$1,500,000 Grant

DARTMOUTH College has received from the Rockefeller Foundation a grant of $1,500,000 to assist in the development and expansion of its five-year program integrating liberal arts studies and the basic medical sciences, President Dickey announced last month.

"We believe that a distinctive purpose will be served by unifying the traditionally separate premedical and preclinical segments of medical education," President Dickey said.

"Modern medicine is a facet of the life sciences, and a sound medical education includes knowledge of the social sciences and humanities, as well as of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and the basic medical sciences. The Dartmouth program, which the close relation of the College and Medical School makes possible, will give the students a continuing educational experience, from the undergraduate premedical years through the first two years of graduate work, with exposure to combined faculties cooperating in a program of liberal scientific education."

Under its terms the Rockefeller grant is to be used "to strengthen teaching and research in the physical, biological and medical sciences, and in mathematics." A third of the grant is available to help finance construction of a projected new medical sciences building.

This grant is a major contribution to the $10,000,000 Dartmouth is seeking to finance its new and expanded Medical School program. This fund effort is entirely apart from the $17,000,000 capital gifts campaign in which the College is currently engaged, and is being conducted among foundations and others interested in medical education.