When he was a college student, Daniel Potts visited Dartmouth several times as a member of the Harvard soccer team. Now a professor of ancient Near Eastern archaeology and history at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Potts returns to Dartmouth as a Montgomery Fellow for the 2014 spring term.
[more]During his Montgomery Fellow residency in October, Emmy-winning actor Alan Alda shared his science communication insights with more than 200 undergraduates and two master classes for graduate students and faculty members.
[more]Generations of television viewers remember Alan Alda for his Emmy-winning performance as Hawkeye Pierce on the 1970s show M*A*S*H, for his role as a presidential candidate on The West Wing, and for playing Alec Baldwin’s father on 30 Rock.
[more]Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog returns to Dartmouth this week for a five-day Montgomery Fellow residency. The producer, writer, and director of more than 60 films, including feature films Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu, and Rescue Dawn, and documentaries such as Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Encounters at the End of the World, previously visited Dartmouth in 1986 to accept a Dartmouth Film Society Award.
[more]Novelist Kurt Vonnegut, choreographer Merce Cunningham, philosopher Michel Foucault, Nobel Prize winning physicist Leon Lederman—the list of luminaries the Montgomery Endowment has brought to Dartmouth over its 36 years is a long one.
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