Black Women Hold Top Dartmouth Leadership Positions
2018
As Dartmouth approaches its 250th anniversary, four black women have taken on significant new leadership roles at the College.
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Points of Pride
Two and a half centuries of Dartmouth achievements, turning points, contributions, and leadership
Dartmouth Milestones
Founding of the Ledyard Canoe Club
1920
In January of 1920, a group of Dartmouth students gathered together with the goal of restoring a rowing team to the college.
Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood Becomes Dartmouth's First Female Professor
1918
Hapgood, a talented linguist, created the Russian program at the College.
The Beginning of BADA
1972
The Black Alumni of Dartmouth Association celebrates the diversity of the Black Experience at Dartmouth.
College Acquires First MRI Scanner Explicitly for Research
1999
Dartmouth became the first U.S. college or university to own and operate a magnetic resonance imaging scanner housed in an academic department.
Debut of Dartmouth Peak Performance
2011
Dartmouth Peak Performance integrates a full range of athletic, academic, and personal-development programs into the lives of student-athletes.
Dartmouth College Case Decided By the U.S. Supreme Court
1819
"It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet, there are those who love it!"
Founding of Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning
2004
DCAL helps Dartmouth faculty develop new teaching tools and strategies, especially purposeful applications of digital technology and new media.
School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth Established
2016
The graduate school was renamed The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies in 2018.
Coeducation
1972
Women had been coming to campus through exchanges in the years leading up to coeducation, but they could not graduate with a Dartmouth degree.
Memorial Field Completed
1923
While originally built in 1893, Memorial Field and its stadium were not completed until 1923.
Hopkins Center for the Arts Opens
1962
A renowned multi-disciplinary academic, visual and performing arts center, the Hop was designed by Wallace Harrison, the architect of Lincoln Center.