The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Applications due December 11.

Award recognizes Professors Steve Swayne and Don Pease for their contributions to teaching & learning at Dartmouth and beyond, including their MOOCs with DartmouthX....

Jessica Tong ’17, a philosophy major and government minor from Sydney, Australia, is a recipient of the Dartmouth Stamps Scholar Award. Her project, “Untold Stories from the Chinese Cultural Revolution,” aims to reveal personal histories from that period. Tong is working under the guidance of her research mentor, Nien Lin Xie.

Saba Kaboly Nejad ’18, a Dartmouth Stamps Scholar, believes cancer can be cured, and that taking a physics approach can bring new solutions.

An avid traveler from a young age, linguistics major Maggie Baird ’18 has already spent time in 30 countries. Most recently, Baird, a recipient of a Dartmouth Stamps Scholarship, was in northern France, where she interviewed a native speaker of Gulmancema for her current research project.

The award recognizes innovative teaching initiatives that cross traditional academic boundaries, and crossing boundaries is just what this course was designed to do.