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  • March 9, 2010
    Over the top - Dartmouth's United Way annual campaign has reached its $225,000 goal, with growth in total giving and in the number of givers – all at a time of complex financial challenges at Dartmouth and in the Upper Valley. "It's incredibly humbling and inspiring to be a part of this effort," says campaign chair Peter Glenshaw.
  • March 7, 2010
    The Tiger Woods Effect - As the PGA Tour begins its Florida swing this week, speculation continues to swirl over when Tiger Woods will return to competitive golf. While winning on the tour is mainly a matter of skill, there is also an element of luck involved. Tuck School of Business visiting professor Richard Rendelman says that when he returns, Woods will just need less of it.
  • March 5, 2010
    Dartmouth Idol - When the six finalists in the Dartmouth Idol singing competition take the stage in Spaulding Auditorium tonight, the group will include a women's hockey player, a defensive end on the football team, two members of a coed a cappella singing group, and two members of a Christian a cappella group – groups that might never have had a chance to interact. But that's what happened ... and just what Dartmouth Idol creator Walt Cunningham had in mind ...
  • March 4, 2010
    Where in the world? - Besides representing the shape of the land and sea on our planet, a map can show natural phenomena or man-made and man-related features. The Evans Map Room in Baker Library is a treasure trove of 189,000 sheet maps and 3000 atlases, books, journals, CD-ROMS, computer software, globes, and aerial photos. Find your place in the world in the Sanborn Map Collection, or with the Ivy League's only geography department.
  • March 2, 2010
    Happy Seussday - As an undergraduate at Dartmouth, he was Ted Geisel '25. But after leaving Hanover he became Dr. Seuss, creator of some of the world's best-loved children's books. On what would have been Seuss's 106th birthday, March 2nd, Dartmouth English Professor Don Pease releases his new book, "Theodor SEUSS Geisel," a volume of little-known insights into Seuss. The Office of Alumni Relations and the Dartmouth College Library host a reception for Pease this afternoon at 4 in Baker Library.
  • March 1, 2010
    Spiritual sounds - A national treasure in his native Azerbaijan, member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, and winner of a 1999 UNESCO Music Prize for Peace, Alim Qasimov performs mugham, Azerbaijani classical music that is both love poetry and devotional hymn. Qasimov is on campus this week, the guest of Dartmouth professor and musicologist Ted Levin for an extended residency. Qasimov gives a concert Wednesday in Rollins Chapel.
  • February 28, 2010
    Looking up - Rising 124 feet above the Green, Baker Library is Dartmouth's tallest occupied building, visible to anyone approaching the College from any direction. Dartmouth's Alumni Relations Office has put together a visual history of Baker, complete with images, audio, video. Visit and learn about Dartmouth's signature structure.
  • February 26, 2010
    Failing grade - The testimony Wednesday by Toyota Motors company president Akio Toyoda (right) before members of Congress was a "huge mistake," says Tuck School of Business Professor Paul Argenti. Commenting on "The Wall Street Journal This Morning" Thursday, Argenti gives Toyota Motors an "F" for its communications strategy in the wake of a worldwide recall of its cars.
  • February 25, 2010
    Olympic ringers - Skiing bronze medalist Andrew Weibrecht '09 (right) is just the latest in a long, distinguished line of Dartmouth scholar-athletes who have taken the Athletes' Oath at the Olympic Games. The College has sent competitors to every Winter Olympics since the Games' founding in 1924. Both USA Today and US News & World Report have noticed, and report on how and why Dartmouth has become the leading Ivy League school when it comes to producing winter Olympians. Read: USA Today | US News
  • February 23, 2010
    The old college try - Rebecca Glover '11 is premed. Why? Well, that's a long story. Or, rather, several short stories. Over the summer following her sophomore year, Glover had a number of encounters that helped convince her that a career in medicine is for her. In this podcast—originally printed as an essay in the current issue of Dartmouth Medicine magazine—Glover discusses the difficult process of deciding to become premed.

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