The Dartmouth 02/24/15

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VOL. CLXXII NO. 37

PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH 18 LOW 7

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2015

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Panelists talk sustainability jobs Students push for

Asian-American studies program By ANNIE MA

The Dartmouth Staff

Panelist and co-president of SunCommon, a solar energy provider, Duane Peterson ’78 said that he decided to work at the intersection of business and sustainability after discovering the power of money in social ventures. His company, which is almost three years old, is the largest solar business in Vermont and commands 60 percent of the market share, he said.

A student group submitted a faculty cluster hiring proposal calling for the strengthening of existing ethnic studies programs and the reestablishment of a formal Asian-American studies program as a part of College President Phil Hanlon’s faculty cluster initiative. The proposal, submitted to vice provost for academic initiatives Denise Anthony on Feb. 16 by the Asian/American Students for Action, centers around the question of how histories of colonialism and imperialism affect minorities and groups of color today. Six student members of Asian/American Students for Action, a Council on Student Organizations recognized group, wrote the proposal, titled “Race, Colonialism and Diaspora.” At the time of submission, the document had gathered over 60 signatures of support from students and alumni. It also included five faculty supporters and two co-sponsoring faculty, none of whom were directly involved in the drafting process. A decision as to whether the proposal receives College funding and support will be made by late April. Currently, there are interdisciplinary studies programs offered in African and African-American studies, Asian and Middle Eastern studies, Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies, Native American studies and women’s and gender studies classes. The proposal aims to strengthen ties between the existing programs while adding a formal Asian-American studies program. Moulshri Mohan ’15, a member of Asian/American

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The Office of Sustainability brought four alumni back to talk about their careers in sustainability.

B y ERIN LEE The Dartmouth Staff

The office of sustainability hosted a panel titled “Business and Sustainability” Monday afternoon that featured four alumni working on environmental issues in the private sector. The event was intended to give students a sense of the variety of careers available that are related to social responsibility, director of sustainability Rosi Kerr,

who is a member of the Class of 1997, said. “There are lots of ways to make a living and engage in fun and meaningful work and business in a for-profit space, but also to make a difference in the world,” she said. “We are hoping essentially to make sustainability careers more approachable.” Kerr, who moderated the event, introduced the panel as a “reassuring parallel track to corporate recruiting.”

Ice Drilling Grant awarded to Thayer professor

B y EMILIA BALDWIN The Dartmouth Staff

With the help of a $17.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Thayer School of Engineering professor Mary Albert will lead the U.S. Ice Drilling Program for four years to gather data about climate change in Antarctica and Greenland. The NSF gave the grant by means of its Office of Polar Programs.

Ice proxy drilling gathers data about previous environmental conditions that reveal up to thousands of years of evidence of climate change through. Albert, in conjunction with her colleagues, has worked with the University of Wisconsin’s Ice Drilling Design and Operations group to produce drills that are used in Antarctica and Greenland. “We just finished drilling a mile-long sight in Antarctica,” Albert said. “We SEE GRANT PAGE 3

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