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By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LEBANON — Thomas Kurtz, a Dartmouth math professor, legend in the field of computer science, and founder of a local bridge club, died at the age of 96 last week.Kurtz is most well known for co-developing the BASIC programming language and the first...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Police have issued arrest warrants for three individuals accused in an alleged hazing incident earlier this fall at Dartmouth College.Dartmouth has suspended the fraternity — Omega Psi Phi — where the hazing is alleged to have occurred. The...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — A Dartmouth College student and his sister, who attends Mount Holyoke College, were rescued by New Hampshire Fish & Game after they reported that they were experiencing hypothermia following a hiking incident near Franconia on Saturday...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Two Dartmouth College students and a Greek organization have been criminally charged with furnishing alcohol to a 20-year-old Dartmouth student who drowned in the Connecticut River following a party at a college sorority in July.Matthew...

HANOVER — Dartmouth sophomore engineering student Ben Cavanagh monitored a biomass torrefaction reactor, which breaks down agricultural and forestry waste like husks and wood chips in a high heat, low oxygen environment to create a carbon-rich...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — Dartmouth College is seeking the Hanover Planning Board’s approval of a $3.6 million renovation to the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse “to address existing equity issues” between the men’s and women’s locker rooms.On Tuesday, the board is...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — After several days of nonviolent pro-Palestinian protests last October, a tent erected on the lawn outside Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock’s office was the “red line” that led to the arrests of two students, Beilock testified in...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — One year to the day after they were arrested, two Dartmouth College students charged with criminal trespass during a campus protest are scheduled to have their trial resume on Monday in Lebanon District Court.Dartmouth President Sian Leah...

By JIM KENYON

Christopher MacEvitt, who chairs Dartmouth’s religion department and lives on campus, was a late arrival to the pro-Palestinian demonstration on the college’s Green on May 1.Around 9:30 p.m., after attending a faculty dinner in White River Junction,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — A Dartmouth student and a college employee were arrested by Hanover police after they protested for Palestinian rights by interrupting an appearance of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., on campus Wednesday, the latest campus incident over...

HANOVER — David Kotz will step down from his role as Dartmouth’s provost at the end of the academic year in June, the college announced last week.Kotz, a computer science professor, plans to stay on the faculty and continue his research in security...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HANOVER — Authorities and Dartmouth College officials are investigating who splattered red paint on the stone steps outside Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock’s office and wrote “Free Palestine Divest” on the side of the building.Hanover police and...

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — Two Dartmouth research teams are set to receive a combined sum of up to nearly $3.6 million in grant funding to spur innovations in pandemic preparedness and vaccine generation.The two research teams — one led by David Leib, chairman and...

By ELLE MULLER

HANOVER — As a Dartmouth College professor, writer and father, James Heffernan inspired those around him with his love of literature and passion for life.Heffernan’s children, Virginia and Andrew, affectionately called their father’s lust for life...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — Political strategists Donna Brazile and Kellyanne Conway discussed the 2024 election and the importance of fostering conversations across the political divide this week in the first in a series of debates hosted by the Dartmouth Political...

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — Dartmouth’s football stadium officially bears the name of the program’s all-time winningest coach.“Every person who comes here to a game, they’re going to walk by the sign, they’re going to see the words ‘Buddy Teevens Stadium’ and in those...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HANOVER — Contractors digging a culvert at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory have unearthed animal carcasses and black trash bags. The origin of the carcasses are unknown; the property was formerly owned by Dartmouth College.So far,...

By KATHY McCORMACK

NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. — A man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors is challenging his life-without-parole sentence, saying that the New Hampshire Constitution prohibits it.Robert...

By CLARE SHANAHAN

CONCORD — A federal judge sentenced a former office manager of The Dartmouth student newspaper to the maximum possible sentence of 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release on Monday after the woman pleaded guilty to embezzling over...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — Robert Tulloch is serving two life sentences without the possibility of parole for his part in the murders of two Dartmouth College professors in 2001.For years, Tulloch, who was 17 years old when he murdered Half Zantop has been challenging...