How Storytellers Use Math (Without Scaring People Away)
September 29, 2020
"These books share the quality of illuminating deep mathematical ideas," says Dartmouth's Dan Rockmore in a review of Infinite Powers and The Weil Conjectures.
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Pandemic Will 'Take Our Women 10 Years Back' in the Workplace
September 28, 2020In a story about the pandemic's impact on working women, Dartmouth's Claudia Olivetti says, "Trying to help working families ease this child-care constraint, it's not just a gender inequality issue. It's also an income inequality issue."
Election Officials Turn to Signature-Verifying Software in Mail-In Surge
September 25, 2020Election officials need to examine the outcomes from signature-approving software says Michael Herron, the Remsen 1943 Professor of Government, in an iTnews article about mail-in voting. "An error here is someone losing their chance to vote."
Hacking Your Brain to Change Bad Habits Comes Down to One Psychological Trick
September 24, 2020"Our findings illustrate how habits can be controlled in a tiny time window when they are first set in motion," says Dartmouth's Kyle S. Smith in an Inverse story about a study he led that examined how habits form in the brain.
Hanover Artist Varujan Boghosian Dies at 94
September 23, 2020Varujan Boghosian, who died Monday, is featured in a Valley News story. Works by the former George Frederick Jewett Professor of Art at Dartmouth are part of the collections of major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New Film Confronts the Oka Crisis Through the Eyes of a 12-Year-Old Girl
September 22, 2020Beans, a film by Tracey Deer '00 that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, focuses on the 1990 Oka Crisis—an armed standoff between Mohawk protesters and police in Quebec—from the perspective of an Indigenous child.
Geo Neptune '10, Maine's First Transgender, Nonbinary, Two-Spirit Elected Official
September 21, 2020A Dartmouth graduate has made history, reports the website: Geo Neptune '10, who is nonbinary and Two-Spirit, was elected to represent Maine's Indian Township School District. "Being transgender and nonbinary is part of who I am," they said.
Applying Artificial Intelligence to Chronic Disease Management
September 18, 2020"This is where humans still excel over AI: If you feed an opaque AI system conflicted information, when it gives you an answer you won't know why that answer came about," says Dartmouth's Eugene Santos Jr.
Whose America Is It?
September 17, 2020In a column, the writer discusses current political clashes, and points to research by Dartmouth's Sean Westwood and a colleague that found, in part, that "hostile feelings for the opposing party are ingrained or automatic in voters' minds."
'Whitefish Review' Releases 'Metamorphosis' Issue
September 16, 2020Dartmouth's Marcelo Gleiser contributed an essay to the latest issue of the "Whitefish Review," founded by Brian Schott '93. The professor is in good company: Joyce Carol Oates and other acclaimed writers also contributed essays.
Making Calls with a Smart Speaker Raises Privacy Concerns
September 15, 2020"We can anticipate increasing tie-ins among different categories of 'smart' devices," says Dartmouth's David Kotz in a story about Amazon's new partnership with AT&T, which allows callers to link their phones to the Alexa voice system.
Biofuels Are Controversial Climate Solution. Could They Help Save the Planet?
September 14, 2020In a story about biofuels and the climate crisis, Grist talks with Dartmouth's Lee Lynd, who led a study on biofuels. "Skeptics argue that we should keep this genie in the bottle. I believe that we rebut these claims conclusively," he says.
What Is Face Blindness? Mask Use Might Make It Harder to Recognize People
September 11, 2020In a story about masks and recognition, Dartmouth's Brad Duchaine says that "since many people with face blindness don't rely as heavily on the face, face coverings may have less of an effect on them than people with normal face recognition."
Drones Find Signs of Native American 'Great Settlement' Beneath a Kansas Field
September 10, 2020Dartmouth's Jesse Casana and colleagues have found evidence on a Kansas cattle ranch of buried remnants left some 400 years ago by ancestors of today's Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, reports Science News.
Vaccine Makers Are Pushing Back Against Pressures to Deliver By Election Day
September 09, 2020"The FDA conveying to the public that it knows what it's doing and that it's doing things consistent with its expertise … is really important," Dartmouth's Herschel Nachlis says in a story about political pressures on the vaccine development.
Undergraduate Climbs 36 Wyoming Peaks in 45 Days
September 08, 2020On Aug. 5, Eli Boardman '22 finished climbing all 36 peaks in Wyoming above 13,000 feet. He reached his goal, becoming the first to climb all 13,000-foot peaks in one year, the youngest person to do so, and the fourth to summit all 36 peaks.
Researchers Call for FDA Reform After Emergency Authorization of COVID Drug
September 04, 2020The FDA's approval and subsequent revocation of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 shows that the agency's emergency use drug authorization process should be reformed, Dartmouth's Herschel Nachlis tells Pharmacy Times.
Ten Questions for Joshua Bennett
September 03, 2020The magazine writes that in his poetry collection Owed, Dartmouth's Joshua Bennett "covers immense territory in precise and nimble lines." He discusses his writing process, what he's reading now, what he admires in editors, and more.
Jennifer King 'Excited' to Be a Part of New Culture for Washington Football Team
September 02, 2020Jennifer King, an offensive assistant for Dartmouth's football team last year and now a coaching intern for the NFL's Washington Football Team, tells NBC, "I'm excited to be part of it and to see what the future holds for our organization."
Dartmouth Study Models Bioenergy Scenarios With Major Climate Benefits
September 01, 2020NHPR talks to Dartmouth's Lee Lynd about a study he led on bioenergy and how it could be a key factor in addressing climate change. "The blessing and the curse of bioenergy is that it's kind of connected to everything," Lynd tells the station.