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<%image(20070730-jw.jpg|150|230|)%>Dartmouth President James Wright has been chosen a “New Englander of the Year” for 2007 by the New England Council, the council announced today. Wright will share this year's honor with Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Peter Meade, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.The awards will be presented at the Council's Annual Dinner on Oct. 1 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. More than 1,200 people from around the region are expected to attend the dinner celebration.
Formed in 1925, the New England Council is an alliance of large and small companies, educational institutions, nonprofit and other agencies. It is the nation's oldest regional business organization, dedicated to promoting economic development and a high quality of life in the six-state region.
Each year the Council selects individuals to receive the “New Englander of the Year” award based on their commitment and contributions in their fields of work and leadership and impact on the region's quality of life and economy.
“We are pleased to honor these outstanding recipients,” said Council President James T. Brett. “From business and higher education to public service, these honorees are some of the most influential champions of the region whose contributions are making dynamic changes in the region's landscape.”
Wright, a historian who specializes in American political history, has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1969, after earning a bachelor's degree from Wisconsin State University and master's and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin. He has authored or edited five books, including The Progressive Yankees, a study of political reform in New Hampshire during the era of Theodore Roosevelt.
Wright has served as President of Dartmouth since 1998. Before becoming president he had served successively as an associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, dean of the faculty and then provost. As president he has expanded the faculty, enhanced the out-of-the-classroom experience, and undertaken an ambitious facilities agenda that includes academic, residential life, and athletic projects.
Before entering college, Wright enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at age 17 and served three years. Two years ago, that experience led him to begin a series of visits to U.S. military medical facilities in Washington, D.C. to meet Marines and other U.S. military personnel who have been wounded in the course of service in Iraq and Afghanistan and to encourage them to continue their education once they are discharged from service. He subsequently led the creation and funding of an educational counseling program for wounded U.S. veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan that is now being offered through the American Council on Education (ACE). In a single week this May, The New York Times presented a feature on this work and “ABC World News with Charles Gibson” featured Wright as its “Person of the Week”.
Wright said, “I am grateful to the New England Council for this recognition and I am honored to join such distinguished company. It is my privilege to serve at Dartmouth where service and responsibility are part of the core values and it has been inspiring to work with wounded veterans marked by courage and sacrifice and filled with promise.”
Wright began visiting U.S. Marines at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland in 2005. He first decided to visit the hospital in order to see if he could help encourage the wounded veterans to consider pursuing their education following their discharge. Over the last two years he has made nine trips to the Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Each time he goes from bed to bed and speaks with veterans about their experiences and their longer-term aspirations, encouraging them to continue their education.
He was particularly concerned that many of the veterans had questions about specific schools or programs and that they would lose access to college counseling resources once discharged from military service. Realizing that the veterans would need more educational counseling than any individual alone could provide, he contacted David Ward, President of the American Council on Education (ACE), the largest U.S. higher education association, who agreed to have his organization develop a program to meet these needs. Wright, working with James Selbe, Director of Military Programs for ACE, has been instrumental in raising funds for this effort.
Earlier this year, three full-time education counselors began working at Walter Reed, the National Naval Hospital, and Brooke Army Medical Center. In the first week of the program, more than fifty veterans had asked for appointments with these counselors. Two Iraq War veterans are planning to matriculate at Dartmouth in the fall, including one who was identified and encouraged by the ACE counselor working at his hospital.
“I am always moved by the service members' stories and inspired by their courage and sacrifice,” said Wright. “As a result of the ACE program, these young men and women who served so unselfishly and bravely will now be better served themselves. I wish we could do more. We can do no less.”
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<%image(20070712-campus.jpg|150|60|photo courtesy of Lorie Loeb)%>A team of Dartmouth students has won Google's Build Your Campus in 3D Competition. Google asked “how would your campus look in 3D” and challenged students to use Google SketchUp and Google Earth software to find out. The Dartmouth group was one of seven winning teams chosen from more than 350 entries. The winners will enjoy a trip to Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., to meet and work with professional 3D modelers.Jessica Glago '08 led the team of students in digitizing and virtually reconstructing more than 130 buildings that make up the Dartmouth campus. Lorie Loeb, research assistant professor of computer science, served as faculty advisor. The effort was sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and the Digital Arts Minor, and it was supported by funding from Dartmouth's William H. Neukom 1964 Institute for Computational Science. Additional funding came from Borealis Ventures.
Glago confesses that they got off to a slow start. “We had our first meeting to see who was interested right before spring break in March,” she says. “For most of April we all just kind of sat around a table not knowing where or how to begin.” The deadline for submissions was June 1.
To motivate the group, Glago took more than a thousand pictures of the buildings on campus from every conceivable angle. “I got a lot of strange looks from people when I was taking pictures of, say, the back of Robinson Hall from the stairs of Thayer Dining Hall.”
The students used photographs as a guide and Google SketchUp, a 3D computer modeling tool. Once the buildings were digitally recreated, they were placed on the Dartmouth campus using Google Earth, a mapping program that combines satellite imagery and aerial photographs with 3D capability. The contest was judged by an elite group of industry professionals from Walt Disney Imagineering, Electronic Arts, and other architectural and digital design firms.
“Not only am I incredibly proud of this team, I'm very pleased with the product they created,” says their advisor Loeb. “People from around the world can now tour the Dartmouth campus on Google Earth. Visitors can find their way around campus and locate meeting rooms or other department offices through searchable keywords.”
Stephanie Trudeau '09, a member of the team, remembers thinking it was a huge undertaking, especially since it was an extracurricular activity that they did in their free time. “One of the criteria was that you must model your entire campus, meaning every single building. We had to model everything from the Boathouse to the Sphinx,” says Trudeau. “We had to find the balance between quality and speed. It's hard to simplify when you know you could make the buildings so much more elaborate if you were allowed to.”
The Dartmouth team went a step beyond the contest's expectations to create three separate timelines, 1800, 1900 and 2007, to illustrate how the campus has grown and changed. With input from the Office of Planning, Design & Construction, accompanying material for each building explains when it was built, what it's used for, who the architect was, and when it was renovated.
Jennifer Huang '09 says that this project was the best part of her spring term. “Mostly it was because of the awesome group of people that worked on it.”
Gemma Ross '08 agrees, but also acknowledges that sleep was sometimes sacrificed to get the entry in on time. “The excitement and sense of achievement everyone was feeling was amazing. Bottom line is that although the hours put into it grew painful, being a part of this fantastic and fun team made it all worth it.”
Bill Nisen '73 was the alumni representative on the project, providing help with the research on the origins of the buildings. He sees this achievement as a sign of good things to come. “Dartmouth is uniquely positioned to use this project as a catalyst for becoming a center of excellence in 'hypergeography' ... As a society we have moved to a context where location is as easy to tell as time.”
The Dartmouth team: Ari Bezman '07, Nathan Chung '07, Yasemin Elci '07, Jessica Glago '08, Daniel Gobaud '10, Jennifer Huang '09, Dave Heinicke '08, Hari Iyer '09, Samuel Kohn '09; Mandy Lobel '09, Yoon-Ki Park '09, Gemma Ross '08, Stephanie Trudeau '09, and part-time student Tim Tregubov.
The other winning teams represented Purdue University, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Concordia University (Loyola Campus), IPFW - Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, University of Minnesota, and Stanford University.
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<%image(20070628-biloxi.jpg|150|99|Photo: Courtesy of Mary W. Bourque, Office of Planning, Design, and Construction)%>Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the Tucker Foundation sent another two service trips to Biloxi, Miss., during interim. While Tucker regularly sponsors programs for Dartmouth students to volunteer and participate in hurricane-related relief efforts, this trip marked the first time that a trip comprised of Dartmouth alumni, faculty and staff worked there. Associate Provost and Dean of the Tucker Foundation Stuart Lord, Frederica Ghesquiere 04 and Stan Colla 66 Tu86 led that trip, while Raymond Rodriguez 09 and Amy Quan 09 led the student trip.Dartmouth has been sending groups to the region for over a year, and has committed to sending students and faculty for at least one more year, according to Lord.
If you just go one time or for the first year, its mostly cosmetic, he said. Rebuilding cities is a long term commitment and it must be continued. Our involvement commits us to doing good in the long term.
The two groups, who worked on several projects together, were assisting Hands On Gulf Coast, an organization which works to help the communities along the Gulf Coast region recover from Hurricane Katrina. The volunteers repaired houses that have been abandoned for months.
De-molding is the big job; floodwater stayed in houses for days, and it provides an excellent breeding ground for toxic bacteria, participant Dylan Nelson 09 said.
One challenge facing aid workers in the area is the fact that most homes are built on private property, and relief groups cannot fix the buildings without the owners permission.
Hands On cant just walk on to your derelict property and start building you a new house, Nelson said, explaining that, since many homeowners have left the area, it can be hard to contact residents in need of assistance.
While much of the area is still suffering, Human Resources Compensation Coordinator Adi Labombard noted that there are signs of recovery.
Theres a really interesting juxtaposition of brand new casinos, and just two blocks away there are empty plots of land, she said. There are steps leading up, or a driveway, but theres just nothing there.
In addition to co-leading the alumni, faculty and staff trip, Colla organized much of the alumni involvement. When Lord asked him for help, he said he was happy to oblige.
Id had a long-standing desire to see what I could do to help the people in the Gulf Coast region, he said. It was a happy convergence of two opportunities coming together.
Colla said that the student volunteers, with whom he worked to renovate a playground that had been a haven for drug dealers, impressed him.
They were terrific, willing to get out there and work hard, he said. Theyre just a wonderful asset, and our students represent the Dartmouth community and the Dartmouth family very well.
The lack of national attention to the lingering effects of Katrina motivated Nelson to get involved.
When we were fund-raising, people were really confused as to why we were still doing work for Katrina Help, he said. The biggest shame is that there is so much more work that needs to be done and its been out of the national spotlight for quite some time.
Despite the impact made by the volunteers from Dartmouth, Colla emphasized that the job is not complete.
Theres a lot left to be done in terms of helping residents who have been displaced find housing that they can afford, to remedy some of the problems that still exist in the region, and to help provide special services for people who are trying to rebuild their lives and need a hand for a while.
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<%image(20070628-tuck.gif|150|34|)%>Kenneth R. French, the Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, is among the 203 new fellows and 24 new foreign honorary members who were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) on April 30. Those elected also include a former vice president of the United States; a former associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; the mayor of New York City; winners of Nobel and Academy Awards and the Pulitzer Prize; corporate CEOs; and two former chairs of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.An expert in finance, French is best known for the Fama-French Three Factor Model, which he developed with colleague Eugene Fama of the University of Chicago. More recently, French has focused his research on empirical estimates of the cross-section of expected stock returns, the cost of capital, dividend policy, and capital structure. At Tuck, French teaches the popular Investments course, which nearly half of all second-year students elected to take this past fall.
French is the 2007 president of the American Finance Association, considered the premier academic organization devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about financial economics. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an advisory editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, a former associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Finance, and a former director of the Center for Research in Security Prices.
He is the author of numerous articles appearing in such publications as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Business. Of the 10,000 faculty members around the world whose research is available for download on the Social Science Research Network, French's work ranks the fourth most popular of all time.
In addition to his work at Tuck, French is the head of investment policy for Dimensional Fund Advisors, an investment firm headquartered in Santa Monica. He also sits on the company's board of directors.
The Academy will welcome this year's new class at its annual Induction Ceremony on October 6, at the Academy's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots, the Academy has elected as Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members the finest minds and most influential leaders from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth. The current membership includes more than 170 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners. An independent policy research center, the Academy undertakes studies of complex and emerging problems. Current Academy research focuses on science and global security; social policy; the humanities and culture; and education.
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<%image(20031022-slaughter.jpg|103|140|null)%>Globalization has brought huge overall benefits, but earnings for most U.S. workers — even those with college degrees — have been falling recently; inequality is greater now than at any other time in the last 70 years. Whatever the cause, the result has been a surge in protectionism. To save globalization, policymakers must spread its gains more widely. The best way to do that is by redistributing income.
Kenneth F. Scheve is Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Matthew J. Slaughter is Professor of Economics at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Globalization at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2005 to 2007.
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<%image(shared/20050215-bigD.jpg|77|85|)%>The Dartmouth womens varsity eight crew took second in the NCAA Petite Final in a thrilling race this afternoon.
The Big Greens took eighth out of 16 boats in the varsity eight competition and was the highest finisher of the four at-large eight boats.
Racing in lane two, Dartmouth got off to a quick start, leading through the first three 500 meter check points. At 1500 meters in, the Big Green held its largest lead, coming into the mark at 5:03.08, with Stanford second at 5:04.5. Minnesota, who had moved up from sixth place, was slowly creeping up and had overtaken Tennessee for the third spot.
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<%image(shared/20031026-dartmouth.gif|147|166|Dartmouth College)%>Wright has raised $350,000 with the council to hire college counselors for three of the largest military hospitals in the United States. “Going to college was not something that I considered. No one in my family had ever done that. Four friends and I joined the Marines a couple of weeks after we graduated. It was my way of putting off going to work in the mines. I got out of the Marines and decided to go to college.”
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<%image(20070403-al.jpg|150|225|)%>Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert announced today (April 3) that Robert B. Schnabel, an acclaimed computer scientist and researcher, will become the next dean of the IU School of Informatics pending approval by IU trustees.
Schnabel is vice provost/associate vice chancellor for Academic and Campus Technology and professor of computer science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As vice provost, he serves as chief information officer of CU-Boulder, and as the director of the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute.
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Schnabel earned his doctorate and master's degrees in computer science from Cornell University and his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College.
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<%image(shared/20031026-dartmouth.gif|147|166|Dartmouth College)%>The Harborfields baseball team is no longer a big secret. These guys can play. But to make this team jell, coach Gene Rochler needs to strategically place his players in the right positions every game.
His pitching staff is deep. And when they're not on the hill, he needs them in the infield. It's like putting together a puzzle to put the best team on the field.
Smith is just one of the many leaders on this team. He scored a 2,150 on his SAT and will attend Dartmouth in September. When he's not on the field, he's spending his Sundays mentoring a youth group.
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