“No one knows exactly how life will change in the wake of the current pandemic. … At the very least, we will need to learn once again how to foster a sense of community.”
Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion| Concord Monitor
April 3, 2020
“The sense of duty to serve in this time of crisis is palpable, and to my astonishment, almost uniform among the individuals I am fortunate to call classmates.”
“When the doctor thought that the treatment was going to work, the patient reported feeling that the doctor was more empathetic.”
Luke Chang, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences| Third Age
March 31, 2020
“The platforms' approach to pandemic information has been aggressive, effective, and necessary—but it cannot and should not be applied to politics.”
Brendan Nyhan, professor of government, and a co-author| Foreign Affairs
March 30, 2020
“Maybe viewing (a video about her grandparents gives) an example of those who are really affected by this and why all of us doing our part and staying at home would help my grandparents and help the millions of other people who are in similar situations.”
“Interdependence fundamentally does mean vulnerability to shocks in the rest of the world. It also means more resilience to shocks at home and in the rest of the world.”
Emily Blanchard, associate professor of business administration| Marketplace
March 26, 2020
“This is why I went into medicine: to help people, to serve as an advocate for public health. This is it. This is the time to rise to the calling.”
“The shift towards multipolarity with the rise of China, the relative decline of the U.S, and Russia behaving increasingly assertively—that all makes a lot of our allies feel more insecure.”
Nicholas Miller, assistant professor of government | Defense One
March 24, 2020
“Anybody who knows how to use a sewing machine can do this. ... It's a way to help.”
Melissa Herman, senior lecturer in psychological and brain sciences| Valley News
March 20, 2020
“The public health necessity to stop the growth of the virus is imposing a large, unexpected shock on a lot of businesses. … The question is: How do you support these businesses in the face of this historic and unexpected shock?”
Matthew Slaughter, the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Business| PRI
March 19, 2020
“You know, the fact that people are trying to keep the food supply going, I greatly respect.”
Bruce Sacerdote '90, the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor in Economics| VPR
March 18, 2020
“It's an infectious disease that we're talking about, and the fact that it's traveling country to country and state to state means that the airlines are in the thick of it right from the beginning.”
Vikrant Vaze, the Stata Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Engineering| Cheddar
March 17, 2020
“I don't see how we're going to avoid having a recession.”
“This leaves open the possibility that the universal nature of the program gets families invested, and holds the programs to a higher degree of accountability.”
Elizabeth Cascio, associate professor of economics and author of a new study on early childhood education| The New York Times
March 13, 2020
“We're hoping that our results are very positive and that this process could be commercialized so women would have access to it across the country.”
Keith Paulsen, the Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering and professor of radiology and surgery| New Hampshire Business Review
March 10, 2020
“I was like all of a sudden I had a golden ticket. Here I was—an undocumented student who was going to go to an Ivy League school on a full ride.”
“These iconic figures are important but we need to understand the everyday people doing important things in their community.”
Matthew Delmont, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History and creator of the website Black Quotidian| Voice of America
March 5, 2020
“In the wake of our students' current primary concerns about vocation, we need allies who can help make the case for why the Humanities matter more than ever in the 21st century.”