The University of Tübingen, a member of the Matariki Network, is now offering Fellowships for Dartmouth Post-Docs and Ph.D. students. Research and teach for 6-12 months in Germany. Funds provided by Tübingen and by the Office of the Provost at Dartmouth. To apply, contact Dr. Karin Moser von Fleck at...
[more]Twelve students in Senior Lecturer Charles Wheelan’s Global Policy Leadership Practicum, offered through the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, spent the fall term studying the political history of Northern Ireland and the period of violent sectarian conflict beginning in the 1970s and known as “the Troubles.”
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[more]by Bill Platt
Professor Ross Virginia, whose work focuses on climate change and the effect of rapid warming on the polar regions, was selected by the U.S. State Department as one of two distinguished scholar leaders of the newly established Fulbright Arctic Initiative.
Virginia, the Myers Family Professor of Environmental...
[more]by Karl Yaeger
On September 16, in Berlin, Germany, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) will present a study comparing regional variations of health care delivery systems across 13 countries. Instrumental to the study is David Goodman, MD, MS, Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute (TDI). Goodman is also the Co-PI of...
[more]Nour Jaber, a 2014 graduate of the American University of Kuwait (AUK) has spent the past month on campus through the Dartmouth-AUK internship program. For the first two weeks of her internship, she worked at the Hood Museum of Art; she is spending the last two as an intern with the Office of Public Affairs.
Coming to Hanover from Kuwait was a long trip, with long flights, long transits, and an even longer...
[more]Associate Professor of Anthropology John Watanabe, who studies the Maya peoples of Guatemala and Mexico, has been traveling to a venue outside of his specialty area to shepherd Dartmouth undergraduates through the cultural landscape of New Zealand.
While previously a stranger to this part of the world,...
[more]by Bill Platt
It’s one thing to work in a Dartmouth classroom to understand the issues surrounding economic reform in a nation as complex as India. It is something entirely different to meet with leaders in India’s rural villages, government agencies, and industrial centers to draft workable policy proposals for change.
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[more]Dartmouth students and young alumni will be studying and working abroad in the coming year on fellowships awarded by the Fulbright Program and the Deutscher Akademischer Audtausch Dienst (DAAD) for study in Germany.
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[more]Associate Professor of Government Jennifer Lind will join Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Harvard Professor Emeritus Akira Iriye at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston Friday, March 21, for a public discussion entitled “RFK, JFK, and Japan.”
“It’s going to be a conversation,” Lind says. “We’ll be talking about the background of U.S.-Japan relations and about what was transformative under the years of John F....
[more]by Bill Platt
Dartmouth and three other universities will participate in a U.S. Agency for International Development-funded project to train a new generation of Kosovar leaders to drive significant change in priority economic, political, and social areas.
The Transformational Leadership Scholarships and Partnerships Program will fund scholarships for a new generation of Kosovars to pursue advanced degrees in the U.S. focused on economic, political, and social...
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