Dartmouth’s Chelsey Kivland says, “If we are to truly understand and control gun violence, we need to accept that guns have potent technological and psychological effects on people … that inspire violent ways of being and acting in the world.”

Dartmouth’s Justin Mankin and a co-author write that tracking global weather changes is particularly difficult in parts of the world that are experiencing civil conflicts that destroy weather stations, making accurate data hard to come by.

“That slavery is now seen as a defining thread of American history” is largely thanks to the work of historian David Brion Davis ’50, who died Sunday at 92, reports the newspaper. Davis studied at Dartmouth on the G.I. Bill, the paper notes.