“Our research offers a counterargument to the notion that vast disparities in outcomes are inevitable or that vulnerable populations will ultimately fare very poorly in the context of a pandemic or another disaster.”
Anne Sosin '02, the global health initiative program director at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding| NHPR
June 23, 2020
“Elections have been held during wars and pandemics, but never with the president attacking the result before it has even taken place.”
Brendan Nyhan, professor of government| Common Dreams
June 22, 2020
“Outside is really key. We know that being indoors can be a risk factor for something going quite wrong.”
“Home is a place where people need to feel safe from prying eyes. SPLICE will address the challenges required for the vision of smart homes to be realized safely and successfully.”
David Kotz '86, the International Paper Professor of Computer Science| N.H. Business Review
June 18, 2020
“It was great to see such a large group of physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers stand in solidarity with their black colleagues and to honor the life of George Floyd.”
“If you are lonely … you activate a fairly different constellation when you think about others than when you think about yourself. It's as though your brain's representation of yourself is more disconnected from other people, which is consistent with how lonely people say they feel.”
Megan Meyer, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences| ANI
June 16, 2020
“We are telling our children these are the things happening in our society because of the color of your skin, because of white supremacy. ... Something Black Lives Matter has been saying for a long time is that all Black lives matter. That is where I see us moving.”
Shamell Bell, lecturer in African and African American Studies| Los Angeles Times
June 15, 2020
“We understand that we're going to be here for a while, and so we really want to take this opportunity to create a world that is more in line with our goals.”
“Impossible to say at this point which country will come out of this looking worse: While the pandemic has highlighted many disturbing aspects of Chinese leadership, the United States under Trump has comported itself poorly as well.”
Jennifer Lind, associate professor of government| Foreign Affairs
June 11, 2020
“The combination of (Yusef Idris') linguistic incisiveness and his visual descriptions transforms Egypt's human and social misery into beautiful, powerful, and lasting images.”
Ezzedine Fishere, senior lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies| Lit Hub
June 10, 2020
“There's a lot of uncertainty and it's really hard to act under uncertainty. And the stakes are high.”
Steven Woloshin, MED '96, professor of medicine| WBUR
June 8, 2020
“The danger now is that U.S. airpower is becoming increasingly indiscriminate as local sources of intelligence dry up in the face of a hasty U.S. withdrawal.”
Jason Lyall, the James Wright Chair in Transnational Studies and director of the Political Violence FieldLab| Rolling Stone
June 5, 2020
“We should ponder the mistakes of the past and realize that instead of calls for inclusivity, overcoming prejudice and striving for unity, only action that confronts the horror of repeated police killings of black people will begin to generate change.”
Matthew Delmont, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History| The Washington Post
June 4, 2020
“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