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Dartmouth Students To Launch Balloons For NASA
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A group of Dartmouth students is spending the summer preparing balloons that could tell us more about the band of highly charged particles that surrounds the earth. Scientists want to know more about these so-called radiation belts that can make big trouble for spacecraft and satellites passing through them.VPR News
Dartmouth Frat Put On Probation For Hazing
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Dartmouth College’s judicial panel found Sigma Alpha Epsilon guilty of hazing for expecting pledges in 2009 to participate in activities, including drinking shots of saltwater and swimming in a kiddie pool filled with food.VPR News
Dartmouth Appoints Interim President
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Dartmouth College has appointed Provost Carol Folt as interim president, a day after President Jim Yong Kim’s election to lead the World Bank.VPR News
Dartmouth Charges Fraternity With Hazing
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The Dartmouth College newspaper published a letter a month ago detailing a student’s allegations of hazing at the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Now, 27 members of that fraternity have been charged with violating school policy. The controversy is renewing calls for the end of single sex fraternities on campus.VPR News
Upper Valley Health Professionals Return To Haiti A Year Later
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Nurses and doctors from Dartmouth traveled to Haiti last year after the deadly earthquake. The team has returned to Haiti this month and a photographer and reporter from the Valley News have gone along to chronicle their work. Reporter Gregory Trotter describes what they’ve found.VPR News
Dartmouth Joins Effort To Improve Treatments, Reduce Costs
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A Dartmouth College institute and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have joined a first-of-its-kind collaboration with other leading hospitals around the country. The goal is to improve the quality of health care while reducing costs.Vermont Edition
How “Green” Is Biomass?
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We look into the pros and cons of burning wood for energy, and we discuss a recent study that looked at the long term effects of using biomass. Also we learn why Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center recently canceled an aid trip to Haiti, and we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hitchcock’s Psycho.VPR News
Dartmouth’s 17th president is inaugurated
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The event on the college green in Hanover was steeped in tradition. The ceremony was also groundbreaking because Jim Yong Kim is the first Asian-American to lead an Ivy League college.VPR News
