“I'm not what most people expect, either: a proud Christian, mixed-race Latina lesbian. But by sharing my story, I hope that I can be the representation for others out there that I really needed when I was younger.”
“The absolute mortality rates are 100 times higher for the 75- to 84-year-olds compared to younger folks. That to me is still the take-away finding.”
Jonathan Skinner, professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics| Vox
October 22, 2020
“Given that politics and partisanship have already played large and problematic roles in deliberations about Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics, it is essential to reduce the politicization of science.”
Herschel Nachlis, research assistant professor of government| Stat News
October 21, 2020
“These regulations come at a moment as if they are taking away everything—Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Sukkos, Simchas Torah. If it comes from within a community, of course people will listen to it differently.”
Susannah Heschel, the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies| Religion News Service
October 20, 2020
“Someday, when COVID is an answer on 'Jeopardy!', I hope that we won't have forgotten the important beneficial effects of reducing pollution and stress on our health in general.”
Jonathan Skinner, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics| The New York Times
October 19, 2020
“The legitimacy of the election depends in no small part on every valid ballot being counted.”
Michael Herron, the Remsen 1943 Professor of Government, and a co-author| Tampa Bay Times
October 16, 2020
“Both political parties are thinking tactically at a time when we need a strategy for rebuilding a governing coalition capable of passing legislation without using a narrow majority to bludgeon the other side into submission.”
Charles Wheelan '88, senior lecturer and policy fellow and co-author| CNN
October 15, 2020
“Having the opportunity to bring the NCAA championships back to the Upper Valley is exciting.”
Cami Thompson Graves, director of skiing and women's Nordic head coach| Valley News
October 13, 2020
“We also know that the burnout in family physicians has an impact, not only on us as individuals but on our health care systems, and … on our patients.”
Catherine Florio Pipas, professor of community and family medicine| The Washington Post
October 12, 2020
“It's a very weird kind of archaeology because usually we go and spend weeks and weeks working in the sun. In this case we just go in the middle of the night—once.”
Jesse Casana, professor of anthropology| Atlas Obscura
October 9, 2020
“Speculative fiction has always challenged and enlarged our ideas of what the world can be.”
Dan Rockmore, the William H. Neukom 1964 Distinguished Professor of Computational Science and director of the Neukom Institute| Tor.com
October 8, 2020
“You can argue that the Trump administration is the first administration in American history to do the bidding of the religious right.”
Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion| Financial Review
October 7, 2020
“Peer pressure can be indirect or unspoken. It can be positive as well as negative, and it's often pressure we put on ourselves rather than something someone says.”
Janice McCabe, associate professor of sociology| Rewire
October 6, 2020
“The immune system is more powerful than we thought.”
P. Jack Hoopes, professor of medicine and of surgery | Wired
October 5, 2020
“The FDA learned the hard way with hydroxychloroquine because the last thing you want to do is put a product out there for consumers to use and then say, 'We're wrong. We shouldn't have let that product out there.'”
Herschel Nachlis, research assistant professor of government| Relias Media
October 2, 2020
“With the 1980 election, we began to see a coalition between the religious right and the far-right precincts of the Republican Party and that coalition has become a fusion.”
Randall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion | Financial Times
October 1, 2020
“This country lionizes those who rebelled against taxation without representation centuries ago, but we have ended up with a system providing ample representation without taxation for our elites, at the expense of the rest of us.”