Robert He '19 interned during Fall 2016 at the Office of Public Engagement at the White House and remarks that "after seeing firsthand how studies in these fields translate to the day-to-day, [he has] grown even more interested in studying more complex concepts and higher level courses."...

The Reverend Leah D. Daughtry ’84, Principal of On These Things, LLC., and former CEO of the 2008 and 2016 Democratic National Convention Committee, is the 2016-2017 recipient of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Distinguished Public Service Award....

Please join us on Thursday, April 27, at 12:30 p.m. in Haldemon 041 for a special lecture entitled “The Hungry Ghost: A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Addiction, from Heroin to Workaholism” featuring Dr. Gabor Maté....

Anwita Mahajan '17, an Economics major, reflects on her exchange experience at the University of Oxford's Keble College, illustrating how she was able to develop a more holistic perspective on economics by researching and studying British economic theory....

On Friday, April 21, 2017, two Class of 1964 Policy Research Shop students, Joby Bernstein ’17 and Bill Kosmidis ’19, traveled to Montpelier to testify before the Vermont House Committee on Natural Resources, Fish and Wildlife, chaired by Rep. David Deen. In a prior PRS testimony before the committee, PRS students had presented a policy brief that placed a valuation on Lake Champlain. Following that testimony, Chairman Deen requested a similar valuation study for the Connecticut River. Bernstein and Kosmidis spent the fall and winter terms developing valuation methodologies for each of the following eight categories attributable to the Connecticut River for Vermont: community value added, tourism and recreation, fishing, managed resources (dams and water withdrawals), river health, flooding, ecosystem services, and intrinsic value. They then produced their report, “The Value of the Connecticut River: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Vermont Clean Water Act Spending,” (PRS Policy Brief 1617-06). For the community value added section of the valuation, the students employed a hedonic pricing model that demonstrated the impact of the river on property values as well as on household incomes, by comparing property values and household incomes in zip code areas directly adjacent to the river along the entire 287-mile length of the river with those zip code areas one and two zip code areas away from the river. For dams as managed resources, the students analyzed the assessed values of the eleven working dams on the river and the resulting tax revenues generated as well as the value of the energy produced by each of the dams. Throughout their testimony, Bernstein and Kosmidis responded to questions from the chair as well as from committee members. Chairman Deen concluded the hearing by thanking the students for their detailed and comprehensive analysis. Joby, a senior is a veteran researcher in the Policy Research Shop. Prior to this project, Joby testified before the New Hampshire Senate Finance Committee on the minimum wage in 2015. He is an economics major with a double minor in public policy and environmental studies. For Bill, a sophomore, this was his first testimony experience in the PRS....

"It’s not easy letting go of “lifeplan.xlsx” and letting fate share the steering wheel....What my experiences at Rocky have given me is the quiet confidence to know I am prepared to embrace the unexpected."...

As an intern for the U.S. Department of Commerce, Noah Goldstein '18 remarks that "being able to engage in such a wide breadth of activities helped me hone in on what I am interested in, namely, FDI, financial services, and healthcare."...

On Thursday, April 13, the Rockefeller Center and the Student Veterans Association at Dartmouth co-hosted a Student Lunch with Professor William Wohlforth.

Participant, Steph Everett '19, reflects on a Rockefeller Global Leadership Program session with Dr. Gama Perucci about cultural biases and how they can "contaminate" one's world view....