HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A polar bear plunge, an ice sculpture contest, human dogsled and ski races are among the highlights of Dartmouth College’s Winter Carnival this year.

The carnival

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A record number of students have applied to be part of the Class of 2023 at Dartmouth College.

The Ivy League school in Hanover says it has received 23,641 applications, an increase of 7 percent from last year and topping the previous record set in ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College is seeing an increase in the number of alcohol-fueled incidents that required campus security officers or dorm advisers to step in.

The Valley News reports that ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College says it’s planning to invest $200 million in a wood-burning power plant and hot water heating, and convert steam pipes in more than 110 buildings on campus.

The Valley News

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College said it was unaware of sexual misconduct allegations against three professors until it was alerted by scores of female students.

The college’s comment Tuesday is its first response to a federal lawsuit accusing it of ignoring the behavior. The college ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former Dartmouth College student has sued the school, saying he was unjustly expelled over a sexual assault allegation.

New Hampshire Public Radio

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College is kicking off the celebration of its 250th anniversary with nine simultaneous events across campus on Thursday.

Faculty, staff and students are invited to participate at the celebration location that is most convenient to them. Remarks by President ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Construction is getting underway on a $200 million project to integrate engineering, computer science and entrepreneurship at Dartmouth College.

The project, funded through gifts to the Ivy League college, includes a new building on the west end of campus to be shared ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College will respond to a recent lawsuit accusing it of ignoring professors’ sexual misconduct with a sweeping plan to combat harassment and assault, the president of the Ivy League college said.

A lawsuit filed last month by seven current and former students ...

NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty in the 2001 stabbing deaths of two Dartmouth College professors when he was 16 has asked a judge for a shorter sentence.

James Parker and 17-year-old Robert Tulloch, both of Chelsea, Vermont, posed as students conducting a survey. ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — About 80 Dartmouth College faculty members have signed a letter pledging to make “structural and cultural changes” to protect against violence and discrimination following student allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment in one department.

Professors Brad ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — The Department of Energy is awarding Dartmouth College $400,000 to support a new research project that advances early-stage solar technologies to lower electricity costs and create jobs.

Dr. Jifeng Liu, principal investigator of the project, said, it’s an honor to ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A 22-year-old New Hampshire man has been arrested on charges he shot and wounded another man near the Dartmouth College campus in Hanover.

Hanover police say that Gage Young, of Lebanon, was arrested just before 3 p.m. Saturday and charged with second degree assault, a ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Just in time for Halloween, a rare “corpse flower” that gets its nickname from its putrid smell is expected to bloom next week at Dartmouth College’s greenhouse.

Named Morphy, the titan arum is native to Sumatra’s equatorial rainforests and has a long, pointy stalk ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A spike in reports of hazing at Dartmouth College prompted the Ivy League school to hire an external investigator to look at over a dozen organizations including fraternities and sororities.

College officials told The Dartmouth student

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College says 50 of its students have fallen ill with hand, foot and mouth disease.

WMUR-TV reports that the college is treating students at its health service facility and a 24-hour hotline for sick students has been set up. Health officials say there is ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College says a set of racially insensitive murals that offended Native American students is going to be used as a teaching tool.

The four painted scenes inspired by a college drinking song belittle the intellect of the tribal subjects, one of whom is holding ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — An annual homecoming bonfire that attracts thousands to Dartmouth College will be shorter, squatter and safer this year.

In June, the town of Hanover said it would not approve a permit for the three-story fire, citing the risk that the structure could collapse and ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — As soon as the art appraiser finished inspecting the back of the canvas, Cynthia Bittinger and Betsy Gonnerman delicately wrestled the heavy wooden frame upright on the blanket-covered table to reveal the 19th-century oil painting of Daniel Webster, whose fame and importance ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College says it will move a set of racially insensitive murals that offended Native American students to an off-campus storage facility.

The four painted scenes — inspired by a college drinking song written in the 1800s — objectify Native Americans and ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the president’s reaction to them have prompted a New Hampshire state senator to come forward with her own story of assault.

Sen. Martha Hennessey, a Hanover Democrat seeking a second term, ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College has set a school record for donations to the Ivy League school in a single year.

The college says gifts and pledges during the fiscal year that ended June 30 totaled $422.6 million, exceeding the 2017 total by 48 percent and the record set in 2016 by ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Every summer morning, Midge Eliassen has the same routine. She walks out her back door, down the steps, and onto her dock on Lake Sunapee.

There, she pulls out a plankton net and takes a sample from the water, shipping off the results to be analyzed in a lab at ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — In a member exchange Sept. 3 about Dartmouth College’s new director of its Native American Program, The Associated Press reported erroneously where she was living and the St. John’s campus where she previously worked. Sarah Palacios was living in Ventura, California, not ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College has proposed adding a new traffic signal as part of its $200 million campus expansion plan.

Valley New reports the school announced the proposed signal Thursday in a news release. The light would be erected at West Wheelock Street, near the entrance ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A Dartmouth College professor has been accused of plagiarizing other professors.

New Hampshire Public Radio reports a Dartmouth College investigation committee found that ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College says two administrators of a health care research group have been placed on paid leave following a complaint about conduct in the workplace.

A college spokeswoman said both were placed on leave Tuesday, and that the complaint was a confidential ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A third Dartmouth College psychology professor facing sexual misconduct allegations has left the school following an internal investigation and recommendation that the school fire him.

Professor William Kelley resigned Tuesday, according to Dartmouth College President ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A bear has wandered into the Dartmouth College campus.

WPTZ-TV reports the bear was found in a tree at the college’s Hanover campus in New Hampshire Saturday.

Hanover ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College is hosting a conference marking the 25th anniversary of “Race Matters” by Cornel West.

The conference starts Friday. West, professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, is participating in the conference throughout the ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A bear that was relocated to northern New Hampshire a week ago after she and her cubs were raiding trash bins and bird feeders near Dartmouth College in Hanover is on the move, traveling nearly 70 miles in seven days as she likely tries to find her way back home and to her ...

Dartmouth College is receiving a $800,000 federal grant to research nerve signaling in the human brain.

Professor Michael Hoppa will research the stimulus of nerve signaling to the brain. Such research could help explain how certain defects at the molecular level lead to immune diseases, ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A momma bear and her cubs are no longer going to be causing mischief by raiding trash bins and bird feeders near Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

Officials said the bear nicknamed Mink was captured Friday and hauled north to Coos County, near the Canadian border, ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — One of three Dartmouth College psychology professors facing sexual misconduct allegations has resigned following an investigation and recommendation that the school fire him.

Dartmouth College President Phil Hanlon on Tuesday announced Professor Paul Whalen’s ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — One of three Dartmouth College psychology professors facing sexual misconduct allegations has chosen to retire following an investigation and recommendation that the school fire him, the school’s president said Thursday.

President Phil Hanlon announced Professor Todd ...

LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire cancer center named for a former U.S. senator may be renamed if a benefactor makes a sufficient donation, though officials haven’t determined the amount.

Norris Cotton served in the Senate from 1954-1975. He secured a federal grant to build the first ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — An annual celebration of Native American culture is expected to draw about 1,000 participants and spectators to Dartmouth College this weekend.

The college’s Native American Program and the student group Native Americans at Dartmouth have hosted an annual powwow since ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College is hoping to become the latest Ivy League school to eliminate loans from its student financial aid packages.

The college recently launched a $3 billion fundraising campaign that includes a goal of raising $500 million for financial aid. Of that, $80 ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College says it’s halfway to its $3 billion goal for a fundraising campaign.

Officials say 78,000 donors over the past four years have contributed gifts of $1.5 billion in the “Call to Lead” program.

Trustees Chairman Laurel Richie described it Friday ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has canceled a planned speech about Russia at Dartmouth College due to late votes on a budget agreement in Congress.

Shaheen was scheduled to give an address Friday entitled “Russian Interference in American Politics and Cyber Threats ...

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Paul Movizzo spent 30 years in the Navy as an aviator piloting an E-2C Hawkeye early warning radar detection plane, as well as commanding a team involved in electromagnetic warfare.

But despite the high-pressure and leadership assignments — which included serving on ...