Annette Gordon-Reed '81 Wins the Pulitzer Prize
2009
Gordon-Reed is a legal scholar and historian who graduated with high distinction from Dartmouth in 1981.
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Points of Pride
Two and a half centuries of Dartmouth achievements, turning points, contributions, and leadership
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Reggie Williams ’76 Selected for College Football Hall of Fame
2007
Reggie Williams was one of the most conspicuous players in Dartmouth football annals since halfback Bob MacLeod was a consensus All-American in 1938.
Shonda Rhimes ’91 Delivers a Lesson-Packed Commencement Address
2014
"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams... But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen."
Abbey D’Agostino '14 Wins the 2013 NCAA Cross Country National Championship
2013
D’Agostino is the most decorated individual student-athlete in Ivy League history.
George Boateng, ’16, Thayer ’17 Creates Project iSWEST
2013
Project iSWEST is a 3-week intensive innovation boot camp for high school students in Ghana.
Mary Flanagan Brings Tiltfactor to Dartmouth
2008
“How games impacted me is a small model of how games could impact the world.” —Mary Flanagan
Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood Becomes Dartmouth's First Female Professor
1918
Hapgood, a talented linguist, created the Russian program at the College.
Louise Erdich '76 Wins the National Book Award
2012
A citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Erdrich graduated with the College's first coeducational class.
Christian Wolff Begins Teaching at Dartmouth
1971
The influential new music composer came to teach in the classics department and the comparative literature program.
Dartmouth's First Fulbright Scholars
1946
The program aims to promote mutual understanding through international educational exchanges.
Robert L. May ’26 Writes 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer'
1939
Dartmouth Library's Robert May collection contains a 54-page scrapbook that details the creation and marketing of Rudolph.
Archive of Photographer James Nachtwey ’70 Acquired by Hood Museum
2016
The more than 500,000 images document conditions in the world’s most dangerous places.