Social media is like gasoline it is beneficial when used correctly, but dangerous if poured onto existing problems, Alex Dudley, public relations vice president of Time Warner Cable, said in a panel discussion Monday afternoon. While social media is often associated with recreational use, it can have ...
Courtesy of The New York Times Raphael Hillyer '36, the original founder of the Juilliard String Quartet, died due to heart failure at the age of 96 on Dec.
For his new documentary, "This Is Us," Jeremy Teicher '10 combined his English major, theater minor and passion for storytelling to portray the lifestyles, hardships, fears and hopes of Senegalese children.
To illustrate the difference between math and physics in a lecture on Monday, Stephanie Singer gave her audience a quick summary of Kepler's laws, which explain the motion of planets around the Sun. She asked them whether the laws were examples of math or physics. The answer, she revealed, was both. During ...
Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Staff Nik Medrano / The Dartmouth Staff Both speakers and audience grappled with the challenge of finding a common ground between science and theology at Thursday's Veritas Forum, "Are We Significant Figures?" Dartmouth physics and astronomy professor Marcelo Gleiser and Massachusetts Institute of Technology nuclear science and engineering professor Ian Hutchinson co-led the panel, with Dartmouth classics and linguistics professor Lindsay Whaley serving as moderator. Gleiser started his portion of the panel by harkening back to 1543, when "Copernicus was on his deathbed." Prior to Copernicus's heliocentric theory, humans believed that God had created humans as the "cream of the crop," Gleiser said.
Despite a busy schedule conducting research and organizing conferences for the National Bureau of Economic Research, economics professor Nina Pavcnik can most frequently be found in her office enthusiastically explaining trade mechanisms to her students. Pavcnik, who was recently awarded the new Niehaus ...
Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Wealthy countries like the United States should use targeted investments, rather than undirected aid, to decrease poverty rates in Africa, Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey Sachs told students in a lecture Wednesday. The levels of funding of each of the "three pillars" of American foreign policy defense, diplomacy and foreign aid are deeply unbalanced, Sachs said in his talk, "Ending Poverty in Our Generation: Still Time if We Try." "I find it weird that with all the tools we have, there is still widespread poverty," Sachs said.