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The Rise of Grade Inflation

The growing number of high marks has many professors—and some students—worried academic excellence is being cheapened. Has Dartmouth reached a breaking point?

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Canine Commotion

Behind the scenes of our feature on Dartmouth dogs.

By Rob Strong '04

Updated on May 18, 2026

Photographer Rob Strong ’04 spent hours with a pack of professors’ dogs to capture the portraits for our March-April 2023 cover story. Some were camera-shy, others not so much. In the end, everyone earned their treats.

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Celestial Canvas

Denver-based artist Stella Maria Baer ’03 explores the mythology of the desert and the cosmology of space through her Southwest landscape photography and her paintings of celestial bodies.

Dreamscapes

The magic realism of infrared photography transforms campus scenery into a Dartmouth you’ve never seen before.

The Hopkins Center

A photographic tribute to the cultural center of campus on its golden anniversary.

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