“Working leads to increased self-esteem, social integration and community participation. So it's no surprise that many people with mental illness view finding and being able to hold a job as a primary treatment goal,”
Robert Drake, professor of psychiatry at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice| New Hampsire Union Leader
June 7, 2016
“Protectionism did not cause the Great Depression, but I think saying it made it longer and more painful is actually quite well put. ”
Douglas Irwin, the John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences| PolitiFact
June 6, 2016
“It's one of my favorite places in the world. I was part of Lodge Crew, that lived here for a couple weeks and welcomed the freshmen to college after outdoor trips. As you know, I'm not the most outdoorsy person but this is such a magical place. It's open to the public, so please visit, have dinner there, hike and spend the night. ”
“These are remarkably talented, good people. And while they do form like-minded friendship clusters, right now, their relationships don't turn on political party. They take pleasure in healthy disagreement and in being exposed to new ways of thinking. These students believe in their capacity to make a difference in the world. And when I look at them… so do I.”
Julie Kalish, a lecturer at the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric| VPR
June 2, 2016
“When we're spending $3 trillion in health care, and we're seeing mortality rise—even if this is only a momentary rise—we need to examine what we're doing and how we're doing it. Clearly we're doing something wrong. ”
Ellen Meara, a professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice| The Washington Post
June 1, 2016
“It's an alert—not a warning. It's not at all unusual. ”
Daniel Benjamin director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding| BBC
May 31, 2016
“Calling them 'boots' substitutes leather for flesh and blood—flesh that will be torn and blood that will be spilled. To advocate sending boots onto hostile ground is easier than proposing to send young men and women into a dangerous situation.”
“The real question is whether, by making common cause with the settler right against the I.D.F., Netanyahu is taking on forces that may finally be too big for him to manipulate. ”
Bernard Avishai visiting professor of government| The New Yorker
May 26, 2016
“We don't apologize, ever. Countries in general do not apologize for violence against other countries.
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“For some reason, it's become a habit in our country for smart people to announce they are bad at math, and almost be proud of that fact. They're thereby passing on this anxiety to future generations, priming them to believe: I'll just be bad at math.
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Petra Bonfert-Taylor Professor of Engineering| MPR News
May 24, 2016
“I sometimes refer to this as bringing phosphorus to the party. They have a lot of ways of making a living that some of the other organisms don't have access to.”
“I just thought, hey, we already have a racetrack, it's really loud, really dusty, really annoys the people who live here, and brings very little value to the people of this community. The goal is to reverse that. … This is bringing money to Canaan.”
“There have been some studies on circadian rhythms in trees, mostly studying gene expression, but this latest research is a beautiful way to watch it happen in individual trees.”
C. Robertson McClung, professor of biological sciences| New Scientist
May 18, 2016
“The Federal Reserve's ability to make an independent judgment on specific monetary policy judgement decisions is very important. It should not be subject to any kind of political interference.”
“Abstract thinking isn't just about big picture ideas: We need it to understand why we are doing things, Dartmouth's Mary Flanagan says in a Huffington Post story about the effect of using devices such as laptops, smart phones, and tablets for reading purposes.
Flanagan, the co-author of a new study on the impact of online reading, is a professor of film and media studies and the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities.”
Mary Flanagan a Professor of Film and Media Studies Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities| Huffington Post
March 15, 2016
“Mr. Trump's harsh language has in turn attracted widespread support from whites with hostile views toward immigrants and minority groups.”
“These findings should alert policy makers, payers, physicians, and patients for this unrecognized and potentially dangerous source of inefficient health care delivery.”