Class Note 1943
Issue
May - June 2016
Dartmouth has reached its goal of $100 million, the amount needed to establish 10 new academic clusters, which will focus on urgent world challenges ranging from global poverty to cybersecurity. This will create 30 new faculty positions. Two Dartmouth students joined 109 other students, chosen from 3,000 applicants from 135 countries, in receiving Schwarzman scholarships to study at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Schwarzman’s aim is “to build a global network of talented young leaders helping to bring stronger links between China and a rapidly changing world.” They will receive M.A.s in public policy, economics and business, and international studies.
Dartmouth has recently welcomed two international conferences. The first, in January, on health and wellness in the Arctic, was hosted by the Institute of Arctic Studies at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. It sought solutions relating to Arctic climate changes, mineral rights, shipping routes and the protection of indigenous people. The second conference, in February, also hosted by the Dickey Center, assessed the response to the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal that killed 8,000 people.
In January John Stomberg became the new director of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum. A specialist in American and European art, he was the former director of Mount Holyoke’s art museum and, before that was affiliated with the Williams College and Boston University art museums. He’s arriving just in time to become involved in Hood’s $50 million expansion, which will get underway in March of this year.
Twenty thousand, five hundred and fifty applications have been received for the class of 2020. Of the 1,927 applicants for early decision, 494 were accepted—a 3.4-percent increase. Free tuition is available for students whose parents earn less than $100,000 a year; scholarships average $46,315; average student debt at graduation is $16,339—one half the national average.
Earlier this year Dartmouth closed another fraternity. Sigma Alpha Epsilon is no longer recognized by Dartmouth, and its charter has been revoked by its parent organization because of alcohol-related hazing.
We sadly report the death of Robert M. Hamill.
—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org
Dartmouth has recently welcomed two international conferences. The first, in January, on health and wellness in the Arctic, was hosted by the Institute of Arctic Studies at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. It sought solutions relating to Arctic climate changes, mineral rights, shipping routes and the protection of indigenous people. The second conference, in February, also hosted by the Dickey Center, assessed the response to the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal that killed 8,000 people.
In January John Stomberg became the new director of Dartmouth’s Hood Museum. A specialist in American and European art, he was the former director of Mount Holyoke’s art museum and, before that was affiliated with the Williams College and Boston University art museums. He’s arriving just in time to become involved in Hood’s $50 million expansion, which will get underway in March of this year.
Twenty thousand, five hundred and fifty applications have been received for the class of 2020. Of the 1,927 applicants for early decision, 494 were accepted—a 3.4-percent increase. Free tuition is available for students whose parents earn less than $100,000 a year; scholarships average $46,315; average student debt at graduation is $16,339—one half the national average.
Earlier this year Dartmouth closed another fraternity. Sigma Alpha Epsilon is no longer recognized by Dartmouth, and its charter has been revoked by its parent organization because of alcohol-related hazing.
We sadly report the death of Robert M. Hamill.
—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org