As the debate over health care in the United States rages on, Dartmouth Professor of Economics Douglas O. Staiger, has made an interesting discovery that's sure to be part of the conversation: physicians are working less hours over the past 10 years than they did two decades before. His findings are part of study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this month. In this podcast, Staiger talks about the trends that may explain why the reduced hours are taking place and what this means for health care in this country.

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Reducing carbon emissions is at the heart of climate change mitigation. There is a nascent and growing scientific interest in carefully measuring the carbon involved in developing and producing alternative energy and burning alternative fuels, like biofuels. In this podcast, Andrew Friedland, the Richard and Jane Pearl Professor in Environmental Studies and chair of the environmental studies program, talks about the current science of carbon accounting and some of the complexities to this work.

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Investigators from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) have reported results of a clinical trial showing that a new vaccine against tuberculosis, Mycobacterium vaccae (MV), is effective in preventing tuberculosis in people with HIV infection. The DarDar Health Study, named for Dartmouth and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, found that MV immunization reduced the rate of definite tuberculosis by 39 percent among 2,000 HIV-infected patients in Tanzania. Principal Investigator Ford von Reyn, M.D., director of the DarDar International Programs for the Section on Infectious Disease and International Health at DMS discusses the development of the vaccine.

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The immersive nature of role-playing video games such as World of Warcraft have created a connection so strong for some dedicated players that their brain responds to their avatar, or self-created visual identity, the same as it does to their own real life self, says a study by Dartmouth College social neuroscientist Kristina Caudle. This asks the questions: who does the brain see when it sees you?

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In her latest book, Misplaced Objects, Professor Silvia Spitta examines the transformative movement of objects that has taken place between Europe and the Americas since 1492. One of the migrations from Europe to North America that has had a major cultural impact is the adoption of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Since she appeared to a newly Christianized Mexican Indian in Tepeyac in 1531, 10 years after the Spanish conquest, the Virgin has become Mexico?s most popular Catholic icon. Virgin of Guadalupe Day is celebrated on December 12 with countless community festivals and masses, as well as a relay race with nearly 45,000 runners that began in Mexico City in early October and ends on December 12 at New York City?s St. Patrick?s Cathedral.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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In a recent study, Professor of Physics and Astronomy Miles Blencowe and his colleagues proposed a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory. As a quantum theorist, this artificial black hole would be on a much, much tinier scale than their celestial counterparts. In this podcast, Blencowe talks about his research and the importance of understanding the quantum world.

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By some measures, Don Rains is a typical member of Dartmouth's incoming freshman class of 2013 that will arrive on campus in September 2009. He loves Shakespeare, and he can't wait to enroll in some studio art courses. But, at 45 years old, he'll be a non-traditional student on this Ivy League campus in a category all by himself. In this podcast he talks about his painting process and his hope to launch a program that encourages "dynamic decision making" among young adults.

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President Obama recently made headlines for off-hand remarks he made at a press conference about the situation between Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cambridge Police Officer James Crowley, and then made headlines again as he tried to explain away those remarks. In this podcast, Lewis Glinert, a linguist and a professor of Hebrew in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, talks about the power of the spoken word, the culture of apologies, and how this has recently played out. Lewis is also affiliated with Dartmouth's Linguistics and Cognitive Science interdisciplinary program.

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For the second consecutive year, about 40 Mexican instructors have come to Dartmouth to learn new methods for teaching English to their students. By teaching teachers more dynamic ways to educate students, over time it's expected the country will be able to improve its economic standing. John Rassias, founder of the Rassias Center and the organization that provides that knowledge, and Jim Citron '86, an intercultural educator and director of the program tell why this outreach is important.

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Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim has announced that Barry Scherr will stay at his post as Provost for up to two years. Scherr, who is also the Mandel Family Professor of Russian, has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1974 and provost since 2001. He is Dartmouth?s chief academic officer and has direct responsibility for libraries, computing, the Hopkins Center for the Arts, the Hood Museum of Art, and many of the College?s academic centers and institutes. The Provost also has major responsibility for setting budget priorities, oversees support of the research infrastructure, and coordinates government relations activities.

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Dartmouth Commencement 2009 remarks by President James Wright, in his traditional Valedictory to the Seniors

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Dartmouth Commencement 2009 address by Louise Erdrich '76

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Dartmouth Commencement 2009 address by Valedictorian Geoffrey R. Kirsch

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Dartmouth Commencement 2009 address by Valedictorian Yangyang Liu

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Lilian Mehrel ?09 is one of four Senior Fellows this year. The program allows students to pursue individual projects that go beyond the existing curriculum. Mehrel has completed an illustrated book that highlights the experiences of her grandmothers: her father?s mother who survived the Holocaust and still lives in Germany, and her mother?s mother who lived through the Iranian Revolution in Tehran.

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Damaris Walker '09 and Mark Wilson '09 chose to attend Dartmouth after completing the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program (SEAD), which expands educational opportunities for adolescents from under-resourced high schools. In this podcast the Philadelphia natives are interviewd by SEAD Director Jay Davis '90 who talks with them about their Dartmouth experience and their plans for next year.

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Fourteen students are now prepping for the 5th-annual Big Green Bus summer trip across the country. The crew will depart Hanover on June 16 to spread the word about sustainability and green living, all the while fueled by waste-vegetable oil. In this podcast Merritt Jenkins ?10 and Kate Parizeau ?10 talk about their plans and describe what?s new this year.

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Becca Wehrly '06 and Dailan Long '07 recently completed the Olga Gruss Lewin Post-Graduate Fellowship, an endowment established in 2000 by Andrew Lewin '81 to support graduates who are pursuing significant acts of citizenship and service after graduation with a non-profit organization. Becca worked in underserved communities in South Texas performing a variety of public health and medical projects, while Dailan returned to his native community on the Navajo Reservation in the Four Corners Region of New Mexico to bring environmental awareness regarding the effects of a proposed coal-burning power plant. In this podcast, the two talk about their fellowship project, the most rewarding and challenging parts of their experience, and how they were able to make a difference in the communities they served.

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Joe Kardon and Juliet Coffey, both members of the class of 2009, recently appeared in Dartmouth?s production of The Grapes of Wrath. In this podcast, the two talk about connecting with their characters, appreciating the set and lighting design, and getting a taste of what it?s like to experience the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Just because we can make genetic choices for our babies, does it mean we should? Ronald Green, a religion professor and Dartmouth?s Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, thinks that technology has an important role to play in reproductive medicine and in stem cell research. In this podcast, he talks about his thoughts on implementing guidelines in this realm and about his book, Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice (2007, Yale University Press), issued in paperback in Nov. 2008.

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Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has been elected the 17th President of Dartmouth by the College?s Board of Trustees. Ed Haldeman, chair of the Board of Trustees, introduced the President-electat a special meeting of the College on Monday, March 2, 2009 in Spaulding Auditorium of the Hopkins Center.

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Dartmouth government professors Stephen Brooks and William Wohlforth say that this is not yet a post-American world, and the U.S. remains an unambiguous global superpower that has the ability to reshape the global system. The two have published their analysis in the March/April 2009 issue of Foreign Affairs in an article titled ?Reshaping the World Order: How Washington Should Reform International Institutions.? Wohlforth, the Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth, and Brooks, an associate professor of government, are also the authors of World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy (Princeton University Press, 2008). In this podcast they explain their reasoning and offer a few suggestions to the Obama administration.

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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Michael Dorsey recently received a Ford Foundation grant to pursue a Climate Justice Research Project at Dartmouth. In this podcast, he explains what climate justice is, and he describes the many goals of the new initiative.

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Dartmouth President James Wright talks about the priorities that guided the difficult decisions made regarding the College's budget announced on Feb. 9, 2009, and how the budget reductions protect the College?s priorities.

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Dartmouth?s William Jewett Tucker Foundation encourages students to think and act as ethical and responsible citizens through service, character development, and spiritual exploration. In this podcast, Richard Crocker, College Chaplain and the Virginia Rice Kelsey ?61S Dean of the Tucker Foundation, talks about the mission of Tucker and how it?s evolved since it was established in 1951.

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In this podcast, past Rhodes Scholar Megan Steven ?02 talks with current Canadian Rhodes Scholar Kathryn Twyman ?09. The two discuss their backgrounds and interests and compare notes about the intense interview process.

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In this podcast Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Adam Keller provides an update on efforts to trim the College?s budget.

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In this podcast Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Adam Keller explains that College?s endowment is being impacted by the country?s financial crisis. Keller talks about planning underway to trim the College?s budget.

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For the past three years, nationally known playwright and artist Anne Galjour has immersed herself in Dartmouth College's physically close, yet emotionally divided rural New England backyard, examining the marked class divide that mirrors a national class divide. In this podcast, Galjour discusses her one-woman play, "You Can't Get There From Here," and the characters that emerged from the personal testimony of people within Upper Valley communities who met with Galjour in story circles to voice their own experiences with socio-economic class. Galjour's play is a key component of the Hop's Class Divide project, a three-year iniative enlisting the arts to examine class.

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In this podcast, Professor of Government Dean Lacy talks about the historic 2008 election, the extraordinary voter turnout, and about the highly successful campaign of President-Elect Barack Obama.

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"Let us understand up front that the state of the College is good and strong," said President Wright during his final State of the College address to faculty on October 27. In this podcast, he touches on the highlights of his remarks and reminisces about his 40 years at Dartmouth.

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In this podcast, Associate Professor of Economics Eric Zitzewitz talks about how the United States banking and investment industries have plunged the world into economic uncertainty.

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Caryl Phillips, author of nine novels, several books of non-fiction, anthologies, a travel narrative, and other pieces for radio, television, theater and film, is visiting Dartmouth this summer as Montgomery Fellow. As a visiting professor in the Department of English, Phillips will be teaching the course "Race and Class in Postwar British Fiction." Gretchen Gerzina, the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography, and chair of the English department, speaks with Phillips about his work and teaching experiences. Gerzina is also the host of the natinally-syndicated weekly radio show, The Book Show, produced by WAMC.

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Valedictory address by Jean Ellen Cowgill '08, class valedictorian, June 8, 2008

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Valedictory address by Nicholas Christman '08, class valedictorian, June 8, 2008

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Remarks by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia, June 8, 2008

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Remarks by President James Wright, in his traditional "Valedictory to the Seniors," June 8, 2008

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Since 2005, Dartmouth President James Wright has made several trips to visit wounded U.S. veterans at military hospitals in Washington, D.C. and in San Diego, Calif. Wright, who served three years in the U.S. Marine Corps (1957-60) before enrolling in college, feels both a special connection to and a particular responsibility to help wounded veterans attend college. Wright worked with American Council on Education, the largest U.S. higher education association, to launch an educational counseling program for wounded veterans. In this podcast, Wright talks about this work and about his efforts to support a new GI Bill to help all veterans pursue a higher education.

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Samuel Crist, a member of the class of 2010, is a founding member and president of DUVA, the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association. In this podcast, he talks about the purpose of the new organization and discusses some of his experiences here on campus and as a marine.

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Since 2002, the Tucker Foundation and Dartmouth's Hillel have coordinated student trips to Europe to restore Jewish cemeteries long neglected in once-thriving Jewish communities. The small groups have visited Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine. In this podcast, Edward Boraz, the Michael Steinberg '61 Rabbi of Dartmouth College Hillel and the rabbi for the Upper Valley Jewish community, talks about these annual trips and the impact they have on students and on the villages they visit.

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Margaret Lawrence, the director of programming at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, says that The Hop is a multidisciplinary arts presenter and a center of creativity on campus. In this podcast she describes the many activities at The Hop and also talks about what's on the minds of arts presenters around the country.

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Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center is celebrating two milestones this year - the center turns 25, and it's also the centennial of Nelson Rockefeller's birth. In this podcast, Andrew Samwick, professor of economics and director of the Rockefeller Center, reflects on Rockefeller's career and the activities at his eponymous center.

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On this edition of Views from the Green, a series of open forums held by Dartmouth Trustees as the search continues for Dartmouth's next president. The sessions, for Dartmouth's students, faculty, staff, and alumni were held in the spring of 2008 in Hanover.

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On this edition of Views from the Green, the open forums held by Dartmouth Trustees as the search begins for Dartmouth's next president. The sessions for Dartmouth's students, staff, and alumni were held April 14 and 15 in Hanover.

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On this edition of Views from the Green, the open forums held by Dartmouth Trustees as the search begins for Dartmouth's next president. The sessions for Dartmouth's students, staff, and alumni were held April 14 and 15 in Hanover.

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On this edition of Views from the Green, the open forums held by Dartmouth Trustees as the search begins for Dartmouth's next president. The sessions for Dartmouth's students, staff, and alumni were held April 14 and 15 in Hanover.

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Is America lagging in technological innovation? Are engineering jobs being outsourced overseas? In this podcast, Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering Joseph Helble talks about these issues and about the slow shift in engineering curriculum now underway.

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On January 22, Dartmouth President James Wright announced a major new financial aid initiative, designed to keep Dartmouth accessible to academically talented students regardless of their financial situation and which will extend the College's need-blind admissions program to all international students as well. In this "Views from the Green" podcast, Dartmouth's Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Maria Laskaris and Director of Financial Aid Virginia Hazen talk about the initiative.

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New Hampshire is the perfect place for Professor of Government Dean Lacy to study elections, voting behavior, and political strategy. In this podcast, Lacy discusses the results of New Hampshire Primary and offers suggestions for what to look for during the rest of the primaries and in the coming months of general election campaigning.

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Gregory Boguslavsky '09 and Michael Heslin '08 are two of Dartmouth's - and New Hampshire's - leading student political organizers. Boguslavsky, a Republican, and Heslin, a Democrat, talk about the student perspective on the primary and their own hopes and expectations for their parties' eventual nominees.

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On Oct. 3, 2007 the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth filed a lawsuit against the College in an attempt to prevent Dartmouth from moving forward with the expansion of the College's Board of Trustees. In this podcast, Dartmouth General Counsel Robert Donin explains the legal processes and describes the different documents that have been filed in Grafton County Superior Court.

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Annelise Orleck, Professor of History, is the author of several books including Common Sense and a Little Fire: Working Class Women's Politics in the United States and Storming Caesar's Palace which explores the story of a group of Las Vegas hotel maids and welfare mothers who challenged the system that kept them trapped in poverty. Much of Orleck's focuses on class and poverty, and in this installment of Views from the Green, she talks to Genevieve Haas about the 43-year-old legislation known as the War on Poverty and its present day implications.

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Katharine "Kate" Conley holds many titles. She is a professor of French in the Department of French and Italian, and she also teaches courses for the Women's and Gender Studies Program and the Comparative Literature Program, and she is the Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities. In this podcast she talks mostly about her expertise in Surrealism, and she also touches on her work for the Dean of the Faculty Office.

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Studying Shakespeare and the Bible are two mainstays of the Dartmouth curriculum. While the general topic has remained the same, the teaching has evolved and the students now relish discussion and excel at multi-tasking, according to this podcast with two veteran faculty members: Susan Ackerman '80, the Preston H. Kelsey Professor of Religion and a professor of women's and gender studies, and Peter Saccio, the Leon Black Professor of Shakespearean Studies and Professor of English Emeritus.

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At their annual retreat, the Dartmouth Board of Trustees took several steps to strengthen the College's governance. Listen in this podcast to Ed Haldeman, chair of the board, and Christine Bucklin, chair of the board's governance committee, as they talk about the recent work of the governance committee and the changes in store.

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Jennifer Lind, Assistant Professor of Government, has done extensive research in the fields of Japanese and East Asian security policy and U.S. foreign and military policy. She has researched and written on the subject of historical memory in international relations and is the author of the forthcoming book Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics, due out in 2008 from Cornell University Press. In this installment of Views from the Green, Lind talks to Genevieve Haas about her findings on the subject of national apologies and discusses the not-so-obvious trade-offs between victims' rights and domestic policy goals.

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It's going to take an interdisciplinary approach to tackle global warming and climate change, according to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, a professor of philosophy who also holds the Robert C. 1925 and Hilda Hardy Professorship of Legal Studies, and Richard Howarth, a professor of environmental studies and the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in Arts and Sciences. In this podcast, the two talk about their collaboration as editors on a recent book, Perspectives on Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics, Ethics.

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As Dartmouth celebrates the 200th anniversary of the establishment of its Second College Grant in northern New Hampshire, Professor of History Emeritus Jere Daniell '55 discusses his new history of the Grant, co-written with Jack Noon '68.

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Dartmouth Commencement 2007 addresses: Valedictory address by Nikolas A. Primack ?07, class valedictorian, June 10, 2007

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Dartmouth Commencement 2007 addresses: Remarks by Henry M. Paulson Jr. ?68, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, June 10, 2007

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Dartmouth Commencement 2007 addresses: Remarks by President James Wright, in his traditional "Valedictory to the Seniors," June 10, 2007

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Chinese avant-garde artist Wenda Gu talks about his creation "the green house," a Dartmouth-specific installation in the Baker-Berry library created from human hair - much of it collected from the Dartmouth community. Gu discusses his personal history, his sources of inspiration and his philosophies on the public consumption of art. Introduction by Director of the Hood Museum, Brian Kennedy.

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Lewis Glinert, a linguist in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, has brought his training as a linguist to bear on the subject of drug labeling and advertising. He has consulted for pharmaceutical companies and been invited to testify on pharmaceutical advertising before the Food and Drug Administration and he has published and lectured on the subject of TV ads and websites for prescription drugs. In the latest installment of Views from the Green, Glinert talks to Genevieve Haas about his work applying linguistics to the issue of pharmaceutical advertising.

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Mark Williams, associate professor of film and television studies, looks forward to the ritual of the Oscars each year. In this podcast, he talks about the popularity of the Academy Awards, Dartmouth's connection to Hollywood, and about what some of his former students have been doing.

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Professor of Classics Roger Ulrich '77 discovered his passion for ancient cultures while a student at Dartmouth. Today, his interests gravitate specifically toward Roman archeology, and in this podcast he talks about his work with undergraduates, his new book on Roman woodworking, and a project to help soldiers preserve historic sites in Afghanistan and Iran.

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Founded in July 2004, the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning supports faculty in their role as teachers and serves as a campus-wide resource for teaching and learning at Dartmouth. In this podcast, Tom Luxon, the Cheheyl Professor and director of DCAL, talks about what makes the center successful and how it benefits both faculty and students.

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Dartmouth Dining Services operates 13 dining locations, a catering business, and concessions at sporting events. In this podcast, David Newlove, the associate director of dining services, talks about the many offerings of Dartmouth Dining, from kosher to organic to fresh from the farm.

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Elliott May '06 spent his senior year working with a group of environmentally conscious classmates to convert a used school bus to run on waste vegetable oil. The project, known as the Big Green Bus, was designed to spread the word about alternative energy sources. Together, May and his fellow "bussers" spent the summer traveling around the country raising awareness. He talks about the experience and his hopes for the future of the Big Green Bus.

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Andrew Friedland, professor and chair of the environmental studies program, is interested in how humans are changing our planet. In this podcast, he talks about the different choices people can make, if they want, to ease their environmental impact.

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It's the season for freshman orientation on college campuses nationwide. In this podcast, Dean of First-Year Students Gail Zimmerman talks about how she and her staff welcome new students each year.

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Brian Kennedy has been the Director of the Hood Museum of Art since July 2005. In this podcast he talks about the role of a college or university museum in the academic enterprise, the job of stimulating audiences with provocative material, and the business of fine art museums worldwide.

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Leading Jewish Studies scholar, Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, discusses the intersections of scholarship and activism and explores the role of Jewish studies in historical, political and feminist contexts.

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The field of artificial intelligence was officially named 50 years ago by Dartmouth Professor John McCarthy when he convened the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. In this podcast, philosophy professor Jim Moor discusses the history of AI and some of the philosophical questions he's been thinking about. He also talks about this summers's AI@50 conference, which will be held July 13-15 at Dartmouth.

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Elsa Garmire, the Sydney E. Junkins 1887 Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, conducts research in lasers. In this podcast, however, she's talks about her interest in promoting technology literacy among both children and adults. She says we should all be aware of the scope of technology around us (from spoons to airplanes), understand the basics of how technology works, and know how to use technology responsibly.

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Dennis McGrath, a research associate at the Thayer School of Engineering and a researcher with Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies, develops computer simulated exercises to train emergency responders. In this podcast he talks about how the scenarios are designed, and how they are used to train EMTs, firemen, and policemen.

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Aine Donovan is the Executive Director of Dartmouth's Ethics Institute. She has studied in the fields of moral education, applied ethics, professional ethics, and philosophy of education, and she's interested in how moral values evolve from generation to generation. In this podcast she talks about how values change over the years, and she discusses her work to integrate ethical discussions into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, no matter what the discipline.

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In a recent study, David "Danny" Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth, examined the effectiveness of affirmative action programs that are designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction. The study found that little has changed over the past 25 years. In this podcast, he talks about his study and the state of affirmative action in construction today.

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Abigail Baird, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, studies the physical and behavioral changes that take place during adolescence, especially those changes that take place in the brain. In this podcast, she talks about her research in general, and about a recent study that looked at the brains of college students throughout their freshman year at Dartmouth.

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Quintus Jett, a visiting professor at the Thayer School of Engineering, teaches organizational management, a relatively new discipline within the field. Currently, Jett is working to design a new, more flexible way of organizing groups of people, a method inspired by the success of open-source programming. In this podcast, he talks about his organizing experience and current attempts to use one hurricane-devastated neighborhood in New Orleans as a test case.

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Professor of Philosophy and Hardy Professor of Legal Studies Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is a philosopher and confirmed atheist who argues that religion is nothing more than a comfortable fiction. His scholarship encompasses work on ethics, philosophy of law, epistemology, and informal logic and he is the author of "God? A Debate Between a Christian and and an Atheist." In this podcast, Sinnott-Armstrong discusses the reasoning behind his beliefs and talks about the social and political implications of heterodoxy in matters of faith.

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Today, some fields of medicine rely on advances in technology, especially, say, through enhanced imaging techniques or improved artificial joints. In this podcast, Michael B. Mayor, the William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth Medical School and an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, talks about how his career has blurred the lines between medicine and engineering, and how he thinks this should be the model for the future.

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On January 5, 2006, President Bush announced that he would ask Congress for $114 million dollars teach languages critical for national security. The proposal included enhancing language instruction from Kindergarten through college. In this podcast, John Rassias, the William R. Kenan Professor of French and Italian, talks about the why this proposal is needed, but he questions the motives behind it.

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Associate professor of computer science Hany Farid is interested in detecting whether a digital image has been manipulated. Because digital images are found everywhere today, he explains that his research can be used to examine images to see if they have been tampered with. This has immediate relevance for the fields of law, media, and science. In this podcast, he talks about his work in digital forensics and how it can be implemented.

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An election on Sunday, December 18, resulted in a new president for Bolivia. In this podcast, government professor John Carey talks about the political climate in Bolivia, the issues President-elect Evo Morales will face, and the implications for Latin America and for the U.S.

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Andrew Samwick, professor of economics and director, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, Dartmouth College, and chief economist, staff of President Bush's Council of Economics Advisers (2003-04), collaborated with two colleagues on a new report outlining a plan for Social Security reform. They call it, simply, the Nonpartisan Social Security Reform Plan.

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