News & Events from Dartmouth

Feature: Test Today: Outdoor Emergency Warning System

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:24:55 -0500

Today, Thursday, February 23, at 1:15 p.m., Dartmouth College with the support of the Town of Hanover will test its Outdoor Mass Notification System (OMNS). The system contains both sirens and voice speakers and is capable of providing a loud and immediate warning to the Dartmouth campus and surrounding communities in case of an emergency. The test of OMNS will last approximately 5 to 15 minutes while the system installers and other necessary personnel assess that the system is functioning properly.

News: Music Professor Theodore Levin to Present 24th Presidential Lecture

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:24:32 -0500

Ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin, the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music, will present Dartmouth’s 24th Presidential Lecture, “Why Music Matters,” on Tuesday, February 28, at 5 p.m. in Dartmouth Hall 105.

News: Rocket Reaches into the Northern Lights to Illuminate Aurora Activity

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:23:58 -0500

On the Saturday evening of February 18, Lynch and her colleagues launched a 46-foot NASA rocket arcing 217 miles above the Earth to collect space physics data straight from the heart of the aurora. It sent a stream of real-time data back to the researchers before landing 200 miles downrange.

In the News: Lights, Action, Drinking: Movie Scenes Tempt Teens To Binge (NPR)

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:23:08 -0500

Recent Dartmouth Medical School research has found that children who watch movies featuring alcohol use are more than twice as likely to try drinking themselves, reports NPR. The study also found those children are more likely to engage in binge drinking.

Event: February 23: Cosmology Seminar—"Cosmological Tests of General Relativity," with Alessandra Silvestri

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:22:32 -0500

4pm-5pm, Wilder 202

Event: February 23: Lecture—"Trash Talk: Instrumental Racism as a Procedural Strategy in Online Games," with Lisa Nakamura

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:22:02 -0500

4:30pm-5:45pm, Carson L02

Feature: Taking on the World's Troubles

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:15:13 -0500

William Jewett Tucker, Dartmouth's ninth president, believed that students should not be "content with the commonplace in character any more than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment." The Tucker Foundation, Dartmouth's center for service, spirituality, and social justice, has launched a series profiling student volunteers who, through their work with the foundation, are making the world a better place.

Event: February 22: DAMELL Colloquium: "To Be or Not To Be, That is the Question: The Problematics of 'Being' in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, and Japanese"

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:14:47 -0500

4pm-6pm, 13 Carpenter Hall

Event: February 22: Film—War Horse

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:14:18 -0500

7pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

Feature: Soaring Scientifically

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:49:28 -0500

Launching a research career in the biomedical sciences takes more than just the right degrees and training. Dartmouth Medicine magazine reports on several new Dartmouth Medical School initiatives that are helping junior faculty learn to soar.

News: Dartmouth to Test Outdoor Mass Notification System on Thursday, Feb. 23

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:48:51 -0500

On Thursday, Feb. 23 at 1:15 p.m., Dartmouth College with the support of the Town of Hanover will test its Outdoor Mass Notification System (OMNS). The OMNS is a commercially available warning system that has been customized for the Dartmouth College campus. The system contains both sirens and voice speakers and is capable of providing a loud and immediate warning to the Dartmouth campus and surrounding communities in case of an emergency.

In the News: The Bank of England Gets it Wrong Yet Again (The Independent)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:48:13 -0500

Writing in The Independent, David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics, questions both the methods and the continuing optimism of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee.

Event: February 21: Film—Education Under Fire

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:47:33 -0500

4:30pm-5:30pm, Rockefeller 2

Event: February 21: Performance—Hugh Masekela

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:46:47 -0500

7pm, Spaulding Auditorium

Feature: Arts and Activism!

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:29:30 -0500

For five decades, Hugh Masekela has been a defining force in world music, the preservation of South Africa's musical heritage, and the struggle for freedom and human rights in Africa and beyond. Today, Monday, February 20, he speaks on "The Artist's Role as Activist," at 6:30 p.m., in Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall. Masekela performs at the Hopkins Center on February 21.

Event: February 20: Genetics Seminar—"Combining Complexity in Neurogenetics: Better Phenotypes + Better Analysis Methods = Better Translational Science," with Tricia Thornton-Wells

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:28:35 -0500

2pm-3pm, 758 W Borwell, DHMC

Event: February 20: Africa Highlight Week—Center for International Business, Tuck School

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:27:58 -0500

This series of events will explore some of the reasons why there is still hesitation when it comes to investing in Africa, in spite of the growth potential that appears to be on the African horizon. Our panelists and speakers will provide valuable insights into some of the business risks, discuss the balance between profits and social responsibility, and talk frankly about their personal experiences on the continent. Africa Highlight Week programs are free and open to the public. No registration is necessary.

Event: February 19: Film—A Boy and His Dog

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:20:08 -0500

SUN | FEB 19 | 7 PM
SPAULDING AUDITORIUM

Event: February 20: Lecture—"The Artist's Role as Activist," with Hugh Masekela

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:19:15 -0500

MON | FEB 20 | 6:30 PM
FILENE AUDITORIUM

Feature: Hairspray!

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:19:13 -0500

Get swept away to 1960s Baltimore, where heroine Tracy Turnblad has a passion for dancing. Transformed from outsider to teen celebrity, can she find true love without messing her hair? The Dartmouth theater department presents the musical Hairspray this Saturday and Sunday, February 18-19, and well as Thursday through Sunday, February 23-26.

News: Organic Food Sweetener May Be a Hidden Source of Dietary Arsenic

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:18:41 -0500

As people seek healthier dietary regimens they often turn to things labeled “organic.” Lurking in the background, however, is an ingredient that may be a hidden source of arsenic—an element known to be both toxic and potentially carcinogenic.

In the News: Arsenic hidden in baby formula, energy bars, and energy shots? (The Boston Globe)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:18:07 -0500

Dartmouth researchers have discovered arsenic in organic brown rice syrup, and the news is making headlines around the globe.

Event: February 18: Tour—"Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art"

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:17:34 -0500

2pm-3pm, Hood Museum of Art

Event: February 18: Women's Ice Hockey vs. Brown University

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:17:06 -0500

4pm, Thompson Arena Rink

News: Galaxies' Glory Days Are Past but They Sparkle Still

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:16:30 -0500

As a Yale undergraduate, Ryan Hickox studied particle physics and played rugby—two exploits that set him on the path that eventually led to Dartmouth and his discoveries about starburst galaxies in the early universe, as recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Event: February 17: Performance—Hairspray

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:15:57 -0500

8pm, The Moore Theater, Hopkins Center

Event: February 17: Women's Ice Hockey vs. Yale University

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:15:01 -0500

7pm, Thompson Arena Rink

Sights & Sounds: Video: Dartmouth and the Peace Corps: 50 Years

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:14:29 -0500

Created by Jim Brown, senior lecturer in the Department of Film and Media Studies, this documentary chronicles the relationship between Dartmouth and the Peace Corps over the past fifty years.

Feature: How Healthy?

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:49:04 -0500

As people seek healthier dietary regimens they often turn to foods labeled "organic." But new research by Brian Jackson and others at Dartmouth has found that lurking in the background is an ingredient that may be a hidden source of arsenic.

In the News: Organic Brown Rice Syrup: Hidden Arsenic Source (ABC News)

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:44:45 -0500

If you're shopping organic and see brown rice syrup listed first among ingredients, you may want to think twice: That product could have high levels of potentially toxic arsenic, Dartmouth researchers reported today.

Feature: Hairspray!

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:45:53 -0500

Get swept away to 1960s Baltimore, where heroine TracyTurnblad has a passion for dancing. Transformed from outsider to teen celebrity, can she find true love without messing her hair? The Dartmouth Theater Department presents the musical Hairspray, opening Friday, February 17.

News: New Yorker Writer Louis Menand to Deliver 'Leading Voices in Higher Education' Lecture Today

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:44:56 -0500

Louis Menand, a keen observer of the role of higher education in society, will deliver the William Jewett Tucker lecture, “Are the Great Books the Moral Heart of Liberal Education?” on February 16 at 4 p.m. in Moore Hall, Filene Auditorium.

In the News: Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It (The New York Times)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:42:07 -0500

New York TimesWriting about residents of a county near Minneapolis, Minn., the New York Times found that many “who describe themselves as self-sufficient members of the American middle class and as opponents of government largess are drawing more deeply on that government with each passing year.”

Event: February 16: Performance—Preacher Moss End of Racism Comedy Tour

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:41:27 -0500

Preacher Moss, an American Muslim convert, comedian, and writer, presents his End of Racism Comedy Tour. The event features discussions on issues of racism, multiculturalism in post-9/11 America. His material has been described as "smooth, intelligent, and thought provoking," as his comedy simultaneously occupies two spaces, at the same time. A master craftsman, and storyteller, his comedy is a reminder of the old school art of "comedy as protest, and enlightenment."

Event: February 16: Film—Red Tails

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:40:31 -0500

Red Tails is a high-flying action epic inspired by the heroic exploits of the first all African American aerial combat unit. Anthony Hemingway (The Wire) directs this gripping WWII saga that features a powerful ensemble cast including Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow).

Feature: Tech@Tuck

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:05:16 -0500

"Innovation On-Demand: The Promise of Cloud Computing" is the marquee event for the 2011-12 Britt Technology Impact Series at the Center for Digital Strategies at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. A panel of industry experts from Amazon, AT&T, IBM, and more consider the cloud, beginning at 4:45 p.m. today, Wednesday, February 15 in Franz II, located in the Tuck School's Raether Hall.

In the News: Press That Button Again, Please (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:04:46 -0500

Dartmouth Medical School’s Paul Holtzheimer was at the helm of a groundbreaking study that placed electrical wires in the brains of patients to treat severe mental disorders, reports the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

February 15: The Brooks Family Lecture—"Healthcare Litigation: U.S. States v. U.S. Government," with E. Duncan Getchell Jr.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:04:06 -0500

4:30pm-6pm, Rockefeller 3

Event: February 15: Film—America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:03:38 -0500

7pm-9pm, Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art, FREE

Feature: Can You Hear Me Now?

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:12:11 -0500

Nathaniel Dominy, associate professor of anthropology, has solved a mystery. Unlike other species of tarsiers, the Philippine tarsier didn't seem to have much to say. In research just published in the journal Biology Letters, Dominy and colleagues reveal that the tiny primates are in fact communicating out loud, just with sounds inaudible to the human ear.

In the News: The House That Students Built (The Financial Times)

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:42:04 -0500

In 2010, Professor Vijay Govindarajan posed a radical question: Is it possible to build a house for $300? Now, the designs are in and construction is about to begin.

Event: February 14: Lunchtime Gallery Talk—"Native American Art at Dartmouth: Building a Collection"

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:41:26 -0500

12:30pm-1:30pm, Hood Museum of Art

Event: February 14: 12th Annual Stonewall Lecture—"Misfitting Together: Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls," with Douglas Crimp

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:40:37 -0500

Douglas Crimp will deliver the Twelfth Annual Stonewall Lecture. Titled "Misfitting Together: Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls," the lecture takes place Tuesday, February 14th at 4:30 PM in Carpenter 13. A reception and book signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public.

Feature: Art and Activism

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:42:19 -0500

The inaugural Angela Rosenthal Distinguished Lecture, reflecting the legacy of Rosenthal's commitment to gender and racial justice as a scholar of art history, brings the feminist Guerilla Girls' cultural conscience to Dartmouth today, Monday, February 13. Founding member "Frida Kahlo" will talk about the group's work and philosophy in 105 Dartmouth Hall, beginning at 4 p.m.

Event: February 13: Lecture—"The Middle East a Year Later: Business as Usual?" with Dirk Vandewalle

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:41:25 -0500

Noon-1pm, Borelli Classroom, Raether Hall, Tuck School of Business

Event: February 13: Lecture—"Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Still Possible?" with Gershon Baskin

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:40:30 -0500

4pm-5:30pm, Rockefeller 3

Ask Dartmouth: How did the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble get its name?

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:39:48 -0500

According to Director Don Glasgo, the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble was named after a notorious red-light district in San Francisco. When

Event: February 12: Men's Tennis vs. Marquette University

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:23:09 -0500

11am, Boss Tennis Courts

Event: February 12: Vaughan Recital, with Marco Pereira, guitar

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:21:57 -0500

4pm-5:30pm, Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center

Feature: Sweetest Carnival Ever

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:19:19 -0500

The 101st Winter Carnival, "Carnival in Candyland: The Sweetest Carnival Ever," continues through Sunday, February 12. The weekend's events include the Occom Pond party—a community celebration on ice—and a Webster Avenue chili cook-off, both Saturday; plenty of sports, and tours of the Baker Library bell tower both days.

News: New Yorker Writer Louis Menand to Deliver 'Leading Voices in Higher Education' Lecture

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:18:32 -0500

In the News: Tiny Primates With Ultrasonic Vocal Skills (The New York Times)

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:17:50 -0500

A Dartmouth professor and his colleagues have discovered that tarsiers, tiny primates found in southeast Asia, communicate with calls that are inaudible to humans.

Event: February 11: Film—Into the Abyss

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:17:17 -0500

7pm and 9:15pm, Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art

Event: February 11: Performance—Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:16:29 -0500

8pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

News: Photographer James Nachtwey '70 Awarded the Dresden International Peace Prize

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:31:22 -0500

See images by the alumnus and renowned war photographer, who will be presented with the Dresden International Peace Prize on February 11 in Germany.

Event: February 10: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Colloquium—"Different Functions for Different Subregions of the Hippocampus in Rats," with Raymond Kesner

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:30:52 -0500

4pm - 5pm, Room 202 Moore Hall

Event: February 10: Performance—Winter WhingDing, hosted by the Dartmouth Cords

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:30:22 -0500

8pm, Hopkins Center Spaulding Auditorium

Video: A Conversation with William Kamkwamba '14

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:29:24 -0500

William Kamkwamba '14, author of "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind," is an environmental studies major and engineering minor at Dartmouth College. The Malawi native recently sat down for this interview with the Office of Public Affairs Whitney Campbell intern Jessica Chen '12 to discuss Dartmouth, the projects he's working on, and the children's book based on his New York Times bestseller, which was released on January 19, 2012.

Feature: Sweetest Carnival Ever

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:47:49 -0500

The 101st Winter Carnival, "Carnival in Candyland: The Sweetest Carnival Ever," starts today, Thursday, February 9. The four-day event includes a mix of lighthearted outdoor activities and athletic contests. The Carnival's Opening Ceremonies are set for 7 p.m. tonight on the Green.

News: Tiny Primate is Ultrasonic Communicator, Dartmouth Professor Finds

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:29:40 -0500

Nathaniel Dominy, an associate professor of anthropology at Dartmouth, describes the tarsier’s ultrasonic vocalizations as “extreme, and comparable to the highly specialized vocalizations of bats and dolphins, which are used primarily for echolocation.”

News: Start Times Announced for 2012 Home Football Schedule

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:28:29 -0500

Dartmouth College Athletics Director Harry Sheehy and the Robert L. Blackman Head Football Coach Buddy Teevens announced the start times for the home games on the 2012 Big Green football schedule today with the season opener against Butler of the Pioneer Football League kicking off on Sept. 15 at 7 p.m.

In the News: Retirement Home Bands Together to Bring WWII Stories to Life (NBC Nightly News)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:27:10 -0500

NBC Nightly NewsWartime stories from many members of the Dartmouth community are among the reminiscences in World War II Remembered, a new memoir published by residents of Kendal at Hanover and recently featured on the NBC Nightly News.

Event: February 9: Jones Seminar—"The Robotic Surface Exploration of Mars," with NASA's John L. Callas

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:24:55 -0500

3:30pm, Spanos Auditorium

Event: February 9: Department of English Poetry & Prose Reading Series, with Jeffrey Yang and Daniyal Mueenuddin '86

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:24:23 -0500

4pm-6pm, Sanborn Library, Sanborn House

Feature: Enduring Alliance

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:31:04 -0500

Writing in the New York Times on the 50th anniversary of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's visit to Japan in the wake of a treaty crisis, Assistant Professor of Government Jennifer Lind suggests that those events hold important lessons for the present. The recent political transitions in North Korea have put Lind's expertise on East Asia in demand as well.

News: Former Obama Official to Speak Today on New Economy, Political Polarization

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:21:08 -0500

A look at why policymaking in the United States has become so polarized will be the topic when former Obama Administration official Peter Orszag speaks at Dartmouth on Wednesday, February 8. He served as director of the Office of Management and Budget from January 2009 until July 2010.

In the NEws: Two Museums Show Native American Art, Then And Now (The Boston Globe)

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:20:32 -0500

The Boston Globe has given the Hood Museum of Art’s ongoing Native American exhibition a rave review, calling it one of “the most thrilling shows you are likely to see this year.”