VOL. CLXXI NO. 109
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2014
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Grant provides money for education study
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By brian chalif The Dartmouth Staff
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A $340,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow researchers to investigate the correlation between reading performance and neurological changes from intense reading instruction in third grade students in the Lebanon school district. The grant, which began Aug. 1, marks a joint venture between Dartmouth and the Stern Center for Language and Learning, based in Williston. The grant proposal was co-written by lead investigator and education professor Donna Coch and Stern Center president and founder Blanche Podhajski. The two-year project provides for instruction for students who
For two years, students from the Lebanon school district will be a part of a education study.
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Global conflict, disease may affect future programs B y CHRIS LEECH
The Dartmouth Staff
The future of two planned off-campus programs, an exchange program in Jerusalem and the African and African American studies FSP in Ghana, might be in jeopardy as global conflict and disease present a risk to Dartmouth students. A exchange program with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem planned for this
fall may be canceled because of a State Department travel warning concerning the recent escalation of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, while students on the African and African-American studies FSP to Ghana in fall 2015 would reach Ghana a year after the deadliest outbreak to date of the Ebola virus began in Guinea, another West African nation about 870 miles away. The College has a travel risk policy in place to ensure
student safety while abroad, Tansey said. The policy states that any proposed Dartmouthrelated trip to countries with U.S. Department of State, the World Health Organization or the Center for Disease Control travel warning may only be approved after a waiver has been granted from the provost’s office. The office consults the College’s international travel risk committee, which includes representatives from Safety and Security in addition to
the Health Services and Risk Management offices, during the process, Tansey said. He said that waivers are largely used for individual student travel to risky countries, but program-wide travel waivers have been granted on specific occasions. While some institutions, like the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, have shut down programs similar to the Hebrew University exchange, others, like Northwestern
University, have allowed them to proceed, executive director of off-campus programs John Tansey said. The College is in the process of applying for a waiver to continue with the program. Lewis Glinert, the exchange’s faculty advisor and a Hebrew studies professor, declined to comment. The Ebola virus has claimed more than 1,000 lives in this most recent outbreak and has SEE OCP PAGE 5
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College 10th in Forbes entrepreneurship ranking B y CHARLIE RAFKIN The Dartmouth Staff
Forbes ranked Dartmouth 10th on its top-20 list of most entrepreneurial schools in a July 30 report, which employed a new methodology from its previous published rankings. Although the College fell three spots from its seventh-place position in Forbes’ 2012 report, Forbes data journalist and report author Liyan Chen said in an
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interview that the reports should not be compared given the change in research method. Stanford University led the rankings in both 2014 and 2012, while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in second in both reports. The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of California at Los SEE FORBES PAGE 3
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Students stood in solidarity to honor victims of police brutality.