In a story about Dartmouth's Abbey (D'Agostino) Cooper '14, fellow runner Nikki Hamblin, and a life-changing moment during their '16 Olympic debut, Cooper says, "We haven't had a ton of time together, but we're connected by a powerful moment."
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed '81 has been named Harvard's Charles M. Loeb University Professor, which, notes the journal, is Harvard's highest faculty honor. The alumna is a former member of Dartmouth's board of trustees.
In a story about job interviews after gaps in employment—common during the pandemic—Dartmouth's Matthew Slaughter says, "What becomes more important is, what's the story that you can tell when—fingers crossed—you do have those interviews?"
Dartmouth's Charles Crabtree and a co-author discuss why, despite the U.S. dropping an atom bomb on two Japanese cities in 1945, the two nations developed a warm relationship that continues today—and why the relationship could now be at risk.
Coach Buddy Teevens '79's "radical plan to turn around an Ivy League football program a decade ago is now the unlikely blueprint for every team in the NFL," writes the paper, referring to Teevens' use of the innovative Mobile Virtual Player.
Kaya Thomas '17 talks about how she came to create We Read Too for readers of color. "During college, I decided to create an iPhone app that would showcase all the great books I found written by authors of color featuring characters of color."
In a story about rethinking this year's "election night," Dartmouth's Brendan Nyhan says, "There's a lot of planning for the whiz-bang graphics, and not enough planning for avoiding undermining trust in the American electoral system."
The historian, legal scholar, and former trustee has earned Harvard's highest faculty honor for scholarship that "has reframed the historical dialogue about slavery and enslaved peoples in the United States," the "Gazette" says.
Research co-authored by Dartmouth's William Hudenko shows that people receiving mental health care can benefit from adding a texting component to their treatment plans, an intervention Hudenko calls "incredibly scalable" and "cost-effective."
Research by Dartmouth's Nicholas Reo and Laura Ogden on Anishnaabe attitudes toward non-native plants is cited in a story on how climate change is changing how scientists view so-called invasive species.
Inclusivity is good for military effectiveness, says Dartmouth's Jason Lyall in an op-ed arguing that recent U.S. military policy changes, such as banning display of the Confederate flag, will "pay dividends on future battlefields."
Dartmouth's Julie Hruby, a specialist in ancient Greek craft production, says research by University of Toronto's Sarah Murray '04 and students makes "a much stronger case" that the ceramicists of the Greek Early Iron Age may have been women.
Lisa Adams, MED '90, associate dean for global health and associate professor of medicine, discusses on The Exchange how personal experience, demographics, and politics play into individual choices about safety.
In a story about containing the spread of the coronavirus in the United States military, Lindsey Leininger, clinical professor of business administration, says density and demographics make military bases highly susceptible to outbreaks.
Kristalina Georgieva, the fund's managing director, says Ogada's service orientation and ability to bring people together will help the IMF serve its member countries even more effectively "in a very challenging economic environment."
The risks of deportation for Haitians in the United States "should compel the American public to open the borders of our imaginations and sympathies, even if our actual borders remain resolutely closed," says Dartmouth's Chelsey Kivland.
As a Black woman, having others doubt her talents and abilities has led her to question herself, says artist Réna King '20. "But I keep pushing to get to a place where I can say to myself, 'wow I can't believe I doubted myself.'"
In a story about the development of vaccines for COVID-19, Dartmouth's Tillman Gerngross says this virus won't be the last. "You can sit here now and take the position that this is never going to happen again. … It is going to emerge again."
The clearing of Brazil's grasslands to grow corn and soybeans and raise cattle has caused localized climate change, making the region unsuitable for growing corn, according to a new study by Dartmouth's Stephanie Spera and colleagues.
A column about the pandemic and politics notes that research by Dartmouth's Sean Westwood and a colleague finds race to be a powerful factor in shaping partisanship, saying "views of partisan and racial out-groups are inextricably connected."