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  • September 11, 2019

    "As a community, Dartmouth recognizes that it is important for students to be known by the names they choose."

    —Joseph Helble, provost in New Hampshire Union Leader

  • September 10, 2019

    "I loved this image of a prehistoric day care—a couple of adults and trailing behind them are all these kids."

    —Jeremy DeSilva, associate professor of anthropology in The Wall Street Journal

  • September 9, 2019

    "Anyone who makes a product that people inhale into their lungs needs to be regulated."

    —JJames Sargent, the Scott M. and Lisa G. Stuart Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine and director of the C. Everett Koop Institute in Dartmouth News

  • September 5, 2019

    "Being good at math is great, but not necessary. Being unafraid of math, and a bit curious, is enough to give any child or adult a big advantage."

    —Peter Winkler, the William Morrill Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science in the Stamford Advocate

  • September 4, 2019

    "We were all trying to answer the same question: How can we best support individuals with sensory processing sensitivities?"

    —Caroline Robertson, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences and director of the Dartmouth Autism Research Initiative in the Valley News

  • September 3, 2019

    "It's time to shore up the checks on presidential pardons lest they be used for self-interest or to thwart the engines of justice."

    —Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion in Concord Monitor

  • August 30, 2019

    "We remain uncertain as to the ontological structure of nature, whether it is described by fundamental quantum fields and their related particle excitations, vibrating strings, or something completely different and unexpected."

    —Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy in Orbiter

  • August 29, 2019

    “If we look back at September 2008, the Fed still hadn’t spotted that the U.S. economy had been in recession for nine months. … The Fed’s credibility over the last decade or so is in question.”

    —David Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics in Bloomberg

  • August 28, 2019

    “There are a lot of scary things about where we are as a country and even globally, because we’re less prepared to deal with a downturn now than we were in the past, even relative to 2008.”

    —Charles Wheelan ’88, senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy in MPR News

  • August 27, 2019

    “All this talk of foreign collaboration in preserving the Amazon may be well-intentioned, it may be genuine, but it touches a raw nerve in Brazil: the notion that wealthier foreigners want to chip away at Brazil’s authority over the Amazon.”

    —Andre Pagliarini, lecturer in Latin American, Latino and Caribbean studies in The New York Times

  • August 26, 2019

    “Today’s conspiracist accusations fuel the logic of massacre. Both American lives and American democracy hang in the balance.”

    —Russell Muirhead, the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics, and a co-author in The Boston Globe

  • August 23, 2019

    "To be good stewards of antibiotic use, the ability to identify those children who will get better without intervention would be ideal; however, in the absence of tools to make that determination at present, treatment of all exacerbations is warranted."

    —Brian O’Sullivan, professor of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine in MedPage Today

  • August 22, 2019

    “I personally don’t hold much hope that (EPA officials are) going to do the right thing and say what is actually in the evidence that (glyphosate) is a carcinogen, but the more people become aware of the problem and the more pressure we can put on the EPA and government to not poison us … the better.”

    —Kelly Wardwell Ryerson ’98 in Natural Products Insider

  • August 21, 2019

    “Year-round (schools) rob kids of that longer, self-directed time to discover things on their own and enjoy childhood.”

    —William Fischel, professor of economics and the Robert C. 1925 and Hilda Hardy Professor of Legal Studies, emeritus in NPR

  • August 20, 2019

    “This rhetoric around drug prices may be starting to bend the curve, but we’re not getting to the point of actual decreases in the total cost of drugs.”

    —Adrienne Faerber, lecturer at The Dartmouth Institute in the Associated Press

  • August 19, 2019

    “It’s important to push the limits of your comfort zone, even if there’s a danger you’ll fall on your face.”

    —Sydney Finkelstein, the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business in Forbes

  • August 16, 2019

    “We need objective, non-invasive screening tools that don’t depend on assessing a child’s behavior.”

    —Caroline Robertson, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Earth.com

  • August 15, 2019

    “This is 21st-century football that embraces the value of the team experience, fundamental skill instruction and contact reduction in an effort to teach the sport in a smarter and safer fashion.”

    —Buddy Teevens ’79, the Robert L. Blackman Head Football Coach in The Washington Post

  • August 14, 2019

    “It may not be too long before people are driving through the Pinelands saying, ‘Why do they call it the Pinelands?’ ”

    —Matthew Ayres, professor of biological science in The Washington Post

  • August 13, 2019

    “Democracy in the United States and Europe is threatened in ways few imagined possible only a short time ago.”

    —Russell Muirhead, the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics, and his co-author in The Economist

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