Wishing you peace, joy, and a chance to rest and recharge this winter break. We’re pressing pause on our posts until winter term begins Jan. 5. See you in 2026! 📸 Robert Gill

#Dartmouth professors John Murray, @brendannyhan.bsky.social, and @seanjwestwood.bsky.social#Dartmouthhave been named to this year’s Highly Cited Researchers list by Clarivate. The list identifies researchers whose contributions have demonstrably influenced scientific progress on a global scale.

The Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences recognized Jadyn Malone ’25, Kavya Nivarthy ’25, and Melissa Reyes ’25 for their outstanding undergraduate scholarship, which spans economics and political behavior, the philosophy of mathematics, and community histories of migration.

Congratulations to professor Ellen Rockmore, whose novel “The Given-Up Girl” has been recognized as the best regional literature of 2025 by the New England Book Festival.

Turns out Rudolph's nose isn't just festive—it's functional. 🦌 Professor Nathaniel Dominy explains why red light would help Rudolph navigate foggy conditions better than any other color, via @sciencenews.bsky.social.

I am pretty thrilled to announce the publication of Perceptron, a creative-critical reading of Frank Rosenblatt and his world-changing invention. I co-authored Perceptron with Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social, my collaborator and partner in all things. punctumbooks.com/titles/perce...

#boderlandsWinterimTrip2025! Our Emerita Beatriz Pastor and La Casa Live-In Faculty María Clara de Greiff continued leading students through a transformative third day of the DCSI Winterim 2025 Immersion Trip at the U.S.–Mexico border. #spport #dartmouth #socialimpact

#Dartmouth has extended its first offers of acceptance to members of the Class of 2030, which includes early decision applicants and those admitted through the College Match Program of QuestBridge.

Professor Tarek El-Ariss received honorable mention for the Modern Language Association of America’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies for his book, “Water on Fire: A Memoir of War.” bit.ly/48WwLGS

Beautiful work from Jay Winans in the Nadell Lab @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social showing IncF plasmid pED208 spreading like wildfire through E. coli biofilms www.cell.com/current-biol...

#Winterim2025 #Winter #Film #LaCasa

Sarah Wasserman, assistant dean for faculty affairs, was named co-editor of the eminent Oxford Studies in American Literary History book series. The scholar of 20th- and 21st-century American literature will lead the series alongside @ericafretwell.bsky.social of the University of Albany.

I’m so happy to see @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social Professor Colin Calloway in the Ken Burns American Revolution series. Took a very memorable (and depressing) course in post-civil war Native American history from him as an undergrad. Incredible teacher.

David Schmidt ’09, who co-directs Ken Burns’ new six-part series “The American Revolution,” reflects on how professor Colin Calloway opened his eyes to American history while taking two survey courses—Native America pre-contact to 1830 and 1830 to the present—via Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

#Dartmouth physicist Robyn Millan is leading a space mission called CINEMA that just moved to the next development phase—with $28M in NASA funding. The team will design nine small spacecraft to study the Northern Lights and the invisible magnetic "tail" that trails behind Earth as we orbit the sun.

“As the United States systematically eviscerates its constitutional order and international standing, it presumes to tell Europe that it risks 'civilizational erasure.’” Distinguished Visiting Fellow Steven Simon co-writes an op-ed on concerns over President Trump's 2025 national security strategy.

“In hindsight, we, her students, felt a subconscious sense of filial piety in return. You simply did not want to let her down.” David Downie ’88 pays tribute to the late Chinese language professor Susan Blader, via Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.

18 years ago, I walked into this bookstore for the very first time in downtown Cairo. Today, I found the Arabic translation of my book on its shelves. I never could have imagined this moment and am so grateful to everyone who helped make it happen.

We may be deep in snow in Hanover, we are reminiscing about Pedro Meria Monteiro from Princeton University and Leila Lehnen from Brown University's visit to Dartmouth and talk...#spport #dartmouth #brazilianstudies

Did alcohol motivate early farming? #Dartmouth anthropology professor Jiajing Wang describes early beer as a "sweet, slightly fermented porridge" and discusses its role in shaping agriculture, via @newscientist.com.

"Data Empire: A Human History of Records and Rule" by #Dartmouth professor @roopikarisam.bsky.social was named one of the top 10 history books to look for in spring 2026 by @publisherswkly.bsky.social 💚 ⤵️

“As in the 19th century, the Supreme Court is pretending that laws barring racial discrimination favor Black people, making them unconstitutional,” visiting professor Gerald Rosenberg writes in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social of the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken anti-discrimination laws.

Anthropology professor Sergei Kan gave a series of talks in Alaska on Tlingit culture during Native American Heritage Month, drawing from his latest book, “The Tlingit in Sitka: The Photographs of Elbridge W. Merrill.”

Professor Richard Beaudoin received the Society for Music Theory’s Wallace Berry Award, the top book award from the most prominent music theory society, for his book, “Sounds As They Are: The Unwritten Music in Classical Recordings.” https://societymusictheory.org/archives/awards/publications

Author Thomas Mann has long been celebrated as the quintessential German modernist. As scholars around the world mark the 150th anniversary of Mann’s birth, professor @verofu.bsky.social has emerged as a leading voice in reinterpreting the literary icon’s legacy.

“Sanae Takaichi's rise as Japan's Prime Minister is historic, but the symbolism of her appointment hides a more immediate challenge.” Government professor Charles Crabtree co-authors an op-ed in the East Asia Forum about Takaichi's rise as Japan's prime minister.

Congratulations to the newest inductees of Phi Beta Kappa! The Alpha of New Hampshire Chapter of the nation’s oldest honor society recently welcomed 27 new members from the Class of 2026. Theater professor Peter Hackett ’75 was elected as an alumni member.

Why do humans love a festive drink? Our primate ancestors might have started the trend 50 million years ago. #Dartmouth anthropologist Nathaniel Dominy explains how early primates evolved to seek out fermented fruits, via @wsj.com#Dartmouth "Our brains are wired to like it," says Dominy.

Professor Sujin Eom was honored with the inaugural Korean Literature Association Article Prize for her paper, “Fugitive Archives: Architecture, Police Photography, and Decolonial Futures,” and “its originality, richness, and bold and inspiring intervention.” https://dartgo.org/kla-prize-eom

Dartmouth’s approach to advising students about fellowships has shifted the culture—treating these opportunities as part of the academic journey, not separate from it. The results speak for themselves.

The #Dartmouth Arts and Sciences community mourns the loss of professor emeritus Raymond Hall, a sociologist and scholar of race, ethnicity, and social movements, who combined a deep commitment to his students with the vital work of documenting Dartmouth’s evolving history of race and inclusion.

How did China defy expectations to become a technological powerhouse? In her new book “Autocracy 2.0” from @cornellupress.bsky.social, government professor @proflind.bsky.social explores China’s rise—and why conventional wisdom got it so wrong.

More Vermont magic. #VermontZen

Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees recently appointed 11 faculty in the Arts and Sciences to endowed professorships. The prestigious appointments honor faculty whose scholarship, teaching, and service exemplify Dartmouth’s core mission.

#Dartmouth recently marked the first decade of the Academic Cluster Initiative with a research showcase from faculty in its 10 interdisciplinary clusters. The clusters also provide the foundation for new courses and hands-on learning experiences to prepare future scholars for successful careers.

Professor Petra McGillen was awarded Best Faculty Paper for her research on “Inglorious Resistance: The Opposition Press’s Exploitation of 'Sitting Editors’ in Imperial Germany,” at an annual symposium hosted by the Society of Nineteenth Century Historians. 19thcenturyhistorians.org

AI and digital forensics expert Hany Farid, who served for two decades on Dartmouth's faculty, has received the 2025 McGuire Family Prize for Societal Impact. His innovations have become essential tools for law enforcement, human rights advocates, and major tech companies.

"The absence of young people in protests against Mr. Trump's authoritarianism matters, and not just for crowd counts.” #Dartmouth government professor @brendannyhan.bsky.social writes an opinion piece in the @nytimes.com#Dartmouthabout the age of people protesting President Donald Trump.

Psychological and brain sciences professor Brad Duchaine discusses his lab’s work on face blindness in an article in @theguardian.com about hyperfamiliarity for faces, prosopagnosia (face blindness), and facial distortions.

“With survey data tainted by bots, AI can poison the entire knowledge ecosystem.” Professor @seanjwestwood.bsky.social discusses his study that found that AI bots are capable of duping and corrupting opinion surveys, via @thetimes.com.

Professor Sunglim Kim discusses how temples, cultural sites, and private homes were taken over for military use during the Korean War following the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s return of a 227-year-old Buddhist painting to a temple in South Korea, via @nytimes.com.

#Dartmouth recently unveiled the official portrait of President Emeritus Philip J. Hanlon ’77, a work that reflects his abiding passion for the institution, its academic mission, and his area of expertise, mathematics. The painting of Dartmouth’s 18th president will hang in Baker Library.

Israel Owens, Guarini ’04, was recognized at the 2025 R&D 100 Awards for his Electro-Optical Sensor submission from Sandia National Laboratories. The device transforms how the world measures high-voltage equipment, making the process safer and more accurate.

The Rockefeller Foundation supported mathematics professor John McCarthy with a grant for a proposal in which he coined the term artificial intelligence. "The five-week 1956 #Dartmouth Summer Research Project that followed is now seen as the birth of the AI revolution."

.@thefireorg.bsky.social’s most recent quarterly National Speech Index, conducted by the @prl.bsky.social at #Dartmouth, finds that a record number of Americans now believe that freedom of speech in the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Cece King ’23 reframes climate resilience through the lived experience of a remote Chilean island community in her 30-minute, award-winning documentary. “Si La Isla Quiere” (Island Willing) screens this month at DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, with online streaming through Nov. 30.

John McKnight, vice president and dean of the college at Haverford College, joins #Dartmouth as the inaugural dean of undergraduate student affairs in the School of Arts and Sciences on June 1, 2026.

Congratulations to Noah da Silva ’25 and Esmeralda Abreu Jerez ’25, who have been named Rhodes Scholars! The #Dartmouth alumni join a group of more than 100 exceptional students from more than 70 countries around the world who will pursue graduate study at the University of Oxford in 2026.

President Sian Leah Beilock, Geisel School of Medicine Interim Dean Steven Leach, and Professor of Biological Sciences Mary Lou Guerinot have been inducted into the American Academy of Sciences and Letters in recognition of outstanding achievement.