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  • September 2, 2010
    Meeting Needs - Dartmouth Medical School alumnus Chidi Achebe wields powerful weapons—an MD, an MPH, and an MBA, plus a can-do spirit—in addressing the health-care disparities and needs of the inner-city populations that he serves as head of a health center in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood.
  • August 31, 2010
    Teaching at Tuck - Faculty at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business are renowned for their scholarly research and are sought-after consultants for top companies. But they are also engaging and effective teachers. In this video, Associate Dean Matthew Slaughter discusses how Tuck faculty go beyond providing information and teach students to be better lifelong learners.
  • August 28, 2010
    Art Alfresco - Last summer, students in Angela Rosenthal's Art History 16 class studied sculpture throughout history. For one of their projects, each student became an expert on one of nine outdoor sculptures at Dartmouth. Learn about the pieces that dot the central campus with the students' informative walking tour.
  • August 26, 2010
    Use and Misuse - Seddon R. Savage of Dartmouth Medical School has been involved in clinical, education, and policy work around opioids, pain, addiction, and prescription drug misuse for 25 years. In this podcast, she talks about her work examining the balance between treating pain and drug misuse, as well as strategies for clinicians who are on the front lines of this public health issue.
  • August 23, 2010
    Andy Warhol's American Dream - Paintings, photographs, and prints that juxtapose Warhol's renderings of coins and dollar signs with images of people are on display at the Hood Museum of Art. "Follow the Money: Andy Warhol's American Dream" runs through September 19 and includes a rarely seen Warhol portrait of Nelson A. Rockefeller '30, former New York governor and U.S. vice president. Art historian Trevor Fairbrother guest curated the exhibition in honor of the Andy Warhol Foundation's recent gift of 153 Warhol photos to the Hood.
  • Augst 20, 2010
    "Strong Commitment to Teaching" - Dartmouth College has moved up to No. 9 among the best national universities in U.S. News and World Report's "Best Colleges 2011" rankings. Dartmouth is No. 1 for "Strong Commitment to Teaching" for the second consecutive year, in a new category the magazine created in 2010 for schools "where the faculty has an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching."
  • August 14, 2010
    Supply and Demand - "Officially economics is the study of how scarce resources get allocated. But it's really the study of how people behave, and that explains why it has such broad appeal," says Professor Bruce Sacerdote '90. In the July/August issue of Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, C.J. Hughes '92 examines how the dismal science morphed into freakonomics and made econ the College's most popular major.
  • August 11, 2010
    Map Quest - The decades-long quest to parse the piecemeal nature of the American health-care system has put Dartmouth on the map, both medically and politically. But along with the plaudits and headlines has come criticism. Two of the experts behind the renowned Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care—Elliott Fisher and Jonathan Skinner—explain why its findings really do hold up.
  • August 8, 2010
    Made in Hollywood - Revisit the icons of the golden age of the American film industry (1920-1960) at the Hood Museum of Art’s current exhibition, "Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation." The exhibition features original vintage images of the greatest stars of the period, including Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart.
  • August 5, 2010
    Harry Sheehy to Lead Dartmouth Athletics - Harry Sheehy, a highly regarded administrator and former coach who has led Williams College to 17 Division III national team championships during his 10 years as the College’s Chair and Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation, has been named Dartmouth’s Director of Athletics and Recreation, effective September 7, 2010.

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