Dartmouth CollegeNews and information about Dartmouth College. News and information from the best feeds offered by Dartmouth College.Exploring race and class with author Caryl PhillipsExploring race and class with author Caryl Phillips- July 8, 2008 Caryl Phillips, author of nine novels, several books of non-fiction, anthologies, a travel narrative, and other pieces for radio, television, theater and film, is visiting Dartmouth this summer as Montgomery Fellow. As a visiting professor in the Department of English, Phillips will be teaching the course "Race and Class in Postwar British Fiction." Gretchen Gerzina, the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography, and chair of the English department, speaks with Phillips about his work and...http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/features/podcasts/2008/phillips.html Dartmouth Commencement 2008 - Valedictory address by Jean Ellen Cowgill '08- July 8, 2008 Valedictory address by Jean Ellen Cowgill '08, class valedictorian, June 8, 2008http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/features/podcasts/2008/commence.html Veterans and Higher Education, with President James Wright- July 8, 2008 Since 2005, Dartmouth President James Wright has made several trips to visit wounded U.S. veterans at military hospitals in Washington, D.C. and in San Diego, Calif. Wright, who served three years in the U.S. Marine Corps (1957-60) before enrolling in college, feels both a special connection to and a particular responsibility to help wounded veterans attend college. Wright worked with American Council on Education, the largest U.S. higher education association, to launch an educational...http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/features/podcasts/2008/wright.html Undergraduate Veterans, with Samuel Crist '10- July 8, 2008 Samuel Crist, a member of the class of 2010, is a founding member and president of DUVA, the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association. In this podcast, he talks about the purpose of the new organization and discusses some of his experiences here on campus and as a marine.http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/features/podcasts/2008/crist.html Project Preservation, with Rabbi Edward Boraz- July 8, 2008 Since 2002, the Tucker Foundation and Dartmouth's Hillel have coordinated student trips to Europe to restore Jewish cemeteries long neglected in once-thriving Jewish communities. The small groups have visited Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine. In this podcast, Edward Boraz, the Michael Steinberg '61 Rabbi of Dartmouth College Hillel and the rabbi for the Upper Valley Jewish community, talks about these annual trips and the impact they have on students and on the villages they visit.http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/features/podcasts/2008/boraz.html |