Rosie Brennan ’11 will make her Olympic debut with Team USA in cross-country skiing after placing 34th in the distance standings in the World Cup race in Val di Fiemme, Italy, this month. She has competed at the world championships in 2015 and 2017 and placed third at a World Cup relay in December 2015. Brennan studied geography at Dartmouth and says she would eventually like to pursue an...
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Food History & Culture
November 28, 20177:00 AM ET
When I meet Ghanaian chocolatier Selassie Atadika, the first thing she does is pull a box of chocolates out of her bag. Then, introductions aside, she launches into a story.
It's a story of melding chocolate and spices, of straddling Africa and America, and of...
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Dartmouth News
September 26, 2017 by Bill Platt
Two hurricanes of historic proportions overtook Professor Frank Magilligan’s first “Geography 3” class of the term, providing an epic case in point for his overview of “The Natural Environment.”
Harvey had rained down an estimated 27 trillion gallons on Houston less than two weeks before, and Hurricane Irma was slamming...
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Handwashing saves lives. That’s why Sydney Kamen ’19 founded a nonprofit organization that recycles used soap from hotels and distributes it to under-resourced communities around the world.
Her advocacy work has won accolades, including the 2017 Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World) Award from the Helen Diller Family Foundation, the Prudential Spirit of Community...
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From the Concord Monitor (www.concordmonitor.com/hurricane-of-1938-concord-nh-12614754)
Frank Magilligan of Dartmouth can help you picture it: “Imagine a bigger, windier, slower-moving Irene.”
You remember Hurricane Irene, which moved up the Connecticut River valley in late August of 2011 after doing damage along the Eastern Seaboard.
Even though it had been downgraded to a...
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A ground-breaking map of the United States that defines mega-regions by commuting patterns has won the UK’s top planning research award.
It is one five winners at yesterday's RTPI Research Excellence Awards ceremony, held during the 2017 UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference.
Mega-regions in the USA have long been understood in geography as cities connected by their economies and infrastructure, but this way of conglomerating places are increasingly unable to reflect what is...
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As The Northeast Gets Wetter, N.H. Faces Critical Need To Fix Aging Infrastructure
By The Exchange • Sep 7, 2017 The Exchange...
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In the part-time position as director of global initiatives, Adams, who is a physician, will manage global strategy for the College, including work with the Matariki Network of Universities, an international consortium of seven institutions, including Dartmouth. She will also work on the College’s immigration working group, which began meeting in January, to share information and resources in the face of changing federal policies regarding immigration, and on international agreements for...
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Intense rainfall events, like the one that triggered flash floods throughout the region and a mudslide in southern Vermont on Monday, have become much more common in the last 20 years, according to researchers at Dartmouth College.
Though the jury is still out on whether climate change is behind the trend, the findings, which were published last month, do suggest that what we think of as 100-year flood events might actually be much more likely to happen than conventional wisdom...
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Michaela LeDoux '17 is a geography major and art history minor from New Orleans, LA. She was awarded a 2017-2018 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) grant to teach at a high school in Třinec, Czech Republic. After participating in the geography department's FSP, Michaela wanted to return to experience more of the country beyond Prague. While in Třinec, she will also be involved in community engagement projects and hopes to conduct a qualitative research project on her host town and...
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