“As the meeting driver, steer the meeting in the direction it needs to go during the minutes allotted, adjust to the traffic you encounter along the way, and help your passengers to feel welcome.”
—Anna Adachi-Mejia, associate professor of community and family medicine and of The Dartmouth Institutein The Ladders
August 9, 2019
“With Indigenous governments, communities and organizations can help to conserve biodiversity as well as support Indigenous rights to land, sustainable resource use and well-being.”
—Nicholas Reo, associate professor of environmental studies and Native American studiesin Euronews
August 8, 2019
“If some queer person came to me and wanted to write about a time that they began (being) best friends with their waiter at Waffle House and it had nothing to do with either of them being queer, I’d want to publish that, because it’s a story from a queer person’s life about a time that brought them joy.”
—Bailey Johnson, data assistant at the Geisel School of Medicine and founder of Bluum Zinein Seven Days
August 6, 2019
“The FBI and later DHS (U.S. Department of Homeland Security) turned their attention to the jihadist threat and left the white-supremacist threat behind.”
—Daniel Benjamin, the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understandingin BBC News
August 5, 2019
“There aren’t a lot of animals for (the mosquitoes) to eat in the Arctic, so when they finally find one, they are ferocious.”
—Lauren Culler, research assistant professor of environmental studies and science outreach coordinator at the Institute of Arctic Studiesin The Globe and Mail
August 2, 2019
“There’s going to be a flood of things like the southern pine beetle, ticks, chiggers—they’ll expand north. We can hardly imagine what all the changes are going to be.”
—Matthew Ayres, professor of biological sciencesin WIRED
August 1, 2019
“Are we alone in the universe or not? … We live in this very special time when we can actually begin to answer this question.”
—Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophyin Orbiter
July 31, 2019
“Machine learning technology is getting really good at recognizing the content of images—(at) deciphering what kind of object it is.”
—Tor Wager, professor of psychological and brain sciencesin Geek.com
July 30, 2019
“Despite skepticism that’s around content online, it is still considered one of the most valuable ways for consumers to feel they’re getting safe information.”
—Lauren Grewal, assistant professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Businessin Concord Monitor
July 29, 2019
“It is refreshing to see politicians as positive role models for second-language learning.”
—Roberto Rey Agudo, research assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguesein The New York Times
July 26, 2019
“Partisan loyalties push some citizens to accept, and others to reject, the same narrative depending on (their) political slant.”
—John Carey, the John Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences and professor of governmentin Poynter
July 25, 2019
“The costs of America’s trade disputes with the world continue to mount.”
—Matthew Slaughter, the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Businessin The Wall Street Journal
July 24, 2019
“Public trust in the investigation was always going to be divided along partisan lines, with Republicans opposing it more than they support it and vice versa for Democrats.”
—Mia Costa, assistant professor of government, speaking about the Mueller investigation in ABC News
July 23, 2019
“Unfortunately, I think policy makers tend to focus on simple things that sound good. Those things tend to be expensive.”
—Bruce Sacerdote ’90, the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor in Economicsin The Wall Street Journal
July 22, 2019
“It is likely that chemicals in smoke impact the integrity of the skin over the long term.”
—James Dinulos, clinical professor of surgery at the Geisel School of Medicinein Reuters
July 19, 2019
“At the time, a lot of people were questioning it (the Apollo moon landing). It just shows us that in order to do something like space exploration, it requires a commitment to the future and the willingness to spend money on things that might not necessarily show an immediate payoff.”
“This action by the N.H. Department of Environmental Services, and the governor in signing this legislation, is a great example of this partnership between good science and good policy and good risk management.”
—Carolyn Murray, assistant professor of The Dartmouth Institute and of community and family medicinein NBC 5
July 17, 2019
“Consumers may not even realize how important information about drug benefits and harms is. Many simply assume that advertised drugs work really well.”
—Steven Woloshin, professor of The Dartmouth Institute and of community and family medicinein Los Angeles Times
July 16, 2019
“There’s this indie games movement, there are game festivals—there’s one called IndieCade—it’s becoming a kind of a new movement for positive and different kinds of interaction.”
—Mary Flanagan, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanitiesin NHPR
July 15, 2019
“The country’s economic free fall is unprecedented, and more Venezuelans face economic insecurity than at any point in living memory.”
—John Carey, professor of government and the John Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciencesin Caracas Chronicles