If there was a place in the state of New Hampshire that Barack Obama could say he “owned” – and he might use that exact word, when speaking to this crowd – it would be Dartmouth College. The Democratic presidential candidate has personally visited the campus several times, including today when he kicked off primary day with a rally.
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Sophomore Sunny Zhang (San Ramon, Calif.) shot a six-over par 78, helping the Big Green women's golf team to move up to third place at the Dartmouth Invitational that concluded Sunday.
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.
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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 Tu’86 led that trip, while Raymond Rodriguez ‘09 and Amy Quan ‘09 led the student trip.
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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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Hanover, N.H.—Today, the Financial Times released its ninth annual ranking of full-time MBA programs. The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth placed #7 among U.S. schools and #9 worldwide.
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Tuck management prof Sydney Finkelstein talks about his new book on how to leave your competitors in the dust.Margaret A. Otto, 16th Librarian of Dartmouth College, died at age 69 on Sunday, Dec. 10, in Hanover, N.H., following a courageous battle with cancer.
Mascoma was founded in 2005 by biomass industry pioneers Drs. Lee R. Lynd and Charles Wyman of Dartmouth College. With financial backing of $39M from a syndicate of leading venture capital firms led by founding investor Khosla Ventures, Mascoma plans to build, operate and manage a 15,000 square foot facility in New York State to complete testing of multiple feedstocks and technologies for biomass ethanol.
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Hanover, N.H.—An ambitious research effort launched six years ago by two Tuck School of Business researchers and a colleague from Loyola University Chicago has yielded a startling discovery about why there are so few women CEOs in major companies. According to the paper, just published in the Academy of Management's Perspectives journal, nearly half the thousand largest U.S. firms had no woman in their official listings of principal executives.
