Celebrating its 20th year, the Rockefeller Center’s Policy Research Shop offers undergraduates a chance to research and make nonpartisan recommendations on public policy to legislators, the judiciary, and other regional policymakers in N.H. and Vt.

Biological sciences professor Caitlin Hicks Pries and postdoctoral researcher Joanna Ridgeway are conducting research at the #Dartmouth Skiway to determine how winter climate change and more variable snowpack impacts soil carbon and nutrient retention in forests.

New York Times reporter Manny Fernandez credits professor Matthew Garcia, who wrote “From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of César Chávez and the Farm Worker Movement,” with the key tip that led to the paper’s investigation of César Chávez and his sexual abuse of women and girls.

“The military would have been a more effective fighting force, theoretically, if it had been integrated.” Professor @mattdelmont.bsky.social discussed how President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s refusal to desegregate the military during World War II may have hindered the nation’s war effort.

This fall, the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies will launch a new PhD program in computational science and modeling, a rapidly evolving field that uses mathematical frameworks and large-scale computation to turn vast amounts of data into meaningful insight.

This winter, research scientist Justin Stroup, Guarini ’15, led a team of student researchers to #Dartmouth’s Second College Grant to collect sediment samples from Hellgate Pond, which may provide clues about how the landscape changed from deglaciation more than 10,000 years ago.

"I think it’s very important for us to consider this history not as a kind of cultural phenomenon of the Mexican American community, but it is a general questioning of men's power and their abuse of power in society writ large," says professor Matthew Garcia of César Chávez’s legacy.

Congrats to Lauren Mills ’27, who received the 2026 Project Green Light Award—created by the Class of 1968 to support new works by undergraduate artists. The English and creative writing major will explore the history and culture of Appalachia through poetry and illustration.

Historian Cecilia Gaposchkin’s research on religious relics and the medieval church has earned fellowships from three of the most prestigious funders in academia—the National Endowment for the Humanities, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

.@dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor Brad Duchaine discusses his research into prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, and prosopal metamorphopsia, a condition in which the perception of faces are distorted, on a recent episode of The Face with Masoud Saman.

“The assumption with survey research—that someone gives coherent, logical answers, they’re a real person—that assumption is now broken.” Government professor @seanjwestwood.bsky.social discusses the threat AI poses to modern data collection and public opinion research, via The Guardian.

#Dartmouth professor and literary critic @citiless.bsky.social#Dartmouthtraces the circuits of grief and melancholy with poet, essayist, and novelist Billy-Ray Belcourt on the Novel Dialogue podcast, hosted by literature scholar and Dartmouth assistant dean Sarah Wasserman.

Geography professor @jsmankin.bsky.social has been named the new deputy editor for climate impacts for the journal Earth’s Future. "The papers I find most exciting link climate to ecological, economic, or social systems in ways that no single-discipline journal can fully evaluate," he says.

Lecturer Kim Ghattas, a visiting professor in the Middle Eastern Studies Program this spring, discusses how Lebanon became a battleground for Hezbollah, Iran, the United States, and Israel, on Amanpour and Company.

Magdalena Bezanilla, the Ernest Everett Just 1907 Professor of Biological Sciences, has been named a Fellow of @aaas.org in recognition of her pioneering research on plant cell growth and development.

#Dartmouth Leadership Attitudes and Behaviors, an annual seven-week program, helps first-year students explore their personal values, practice collaboration, and engage in candid conversations with small, peer-led groups. Students say the community-building impact is lasting.

“Economics is good and bad for security at the same time. It makes the world more peaceful in some ways; it makes the world more conflict-prone in others.” Professor Stephen Brooks discusses “The Political Economy of Security” from @princetonupress.bsky.social with @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

Professor Matthew Garcia spoke with @vox.com about reassessing César Chávez’s legacy as a labor and civil rights icon in the wake of sexual assault allegations against him.

In a new study, #Dartmouth researchers report a mathematical technique for mapping the unique landscape of a student’s conceptual knowledge. The technique could be used by teachers to enhance classroom learning and could power new-gen AI systems to enhance personalized learning.

Professor César Alvarez’s new musical “The Potluck,” a genre-bending show about ghosts, capitalism, and inherited trauma rooted in the Greensboro Massacre, is heading to SoHo Rep and INTAR at Playwrights Horizons this summer!

Professor @mattdelmont.bsky.social sat down with @zelizer.bsky.social on #TheLongView podcast to discuss race and the anti-war movement of the 1960s and to dive into his new book, “Until the Last Gun is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul.”

What causes the corpse flower’s pungent odor? @sciam.bsky.social cites research by professor Eric Schaller and his team, which identified putrescine as a previously unknown component of the plant’s odor that contributes to its smell of decaying animals.

“With Liberation Day, he went multiple bridges too far.” Economist @douglasirwin.bsky.social reflects on President Trump’s less measured approach to tariffs in his second term as compared to his first.

In an op-ed in the @latimes.com, professor Matthew Garcia argues the César Chávez abuse allegations demand a full reckoning with how the United Farm Workers enabled unchecked power.

Distinguished Fellow Ezzedine Fishere founded Commonsense House, a new publishing imprint in the Upper Valley that aims to bring more Arabic works to English readers. On a recent episode of Vermont Edition, he spoke about the highs and lows of getting his novels translated into English.

“There’s just no question that what we’re seeing is the authoritarian playbook.” Government professors @brendannyhan.bsky.social and @johncarey.bsky.social, co-directors of Bright Line Watch, discuss how democracy in the U.S. is deteriorating at a remarkable speed under President Trump, via NPR.

"These findings have important implications for how people interpret others' experiences.” A new study by @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professors Alireza Soltani and Tor Wager and Aryan Yazdanpanah, Guarini, shows how social information can change how people experience pain.

“Trump may keep shifting objectives, but for Netanyahu the inexorable goal still seems to be regime change, much the way that ‘total victory’ against Hamas has been.” Visiting professor Bernard Avishai offers a first-hand account of the Iran war from his neighborhood in Jerusalem.

.@dartmouthecon.bsky.social professor Bruce Sacerdote ’90 calculates that stock purchases by U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., between 2024 and 2026 outperformed the market by 8%, via the @nytimes.com. Mullin, a prolific investor, is President Trump's pick to be secretary of homeland security.

"In this book, Glinert reveals the beauty and mystery of Hebrew. From Tanach to Talmud, it’s an indispensable guide that enhances your understanding and mastery of whatever you learn.” The Times of Israel reviews professor Lewis Glinert’s “Unlocking Leshon Hakodesh: A Guide to the Hebrew Language.”

"The 19th-century Iranian government looks quite a bit different.” History professor Golnar Nikpour provides a history of modern Iran in a recent episode of @kpfa.org’s “UpFront.”

Carlene Kucharczyk, administrative assistant in the Department of English and Creative Writing, has been named a Vermont Book Award finalist in the poetry category for her debut collection, “Strange Hymn.” bit.ly/40yNKve

“Judges appointed by presidents in both parties are doing heroic work at the case level in trying to uphold the law, but the system is not built to address the scope of the lawlessness that we now face,” government professor @brendannyhan.bsky.social says, via the @nytimes.com.

Government professor @jaylyall.bsky.social’s recent research on U.S. Air Force air strikes in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2011 finds that they are strongly associated with increases in subsequent Taliban insurgent attacks, demonstrating that the strikes had counterproductive effects.

"It is legitimate to question strategy, costs, objectives, and exit plans. What is not legitimate, absent evidence, is the claim that Washington entered war unwillingly because Israel manipulated or compelled it.” Distinguished Visiting Fellow Steven Simon pens an op-ed on why the U.S. attacked Iran

Joe Catrino, executive director of the #Dartmouth Center for Career Design, joined the “An Educated Guest” podcast to share how design thinking can guide students toward meaningful careers. “We want to help a student really figure out who they are,” he says.

Economics professor Eric Zitzewitz says the surge in bets placed on Polymarket the day before the Iran airstrikes “makes you think it was someone who knew something about the timing,” via the @nytimes.com.

"We fundamentally don't understand when the magnetotail is going to release magnetic energy and how much impact it might have." Professor Robyn Millan discusses CINEMA, NASA’s Dartmouth-led mission to study the Earth’s magnetosphere.

"Presidents are expected to make the case to the American people for major initiatives, especially when it comes to use of force.” Professor @brendannyhan.bsky.social reflects on President Trump announcing military action against Iran on Truth Social rather than a more traditional televised address.

"Persistent high tariffs, even under revised legal grounds, risk prolonged uncertainty for businesses and trading partners alike.” Economist @douglasirwin.bsky.social discusses President Trump's continued implementation of tariffs despite the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling to strike them down.

In her new book, “The Development Film in the Americas” from @ucpress.bsky.social, professor Molly Geidel examines how Cold War-era development films presented a simplistic vision of poverty—and what they reveal about narratives of inevitability today.

Professor Jessica Beckman’s students handle rare manuscripts, print their own books, and grapple with what vanishes in the digital age. This hands-on access, paired with Beckman’s sweeping historical framework, distinguishes #Dartmouth’s approach to book history.

.@dartmouthgeography.bsky.social lecturer Sarah Kelly won the Energy and Environment Specialty Group's 2026 Powershift Award, which recognizes energy geographers who seek to empower marginalized groups that are disproportionately vulnerable to climate or energy injustices. https://bit.ly/40kFcbi

"I find that particularly exciting, because it reframes the amygdala not just as a fear-related structure, but as a key contributor to flexible cognition and behavior.” @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor Alireza Soltani discusses his recent study on the role of the amygdala.

The Text+Textile+Technology workshop explored how art can be related to broader questions about education, knowledge practices, and creative practices. Postdoctoral fellow @hayri4.bsky.social organized the event, which was part of the Leslie Center Seminars in Humanities and Technologies.

“We’re not just interested in where the rocket flies. We want to know how the current spreads downward through the atmosphere.” Professor Kristina Lynch is the principal investigator on NASA’s GNEISS mission, which investigates the electrical currents flowing from the northern lights.

"As a scholar of prisons and prisoners, I'm quite worried about what the situation is inside of Iran's prisons.” History professor Golnar Nikpour discusses the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the “devastating attack” on the country’s state and civilian infrastructure, via @democracynow.org.

In “Perceptron” from @punctumbooks.bsky.social, @jeddobson.bsky.social and @renamosteirin.bsky.social explore the elusive life of Frank Rosenblatt, whose groundbreaking invention laid the foundation for modern AI.

“It is rare for air power alone to bring about regime change.” Distinguished Visiting Fellow Steven Simon authors an op-ed in the @economist.com about the American and Israeli air strikes on Iran and possible pathways to regime change.

#Dartmouth’s Data in Action: Data, Power, and Public Life Symposium on March 11 invites attendees to look more closely at the foundations of AI—not simply how systems are trained, but how the data itself is made, framed, and mobilized. Registration requested. https://dartgo.org/datainaction2026