“Antarctica is the place on Earth least touched by humans, and as such it’s an amazing laboratory to understanding life and biodiversity, and our planet’s glacial history.”
—Ross Virginia, the Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science and director of the Institute of Arctic Studiesin Business Insider
January 17, 2019
“But I say to you, my friends … there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize. I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination.”
—Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1962 speech at Dartmouthin Insider
January 15, 2019
“With more health effects being taken into account in design, and as methods improve to determine which chemicals will be bad, there’s a lot of hope that we can develop chemicals that will not be harmful to human health or the environment.”
—Britton Goodale, a research assistant in the Department of Microbiology in Concord Monitor
January 14, 2019
“In reality, the only way to know if your water is safe if you use a private well is to test it on a regular basis.”
—Laurie Rardin, research translation coordinator for the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund research program, and a co-authorin Concord Monitor
January 11, 2019
“We have an aspirational goal of 250,000 hours of service over the course of 2019 to be able to say we, for our 250th anniversary, have had an impact on our world.”
—Cheryl Bascomb ’82, vice president for alumni relationsin NBC 5 News
January 10, 2019
“I love space, period. Hands down, I think the night sky is one of the most beautiful things in the universe.”
—Jedidah Isler, assistant professor of physics and astronomyin PBS NewsHour
January 9, 2019
“While marketing may have positive effects like destigmatizing diseases (e.g., HIV) or embarrassing symptoms (e.g., impotence), it can also expand or even create disease or raise false hopes by exaggerating treatment effects—for example marketing of marginally effective Alzheimer’s drugs.”
—Steven Woloshin, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practicein Reuters Health
January 8, 2019
“I think it’s important to think about retail and to think about ways to keep youths from getting tobacco products from retail, but we also have to shut down the online sale of these products.”
—James Sargent, professor of pediatrics and the Scott M. and Lisa G. Stuart Professor of Pediatric Oncology at the Geisel School of Medicinein CNN
January 7, 2019
“The inclination to place the personal within the historical—so much that characters can seem to be personifications—might thwart some writers. Oz turned it into genius.”
—Bernard Avishai, visiting professor of governmentin The New Yorker
January 4, 2019
“(S)ome of these environmental changes could result in increases in mercury in fish. So, these are things that we need to be flexible about and constantly evaluate.”
—Celia Chen, director of the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Programin On Point
January 3, 2019
“These young children don’t buy these cereals on their own. Instead, it’s likely that children see TV ads for these cereals and then ask their parents to buy the advertised brands.”
—Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicinein Reuters
January 2, 2019
“You don’t have to be a newspaper columnist or an editor to reap history’s benefits. They are essential elements of being a citizen in a democracy and of being a human in a period of change.”
—David Shribman ’76, executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a former Dartmouth trustee in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“I think there’s a lot of evidence that economic growth around the world is slowing and interest rates are rising. That combination tends to drive down stock prices, historically.”
—Matthew Slaughter, the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Businessin Bloomberg
December 18, 2018
“An authentic liberal arts education has value of a different kind: It’s a triumph over ignorance and a refusal to be intimidated by the unknown.”
“When you inhabit a game world, you become a particular type of person, and if they warp your sense of right and wrong you can come back to the real world with a different sense of what’s acceptable behavior.”
—Jay Hull, the Dartmouth Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciencesin The Hollywood Reporter
December 14, 2018
“Many Americans appear to believe that voter fraud is common and yet academic and journalistic research implies that it is very, very rare.”
—Michael Herron, the Remsen 1943 Professor of Governmentin The Ringer
December 13, 2018
“A lot of what I think about my future is because of what Jack taught me about the importance of being kind to others and about the privilege that we have. Not just getting to go to great schools and have the chance to travel … but also the ability to wake up every morning and see the people you love and be a good brother, a good teammate, a good family member.”
“If a summit does occur, observers should appreciate the historic moment for Koreans, and the much-diminished sense of crisis relative to the past few years. But we must ask whether the summit yielded anything beyond the smiles—namely, actual progress in reducing a very real threat.”
“Assuming the measures are calculated in a fair and comparable way, our findings suggest that, for these measures, VA quality is at least as good as non-VA quality and often better.”
—William Weeks, professor of psychiatry, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practicein Reuters