The board of trustees has authorized the schematic design funding for the new $73-million building that will be built at the end of the Tuck Mall to house the Arthur L. Irving Institute of Energy and Design. The College plans to raise an additional $160 million, which, joined with the $80 million given by the Arthur L. Irving Family Foundation, will totally fund the new institute.

Dartmouth has joined 16 other universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford, in opposing President Trump’s immigration ban. They have filed a legal brief in a New York federal court.

Jottings: Eric Fossum, a professor at Thayer School, has just been awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (the most prestigious engineering prize in his field) for his invention of the image sensor which makes the “selfie” picture possible. CNN anchor Jake Tapper ’91 will deliver the Commencement address in June. The Hood Museum is on The Huffington Post’s list of the top college art and history museums in the Northeast; people come from around the world to see the 3,000-year-old Assyrian reliefs and the Orozco murals. The College is still hoping to update their athletic facilities, even though a recent proposal to build a $20-million indoor practice facility was turned down by the Hanover planning board because of neighbors’ resistance.

We regretfully report the death of Thomas F. Swick. Our condolences to his family.

—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org