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A screen grab shows a scene from the winning entry in the Math-O-Vision contest at Dartmouth College.

Math = Film Project

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Hanover — Some kids see math as a maze of pointless numbers, a subject banished to chalkboards and ivory towers. Austin Eng, 17, of Freehold, N.J., sees it differently — and as a result, he and his film partner, Katherine Lin, also of Freehold, have $4,000 in prize money to show for it. Last week, the high school film duo …

Dartmouth Rape Suspect Posts Bail

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Lebanon — A Dartmouth College student charged with raping a female student after entering her dorm room had his scheduled court appearance yesterday delayed for a month to allow his attorney more time to review evidence in the case. Facing four counts of aggravated sex assault, Parker C. Gilbert, 20, was scheduled to appear in Lebanon Circuit Court yesterday, but his attorney secured …

Leona M. Nichols

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Windsor, Vt. — Leona M. Nichols, 80, a longtime resident of Windsor, passed away Monday morning, May 20, 2013, at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. Funeral arrangements are pending with the Knight Funeral Home in Windsor. The complete obituary will be published when arrangements are final. …

Love (and Kid) Your College

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Life as a Dartmouth College student is fraught with many social challenges for which there are few easy answers. How should one spend a six-week break between fall and winter terms? Should one curry favor with fraternity and …

A Letter-Perfect Win

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Philadelphia — Success in women’s lacrosse can be boiled down to the three Ps: possession, passing, placement. What happened in Dartmouth’s 11-10 sudden-victory overtime win over Princeton in yesterday’s Ivy League tournament semifinal at cavernous Franklin Field added …

Big Green Pitcher Engineers a Comeback

Monday, May 6, 2013

Hanover — Cole Sulser has waited more than two years for this day, the day when he will help lead the Dartmouth College baseball team against Columbia in New York City during the best-of-three Ivy League championship series. …

Documentaries Remain Vital; Hopkins Center to Host Some of the Best

Friday, May 3, 2013

The record of the average American feature film in the past decade has been, on the whole, rather dismal. The word “puerile” leaps to mind. American documentary film, on the other hand, is as vigorous, provocative and engaging …

Dartmouth Home Requires Additional Testing for TCE

Friday, May 3, 2013

Hanover — Initial test results for trichloroethylene have come back for five houses owned by Dartmouth College south of Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and only one house showed levels near the screening level. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers performed testing between March 28 and April …

Art Notes: The Art and Craft of the Stinehour Press

Thursday, May 2, 2013

I n the 1970s , the book arts in New England reached a pinnacle. Years before the advent of desktop publishing, printers, bookbinders and book designers were turning out all sorts of interesting work on everything from letterpresses …

Dartmouth Joins Clinical Results Transparency Campaign

Friday, May 17, 2013

Hanover — Dartmouth College has become the first academic center in the U.S. to join an advocacy effort aimed at improving transparency in reporting results from clinical trials. The Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice both joined the AllTrials Campaign, which …

The Road to Confidence: Dartmouth Women’s Track Athletes Commit to Girls on the Run

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

White River Junction — The evidence suggests Abbey D’Agostino — NCAA outdoor 5,000-meter champion, NCAA indoor 3K and 5K champ, national women’s indoor athlete of the year — is a sponge when it comes to running. Yet twice …

It's a Double: Dartmouth Softball Going to ICS, Too 

Monday, April 29, 2013

Boston — Harvard installed yellow softball bases for its Ivy League doubleheader with visiting Dartmouth yesterday, part of a fundraising tribute on behalf of Boston Marathon bombing victims. The Crimson, however, was left green with envy after the …

Cornel West Counsels Unity at Dartmouth  

Friday, April 26, 2013

Hanover — Author and philosopher Cornel West, one of the country’s leading public intellectuals on social justice, gave a talk yesterday to a Dartmouth College crowd for whom the tumultuous events of the past week still resonate heavily. Several hundred students, faculty and others packed into a Tuck …