NEWS AND NOTES
NEWS AND NOTES
Fuel For Thought
Students organized an April campus rally that called for Dartmouth to divest from the top 200 fossil fuel companies in the world. Roughly 400 people showed up for the protest, which was organized by Divest Dartmouth, a student group led by Molly Siegel ’16. The College thus far has no plans to take any action that would alter its investment strategy.
Degrees Awarded
Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian human rights activist and Nobel laureate, served as the main speaker at Commencement June 12. She received an honorary degree at the ceremony with five others: Marine and author Rye Barcott, Aspen Institute senior fellow George “Skip” Battle ’66, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency director Arati Prabhakar, Ideal Group CEO Frank Venegas and Pulitzer Prizewinning author and energy expert Daniel Yergin.
New Hires
»> Rabbi Daveen Litwin will become the new dean and chaplain of the William Jewett Tucker Center for Spiritual Life in August. She has previously worked at the University of Kansas, Grinnell College and, most recently, the Claremont University Consortium in California.... New men’s basketball coach David McLaughlin brings “a terrific history of developing players,” says athletics director Harry Sheehy. McLaughlin spent the last three years as associate head coach and recruiting coordinator at Northeastern.
Faculty Honored
»> Mark McPeek, a professor of biological sciences, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences....Two professors are among the 178 recipients of new Guggenheim fellowships: English and creative writing professor Cynthia Huntington and history professor Darrin McMahon....Associate professor of studio art Enrico Riley ’95 won a 2016 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.
