Dartmouth news caught the attention of readers and media outlets around the globe in 2015, with more than 781,000 page views of stories, videos, and photo slideshows on Dartmouth Now, the College news site. As 2015 draws to a close, the Dartmouth Now team looks back at about 930 stories we published in 2015 and selects the year’s top stories.
To keep up with the news in 2016, from Dartmouth Now, and you’ll receive a list of the previous day’s stories published on Dartmouth Now, and to Vox Weekly, a digest of what’s going on each week on campus.
1. Moving Dartmouth Forward and New Residential House Community System
President Phil Hanlon ’77 began 2015 by his to address high-risk behavior on campus and create a safe and inclusive environment in which students can live and learn. A cornerstone of the plan is , designed to transform the undergraduate living experience, bring more continuity to students’ on-campus living experiences, and present greater opportunity for faculty-student interaction beyond the classroom. .
2. Speaker New York Times Columnist David Brooks and 2015 Commencement
Political commentator and critically acclaimed author David Brooks delivered this year’s address. “It’s the things you chain yourself to that set you free,” he told more than 1,800 graduates that has been read or listened to online more than 40,000 times. Twelve students this year, as the College recognized four valedictorians and eight salutatorians.
3. Alumni and Others Give Generously to Advance the Academic Enterprise
Dartmouth alumni and others this year to strengthen academic engagement. The gifts represent significant investment in the president’s vision of deploying cross-disciplinary faculty teams to take on some of the world’s greatest challenges and in the College’s efforts to bring the brightest students to Dartmouth.
4. Thayer Engineers Team Up With Football to Create Tackling Dummy
A robotic tackling dummy developed by the Thayer School of Engineering and Head Football Coach Buddy Teevens ’79 , as the device’s creators appeared—with the dummy—on . But that wasn’t football’s only big success this season. The team for the first time since 1996. Speaking of champions, took top Ivy honors this fall. Women’s rugby topped the Ivy League in as a varsity sport, while men’s soccer took the league title for the second consecutive year. Then there was , which also won the Ivy title for the ninth consecutive year.
5. Dean of the College and Tuck Dean Are Key Appointments
Two deans were appointed this year to leadership positions at the College. Spanish and comparative literature professor in June. of the new residential house communities. , a scholar of international economics and an expert in globalization, as the new dean of the Tuck School of Business on July 1.
6. Dartmouth Admits Class of 2019
The highest percentage of first-generation college students in recent years are part of the some 1,115 students who arrived at Dartmouth in August. We’re busy putting together the Class of 2020, and this month early decision applicants.
7. First Group Named to Society of Fellows
in April as the inaugural members of the Society of Fellows, a program created by President Hanlon, who notes that the society will bring their intellectual energy and new ideas to campus. The fellows work with seven who serve as mentors.
8. Dartmouth Traditions: Videos of Homecoming and Winter Carnival
Look back at a pair of Dartmouth most beloved traditions—fall’s , including and .
9. Faculty Scholarly Pursuits Make News
A number of faculty members made news this year, including paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva, a member of an international team of more than 60 scientists who of a new human ancestor in Rising Star Cave in South Africa; math and computational science professor Daniel Rockmore, who based on mathematical expressions produced by eminent scientists and mathematicians; and English professor Donald Pease, who was in the news by the late Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel ’25; music professor Steve Swayne, whose on the ; and computer science professor Hany Farid, who led one of the most famous conspiracy theories in U.S. history. Read more about faculty research and teaching in the .
10. Dartmouth Explores Freestanding Graduate School
The College is exploring the transition to an administratively independent which was the on campus this fall.
11. Dartmouth a Stop for Presidential Ӱefuls
Every four years, students get a look at retail politics as Hanover and the College are campaign stops for presidential candidates of both parties making their way through the first-in-the-nation primary state. See who has been to Hanover, and what faculty experts are saying about the race.
12. Geisel Student Helps With Relief Efforts Following Nepal Earthquake
Geisel School of Medicine student in May on a relief mission following the April 25 earthquake, arriving hours before a second powerful quake struck the country. Shrestha is part of , a group of students from the College and Geisel as well as , working in the country and on campus to provide aid following the disaster.
