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Dartmouth Professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked
It is one of the iconic images from American history: accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, holding a rifle and Marxist newspapers. Oswald and others claimed that the incriminating photo was a fake. But after analyzing the photo with modern-day forensic tools, Dartmouth computer scientist Hany Farid says the photo almost certainly was not altered. "Those who believe that there was a broader conspiracy can no longer point to this photo as possible evidence," Farid says.
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Spirit of teamwork
When expertise from across the engineering disciplines converges, the opportunities for groundbreaking innovation increase exponentially. An intense spirit of teamwork and camaraderie is a hallmark of Dartmouth's Thayer School of engineering. See some of the shared ideas, shared challenges, and shared inspiration that push Thayer faculty and students to solve global problems, on Thayer's Flickr photostream.
Medicine in the mountains
The people of the Himalayas live amid the world's highest peaks but suffer some of its lowest health indicators. Two young women with Dartmouth ties-a graduate of Dartmouth College and a student at Dartmouth Medical School-recently traveled with health-care teams to remote villages there.
Secret serenades
Want to know how crickets choose mates? Well, listen closely next time you're outside on a night when they're singing. Very closely. It took Dartmouth biologist Laurel Symes years of listening — and recording — to figure out that different species of cricket have different calls. Listen to a National Public Radio interview with Symes – and the crickets – on her research.
Pay to play
Investor behavior has long been at odds with investor wisdom. Most investors chase potential profits by actively buying and selling stocks—or by hiring someone else to do it for them—although trading costs and management fees significantly reduce their net returns. Research by Tuck School of Business Professor Kenneth R. French quantifies the costs of such active investing and provides strong evidence that a passive approach is better for most investors.
Dartmouth in the world
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