AROUND THE GREEN
The College's latest tonic for wellbeing? A new master of public health (M.P.H.) program, now being offered through Dartmouth Medical School's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS). Slated to start fall term, the M.P.H. program will train students to measure, organize and improve the delivery of healthcare. Though aimed at graduate students, M.P.H. courses may be open to advanced undergrads as well, according to CECS program administrator Vincent Fusca.
En route to Salt Lake City, the Olympictorch made its way through Hanover andaround the College Green in late December. Several alumni were on hand as torch bearers, including Stuart "Mike" Smith '57 Scottie Eliassen '90, Elizabeth Williamson '05 and Patricia Hastings, Tu'98.
The College has formed a committee toconsider a September II memorial to honor the II alumni killed in the terrorist attacks. They may be honored with a physical memorial, scholarship fund or lecture or other academic activity devoted to international relations. Those are some of the options being considered by a recently formed group of students, faculty and adminstrators that will deliver recommendations to the administration later this year. To express your opinion, call the Alumni Relations Office toll-free at (888) 228-6068.
Korean language and cultural studies isabout to become an official part of thecurriculum after more than a decade of lobbying by students and professors. The College will offer courses that were taught during a three-year trial run, hire two faculty members and develop a Language Study Abroad program for 2003. "Korea occupies a uniquely politicized location, sharing borders with three major world powers—China, Japan and Russia—and its economy has been growing faster than that of any other nation during the last 50 years," says David Kang, an associate professor of government and an advocate of the new program.
The College is committed to communityservice, but maybe not enough to meetfederal regulations. The Corporation for National and Community Service reports that 65 percent of the nation's top 51 universities were below the national average in the percentage of federal work-study funds used for community service during the 1999-2000 academic year. Dartmouth, which spent less than 7 percent (the new mandated minimum) of its work-study funds for community service, was among them.
Codi Vachon '05 earned the American RedCross Lifesaving Award for rescuing a drowning 12-year-old boy last summer. A Manchester, New Hampshire, lifeguard, Vachon saved a boy who suffered a seizure in a city pool. "Her action exemplifies the highest degree of concern of one human being for another," said a Red Cross representative.
New Rhodes Scholar Megan Steven '02 will study for a doctorate in medical sciences at Oxford for three years. A psychology major, Steven plans to study the visual cortex, a part of the brain that processes visual information. "The brain is really sort of the last frontier that hasn't been entirely conquered and understood," she says
Esther Freeman '01 will study as a MarshallScholar for two years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Freeman, a romance languages major, will use the $50,000 scholarship to pursue an interest in international public health.
Who do The Sopranos call when they need ascript doctor? Psychiatry professor Ronald Green, who advises the hit show's writers about what drugs their psychotherapist character should prescribe for mobster Tony Soprano. Green's sister happens to be a writer and executive producer for the HBO series; she has her brother on call for pharmaceutical tips. It was Green, for example, who suggested prescribing Prozac for Tony's panic attacks and depression.
Dartmouth, with nary a student sit-in inyears, did not make Mother Jones magazine's list of the top 10 activist campuses for 2001. Two Ivy League schools were represented: Yale (ranked No. I) and Harvard (No. 4).
Civil rights leaders from the 1950s and 1960s are showcased in the Hood Museum's latest exhibition, Reflections In Black: SmithsonianAfrican-American Photography: Art and Activism. The show runs through March 10.
