Welcome Class of 1957

As you may already know, one of the strengths of Dartmouth’s Dickey Center is our ability to work with students on AND off campus as they explore a wide range of international issues. This approach helps students formulate opinions and actions in areas of relevance to them. Through on-campus classes, lectures, and other events they are introduced to a wide range of problems in the world today. Through Dickey Center internships and research programs students are able to take these budding interests and get into the field to learn from practitioners and experts on projects underway across the globe. These experiences also help students build skills in working across cultures, languages, and systems. When they come back to campus, they return to the classroom and activities with a deeper understanding of the complexities of “the world’s troubles” as John Dickey so aptly put it. Their newly found knowledge is put to the test as they dig deeper in their study and as they share their experience with their peers.  It is this very process of on and off campus exploration of critical issues in the world, that we want to highlight and share with the Class of 1957 this year.

POSTCARDS FROM THE FIELD: Great Issues Exploration with the Class of 1957

We have selected four students as “correspondents” to the Class of 1957— each will share their work, study, and discoveries with the Class in a series of “postcards” in the coming months. We will compile their writings and photos and provide these to you for your class newsletters AND in this online blog.  Three students are receiving project grants from the Class of 1957 Great Issues Innovation fund to support a portion of their off-campus work this year:

  • Milan Chuttani ’18: Refugee crisis and response with the International Rescue Committee
  • Joanne Nazareth ’17: Environmental change and tourism in Antarctica
  • Kennedy Jensen ’18: Health access in under-resourced communities in Latin America

They will each write two reflections to the Class of 1957 about their work and personal insights. Another student, Freya Jamilson ’17, will write 3-4 posts to the Class while she covers global security, environment, international development, and health events on campus.

We invite classmate near Hanover to join students for one of the on-campus events this winter:

TWO EVENTS for members of Class of 1957 & Dickey’s Great Issues Scholars:

Sat., 2/4/17 Adventure, Exploration, Cannibalism! 19th Century Expeditions to Find the Northwest Passage, 10am-Noon Environmental Studies Professor Ross Virginia and Special Collections Librarian Jay Satterfield show original diaries and other documents from Dartmouth’s internationally famous Arctic Collection from two expeditions to the Arctic.

  • Franklin & Greeley Expeditions, 10-11am, Rauner Special Collections Library
  • Discussion with students, 11am-Noon, DCAL Teaching Center, Baker Library 102

Weds., 3/1/17 Ice Core Lab Tour – 4:30-5:30pm, Cummings 200, Thayer School of Engineering (Meet at Dickey at 4:15 to walk to Thayer) Have you ever seen a 200 year-old ice core?  Learn the facts about climate change from Thayer engineering graduate students who are studying how climate change is affecting Polar Regions. Then take a rare tour of the ice core cold room and see first-hand how ice recovered from Polar Regions holds clues to the history of the earth’s climate. (Come prepared to bundle up and enter a sub-zero cold room where scientists work with ice cores retrieved from the Arctic. Don’t forget a coat!)