In March, two Dartmouth Classics students, Gideon Gruel '26 and Batari Laksono '26, participated in the Classical Association of New England's Annual Meeting at Yale University in New Haven, Conneticut.
[more]Paul Christesen '88 was awared a Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Alexandra Schultz has been awarded a fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC.
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Save the date! This year's Benefactors Lecture will be on Thursday May 1st 2025. Guest speakers Yvona Trnka-Amrhein and John Gibert will give a talk on "Reading and Performing 'The New Euripides'."
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In partnership with Rauner Special Collections Library - and with the help and expertise of Instrument Core Facility Manager Paul Defino and Instrument Specialist Chris Snyder of the Chemistry Department - senior lecturer Jenny Lynn is embarking on an exciting scholarly investigation. Jenny arranged for Paul and Chris to co-conduct multiple experiments to identify pigments (and so their compounds) in several of Rauner Library's pre-1600 manuscript fragments using Raman spectroscopy. This technique uses a source of monochromatic light, usually a laser, to determine a sample's molecular makeup.
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Congratulations to Professor Julie Hruby on the publication of her article in the Proceedings of the 15th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies: "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? The Clay of the Pylos Tablets,". The article discusses Professor Hruby's and Dimitri Nakassis's research into the question of whether Linear B clay tablets were recycled (clay broken down and made into new tablets), or made from fresh clay.
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