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(Graphic by Tlakuilkoatl/Mateo Silva ’26)

Indigenous Peoples’ Month Shines a Light on History

Highlights include free screenings of Forgotten Founder and the annual fashion show.

The White House must know it has to get it exactly right this time. When this ban is released, more lawsuits are coming. To lose a second time would be devastating.

Linda Fowler, professor of government and the Frank J. Reagan ’09 Chair in Policy Studies, Emerita

The New York Times

3/2/2017

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There’s a sense now that clean-water regulation and ideas like the value of diversity in business, which are central to what we do, are suddenly under attack, and we can’t afford to lose them.

Andrew King, professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business

The Wall Street Journal

3/1/2017

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Applications Are in for the Dartmouth Class of 2021

3/1/2017

Dartmouth has received 20,021 applications from students seeking admission to the Class of 2021, marking the third consecutive year that the...

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It looks like they (the Federal Reserve) are making the same mistakes they made in 2008.

David Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner 1978 Professor of Economics

Bloomberg

2/28/2017

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What’s the Big Idea? Inventors to Make Two-Minute Pitches

2/28/2017

It’s pitching season again, and we don’t mean baseball. This week, 20 contestants will vie for cash or technical help in The Pitch, the...

a student giving a presentation in a dark auditorium

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I think it’s so important for young people to be exposed to stories that are representative so they know that they’re not invisible.

In South Africa, Students Make a Major Fossil Discovery

2/27/2017

It’s not every day that a couple of college students discover a fossilized piece of bone likely to have come from a 2-million-year-old...

students examining a fossilized bone on an anthropology dig in South Africa

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Exploring Human Origins in South Africa

2/27/2017

After spending fall term studying how anthropologists piece together the story of human evolution, 15 students traveled to South Africa to conduct scientific research of their own.The students were enrolled in the anthropology class “Experiencing Human Origins and Evolution,” taught by Associate Professor Jeremy DeSilva and Professor Nathaniel Dominy. Over the course of three weeks in South Africa, the students and professors traveled to significant dig sites—and even uncovered a fossil while participating in a dig at a World Heritage site.See photos from their time in South Africa below.

Professor Lee Berger with skull from Makapansgat

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Work holds the promise of supporting and promoting health. It also carries the risk of injury, illness, and death.

Robert McLellan, professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine

Fosters.com

2/26/2017

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