Dartmouth Videos

In this podcast, Professor of Biological Sciences Matthew Ayres talks about his studies of insect population ecology, and what he’s learning about how climate influences forest pestilence from bark beetles and other species. He also describes how invasive species and climate change are interacting to threaten the integrity of ecosystems worldwide and impact international trade practices.

How do you inspire students to make the world a better place? What impact does a good teacher have on your life? And what does a liberal arts education mean today? Dartmouth Professor of Economics Andrew Samwick, the 2009 New Hampshire Professor of the Year, has some ideas.

More and more workers are expected to handle all the minute details related to their own retirement. With little financial knowledge and no planning, many people are taking on this task without the resources to help them. Professor Annamaria Lusardi has been named the inaugural director of a new financial literacy center that hopes to change all that.

Dartmouth vs. Villanova

The JOURNAL takes a hard look at the state of affairs in ever-divided Afghanistan with McClatchy DC Pentagon correspondent Nancy Youssef. And, global health specialist and Dartmouth College president Dr. Jim Yong Kim shares his expertise in public health.

Taken 06/19/09 at the Portside Pub in Dartmouth NS

ALA's book and media awards represent some of the best works of the year. In this video, the chairs of many of the committees charged with choosing the award winners discuss the winning books and why they were selected. For more information, see the accompanying "Read This Now" article in the May 2009 issue of American Libraries, as well as ALA's main awards page at ala.org/ala/awardsgrants/. For more ALA videos, see alfocus.ala.org.

In this podcast, Dartmouth College computer scientist Hany Farid discusses his work on mathematical and computational methods for spotting digital forgeries. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Rima Chaddha. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0229297. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. For more fun science stories, visit our Web site at http://pbs.org/nova/sciencenow

Author Nathaniel Fick discusses the war in Iraq, his experiences there with the Marines, and his new book One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer. One Bullet Away has won numerous awards including the 2006 Colby Award presented by the William E. Colby Military Writers' Symposium and the 2006 General Wallace M. Greene Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. Originally aired 07/13/06.