Professor Jeffrey Friedman writes a @foreignaffairs.com op-ed on how the Trump administration’s recent international entanglements could shape the president’s legacy. “For Trump, the domestic consequences of his actions could therefore depend on what happens next in Venezuela and beyond.”

Professor Ryan Hickox helped design the NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's upcoming survey of hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe. "We'll use Roman's enormous, deep 3D images to explore the fundamental nature of the universe, including its dark side,” he said.

New York-based playwright Avery Deutsch is the winner of the 2025 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Playwriting for her play “The Age of Mary,” which explores how technology alters the aging experience.

New research from #Dartmouth reveals how plasmids—molecular hitchhikers inside bacteria—pack their hosts into dense clusters that can resist antibiotics.

“To have (skiing) go from something my kids could do any day of the week in wintertime…to something that is much more rare and variable is a real tragedy.” Geography professor @jsmankin.bsky.social reflects on the implications of declining snowpack.

“China’s successful pursuit of innovation means that an authoritarian superpower is now capable of challenging the United States in East Asia, supporting autocracies worldwide, and shaping global governance to advance its own interests,” writes @proflind.bsky.social in a @foreignaffairs.com op-ed.

Tracy Weener '26 assesses national biases in AI, investigating whether large language models created by different companies and countries exhibit distinct national biases toward world leaders and nations—and if these biases make them more prone to endorsing misinformation.

NASA’s GNEISS mission, led by professor Kristina Lynch, will investigate the electrical currents flowing from the northern lights. “If we can put the in situ measurements together with the ground-based imagery, then we can learn to read the aurora,” Lynch said.

Professors Sunglim Kim and Chad Elias investigate how Korean corporations use art to build global influence. “There’s a deliberate, systematic effort by the Korean state and by major corporations to build what scholars call ‘soft power’—the ability to shape how the world perceives Korea,” says Kim.

For the fourth year running, the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational Affairs has recognized #Dartmouth as a Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. Students. Last year, a record 32 Dartmouth students and alumni were offered Fulbright awards for scholarship or teaching.

Faculty members Herschel Nachlis and Benjamin Valentino discuss where the Supreme Court stands today with guest speakers David French and Sarah Isgur as part of the recent Law and Democracy: The United States at 250 event hosted by the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.

The #Dartmouth Arts and Sciences community mourns the loss of professor emeritus Andrew Garrod, a visionary educator and humanitarian who dedicated his career to amplifying student voices and bridging cultural divides.

In “The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate” from @uchicagopress.bsky.social, sociology professor Sunmin Kim illuminates how the foundations of America’s immigration debate contain the seeds of today’s crisis.

.@dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor @stolkarjen.bsky.social's latest research highlights why individualized communication approaches are crucial, with insights that could improve understanding of autism.

Congrats to speech professor @joshcompton.bsky.social, co-editor of “The Handbook of Inoculation Theory and Practice,” the first handbook devoted entirely to inoculation theory, bringing together more than 40 leading scholars to examine the theory’s past, present, and future.

Professor @brendannyhan.bsky.social speaks to the danger of the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security’s repeated false claims. “Every American should be worried about that, because if they can lie about this, what else could they lie about?” he says, via @npr.org.

"The religious leaders gathered in Minnesota understand that their faith leads them beyond the church doors and into the streets.” Religion professor Randall Balmer pens an op-ed for the Valley News about religious leaders in Minnesota who are resisting ICE’s operations.

This year marks not just the 10th anniversary of Black Legacy Month at #Dartmouth, but 50 years of Black History Month and 100 years since the creation of Negro History Week.

People are more likely to make friends if they join a club that is related to an identity shift, sociology professor Janice McCabe says via @nytimes.com. "It's finding the right timing and place in those settings,” she says.

"It's not just like the fact that you're losing natural snow, you're also losing the days that you need to make snow.” Biological sciences professor Caitlin Hicks Pries discusses the impact of climate change on snow and snowmaking for the Winter Olympics, via @reuters.com.

Research from professor @seanjwestwood.bsky.social demonstrated an AI chatbot can reliably impersonate a human participant and evade most known mechanisms built into surveys to detect fake responses, highlighting the threat that AI poses to modern data collection and public opinion research.

Oscar Cornejo Casares ’17, professor of Latin American studies at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social, returned to #Dartmouth to discuss his research on immigration's lasting impact on individual lives and American society.

Renowned First Amendment scholar Steve Collis will share practical ways to transform toxic conversations into healthy dialogue during his talk, ”Habits of a Peacemaker,” on Feb. 2. The event is sponsored by Dartmouth Dialogues. Registration is encouraged.

“It was such an eye-opening experience for me to understand that diversification wasn’t necessarily practiced in a way that ensured equality for all the people who lived there.” Professor Emily Walton discusses “Homesick: Race and Exclusion in Rural New England,” with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

Professor @dannyblanchy.bsky.social and his fellow researchers discuss their findings that happiness no longer makes a U-shaped pattern over our lifetimes due to well-being declines in young people. “Policymakers need to be aware of it,” they write.

As part of a new series from the National Museum of Mathematics, Dartmouth professor Peter Winkler and the YouTube channel 3Blue1Brown provide new puzzles each month for the public to solve. Winkler also hosts a monthly Zoom session to explore the solutions with participants.

“Black intellectuals and political leaders are outraged by the dropping of the bomb.” Professor @mattdelmont.bsky.social is featured in the @pbs.org documentary, “Bombshell,” which explores how the U.S. manipulated the narrative about the impact of the WWII bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Research by geography professor @jsmankin.bsky.social and postdoctoral researcher Alexander Gottlieb, Guarini '24, examined trends from 1981 to 2020 in temperature, precipitation, runoff, and March snowpack, using a coordinated blend of observations and computer-model analysis.

“While development films purported to offer an unmediated glimpse into the lives of underdeveloped communities, the reality development films presented was actually meticulously crafted,” professor Molly Geidel writes in a Zócalo op-ed based on her book, “The Development Film in the Americas.”

Environmental studies professor @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social works to repair the rift between science and Indigenous knowledge. Combining different ways of understanding the world “make science better for everyone,” she says, via @snexplores.bsky.social.

Congrats to @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor Tor Wager, who received the Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences from @nasonline.org. The prize recognizes Wager's pioneering research on the mind-body connection and innovative neuroimaging approaches. https://bit.ly/4k0glSM

“Command of Commerce” by professor Stephen Brooks and Ben Vagle ’22 argues China’s power is overstated. As Brooks and Vagle argue, China is great at assembly and less complex production, but still struggling to own the “must-have” technology that actually generates wealth.

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A #Dartmouth study in Nature Communications reveals that immune cells in the brain use a surprising two-step process to power their search-and-destroy missions: the brain’s emergency responders arrive powered by sugar, then build roads to recruit reinforcements for longer-term damage control.

In her MLK Jr. keynote address, ASA member Shaonta' E. Allen @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social questioned “Ask yourself, who benefits when we are not able to articulate what we would like to see in the future, but can only describe what we’d like to tear down?”

Excited to have an excerpt from "Until the Last Gun Is Silent" in @bostonglobe.com on the vital role Coretta Scott King played in calling for peace in the Vietnam War era @vikingbooks.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/26/m...

The Neukom Institute for Computational Science’s Donoho Colloquium recently brought together #Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff to explore how technology will shape our civic future with Harvard’s Latanya Sweeney, an expert in data privacy, algorithmic fairness, and public interest technology.

Almost two dozen #Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students explored how food systems intersect with issues of culture and sustainability at a two-day international symposium in Rome co-sponsored by Dartmouth and the American Academy in Rome.

Earth sciences professor Sarah Slotznick was selected as a 2025 recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award. The prestigious award will fund Slotznick’s pioneering research on cobalt minerals, which play a critical role in the energy transition.

"What we found is that many of the features that are considered the 'traditional' Boston accent are fading, in younger generations especially." Linguistics professor James Stanford’s research shows the Boston accent is fading, via the @bostonglobe.com.

Anita Dole, Cornelia Purcell, and Janet Terp—three remarkable staff members in the School of Arts and Sciences celebrating 35 years at #Dartmouth—make campus better for the people who live, learn, and teach here.

A writer and storyteller long before becoming a professor, Spanish senior lecturer Kianny Antigua has published more than two dozen children’s books encouraging young readers to embrace who they are. While her work spans genres, writing for young readers remains one of her deepest joys.

Biological sciences professor Caitlin Hicks Pries chats with @vermontpublic.org about the ecosystem impacts of snow loss.

Congratulations to Laxman Bist '23, Josué Godeme '26, and Bryanna Entwistle '23, who have been selected as Schwarzman Scholars. They are among 150 students who will receive a one-year, fully funded graduate fellowship in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Professor Katie Hornstein led an art history program that asked students to spend hours with a single work of art. “These kinds of ‘slow’ pedagogies are especially important in the age of AI euphoria, when we are increasingly putting our faith in corporate technologies to give us fast answers.”

"History is about evidence. It's about welcoming complexity and nuance. It's not about crafting a single story that needs to make everyone feel happy." Professor @mattdelmont.bsky.social comments on the Trump administration’s pressure on the Smithsonian to present an upbeat story of U.S. history.

Each year, #Dartmouth will be able to support approximately 250 undergraduates who want to pursue internships in fields that often cannot offer paid internships—five times more students than previously possible—as a result of new endowed funding for the Dartmouth Center for Career Design.

Thanks to @nickhilden.bsky.social for talking with me about "Until the Last Gun Is Silent" and Coretta Scott King's important antiwar activism for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/01/core...

"Emissions will be higher," professor @jsmankin.bsky.social says in a @nytimes.com article about President Trump's policies and actions that are making climate change worse. "Trump's greenhouse gas emissions will cause Trump's heat waves, Trump's droughts, Trump's floods, and Trump's wildfires."

A new policy brief by Kristin Smith, visiting research associate professor of sociology, finds that the New Hampshire Voluntary Paid Family and Medical Leave Program has had a very limited impact in helping workers and overcoming inequities in coverage.