Centers, Institutes, and Programs
The following centers, institutes, and programs are part of the Provost division.
The mission of the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and 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 Board of Advisors provides the director and Dartmouth senior leadership with advice and perspective on the Center for Social Impact’s strategy, programs, policies, and resources.
Dartmouth NEXT was launched with a historic $100 million goal to diversify the STEM pipeline by creating opportunities for students to pursue careers in the sciences.
Named after Ernest Everett Just, a Dartmouth Valedictorian (1907) and a pioneering African-American cell biologist, the E.E. Just Program endeavors to create a STEM ecosystem at Dartmouth (and beyond) in which systemically excluded and racialized minorities can thrive.
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. The Dickey Center educates, convenes and empowers people to confront the world's problems. Through informed and impactful global dialogue, experiential education, and equitable engagement on pressing issues in international policy and diplomacy, we bring the world to Dartmouth and Dartmouth to the world to engage with today's great issues.
Dartmouth's collections are among the oldest and largest of any college or university in the country. The Hood Museum of Art'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 Hopkins Center for the Arts (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 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.
The Institute for Security, Technology and Society (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 Dartmouth's 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 Dartmouth'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 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 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.
The Tribal Service and Solutions Project focuses on issues such as health care and economic development.