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A new Dartmouth-led study, published this week in the journal Pediatrics, has found that the disproportionate use of premiums within child-targeted TV advertising for children’s fast-food meals is deceptive. The researchers examined thousands of advertisements from 11 fast-food restaurants, but one company—McDonald’s—accounted for nearly all the airtime and, as a result, the findings. The researchers report that these ads often overemphasize premiums such as toy giveaways and games rel...

May 10, 2021 by Aimee Minbiole Honorary degrees will also go to scholars in the arts, education, and sciences. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed 81 will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouths 2021 commencement. (Photo by Tony Rinaldo) PreviousNext Annette Gordon-Reed 81, a law scholar, MacArthur Fellow, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouths 2021 commencement in Memori...

Dartmouth’s medical school accuses 17 students of cheating on remote exams after tracking students online activity without their knowledge During the pandemic, Dartmouth College tracked websites accessed by medical students who were  sitting remote exams using a program called Canvas The Ivy League school accused 17 students at its Geisel School of Medicine of cheating by looking up answers to exams on the internet  The school retroactively reviewed activity of students during 3,000 exams ...

May 05, 2021 by Office of Communications The president and the provost announced the news in a May 5 community email. Photo by Eli Burakian 00 PreviousNext All graduating students will be allowed to invite guests—two per student—to one commencement event this year, President Philip J. Hanlon 77 and Provost Joseph Helble announced in an email today to students, faculty, staff, and the families of undergraduates who are expected to graduate. "This is now possible because of the success ...

Reflecting on faculty who have taught, supported, and enabled their transition to clinical learning, second-year medical students honored four outstanding Geisel School of Medicine faculty with Preclinical Teaching Awards. A total of 64 nominations representing first- and second-year preclinical faculty, were whittled down to four winners through a combination of votes from Medical Education Committee Student Representatives and the Class of 2023. Larry Myers, PhD Nominated across all four awar...

The Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) announced that Sandra L. Wong, MD, MS, FSSO, is its president-elect. Wong, the William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor of Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is the chair of the Department of Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) and Geisel. She is a nationally recognized authority in the management of soft tissue sarcoma, melanoma, Merkel Cell carcinoma, and g...

Ta-Yuan (T.Y.) Chang, PhD (left) and Catherine Chung-Yao Chang, PhD alongside photos of previous Chang Lab researchers and their families. Photo by Kurt Wehde Ta-Yuan (T.Y.) Chang, PhD, a professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), considered to be one of the country’s premier scientific societies. Election to the National Academy of Sciences is among the highest honors a scientist can achie...

COVID-19: Relatives are welcome at Dartmouth College vaccine clinics Modified: 4/28/2021 8:52:44 PM HANOVER — The COVID-19 vaccination clinics at Dartmouth College next week will be open to family members of Dartmouth students, staff and faculty regardless of where they reside, college officials announced. The hope is that the clinics will help get the college and community up to the 70% to 90% vaccination rate that is necessary to achieve herd immunity, Provost Joe Helble said during a virtu...

Robert D. Gordon, MD, joins Seacoast Dermatology Portsmouth Herald Seacoast Dermatology PLLC announced dermatologist Robert D. Gordon, MD as the most recent addition to their local dermatology practice. Dr. Gordon is accepting new patients at the Exeter and Portsmouth practice locations. Dr. Gordon comes to Seacoast Dermatology from the Merrimack Medical Center and Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. An experienced dermatologist and long-time resident of the seacoast community, he offers hi...

Share This The FINANCIAL --  People in our social networks influence the food we eat — both healthy and unhealthy — according to a large study of hospital employees. The foods people buy at a workplace cafeteria may not always be chosen to satisfy an individual craving or taste for a particular food. When co-workers are eating together, individuals are more likely to select foods that are as healthy — or unhealthy — as the food selections on their fellow employees’ trays, Harvard ...