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Dartmouth Chooses Michigan Provost As New President

By VPR | November 29, 2012

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.

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Upper Valley Health Professionals Return To Haiti A Year Later

By Neal Charnoff | February 21, 2011

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.

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Americana Museums Reinvent Themselves, Attract New Visitors

By Jane Lindholm | January 27, 2011

Americana museums exist in many forms and many sizes across the country, from local historical societies to the Shelburne Museum in Vermont to the Smithsonian in Washington. Many of these museums have been having more trouble attracting visitors in recent years, and are trying a variety of innovative things in an effort to change that.

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Upper Valley Newspaper Reports From Haiti

By Neal Charnoff | January 28, 2010

As recovery operations continue after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, a local news team from the Upper Valley is following events on the ground.

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Valley News expands into Claremont

By Ross Sneyd | July 28, 2009

The Claremont, New Hampshire, area lost its daily newspaper earlier this month when the Eagle Times abruptly closed. That loss has created a local ‘news vacuum’ in the region. And a former competitor up the river from Claremont hopes to fill it.