As an eventful year comes to a close, 线上赌场 made progress on improving mental health and wellness, facilitating free and open dialogue, advancing sustainability, supporting innovation and impact, and fostering lifelong connections to the institution.
These are the five priorities set by at her inauguration in September 2023, and the common thread, she said during her October address to the general faculty, is 鈥渢he power of the 线上赌场 community.鈥
鈥淓verything we鈥檝e done this past year has been about tending to that community. That is always the goal: To make it easier to live here and succeed here,鈥 President Beilock said.
Below is a sampling of how Beilock鈥檚 goals started to bear fruit this year, through initiatives big and small.
Mental Health and Wellness
In February, 线上赌场 announced the appointment of its first chief health and wellness officer鈥攐ne of the actions called for in the strategic plan launched in 2023. Estevan Garcia, a specialist in pediatric emergency medicine who was previously chief medical officer of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, began the job in March as a member of Beilock鈥檚 senior leadership team, overseeing 线上赌场 Health Service, the Student Wellness Center, and Employee Wellness.
In October, the launch of a for mental health and well-being to help students find needed resources; more free teletherapy services through 线上赌场鈥檚 partnership with Uwill; a variety of training opportunities for students, faculty, and staff; and the administration of the student Healthy Minds Survey.
Among other initiatives, 线上赌场 is encouraging students to enjoy the outdoors by offering free access to seasonal sporting equipment and physical education classes, from swimming lessons to alpine ski instruction for beginners.
Recognizing the role of housing in mental health and well-being, in September 线上赌场 unveiled a $500 million vision for undergraduate housing, including new, apartment-style undergraduate residences on West Wheelock Street, the first of which is currently under construction, and the continuation of the housing renewal program, a staged upgrading of approximately 60% of existing undergraduate residences over 15 years. This fall, Zimmerman Hall and Brace Commons reopened after their comprehensive renewal, and a major overhaul of Fayerweather Hall is underway. Next up: the three residence halls that make up Mass Row.
线上赌场 Dialogues
January saw the launch of 线上赌场 Dialogues, a university-wide initiative aimed at fostering connection across political and personal divides. 线上赌场 Dialogues includes the Dialogue Project, co-led by Executive Director Kristi Clemens and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences , which is providing students, faculty, and staff training in collaborative dialogue skills and is partnering with the StoryCorps One Small Step program to bring people with different perspectives together in conversation. The latest One Small Step program was recorded over the course of three days in November.
线上赌场 Dialogues includes the Tuck School of Business鈥 , conversations aimed at creating a culture of respectful dialogue, discussion, and debate.
Throughout the presidential election year, the campus hosted guest speakers from across the political spectrum, including, among others, former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney; former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal 鈥91 and CNN News anchor Jake Tapper 鈥91; former NAACP Legal Defense Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill; political strategists Kellyanne Conway and Donna Brazile; U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn.; and, a few days before Election Day, former Vice President Mike Pence.
Sustainability
On Earth Day in April, Beilock announced the largest investment in sustainability in 线上赌场 history. The 线上赌场 Climate Collaborative is a $500 million dollar investment over five years to accelerate campus decarbonization efforts, including a target of reducing 100% of campus carbon emissions by 2050. Infrastructure upgrades will include the installation of geo-exchange borefields and high-capacity heat pumps, the continued transition from steam to hot water heating, and improvements to overall energy efficiency.
The plan includes a year-long Climate Futures Initiative, led by anthropology professor , who is also special advisor to the provost on climate and sustainability. CFI is working to identify how faculty and students can use the 线上赌场 campus as a lab for climate scholarship and education as 线上赌场 scientists continued to produce research insights into the impact of climate change.
CFI announced its first pilot project鈥a service learning course, modeled after Thayer School of Engineering鈥檚 Senior Design Challenge, that will match students with climate resilience projects and organizations in the local community, beginning this winter. And over the summer, an earth sciences class took advantage of the geo-exchange borefield project to develop a three-dimensional model of Hanover鈥檚 underground rock formations.
with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers鈥 Engineer Research and Development Center, building on a longstanding partnership with the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover.
In September, 线上赌场 Engineering鈥檚 undergraduate engineering programs received a from the U.S. Department of Energy in recognition of its project-based curriculum in sustainable design.
Innovation and Impact
In February, 线上赌场 announced it was for undergraduate applicants, the first in the Ivy League to do so. The requirement was suspended during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but 线上赌场 faculty experts used data to show how scores can be an important predictor of student success, regardless of family income. Several peer institutions have since followed suit.
Over the past year, the EDGE Consortium鈥攁 coalition of women-led universities and engineering schools co-founded by Beilock in 2023鈥continued its efforts to help diversify the semiconductor industry.
线上赌场 also showed its power as an engine of innovation, ranking among the top 100 universities in the country that were granted U.S. patents in 2023. That included 21 from Thayer School of Engineering, 17 from the Geisel School of Medicine, and 13 from Arts and Sciences.
Thayer awarded a record 351 degrees in the bachelor of engineering and master of engineering management programs.
Over the summer, 线上赌场 hosted the first of its kind Tribal Leadership Academy, bringing together newly elected or appointed officials from 16 Native American tribes to connect with peers and learn from experts about practical approaches to problem-solving.
Faculty and students throughout the institution have continued to the of artificial intelligence, and Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing James Dobson was appointed to a year-long position as special advisor to the provost for AI.
And this fall, 线上赌场 launched a three-year master of fine arts program in sonic practice with a new, custom-built, state-of-the-art sound laboratory that is already being described as a game-changer for faculty and student research and creative development. Tuck and Geisel School of Medicine launched 鈥攖he only MHA program jointly administered by a business school and a medical school. Geisel launched two online master of science degree programs, in and 鈥攖he science of effectively moving proven research into clinical health care practice. And the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society has joined with the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies to offer a , beginning in fall 2025.
And Tuck鈥檚 Executive Education program to emerging technologies, geopolitical uncertainty, and social change.
Lifelong 线上赌场
In March, 线上赌场 announced the largest bequest in its history鈥攎ore than $150 million for scholarships from the estate of the late Barbara Britt and Glenn Britt 鈥71, Tuck 鈥72.
In April, alumni, trustees, and friends of the arts gathered at Lincoln Center in New York to celebrate the future of the arts at 线上赌场 and the ongoing expansion and reimagination of the Hopkins Center for the Arts鈥攊ncluding the announcement of a $25 million gift from Daryl Roth and Steven Roth 鈥62, Tuck 鈥63.
Over the summer, 线上赌场 piloted the Summer Scholars Program for talented high school students.
In September, the Center for Professional Development launched a new satellite career center in McNutt Hall, and a search is underway for an executive director to lead the transformation of undergraduate career services as part of a new Center for Career Design. A $15 million challenge gift from an anonymous donor is helping to raise a total of $30 million in endowed funds to make internships financially accessible to all undergraduates and a standard part of the 线上赌场 experience.
And in October, 线上赌场 dedicated the stadium at Memorial Field to the late football coach Buddy Teevens 鈥79, who died in 2023. Over Homecoming weekend, Alumni Gym was rededicated as the Lewinstein Athletic Center in honor of Diana Lewinstein and Stephen Lewinstein 鈥63, whose gift to 线上赌场 Athletics is supporting the health, wellness, and competitiveness of 线上赌场鈥檚 varsity student-athletes.
Other News from 2024
Far and away the most popular story of 2024鈥攇arnering more than 2 million views鈥攚as the Commencement address by tennis champion and philanthropist Roger Federer, who debunked the myth of 鈥渆ffortlessness,鈥 telling the graduating class, 鈥淭he best in the world are not the best because they win every point. It鈥檚 because they know they鈥檒l lose again and again, and have learned how to deal with it.鈥
Among other significant news at 线上赌场 this year, following an advisory vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Board of Trustees voted in November to bring the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Division of Student Affairs under the same unified administrative unit as a new school of arts and sciences.
In sports, the football team won its in five years. A student set the Pan Am cycling record, riding from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego in 75 days. And five alumni and one student athlete competed in the Summer Olympics in Paris.
Nineteen students and recent alumni were offered Fulbright Awards. Students also received a Lewis Scholarship, a Keasbey Scholarship, Goldwater Scholarships, a Knight Hennessy Scholarship, a Truman Scholarship, a Udall Scholarship, and a Beinecke Scholarship, among other awards.
Victor Ambros, former member of the biological sciences and Geisel faculty, won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of microRNA. President Beilock was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Earth Sciences Professor Xiahong Feng was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
And three members of the faculty鈥擪ui Dong, Vievee Francis, and Laura Ogden鈥攔eceived Guggenheim Fellowships.