The Focus on Faculty Q&A is part of an ongoing series of interviews exploring what keeps Dartmouth professors busy inside—and outside—the classroom. Read interviews with AAAS core faculty member Reena Goldthree and affiliated faculty members Michael Chaney and George Trumbull....

Synthia Saint James (whose work is featured on the AAAS web site) came to Dartmouth to lead a workshop on designing book covers.

Nana A. Adjeiwaa-Manu ('16) organized a workshop with the New York City-based arts collective the Peace Poets, followed by a performance showcase dedicated to exploring artistic responses to police brutality....

During a three-day visit to Dartmouth, Director Abderrahmane Sissako was presented with the 2015 Dartmouth Film Award after a screening of his most recent film, Timbuktu.

Dartmouth's new Spring course, 10 Weeks, 10 + Professors: #BlackLivesMatter, has been receiving coverage in the national news media, including a recent piece on CNN.com.

Around the country, protestors have been gathering to voice their concern over violence against black Americans by police officers. Last night, one of those protests was held in Hanover.

The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding welcomed back to campus Patrice Juah, a recent Liberian Fellow in President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) .

Patrice Juah of Liberia and Vanessa Nsona of Malawi, on campus through President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative, spoke during a break in Associate Professor of Engineering Peter Robbie’s design-thinking seminar about the chance to study at Dartmouth.

The history of African-American students at Dartmouth was talked about by Forrester “Woody” Lee ’68 in his presentation “History of African Americans at Dartmouth College 1775–1950” during a “Blacks @ Dartmouth” conference held on campus from March 28 through March 30.