“Parents should encourage their kids to limit (sugar-sweetened beverages), including flavored waters and sports drinks, and to choose water instead.”
—Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatricsin WHTC
April 23, 2019
“Each student enters medical school with different strengths. Comparing yourself to your peers is unhelpful, but sharing expertise among colleagues lifts everyone’s performance.”
—Roshini Pinto-Powell, associate professor of medicinein AAMC
April 22, 2019
“It isn’t just the technological lethality of guns that makes them dangerous: They also exert a power on human agency. They change us. It is both the technology and the symbolism of a gun that can encourage someone to shoot.”
—Chelsey Kivland, assistant professor of anthropologyin Pacific Standard
April 19, 2019
“Especially for the ones who might not take another literature course the rest of their time here, I hope that seeing her (Margaret Atwood) and reading her work can light a fire.”
—Jennifer Sargent, visiting associate professor of writingin Valley News
April 18, 2019
“Not trying to discount people’s grief, but there’s this sense that we’ve been suffering similar injustices for centuries and there’s been little to no attention paid to that.”
—Maurice Crandall, assistant professor of Native American Studiesin Vox
April 17, 2019
“After an injury that profoundly impacts you, I think it is natural to fight your brain or resist the changes that your injury has caused.”
“Teens who become dependent on nicotine will become dependent adults. We were doing such a good job educating this generation about the dangers. … and now we may be failing again by exposing a whole generation to something we do not yet understand.”
“The natural world doesn’t care what labels we put on things.”
—Jeremy DeSilva, associate professor of anthropologyin PBS
April 9, 2019
“If there is one thing that is clear, it's that we cannot achieve our highest aspirations as individuals or institutions without eliminating behaviors that cause the most harm to our communities and inevitably hold us back.”
“I think what people tend to forget is flooding is a natural process, and it gets exacerbated by lots of development within flood plains and/or development in the headwaters.”
—Frank Magilligan, the Frank J. Reagan ’09 Chair of Policy Studiesin VPR
April 5, 2019
“True cultural diversity is not possible without recognizing the diversity of languages on campus and in the world.”
—Kristin O'Rourke, senior lecturer of art history, and Klaus Mladek, associate professor of German studies and comparative literaturein The Hill
April 4, 2019
“People should feel encouraged that even small increases in exercise and healthy eating can improve health.”
—Diane Gilbert-Diamond, associate professor of epidemiology and of community and family medicine at the Geisel School of Medicinein Digital Journal
April 3, 2019
“All of those images that you put of yourself online have exposed you. And you gave it up freely. Nobody forced you to do it, it wasn’t even stolen from you—you gave it up.”
—Hany Farid, the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Sciencein CNET
April 2, 2019
“With the growth planned ahead, we will become even better positioned to tackle society’s challenges and ensure that our students achieve their full potential.”
—Alexis Abramson, newly named dean of Thayer School of Engineeringin Dartmouth News
April 1, 2019
“The good news is that there are ways funding agencies can address this by providing paid time off for postdoctoral fellows having children and also, importantly, providing resources to make up the work lost while on time off.”
—Kate Nautiyal, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciencesin Scientific American
March 29, 2019
“We have significantly increased the startup activity at Dartmouth.”
—Nila Bhakuni, director of technology transfer at the Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transferin NH Business Review
March 28, 2019
“It’s not just aggression. There seems to be a lack of empathy for other people and a general hostility, as well. There seems to be an association. In my mind, that association is caused by playing these (video) games.”
—Jay Hull, the Dartmouth Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciencesin USA Today
March 27, 2019
“We can’t fully understand the human mind or any other social mind without understanding what happens in interaction.”
—Thalia Wheatley, associate professor of psychological and brain sciencesin Medical Express