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22 unusual facts about Dartmouth College


BARREL

Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) is a NASA mission operated out of Dartmouth College that works with the Van Allen Probes mission (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission).

Dedham Public Schools

Descendants of these students would become presidents of Dartmouth College, Yale University and Harvard University.

Dilys Laing

She married Alexander Laing, a Dartmouth College graduate, and later professor, in 1936 and became an American citizen.

Grueby Faience Company

The collection at Dartmouth College is catalogued by Montgomery, Grueby Pottery: A New England Arts and Crafts Venture : The William Curry Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1994.

Henry C. Morrison

Morrison could not finance his own education, but because he showed success in his academic work, a local banker raised money and financed his education at Dartmouth College.

Hermon Hosmer Scott

In the early 1960s, Mr. Scott served as a special lecturer at the Tuck School of Business, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Homer Eaton Keyes

Homer Eaton Keyes (1875 - October 8, 1938), was an author and professor at Dartmouth College, and the founder and editor of the magazine Antiques.

Horace Dean

In 1846, he enlisted in the Mexican–American War as a surgeon and cavalry captain, apparently using forged medical diplomas from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Missouri.

JJ Appleton

Appleton was born in Norwich, Vermont, on April 4, 1976, the son of Georganna Towne and Jon H. Appleton, a composer and professor of electro-acoustic music at Dartmouth College.

Kel Seliger

Born in Amarillo and reared in the Panhandle city of Borger in Hutchinson County, Seliger is a graduate of Borger public schools and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

Keystone National High School

Keystone graduates have been accepted at many major universities and colleges, including Calvin College, Dartmouth, New York University, Duke, Notre Dame, Rice, Stanford, Yale, and West Point Academy.

Lindsay Mac

She attended Dartmouth College, and her interest in becoming a classical cellist led her to study abroad at the Royal College of Music in London.

Louis Charles Roudanez

He returned to the U.S. and enrolled in medical school again, either at Dartmouth College or Cornell University.

Lucky Thompson

He taught at Dartmouth College in 1973 and 1974, then completely left the music business.

Michelle Barr

She joined the coaching staff at Dartmouth College as a volunteer assistant in 2005, becoming asssitant coach to Angie Hind the following season.

New England Interstate Route 10

Route 10 is often called the College Highway because it links Yale University, Trinity College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Amherst College, the University of Massachusetts and Dartmouth College.

Radiography

In January 1896, on reading of Röntgen's discovery, Frank Austin of Dartmouth College tested all of the discharge tubes in the physics laboratory and found that only the Pulyui tube produced X-rays.

Sherman Fairchild Foundation

Notable Grants: 10 Million Dartmouth College, 10 Million Caltech, 10 Million Columbia, 5 Million Connecticut College, 5 Million MIT, .48 Million Bryn Mawr College

Steve Swayne

Steven R. Swayne is a professor of music at Dartmouth College.

The Sport Parade

The characters played by McCrea and Gargan are friends from Dartmouth College, who play together on the college football team, and whose lives take different paths.

Tucson Medical Center

TMC has been chosen by Dartmouth College and the Brookings Institution for a national Accountable Care Organization pilot project.

Valerie Ogoke

Ogoke was recruited by several university basketball programs including Princeton University, Dartmouth College, the University of California, San Diego, the University of Santa Clara and the University of Portland.


Alan Reich

Reich was born in Pearl River, New York, and graduated from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where he was an all-American track and field athlete.

Andrew Goldstein

A two-time All-American at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Goldstein made headlines off the field in 2005 when he was dubbed by ESPN to be "the most accomplished male, team-sport athlete in North America to be openly gay during his playing career."

Anne W. Armstrong

She was also a pioneering woman in business management, and was the first woman to lecture before the Harvard School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business in the early 1920s.

Appleton Syntonic Menagerie

The album was realized at the Bregman Electronic Music Studio, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Benjamin Pierce Cheney

He donated $50,000 to Dartmouth College, and in 1886 he presented a bronze statue by Thomas Ball of his friend Daniel Webster to the people of New Hampshire; today it is located in front of the New Hampshire State House.

Binary number

In a demonstration to the American Mathematical Society conference at Dartmouth College on 11 September 1940, Stibitz was able to send the Complex Number Calculator remote commands over telephone lines by a teletype.

Camp William James

Camp William James was opened in 1940 by Dartmouth College professor, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, as a center for training youth for leadership in the Civilian Conservation Corps, which had been inaugurated in 1933 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Charles Arthur Willard

From 1974 to 1982 he was the Director of Forensics at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA).

Christian Bjelland IV

He was educated at Sedbergh School, England (1967-1972), Dartmouth College (AB, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1976) and Harvard Business School (MBA 1978).

College Terrace, Palo Alto, California

All of the street names in the College Terrace neighborhood are named after East Coast colleges and universities such as Amherst, Bowdoin, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Oberlin, Princeton, Cornell, Wellesley, Williams and Yale.

Dartmouth Time Sharing System

In 1962, John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College submitted a grant for the development of a new time-sharing system to NSF (funded in 1964).

David Zarling

Zarling was a S. L. Brown Scholar and holds a BA with Honors in Biology, a MA in Molecular Biology/ Biological Sciences from Dartmouth College, a Ph.D. in Virology/Oncology, with emphasis on pharmaceutical drug development, from Baylor College of Medicine and an Executive MBA in Marketing/Finance from Pepperdine University.

George Davis Snell

Snell was educated in the Brookline, Massachusetts schools and then enrolled at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire where he continued his passion for mathematics and science, focusing on genetics.

Gillian Apps

As a psychology major at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States, Apps was a member of her college's ice hockey team, competing in ECAC women's ice hockey.

John S. Monagan

Monagan graduated from Dartmouth College in 1933, where he majored in French literature and was the editor of the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern.

Josh LaBove

Josh was a graduate student at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and is now a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and a lecturer in Continuing Studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.

Justine Cassell

She holds a DEUG in Lettres Modernes from the Université de Besançon (1981), a BA in Comparative Literature/Linguistics from Dartmouth College (1982), a M.LITT.

Kan'ichi Asakawa

He lectured at Dartmouth College in 1902; was a professor at Waseda University (1906–07); an instructor at Yale University (1907–10); and became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1910.

Los Angeles Leadership Academy

The schools which awarded degrees to those teachers were University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Yale University.

Ludger Kühnhardt

He was speechwriter for Germany’s Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker (1987–1989) and a visiting professor at prestigious universities around the world, including the University of Cape Town (1991), College of Europe (1995), Dartmouth College (2000), Stanford University (2004), Seoul National University (2004–2005) and St Antony's College, Oxford (2005–2006).

M. Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson is a Professor of Operations Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.

Martin Fridson

He has been a guest lecturer at the graduate business schools of Babson College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Fordham University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, University of Notre Dame, Rutgers University and the Wharton School of Business, as well as the Amsterdam Institute of Finance.

Michael Arad

Arad received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, and a master's degree from Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture.

Michael Beschloss

He has served as a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, a Senior Associate Member at St. Antony's College (University of Oxford), a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University Russian Research Center, a Senior Fellow of the Annenberg Foundation and a Montgomery Fellow and Dorsett Fellow at Dartmouth College.

Milt Ghee

Born in Wilmette, Illinois, Ghee attended Oak Park High School before enrolling at Dartmouth College.

Paavo Lipponen

Receiving his gymnasium diploma from the Lyceum of Kuopio in 1959, he then studied philosophy and literature at Dartmouth College for one year.

Pine School

Since then, TPS graduates have been accepted to the finest colleges in the nation, including Yale University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the United States Military Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, Boston College, Pomona College, Swarthmore College, Davidson College, Tufts University, Vanderbilt University, Wesleyan University, and more.

Robert Clark Corrente

Corrente graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978 with highest distinction and graduated from New York University School of Law in 1981.

Rudolf Luneburg

Rudolf Karl Lüneburg (30 March 1903, Volkersheim (Bockenem) - 19 August 1949, Great Falls, Montana), after his emigration at first Lueneburg, later Luneburg, falsified Luneberg) was a professor of mathematics and optics at the Dartmouth College Eye Institute.

Sally Pinkas

Pinkas currently serves as Professor of Music at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and also as pianist-in-residence of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, performing for the local audience each season.

Samson Occom

Several locations around Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, are named after Occom, including Occom Pond and Occom Ridge on the college campus' northern edge.

Susannah Heschel

Susannah Heschel is Dartmouth College's Eli Black professor of Jewish Studies, an award-winning author, and the daughter of Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

Tip Top Building

A proposed Dartmouth Media Institute, an offshoot of Dartmouth College, conceived by composer Jon Appleton (who was also the founder of New England Digital) and funded by some prominent corporations, was envisioned as the media anchor.

Tom Earle

He has played for many teams, such as Orillia Travelways, Barrie Colts, Dartmouth College and the Whitley Bay Warriors.