Class Note 1943
Issue
Sept - Oct 2016
The class of 2016 graduated on June 12 with 1,867 degrees awarded to students from 48 states, the District of Columbia and 31 foreign countries. Nobel Laureate (2011) Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian human rights activist, delivered the main address. Setting a new record, there were eight valedictorians and seven salutatorians.
Many of the 32 new scholars who joined the Dartmouth faculty in the fall are researching solutions to challenging problems in medicine, business and the arts and sciences. A new institute for cross-disciplinary engagement at Dartmouth has been created. Headed by Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, it will explore the limits of human nature, the nature of time, consciousness and reality itself. Professor Mary Lou Guerinot has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
She is one of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries. The National Science Foundation has awarded 17 research fellowships to Dartmouth students and alumni. The 2,000 national winners were chosen from 17,000 applicants. Five students and recent graduates have been offered Fulbright fellowships. Another three have been offered German academic exchange service fellowships. Twenty-five million dollars has been given toward the planned expansion of Thayer School—the number of engineering students has doubled in the last 15 years. The Hood Museum, which closed last March in preparation for its expansion, has opened a gallery in downtown Hanover in an empty store near the Nugget.
Effective September 1, Richard Lifton ’75 will become the 11th president of Rockefeller University. A collection of 2,500 photographs covering the development of planned towns in southwestern France has been given to Cornell by the photographer (and Cornell professor emeritus) John Reps. He has studied the towns during a 60-year period and the digital collection allows viewers to compare the images through time.
Alexis Pappas ’12 will be a member of the Greek Olympic team in 2016. She’s among the fastest seven American women in the 5,000- and 10,000-meter class.
Good news! No obits to report. Stay well.
—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org
Many of the 32 new scholars who joined the Dartmouth faculty in the fall are researching solutions to challenging problems in medicine, business and the arts and sciences. A new institute for cross-disciplinary engagement at Dartmouth has been created. Headed by Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, it will explore the limits of human nature, the nature of time, consciousness and reality itself. Professor Mary Lou Guerinot has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
She is one of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries. The National Science Foundation has awarded 17 research fellowships to Dartmouth students and alumni. The 2,000 national winners were chosen from 17,000 applicants. Five students and recent graduates have been offered Fulbright fellowships. Another three have been offered German academic exchange service fellowships. Twenty-five million dollars has been given toward the planned expansion of Thayer School—the number of engineering students has doubled in the last 15 years. The Hood Museum, which closed last March in preparation for its expansion, has opened a gallery in downtown Hanover in an empty store near the Nugget.
Effective September 1, Richard Lifton ’75 will become the 11th president of Rockefeller University. A collection of 2,500 photographs covering the development of planned towns in southwestern France has been given to Cornell by the photographer (and Cornell professor emeritus) John Reps. He has studied the towns during a 60-year period and the digital collection allows viewers to compare the images through time.
Alexis Pappas ’12 will be a member of the Greek Olympic team in 2016. She’s among the fastest seven American women in the 5,000- and 10,000-meter class.
Good news! No obits to report. Stay well.
—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org