QSS major Tracy Weener ’26, has been chosen for a Fulbright award. She will do a Fulbright English teaching assistantship in Taiwan.

Throughout the first three weeks of May, nineteen exceptional Quantitative Social Science majors presented their honors theses. The culmination of this year-long intensive program gave students the opportunity to showcase a wide range of innovative research projects to supportive audiences, including advisors, faculty, friends, and family.

A Dartmouth study shows how to restore the social cost-benefit balance of firearms.

Hermia Miaoxuan Huang `26, who is majoring in Quantitative Social Science (QSS), attended the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association and presented a poster based on her honors thesis being written under the supervision of Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science Herbert Chang.

On May 6, senior QSS majors completing honors theses, along with their advisors, attended the Dean of Faculty Honors Dinner.

QSS Steering Committee member Mia Costa’s book, How Politicians Polarize: Political Representation in an Age of Negative Partisanship, is a finalist for the Edwards Book Award from the Rodel Institute. Congratulations Professor Costa!

Nineteen QSS honors students will showcase their research at thesis presentations between May 1 and May 18.

In a recent interview with The Dartmouth, Assistant Professor Herbert Chang shares his views on artificial intelligence education at Dartmouth and the evolution of his course, QSS 045: AI Machine Learning for Social Science.

Professors John Carey and Brendan Nyhan report on democracy’s deterioration under President Trump. Read the full NPR article HERE