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  • May 15, 2019

    “Our results suggest a novel positive benefit of creativity: It may help us connect better with others.”

    —Meghan Meyer, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Pacific Standard

  • May 14, 2019

    “I think I’ve gotten really great training here and I need to apply it to a more real-world setting.”

    —Bekey Kettering ’12, Tuck ’19 in Poets & Quants

  • May 13, 2019

    “I suppose I’ve come to regard myself with a kind of affectionate suspicion.”

    —Alexander Chee, associate professor of English and creative writing in Metro

  • May 10, 2019

    “While we espouse sisterhood, I’m not sure if we do sisterhood.”

    —Ella Bell Smith, professor at Tuck School of Business in Morning Consult

  • May 9, 2019

    “Upright walking is a hallmark of human evolution. It was a critical adaptation; a gateway to becoming human.”

    —Jeremy DeSilva, associate professor of anthropology in Popular Science

  • May 8, 2019

    “I learned very early that teaching is not just for the students, it's for the professors, too”

    —Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professorship of Natural Philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy in Seven Days

  • May 7, 2019

    “I would lose sleep at night worrying that this fragile strategy is the one the economy is depending on.”

    —Andrew Levin, professor of economics in Yahoo! Finance

  • May 6, 2019

    “While the chance of North Korea’s provocation is increasing, it would be an overstatement to claim that 2017’s ‘fire and fury’ is back.”

    —Khang Vu, Guarini ’20 in The Interpreter

  • May 1, 2019

    “Everything we do in science is conditioned by the way we look at the world. And the way we look at the world is necessarily limited.”

    —Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy in Scientific American

  • April 30, 2019

    “I’m going to keep doing eight to 10 races a year until I can’t ski anymore.”

    —Dennis Page ’13, Thayer ’14 in Monadnock Ledger-Transcript

  • April 29, 2019

    “There are tangible costs to the U.S. economy of allocating far fewer skilled-immigrant visas than companies need.”

    —Matthew Slaughter, dean of the Tuck School of Business in The Wall Street Journal

  • April 26, 2019

    “The NASA challenge demanded a systems-thinking approach, and that’s precisely what a Thayer education provides. The team was methodical and dedicated and they ended up winning the day against fantastic competition.”

    —Laura Ray, interim dean of Thayer School of Engineering in New Hampshire Union Leader

  • April 24, 2019

    “Parents should encourage their kids to limit (sugar-sweetened beverages), including flavored waters and sports drinks, and to choose water instead.”

    —Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics in WHTC

  • April 23, 2019

    “Each student enters medical school with different strengths. Comparing yourself to your peers is unhelpful, but sharing expertise among colleagues lifts everyone’s performance.”

    —Roshini Pinto-Powell, associate professor of medicine in AAMC

  • April 22, 2019

    “It isn’t just the technological lethality of guns that makes them dangerous: They also exert a power on human agency. They change us. It is both the technology and the symbolism of a gun that can encourage someone to shoot.”

    —Chelsey Kivland, assistant professor of anthropology in Pacific Standard

  • April 19, 2019

    “Especially for the ones who might not take another literature course the rest of their time here, I hope that seeing her (Margaret Atwood) and reading her work can light a fire.”

    —Jennifer Sargent, visiting associate professor of writing in Valley News

  • April 18, 2019

    “Not trying to discount people’s grief, but there’s this sense that we’ve been suffering similar injustices for centuries and there’s been little to no attention paid to that.”

    —Maurice Crandall, assistant professor of Native American Studies in Vox

  • April 17, 2019

    “After an injury that profoundly impacts you, I think it is natural to fight your brain or resist the changes that your injury has caused.”

    —Nirali Chauhan, Geisel ’18 in The Baltimore Sun

  • April 16, 2019

    “Friendship connections (or lack of them) have a huge and almost wholly overlooked effect on students’ happiness and motivation in college.”

    —Janice McCabe, associate professor of sociology in The Washington Post

  • April 15, 2019

    “I’ll always imagine myself to be a little bit like the underwater explorer who comes back with a story when I go back into my own past.”

    —Alexander Chee, associate professor of English in The Sydney Morning Herald

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