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#Dartmouth faculty Susan Brison, David Kraemer, @roopikarisam.bsky.social, Dan Rockmore, and Thalia Wheatley took part in a panel discussion on the importance of deliberating on how society chooses to build, deploy, regulate, and relate to AI—and who ultimately benefits from those decisions.
"The problem is systematic overarming, which leads to a misalignment of individual and societal interests." Professors Feng Fu, Michael Herron, and Dan Rockmore authored the first study to map how personal choice and social networks have made the U.S. one of the world's most heavily armed countries.
Choosing how to fund innovation can be just as important as choosing what to fund.
The Atlas of Innovation helps policymakers and philanthropies navigate the tradeoffs between 13 funding approaches—from grants to prizes to advance market commitments.
🧭 Explore the tool: atlasofinnovation.org/
Professor @yangyangzhou.bsky.social and her co-authors of the article, “The Protecting Irregular Migrants: Evidence From Colombia,” received the Migration Studies Best Article Award, which recognizes outstanding scholarship that shapes key debates in migration studies. https://bit.ly/4uVQmRd
Distinguished Visiting Fellow Steven Simon discusses reports that the Pentagon is assuming a larger role in overseeing U.S. military assistance to Israel, and U.S. relations in the Middle East.
Professor Kathryn Cottingham co-authored research with UNH's Carsey School of Public Policy on human development and forest land near lakes. The study found combining satellite imagery with housing density data gives a more accurate picture of land cover and settlement patterns near inland lakes.
Dankweli K. Mwaka ’27 and Bella Reyes ’27 recently presented at the NEARC Conference. Born from a project in professor Meifang Li’s GIS Programming course, their research uses GIS and spatial statistics to analyze Hurricane Katrina's long-term effects on racial demographics and housing costs.
“They want a majority of the population to turn their backs. That’s all that’s necessary.” Government professor Benjamin Valentino comments on the White House webpage that invites users to look up the number of immigrants supposedly arrested on charges of criminal activity in the U.S.
“The social returns to innovation are very, very high.” @dartmouthecon.bsky.social professor @douglasirwin.bsky.social argues governments should back innovation broadly rather than targeting specific industries—and explains why getting industrial policy right is so hard.
The Institute for Progress and the Market Shaping Accelerator, co-directed by #Dartmouth economist Christopher Snyder, launched the Atlas of Innovation on June 2. The Atlas, which traces back to a 2024 workshop at Dartmouth, provides a toolkit for funding mechanisms suited to innovation goals.
A Dartmouth study shows how to restore the social cost-benefit balance of firearms.
On May 26, 2026, two Dartmouth undergraduates, Dankweli K. Mwaka ’27 and Bella Reyes ‘27, presented their GIS research at the NEARC (Northeast Arc Users Group) Spring Conference at UMass-Amherst.
In geoeconomics, countries use their economic power to pressure other nations. But how does this economic coercion impact multilateralism in global trade?
