When Lisa Baldez joined Dartmouth’s government department a decade ago, the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) was just forming—and Baldez, who officially took over as director of DCAL in November, thought she already knew how to teach.
[more]Here’s how to sign up for Dartmouth’s first open online course, “Introduction to Environmental Science.” On a quiet day in mid-December, a group of nearly 20 faculty, students, and staff filed into the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) to conduct an experiment.
[more]Through a partnership with the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation—the first such partnership for an Ivy League school—Dartmouth’s most promising undergraduates have a new opportunity to pursue action-based learning during their junior and senior years.
[more]elaine-livingston-staff-snapshot.jpg (Photos by Eli Burakian ’00)
[more]Editor’s note: Dartmouth is commemorating Veterans Day with a series of events, honoring the service of America's veterans. In 1969, while John Spritzler ’68 was joining the antiwar activists taking over Parkhurst Hall in protest of the ROTC presence on campus, his classmate John Everett Jr. ’68 was seeing combat in the Cam Rahn Bay, where he was serving as a junior officer aboard the gunship USS Gallup.
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