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By JIM KENYON

In the Trump administration’s campaign to “reclaim” universities that conservatives see as too woke, it has moved to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding from schools across the country. The hit list includes Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Princeton.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — A legal challenge over whether the sentence imposed on the convicted murderer of two Dartmouth College professors violates the state’s constitution has been sent back to a lower court by the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — More than 300 Dartmouth College alumni have signed an open letter urging President Sian Beilock and other school leaders to take a stand against the Trump administration’s “efforts to chill free speech on college campuses.”

HANOVER — Golden Globe Award-winning actor Sandra Oh will deliver the commencement address at Dartmouth College’s 2025 graduation ceremony on June 15. Oh will also receive an honorary doctorate of the arts at the ceremony.

By JIM KENYON

Money wasn’t all that Dartmouth Health lost last week when a U.S. District Court jury awarded a Norwich fertility doctor more than $1 million in damages for her unlawful firing in 2017.

Philadelphia’s Morgan Frost, right, scores against Washington goaltender Clay Stevenson (33) during an NHL preseason game in Washington last September. Stevenson, the former Dartmouth College goalie, was called up to the Capitals on Monday from their AHL affiliate, the Hershey Bears, for whom he has posted a 2.94 goals against average, a .888 save percentage, two shutouts and a 18-5-5 record this season. The Capitals — who have been without their No. 1 netminder, Logan Thompson, the last two weeks due to an upper-body injury — were to visit the N.Y. Islander on Tuesday night before closing the regular-season schedule at Pittsburgh on Thursday evening.

Czech Republic goaltender Michaela Hesova (1) battles for the puck with teammate DominikaLaskova (14) and the United States’ Taylor Heise (27) in an IIHF Women's World Hockey Championship group stage game on Friday in CeskeBudejovice, Czech Republic. A freshman netminder for Dartmouth College women’s hockey, Hesova made 44 saves in her international debut in spite of a 4-0 loss to the Americans.

BURLINGTON — After deliberating for nearly 20 hours over three days, a U.S. District Court jury awarded $1.125 million in damages this week to a former fertility doctor at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center after finding her 2017 firing violated Vermont’s disability discrimination law.

By LIORA ENGEL

Last summer, around the time Cheshire Medical Center nurse Steven Finnell allegedly began taking painkillers meant for patients, officials from the Keene hospital asked state regulators to lift sanctions put in place to prevent drug diversion, regulatory documents show. The state Board of Pharmacy agreed.

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A federal judge said Wednesday that she will order the federal government to temporarily reinstate the F-1 status of a Dartmouth College PhD student whose visa was revoked without explanation last week.

By CLARE SHANAHAN

HANOVER — Former Dartmouth alpine ski champion Ellie Curtis is reported to have died in a ski accident at Palisades Tahoe resort in California on Saturday.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — The Trump administration’s promise to deport millions of foreign nationals who it says are in the U.S. illegally has reached into the Upper Valley as two individuals associated with Dartmouth College have had their visas terminated, leading one of them to sue the Department of Homeland Security to challenge his deportation.

By JIM KENYON

Dartmouth Health CEO Joanne Conroy’s testimony this week in a fertility doctor’s wrongful termination lawsuit brought me back to the summer of 1973 and the U.S. Senate’s televised Watergate hearings where Republican Howard Baker, of Tennessee, famously asked: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?”

By MARION UMPLEBY

The 18th century composer George Frideric Handel is probably best known for his meditation on the life of Jesus Christ, the oratorio “Messiah.”

By CLARE SHANAHAN

LEBANON — Dartmouth Health will begin accepting patients to a new inpatient psychiatric ward for teenagers next week amid a rising need for mental health services nationwide.

By TRIS WYKES

HANOVER – Spring weekends in Hanover mean an influx of late-model luxury vehicles rolling into the Scully-Fahey Field parking lot, their occupants headed to watch the Dartmouth College men’s lacrosse team tilt at the collective windmill of Ivy League opposition.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

HANOVER — After reinstating standardized testing requirements for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, Dartmouth saw a slight decrease in applicants from a year ago when the college received a record number of applications.

By JIM KENYON

How much money does it take for an elite private institution of higher learning — one with an $8 billion endowment — to keep in the good graces of the Trump administration?

By KATE ODEN

HANOVER — While attaining a master’s at Yale during the COVID-19 pandemic, Emily Sigman began tapping the Norway maples in the backyard of her New Haven, Conn., home.

By JIM KENYON

No matter which way the jury goes in the upcoming Misty Blanchette, M.D. v. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center federal trial, the public has already won.

By ALEX HANSON

LEBANON — A brief tour and meeting Thursday between U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and officials from Dartmouth Health, Dartmouth Cancer Center and Dartmouth College put into stark relief the many ways in which the Trump Administration is disrupting health care and medical research.