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Portraits of Leadership: 2014 Student Marshals

By Dana Cook Grossman Class Marshals are selected by their fellow students on the basis of good citizenship, enthusiasm, integrity, and...

Tracking Students by Ability Gets Results (The New York Times)

In a New York Times opinion piece, Dartmouth’s Bruce Sacerdote writes that grouping students by ability, known as “tracking,” can have a...

Dartmouth Study: N.C. Voter ID Law Unfair to Black Voters

Professor of Government Michael Herron’s latest paper concludes that North Carolina’s voting law changes are disadvantageous to black voters...

O’Donnell Appointed to DeCamp McInerny Professorship

Read the full story, published by the Geisel School of Medicine. “It’s an unbelievable honor, especially since the previous recipient of the...

Dartmouth Commencement 2014

Dartmouth said farewell to the Class of 2014 with Commencement ceremonies on the Green on Sunday, June 8, the culmination of a full weekend...

Gene Can Be a Cancer Triple Threat (TIME)

A study led by Geisel’s Christopher Amos discovered that a version of a gene linked to increased risk of breast and ovarian cancers also...

Using the Hand to Open the Hidden Mind

June 3, 2014 A Dartmouth researcher’s invention tracking simple hand movements – or rather computer mouse movements – is helping a rapidly...

Women’s Sailing Takes National Title for Second Year

Read the full story, published 5/30/14 by Dartmouth Athletics. The women’s sailing team won the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association...

Track & Field Athletes Bound for NCAA Championships

Read the full stories—on the women’s 800-meter race, the women’s 5,000-meter race , and the men’s 5,000-meter race , published 5/30/14 and 5...

Arctic Sea Ice Polluted With Microplastics (CBC)

CBC reports that Thayer’s Rachel Obbard discovered by accident that Arctic sea ice is polluted with microplastics. The assistant professor...