Bold Debut
Daniel Liu ’26 scaled the “Everest of piano concertos,” Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra in March. He practiced for two years with mentor and music professor William Cheng, who called the 45-minute work a “devilish gauntlet.”
Sinking Trend
For the first time in a century, Dartmouth in June will graduate students who may not be able to swim 50 yards. Faculty voted in 2022 to scrap the lap test, joining other schools that have abandoned the requirement.
Puck Pluck
Led by ECAC Coach of the Year Reid Cashman and Player of the Year Hayden Stavroff ’28, the men’s hockey team competed in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1980.
In Memory
The Dartmouth flag was lowered to half-mast during the first week of March in memory of Enzo La Hoz Calassara ’27, who died March 1 in an accident in the Cook Islands, where he was participating in the linguistics foreign study program.
Hagenbuch Rebounds
John Steel Hagenbuch ’25 won his third straight NCAA cross-country skiing title in mid-March, repeating in the 7.5-kilometer classic race in Utah. The triumph comes weeks after Hagenbuch finished 14th in the men’s 10-kilometer freestyle at the Winter Olympics after taking a wrong turn.
Another Angle
Fox News host Laura Ingraham ’85 returned to campus for the first time in a decade, appearing at a February 25 forum where she told students that President Trump will go down as “the most significant president of the last 50 years.” About 250 people attended the event, hosted by the Dartmouth Political Union.
A Better Wall
Dartmouth researchers are part of an international team designing a 500-foot wall along 50 miles of Antarctica’s so-called “Doomsday Glacier” to limit sea level rise. The Seabed Anchored Curtain Project aims to create physical barriers to restrict warm currents from reaching the Thwaites Glacier, an ice shelf about the size of Great Britain.
America’s Top Innovators
Thayer prof Eric Fossum and Mira Murati Th’12 made Forbes magazine’s list of America’s 250 “Greatest Innovators.” Fossum, the magazine says, “invented the tech that made the selfie possible,” while Murati leads a company that “builds tools for collaborative AI development.”
On the Move
Thai restaurant Tuk Tuk is following longtime barbershop Walt & Ernie’s to the building behind Ledyard Bank on Main Street. The two neighboring businesses were dislodged by impending demolition along Olde Nugget Alley.
Closed For Repairs
The Native American House, a cultural center for Native and Indigenous students, will close for extensive renovations after graduation, reopening in summer 2027.
“UBIQUITOUS” PRESIDENT
President Sian Beilock is attracting national attention with her message that higher education needs to reform itself to regain public trust. The Chronicle of Higher Education in March called Beilock “a new breed of college president willing to take shots at her own sector.”
