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, published by the Geisel School of Medicine. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded a five-year $3.8 million grant to Geisel School of Medicine’s (CTBH). The award will support the launch of the new Northeast Node in NIDA’s National Clinical Trials Network (CTN), and clinical trials conducted… Read more“Dartmouth Receives NIH Grant to Launch Clinical Trial Network”
In an opinion piece in Seventeen magazine, actor, comedian, and writer Mindy Kaling ’01 says she had a tough time in high school. The good roles in school plays went to the “popular, pretty people,” she writes, and her now-famous wit fell on unreceptive ears. Nevertheless, she worked hard, and… Read more“Mindy Kaling ’01: How I Managed to Succeed (‘Seventeen’)”
Setting aside the obsessive coverage of Donald Trump and the process of picking the other nine candidates who will share a stage with him at Fox News’ Republican debate on Thursday, Dartmouth political analysts offer a tip sheet for what to watch for beyond the circus parade. Andrew Samwick, director… Read more“Dartmouth Primary Watchers Handicap GOP Debate”
President Barack Obama called out Dartmouth fellow Jamila Mayanja from a crowd of hundreds of young African leaders at a summit for the president’s Washington Mandela Fellowship program Monday, sharing a laugh with the Ugandan entrepreneur. Mayanja was at Dartmouth for the month of July as one of 25 fellows… Read more“Obama Hails Dartmouth Fellow at Young African Leaders Event”
“Next time you go to a concert where a singer’s voice cracks, why not try treating it as a learning opportunity—not for the musician, but for yourself? Ask yourself why you judge and why you care,” says in an about being a compassionate listener at concerts.
“Thoughts of mathematics are never far from my mind—a hazard of the profession as mathematician, perhaps,” writes , a professor of mathematics and the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science, in a Huffington Post opinion piece. Sometimes these thoughts are brought to mind by major world events,… Read more“From Marzipan to Mathematics (The Huffington Post)”
“The humanities deal with something you literally cannot live without—the ability to tell stories and to interpret other people’s stories,” says Graziella Parati, the new director of the . Graziella Parati says she wants to see more investment in digital humanities projects, and to help faculty involved in such projects… Read more“Leslie Center’s New Director on the Essential Humanities”
“Superbosses are exceptionally adept at developing talent because they share particular character traits and adopt a set of common practices that, taken together, are both rare and extraordinarily effective,” says the Tuck School of Business’ Sydney Finkelstein in a about The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, whom Finkelstein considers a superboss. at Tuck…. Read more“Quoted: Sydney Finkelstein on Superbosses”
“My research here has found that only 12-15 percent of
In the summer of 1968, a Colby Junior College student took a part-time job typing papers for AT&T executives participating in a management program at Dartmouth. “Their handwriting was horrendous,” recalls the typist—Virginia Hazen, who this month will retire as director of financial aid and one of the College’s longest-serving… Read more“Virginia Hazen Retires After Nearly Five Decades”