Jose Clemente Orozco created a mural series called "The Epic of American Civilization" at Dartmouth College in the 1930s when he was an artist in residence there. The work has now been designated a national historic landmark by the National Park Service.

Valentine's Day, traditionally, is a time to celebrate love. But this year, groups combating violence against women are using the day to "rise up" against abuse. Throughout the world, they are marking the date not just with political demonstrations, but by dancing.

In May of 1962, Martin Luther King spoke to an overflow audience at Dartmouth College. His progress report on the American civil rights movement  was part of that year's Great Issues Course, required for graduation.

Dartmouth College is officially welcoming President-Elect Philip Hanlon to campus this week. As an alumnus of the college, Hanlon will find there are still some familiar faces around Hanover.

On Friday afternoon Dartmouth College will be holding a welcome celebration for President-elect Philip Hanlon.

Dartmouth College has hired an alumnus who built his career as a professor and provost at a major university to succeed Jim Yong Kim as the school's president. Philip Hanlon, a 1977 Dartmouth graduate and the current provost at the University of Michigan, will take office on July 1 as the college's 18th president, the college announced this afternoon.

Town clerks are gearing up for election day. But along the Connecticut River, the time it takes to vote may depend on where you live. That's because, unlike Vermont, New Hampshire is phasing in a new law that will require voters to show a photo ID.

A nineteenth-century German tale of a soldier driven to violence has been taking new shape at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College.  "Woyzeck on the Highveld" combines puppetry, live acting, and animation in a play re-set in apartheid South Africa in the 1950's.

Dartmouth College is launching a year-long celebration of the arts on campus, starting with Friday's dedication of a new visual arts center.

One student arriving at Dartmouth College this week feels especially happy - and lucky - to be there. Daniela Pelaez is an undocumented immigrant who came to this country with her parents from Colombia when she was four.

We look at how severe the binge drinking problem is in our area and the efforts being initiated by colleges to rein it in and we hear from the developer of the St. Albans Wal-Mart.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will deliver a lecture this month at Dartmouth College.

The Dartmouth Theater Department hopes to spur conversation about the troubling issue of sexual assault with "Undue Influence," a dance-drama piece that opens at the Hopkins Center's Moore Theater this week.

Friday evening a group of percussionists from Brooklyn will break out their mallets, sticks and brushes at Dartmouth College. But earlier this week the quartet Sō Percussion heard Dartmouth music students perform some of the band's work.

Newscast: April 17, 2012, 5:50 p.m.

Jim Yong Kim, an American who is president of Dartmouth College, has been chosen to be the next president of the World Bank. His selection Monday extends the U.S. hold on the top job at the 187-nation development agency.

Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim was interviewed by directors of the World Bank this week. Kim is President Obama's nominee to be the next head of the global financial organization.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been talking points for over a decade now. But it's not all that often that you hear combat soldiers doing the talking. That's why the playwrights of "ReEntry" interviewed hundreds of military personnel and relatives for the monologues and conversations that make up the performance piece.

The former head of a Dartmouth College fraternity says the college in New Hampshire has dropped hazing charges against all but three of its members.

Newscast: Friday, March 23, 2012 at 12:04 p.m.

President Barack Obama has nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, a surprise pick for the international financial institution's top job.

To celebrate its 50th anniversary season this summer, the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College is sponsoring a piano "street project" that will have pianos turning up in parks, general stores and other unexpected locations. 

All this week, students at Dartmouth have been learning about the pipa, a Chinese lute that dates back 2,000 years. Their teacher is a renowned modern performer who is preserving the pipa's traditional repertoire and collaborating with famous contemporary musicians.

Today I'll speak with Dartmouth College professor Steve Swayne about his new biography of William Schuman.  We'll also hear some of Schuman's music, as well as works by Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saens, and Schumann (yes, the one with two n's) this afternoon.

A researcher at the Vermont Cancer Center has published a massive study of surgical breast cancer patients that shows hope for less invasive cancer treatment. Also, Dartmouth College's history in training Native Americans to be Christian ministers, and another Report From Afghanistan.