Dartmouth News

What really influences you when you make up your mind? Professor of Engineering Eugene Santos Jr. develops tools that model decision-making in areas from social networks to surgery. Santos was recently named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

On Wednesday, January 25, Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim will deliver the keynote address at the Tuck School of Business to launch a four-day design workshop for the $300 House Project, a concept developed by Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan.

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Shanée Brown ’12 of Bridgeport, Conn., has been selected as one of 25 nationwide recipients of the 2012 Aspiring Teachers of Color Fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

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The Dartmouth Aires have partnered with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to raise awareness of the ongoing African famine through song.

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In a story surveying a recent flurry of partnerships, buy-outs, and alliances among various pharmaceutical companies, entrepreneurs, and research labs, the Boston Globe spoke with Thayer School’s Tillman Gerngross about his efforts on behalf of his Lebanon, N.H.-based company Adimab LLC. Gerngross, a professor of engineering, was attending the 30th annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, held in early January in San Francisco.

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Noon-2pm, 324 Blunt Alumni Center

4:30pm-6pm, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall

Wu Man, virtuoso on the ancient lute-like pipa, one of China's most popular instruments for the past two millennia, and an advocate for the music of China's rural ethnic minorities, brings her music and her message to Dartmouth for a week-long residency. Her time at Dartmouth includes a performance in the Hopkins Center's Spaulding Auditorium on Friday, January 27.

4:30pm-6pm, 041 Haldeman Center, Kreindler Conference Center

6:30pm-9pm, Baker Library Room 23

2pm, Rollins Chapel, FREE

In spring 2009, the Hood Museum of Art commissioned Mateo Romero, Class of 1989, to paint a series of ten portraits of current Native American Dartmouth students as they danced at the college’s annual Pow-Wow.

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A second week of Dartmouth's annual celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is underway. In the coming days, events marking this year's theme, "The Content of Our Character," include two Dartmouth Medical School offerings and the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Awards.

Larry Kramer, author of the play The Normal Heart and the screenplay Women in Love, the co-founder of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GHMC), and the founder of ACT UP, is in residence at Dartmouth as a Montgomery Fellow this month.

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Valley NewsToday, the Dartmouth women’s ice hockey team is frequently ranked one of the best in the country. But it all began with a group of lacrosse players in figure skates.

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11am, Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center

7pm [new time], Berry Leede Arena

Yes, when the electricity goes off.

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What makes a great leader? How does leadership live in our own lives, and in our universities, businesses, organizations, and world communities? Dr. Lisa Adams, Dartmouth Medical School faculty member and head of Dartmouth's Global Health Initiative, says it's important to be a "leader who listens" if you want to be successful working with global health partners.

What makes a great leader? How does leadership live in our own lives, and in our universities, businesses, organizations, and world communities? Dr. Lisa Adams, Dartmouth Medical School faculty member and head of Dartmouth's Global Health Initiative, says Dartmouth offers the opportunity to grow leadership skills by watching other effective leaders in action, including faculty who are at the front of their fields.