Dartmouth News

2018 Faculty Awardees Model ‘Dartmouth’s Highest Values’
In the past academic year, a dozen professors from across the arts and sciences received recognition from the College for their teaching and “The scholar-teachers honored this year represent the ideal of the liberal arts,” says Dean of the Faculty Elizabeth Smith. “Their dedication to their students and to their academic fields models Dartmouth’s highest values. I’m proud to call them my colleagues.” Read more.

In The News

Geologists Show How Extraction of Shale Oil and Gas Makes Water Radioactive
September 20, 2018
Research led by Dartmouth’s Joshua Landis has shown how extracting oil and natural gas from shale releases hazardous radium isotopes into groundwater. The results appear in two scientific articles in the journal Chemical Geology.
Here Are the 2018 National Book Award Longlists
September 19, 2018
Historian Colin Calloway’s book The Indian World of George Washington has made the 2018 National Book Awards longlist in nonfiction. The award is among the most coveted literary prizes America. Finalists will be announced Oct. 10.
There’s Carbon Trapped in the Soil, and We Want It to Stay There
September 18, 2018
The newspaper highlights research by Dartmouth’s Caitlin Hicks Pries showing that carbon in soil is at risk of escaping and further driving climate change. But her work also shows promise for methods of using soil to store excess carbon.

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Scenes from a busy week of orientation.
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For most members of the Class of 2022, one of their first experiences on campus is ... leaving campus, as they head out for first-year trips. These multiday experiences allow students to get to know one another in small groups before coming back to campus to start the school year. See photos from a few of this year’s trips.
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A gallery of images from around campus - August 14, 2018
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