Globetrotting Physicist ‘Jim’ Gates Is Scholar at Dartmouth
February 23, 2016
As the Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth for the 2015-2106 academic year, physicist Sylvester J
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As the Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth for the 2015-2106 academic year, physicist Sylvester J
It was an experimental course that “put Dartmouth on the map for all the right reasons,” Richard Wright, the Orvil Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs and a professor of geography,
Scott Smedinghoff, remembered by his colleagues as a brilliant mathematician and a gifted pianist, died suddenly at his Lebanon, N.H., home last week. He was 28.
Among the 24 “geniuses” who make up the 2015 class of MacArthur Fellows is one Dartmouth alumna: Heidi Williams, Class of 2003.
In honor of her late husband, insurance executive and philanthropist John J. (Jack) Byrne Jr., Dorothy Byrne of Etna, N.H., has committed $20 million to help Dartmouth attract and support the finest math students and professors.
Sylvester James Gates Jr., an internationally recognized theoretical physicist and a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, will be Dartmouth’s third Roth Distinguished Scholar.