October 13, 2017 | POLITICO MAGAZINE
Dickey Center Director Daniel Benjamin writes in Politico Magazine on the speculation around why Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and wounded almost 500 in the worst mass killing in US history. What was his motive? Possibly simply fame, in an age when the Internet makes instant fame possible.
Read more.Paddock thus becomes the latest embodiment of a pattern that has emerged in recent decades. In a world gushing with...
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“The past is never dead. It's not even past,” William Faulkner famously wrote in his novel Requiem for a Nun. Here at the Dickey Center, we tend to focus on the present and the foremost issues of the day. Sometimes, though, it is necessary to head upstream and reconsider the historical events that brought us to where we are.
This year’s fall term is one of those times, and we are devoting a good deal of energy to an unusual...
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September 27, 2017 | Dartmouth News
by Charlotte Albright
Hand washing saves lives. That’s why Sydney Kamen ’19 founded a nonprofit organization that recycles used soap from hotels and distributes it to under-resourced communities around the world.
Her advocacy work has won accolades, including the 2017 Tikkun Olam (Repairing the World) Award from the Helen Diller Family Foundation, the Prudential Spirit of Community Award, the Daily Point of Light Award, and the Robert...
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August 28, 2017
The Wilson Center in Washington, DC, has created a beautiful and important online interactive called "Into the Arctic" that considers issues facing the Arctic today. Ross Virginia is featured in the section "The Arctic Environment in the Age of Man," along with Senior Arctic Fellow Lenore Grenoble, who narrates "...
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August 26, 2017 | Valley News
by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling
After the crew members tied the helicopter down to prevent it from blowing away in what was shaping up to be one of Antarctica’s famously powerful storms, they crawled over the frozen ground to join Dartmouth Professor Ross Virginia and a handful of students in the crowded emergency shelter.
They’d seen the storm on the horizon, a solid wall of clouds rushing toward them, and soon they felt it too — winds...
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August 14, 2017
In a National Geographic article Lauren Culler discusses the challenge of dealing with a greater number of mosquitoes emerging in Greenland.
Read more."There aren’t a lot of animals for them to eat in the Arctic, so when they finally find one, they are ferocious. They are relentless....
We are extremely pleased to announce that Leah Sarson, postdoctoral research associate in the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth and Visiting Arctic Fellow in the Institute of Arctic Studies, was recently chosen to receive a prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) fellowship from the Government of Canada, an award given to the “most promising Canadian new scholars in the social sciences and humanities.”
Sarson will use her award to continue her postdoctoral...
Read more.July 12, 2017 | Popular Science
As the huge ice sheet melts, it releases toxins—and microbes that eat them, reports Poular Science magazine. They turned for comment to...
Read more.July 12, 2017 | Fulbright Scholar Program release
Fulbright Arctic Initiative information (pdf)
18-month research program will expand collaborative networks and address shared priorities
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has announced the launch of the second Fulbright Arctic Initiative.
The Fulbright Arctic Initiative is designed to create a network to stimulate international research...
Read more.June 14, 2017
Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University, and a 2012-13 Dickey Center U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Post-doctoral Fellow, has won the American Political Science Association (APSA) Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award in International History and Politics. How States Pay for War, published in 2016 by Cornell University Press, is...
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