Dartmouth has more than 50 research-focused centers, institutes, and programs in areas ranging from medicine and the arts to engineering and business. Many of these are interdisciplinary and, together, bring faculty, staff, and students from across campus to work on complex issues.
The centers, institutes, and programs listed below are under the purview of the Office of the Provost.
The mission of the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy & Society at Dartmouth is to advance an affordable, sustainable, and reliable energy future for the benefit of society.
We seek to achieve this mission by developing the next generation of energy experts, leaders, and citizens and by transforming humankind's understanding of energy systems across technological, environmental, economic, geopolitical, and cultural perspectives.
The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) improves teaching and learning by providing resources, removing barriers, promoting evidence-based practices, and building partnerships to cultivate a culture that values and rewards teaching for all members of Dartmouth's scholar-educator community.
The Dartmouth Center for Social Impact prepares students to be transformative leaders for the common good. Through community-driven experiential learning, our students cultivate their skills, scholarship and passion to develop high-impact approaches to the most pressing societal problems. Our graduates go on to lead lives of purpose personally and professionally as social innovators, direct service providers, activists, philanthropists and community researchers.
The Ethics Institute was established in 1982 by a group of Dartmouth faculty who were concerned about issues in applied and professional ethics. The Institute exists to foster the study and teaching of ethics, broadly construed, throughout the Dartmouth community through various public programming, workshops, fellowships, and funding for research and teaching.
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding was established in 1982 and dedicated to the memory and values of former Dartmouth President John Sloan Dickey, who served from 1945 to 1970. Broadly, the center provides an array of programs and events related to international affairs, supports approximately 80 student internships, assists with research grants, provides opportunities to join student organizations and publications focused on foreign affairs, and oversees a minor in international studies and a certificate in global health.
The Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life is a research center rooted in the study of the Black diaspora. Building on the strengths of Dartmouth's current Black faculty and staff, the Institute hosts visiting scholars, artists, activists, and postdocs and provides grants for Dartmouth faculty who are undertaking major research and creative projects related to the Institute's research themes.
ISTS engages in interdisciplinary research, education and outreach programs that focus on information technology (IT) and its role in society, particularly the impact of IT in security and privacy broadly conceived. ISTS nurtures leaders and scholars, educates students and the community, and collaborates with its partners to develop and deploy IT, and to better understand how IT relates to socio-economic forces, cultural values and political influences.
The Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship serves Dartmouth students, faculty and alumni along all points of the entrepreneurial journey. Originally conceived of in the Provost Division, and as part of the Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer (OETT), that also includes our Technology Transfer Office (TTO), the Magnuson Center was established in 2018 through a generous gift from Allison and Rick Magnuson '79, the Center brings together various programs that support entrepreneurship and innovation at Dartmouth and beyond. By bringing together these diverse resources, the Magnuson Center is able to streamline services and help Dartmouth entrepreneurs thrive.
The Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment at Dartmouth was established in 1977 to foster "the advancement of the academic realm of the College in ways that will significantly add to the quality and character" of the institution.
In extending and enriching the College's curriculum, the Endowment's mission is to bring outstanding luminaries from the academic world as well as from non-academic spheres to campus.
The Sustainability Office aims to challenge and empower Dartmouth College and our students to engage with the intersectional human and environmental problems of a rapidly changing planet. We work collaboratively to create a just future via hands-on learning, building community, supporting research and teaching, and transforming campus operations.
The mission of The Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures is to promote cultural understanding and to strengthen communication among people around the world. More specifically, this translates to the training of teachers in various aspects of the Rassias Method® as well as offering world language instruction to diverse groups of students. These students include Dartmouth College graduate students, Upper Valley community members (children and adults), and visitors to Hanover from around the world, including executives, government employees, medical residents, educators, and travelers.
Dartmouth's collections are among the oldest and largest of any college or university in the country. The Hood Museum's collections are drawn from a broad range of cultures and historical periods and represent a remarkable educational asset for both Dartmouth and the communities of the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont. Among the museum's most important holdings are six Assyrian stone reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II (about 900 BCE) and the remarkable fresco by José Clemente Orozco titled The Epic of American Civilization (1932–34), which is now a National Historic Landmark. The 65,000 objects in the museum's care represent the diverse artistic traditions of six continents, including, broadly, Native American, European and American, Asian, Indigenous Australian, African, and Melanesian art. The museum collects, preserves, and makes available for interpretation these works in the public trust and for the benefit of all.
The Hop is a hub of performing arts and film for Dartmouth and its region, a laboratory for creative exploration, and an instigator of connections between various arts, the Dartmouth curriculum and the wider community. The Hop brings together visiting artists, resident artists, student ensembles and academic departments to produce or present work that represents diverse voices and artistic forms and speaks to important issues. It brings world-class artists to the region, presents timeless works, and incubates new performances.
The Tribal Service and Solutions Project will focus on such issues as health care and economic development.
Tucker is an intersectional meeting place of intellectual inquiry, personal reflection on the heart and spirit, and lived daily experiences. Opening multiple doorways and welcoming diverse perspectives, Tucker collaborates and partners with academic departments, campus centers, House Communities, and numerous student groups to host programs such as story-telling, lectures, dialogues, films, music, and theater programs to explore questions of meaning, purpose and humanity.