmark ruling in the development of U.S. constitutional and corporate law, Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward held that the College would remain a private institution and not become a state university.
Dartmouth’s “Medical Department” was established when founder Nathan Smith delivered his first lecture on Nov. 22.
The Society of Social Friends “Socials” maintained a student-funded and managed library, circulating holdings to its members only.