The county court has upheld a pair of Town decisions permitting the Life Sciences Center to go ahead. The Dartmouth, press release. The zoning complaints raised by the Occom Pond Neighborhood Association are fascinating because they take the form of a direct and quantifiable challenge to Dartmouth’s mix of teaching and research (or college and university).

The auditorium in the ’78 Life Sciences Center will be named for Arvo J. Oopik, M.D. ’78. The Dartmouth.