The US State Department has updated its Worldwide Caution notice and urges international travelers to maintain vigilance and increase their security awareness.
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The Immigration Working Group (IWG) is a college-wide group of faculty and staff from across all schools working to monitor developments concerning immigration regulations and their effects on members of the Dartmouth community, including those enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and for those facing restrictions on travel by non-U.S. persons. More information and the current membership of the working group is available on the...
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With support from the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, Sackeyfio-Lenoch will complete her book, “Global Ghana, Itinerant Citizens and the Making of a New Nation.” The Fellowship is sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Vietnam War scholar Edward Miller relived a dramatic moment in the war alongside veteran and then-Secretary of State John Kerry last month when they tracked down the site of a controversial 1969 Viet Cong ambush on U.S. Swift boats under Kerry’s command. Miller is co-founder of the Dartmouth Vietnam Project, and is advising on Ken Burns’ upcoming film “Vietnam.”
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Aldo Arellano ’17 spent last summer in Iceland, mostly looking at tiny insects to get a big picture: how midge flies affect the ecosystem in the Nordic island nation.
Arellano was working in the field with an interdisciplinary student team researching the ecology of Iceland’s Lake Mývatn. They studied midge flies and their role in the food webs, in the water and on the land. Mývatn is Icelandic for “the lake of midges,” aptly named for the huge numbers of the tiny insects that hatch...
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Jeremy Rutter, Sherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies, recently received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in Sweden recognizing his contributions to archaeology and his mentorship of more than two generations of scholars.
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Eric Fossum, Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering, Director of Thayer’s PhD innovation program, and Associate Provost for Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his invention of the CMOS image sensor, a device that enables high-powered cameras to...
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Dartmouth College joined 16 other academic institutions as signatories to an amicus curiae brief filed on February 13, 2017 in the case of Darweesh et al. v. Trump et al., currently pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. An amicus curiae, or “friend of the court,” brief is filed by an entity that is not a party to a...
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On February 7, Denise Anthony, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth, inaugurated the Matariki Network of Universities lecture series with a talk on Big Data, Cybersecurity, and Health Care as part of Queen’s University's Big Data 175th Anniversary series. As part of the lecture, Professor Anthony discussed Big Data's "great promise but also serious perils for healthcare...[and how]...[f]or the institution(s) of health care delivery, the use...
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Nadav Samin, Senior Lecturer in History has received the 2016 British-Kuwait Friendship Society prize for his book, Of Sand or Soil: Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia. The annual prize is awarded for outstanding works in English on the Middle East. Read the full article here.