Hundreds of members of the Dartmouth community gathered on the Green to see the solar eclipse. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Kayla Lieuw ’19, a member of Dartmouth’s climbing team, practices on the climbing wall in Maxwel Hall. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Parth Sabharwal, a graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, captured this image of the eclipse from an office in Wilder using a standard solar filter. “The solar eclipse was one of the most stunning visuals I’ve ever seen in my life,” says Sabharwal, who studies ultracold quantum optics in the lab of Assistant Professor Kevin Wright. “That it’s a rarer occurrence in countries near the equator, like India, where I come from, made it all the more special. I particularly enjoyed fielding questions from my friends on the physics behind eclipses and related phenomena.” (Photo by

First-year trips kicked off when the first group of students arrived on campus on Monday, Aug. 21. First up, of course, learning to dance the Salty Dog Rag. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

A telescope offered a somewhat more high-tech experience than the much more numerous jury-rigged cereal-box-viewers. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Karen Cao ’19 talks with Jonathan Feltner ’67 in Rauner Library. Cao and Feltner are part of the Dartmouth Vietnam Project, a project that brings together current students and alumni from the Vietnam era for interviews that will become part of the Dartmouth library’s permanent collection. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Members of the Hanover croo were decked out in traditionally untraditional garb to help welcome the first-year students to campus. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Melissa Biggs ’18 works on a painting of the path to the Bema for her Painting 01 class. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)