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Campus

Admissions testing is no longer optional.
Undergrads excel at the art of persuasion.
David Robinson-Morris joins the new Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life.

Continuing Ed

An education journalist on the state of our schools

Features

Author and professor Cal Newport ’04 works hard to convince the rest of us to work less.
Yet today she aspires to an NCAA title—as head coach of one of the top women’s basketball programs in the country.
Alumni return home and give back to their Native American communities.
Literary detective Christopher Warren ’99 unlocks the mysteries of centuries-old texts and secretive printers.
Ken Block ’87 investigated allegations of voter fraud for the Trump campaign in 2020. What he found may be even more disturbing.

Letters

Readers write, react, and respond. (May/June 2024)

Look Who’s Talking

Special Collections Librarian for Teaching and Scholarly Engagement

Personal History

A food writer explains why—and how—the kids’ menu should grow up.

Voices in the Wilderness

Sometimes, two chefs are better than one.
Puck stopper Clay Stevenson ’24 hits pay dirt.
Astronomer Douglas Arion ’79 embraces the darkness.
Author Lynn Lobban ’69 confronts painful past.

Web Extras

Excerpts from “Why Black Men Nod at Each Other,” by Bill Raynor ’74
An excerpt from “Fifty-seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way” by Myra Sack ’10
An excerpt from “Fire Exit: A Novel” by Morgan Talty ’16
An excerpt from “Raising Wrenns,” by Mal Wrenn Corbin ’96
One alum’s humble ask
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Portfolio

Plot Boiler
New titles from Dartmouth writers (September/October 2024)
Flight Patterns
Daniel R. Sheldon ’99 explores bird “mysteries.”
In Her Element

Each summer, Alaskan Jill Fredston ’80 heads out to explore thousands of miles of rugged Arctic coastline in her oceangoing rowing shell.

Caroline Pott ’02
A conservation biologist on life in the middle of the Pacific

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