Modified majors are a popular option for Dartmouth students. Intended to fit the needs of a student whose interests cannot be fulfilled in one singular department, these majors exemplify what a liberal arts degree is all about.

PBPL 85 begins in the classroom during the fall term, where a select group of students study the history and context of a public policy challenge in a particular country or region and then travels there during Dartmouth’s winter interim to conduct field research....

Professor Ronald Shaiko encourages Rockefeller Leadership Fellows to consider in what ways are the leadership skills they are developing at Dartmouth applicable to civil society leadership after graduation?

Professor Shaiko and PBPL 85's Political and Legal Team, Andrew Weckstein, Michelle Li, and Kevin Zhang travel to Dnipro, Ukraine, an Eastern city only 100 miles west of the conflict in the Donbas....

You can sense that some travel bug has bitten them all. They’ve got that itch for adventure. It’s so visible—in their enthusiasm about languages, in their ambivalence about DC, in their nostalgia for Gaza and Indonesia and Sudan—it might as well be a rash across their foreheads....

PBPL 85 begins in the classroom during the fall term, where a select group of students study the history and context of a public policy challenge in a particular country or region. The class then travels to that country or region during Dartmouth’s winter interim to conduct field research....

To a packed audience of over 150 participants, three American politics faculty members took part in a panel discussion titled “Finally, It’s Over: The 2016 Election and Its Aftermath” on Thursday, November 10 th, 2016 at the Rockefeller Center....

Steve Norton, Executive Director of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, speaks with students in Professor Ron Shaiko's PBPL 45: Introduction to Public Policy Research class. ...

Three veteran Policy Research Shop students—Morgan Sandhu ’17, Apoorva Dixit ’17, and Meghana Mishra ’17, along with Kristen Delwiche, a second year medical student at Geisel School of Medicine, presented their research to Her Excellency Atifete Jahjaga, former president of Kosovo....

Students at the Rockefeller Center’s Class of 1964 Policy Research Shop conducted phone surveys for the 2016 State of the State Poll in April, questioning New Hampshire voters about their opinions on the presidential, congressional, and state elections....