“Even when children do have amblyopia screening, it's tough to get parents to understand the urgency for following up with an eye doctor should their child require it.”
“A lot of the frontline COVID relief efforts didn't really include essential workers like postal workers and grocery store stockers. We wanted to create some sort of solution to solve this.”
“One of the things that I find so important about speculative design is that it allows people to reflect on the implications of the technologies that we consume, instead of kind of blindly going along with it.”
“We're all looking for data to tell us what we already think.”
Charles Wheelan '88, senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy| The New York Times
May 27, 2020
“I actually never thought I would see a pandemic during my life, yet here it is. It is very disappointing not to go to Greenland now, but it hasn't killed our project. It will just be a delay.”
Mary Albert, professor of engineering| Arctic Today
May 26, 2020
“You need to recruit the best and brightest in the field and give them some flexibility to act on their own initiative. We have to trust them to find the best way to get from A to B and not micromanage.”
Kendall Hoyt, assistant professor of medicine| USA Today
May 22, 2020
“Evidence suggests that for women with uncomplicated pregnancies, the chance of having an intervention-free birth is higher when women deliver with a midwife in a birthing center or at home than in the hospital.”
Zaneta Thayer, assistant professor of anthropology| Sapiens
May 20, 2020
“We need to build a health system that supports people when they are at risk, when they are doing better and when they can keep the risk from coming back.”
Philip Goodney, associate professor of surgery and professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice| ProPublica
May 19, 2020
“I have a lot of members of my family who are essential workers and I've been hearing lots of stories of the struggles they've been having finding the resources they need, so I wanted to find a way to help others in that situation.”
“As countries around the world ponder strategies for developing a COVID-19 vaccine, it should be clear that the fastest and most effective approach is to work together.”
Kendall Hoyt, assistant professor of medicine, and co-authors| Project Syndicate
May 15, 2020
“I'm really, really excited to go back … to see how things have changed when I have been gone and to do new science.”
Ian Raphael '18, Thayer '21, who spent six as part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition in the Arctic| Valley News
May 14, 2020
“I think that this COVID pandemic is going to speed up the diversification of our educational models, but if there's anything that this pandemic has highlighted for us at Dartmouth, it is how much our students miss being in residence.”
“I think that this COVID pandemic is going to speed up the diversification of our educational models, but if there's anything that this pandemic has highlighted for us at Dartmouth, it is how much our students miss being in residence.”
“Too often, the reported statistics leave out demographic data, obscuring the enormous racializing and class-based impacts of COVID-19 infections.”
Jacqueline Wernimont, Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement| Wired
May 11, 2020
“To be able to connect with, in our case, 120-plus people around the country to conduct basically a virtual spring practice, coaches meetings, and so forth is phenomenal.”
Eugene "Buddy" Teevens '79, the Robert L. Blackman Head Football Coach| WCAX
May 8, 2020
“Beyond being empirically interesting, the midlife dip in well-being has implications for substantial parts of the world's population.”
David Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics| Brookings
May 7, 2020
“Living in isolation, confined with just a few other people, is a challenging thing to do, and it can be done successfully.”
Jay Buckey, professor of medicine at Geisel and a former NASA astronaut| NHRP
May 6, 2020
“The real-life implications of this drug are so profound that a condition that once killed most patients before they turned 30 has seemingly been transformed overnight.”