Now’s the Time to Develop Your Leadership Skills
July 18, 2018
With a worldwide shortage of effective leadership, writes SI News, it’s a good time to develop leadership skills.
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Phil Klay ’05 Named 2018 Hunt Prize Winner
July 17, 2018“Phil is a young, dynamic and accomplished writer,” says Matthew Malone, president and editor-in-chief of America Media, of the awarding of the Hunt Prize to Phil Klay ’05. Klay will receive the $25,000 prize at a Sept. 20 ceremony at Yale.
Everyone Has an Accent
July 16, 2018“If you look at the question from a sociolinguistic point of view, having no accent is plainly impossible,” says Dartmouth’s Roberto Rey Agudo in an essay about discrimination based on accent. It “is not merely an academic idea,” he says.
Dartmouth Hosting Conference on Race Featuring Cornel West
July 13, 2018More than a dozen scholars, artists, and activists will gather on campus this weekend for a conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of Cornel West’s Race Matters West, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, will attend the conference.
How Shonda Rhimes ’91 Became Television’s $135 Million Showrunner
July 12, 2018Rhimes has had a headline-making career and is the country’s wealthiest female showrunner and a bright entrepreneur, writes Forbes. The first African American woman to run a primetime broadcast network drama, her next project is with Netflix.
Sorry, China. This Isn’t the ‘Largest Trade War in Economic History’
July 11, 2018“This is a significant trade dispute,” says Professor Douglas Irwin, “but there's a big difference between large tariffs on one country versus tariffs on all countries.” The largest trade war was the one the U.S. began in the 1930s, he says.
Toddler’s Fossil Foot Opens Window Into Human Evolution
July 10, 2018“These are our ancestors. These bones are telling the human story, which is my story and your story,” says Dartmouth’s Jeremy DeSilva about a 3.3-million-year-old fossilized foot of a child, discovered in Ethiopia.
Side by Side and No Finish Line in Sight for Alexi Pappas ’12
July 9, 2018“After all these years, we’re still side by side. And it’s going to stay that way forever, just like our initials on that tree at Dartmouth,” says Olympic runner Alexi Pappas ’12 in a story about her marriage to filmmaker Jeremy Teicher ’10.
U.S., China Dig In for Long Trade War as Tariffs Take Effect
July 6, 2018The U.S. and China have imposed levies on $34 billion of each other’s exports, reports the newspaper. “It’s the biggest application of tariffs by the U.S. and affecting U.S. trade since Smoot-Hawley,” says Professor Douglas Irwin.
Foot of ‘World’s Oldest Child’ Shows How Our Ancestors Moved
July 5, 2018“Selam,” a rare, 3.3-million-year-old fossil, is a “magnificent find,” says Dartmouth’s Jeremy DeSilva, lead author of a new study on the discovery. From it, scientists can learn “what the life of a kid was like 3 million years ago,” he says.
Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays Consider the Novelist’s Craft
July 3, 2018Dartmouth’s Alexander Chee has written “a moving and personal tribute to impermanence, a wise and transgressive meditation on a life lived both because of and in spite of America,” says a reviewer about the associate professor’s new book.
The Road Taken by Robert Frost Through New England
July 2, 2018Author Tyler Malone writes about the poet’s life, and about stopping by Dartmouth to read through the Frost archives at Dartmouth Library and visit the “bronze Frost seated on a rock eternally writing those first words of ‘Mending Wall.’”
The Janus Ruling Doesn’t Have to Be a Death Knell for Public Unions
June 29, 2018Dartmouth’s Charles Wheelan ’88 says the Supreme Court ruling on labor unions came at a bad time for unions. “The unions are kind of on life support, and the plug is just barely in the socket, and someone just knocked it out of the wall.”
Back to Bigger, Better Art School: Hood Museum of Art to Reopen in January
June 28, 2018Students are leading the way at the Hood as learners and curators, writes the paper in a story about the renovated and expanded museum, reopening in January. One of the first shows, of art chosen by students, is also organized by students.
Study: Support for Trump Correlates to High Opioid Use
June 27, 2018A study shows a correlation between areas of high opioid use and support for Donald Trump in 2016, and Dartmouth’s Nancy Morden says opioid users may be seeking relief. “I think that Donald Trump’s campaign was a promise for near-term relief.”
Matthew Moniz ’20 Flies Navy Flag on Earth’s Highest Peak
June 26, 2018At 12, Matthew Moniz ’20 hiked the highest peaks in all 50 states. Now 20, he recently reached the summit of Mount Everest, where he and his comrades unfurled the Navy’s 7th Fleet flag to honor the men and women who have served in the Navy.
Thai Crackdown Targets Buddhist Monks Amid Accusations of Embezzlement and Fraud
June 25, 2018In a story about Thailand’s recent arrest of senior Buddhist monks, the paper turns to Dartmouth’s Gregory Seton, a lecturer in the Department of Religion, for comment about the line between religion and politics.
Why Our Brains See the World as ‘Us’ Versus ‘Them’
June 22, 2018Geisel’s Leslie Henderson says at the “most fundamental level of biology, people recognize the innate advantage of defining differences in species,” but this needn’t define our destiny: “Working with those ‘not like us’ has its own rewards.”
North Korea’s Leader Met President Trump, but China Is Still Most Important Ally
June 21, 2018In a story about relations between North Korea and China, the newspaper quotes Dartmouth’s Jennifer Lind, who said, “While the Chinese certainly would prefer that North Korea not have nuclear weapons, their greatest fear is regime collapse.”
How One Man Died So a Whale Might Live
June 20, 2018In a story about the late Joe Howlett, who died disentangling a right whale from fishing line, Charles Mayo ’65 discusses the whale conservation work done at the Center for Coastal Studies, in Provincetown, Mass., which he cofounded.