Five unrelated topics

The Northeast Chapter of the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills has acquired some old textile machinery and hopes to restart a mill in Claremont (Valley News).

The short-term Memorial Field renovation is finishing and football has started (Valley News, Big Green Alert Blog).

Computers can compile multiple photographs of a single building into a three-dimensional model of that building; a lab at the University of Washington is using the millions of photos people have posted to Flickr to reconstruct entire cities (story at physorg.com). The lab has examples of several European monuments.

[Update 04.12.2010: The New York Times has a story on the “Rome in a Day” project that mentions the PhotoCity game.]

The Tuck School has started a Leadership Center (news release), and the Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (“the Dartmouth Institute”) is now being cited alongside Tuck, Thayer, and DMS as a graduate or research institution (Irene M. Wielawski, “Taking Charge,” Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (Sept./Oct. 2009), reprinted at Speaking of Dartmouth). The Dartmouth Institute was founded in 1988 and began its first degree-granting program in 2003.

The planning office has posted a presentation on parking [pdf], more interesting than you’d expect, and the College Planner has noted [Google cached version] that Dartmouth has maintained parking rates for a quarter-century.

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[Update 09.18.2016: Broken link to planner post replaced.]
[Update 07.06.2013: Broken link to PhotoCity game removed.]

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