Amy Hu, a member of the Class of 2021 at Dartmouth College, who majored in both Quantitative Social Science (QSS) and Economics, graduated on June 13, 2021 as one of the College's salutatorians. Amy, from Atlanta, Georgia, is heading to New York and will join McKinsey and Comp
[more]Kevin Hu, a member of the Class of 2020 at Dartmouth College majored in Quantitative Social Science (QSS). All QSS students complete research projects as part of their undergraduate curricula, and Kevin wrote an honors thesis under the supervision of Feng Fu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and member of the QSS Steering Committee. The title of Kevin's thesis is, "Oscillating Replicator Dynamics with Attractor Arcs: A
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All students writing honors theses in the Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) at Dartmouth College are required to publicly defend their research upon completion of their projects. This past May, ten students presented their theses. On account of the pandemic, this year's thesis presentations were remote. Each QSS thesis is guided by a primary faculty advisor, and in addition, a second reader is assigned to evaluate each thesis.
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A Dartmouth study of mathematicians gives a snapshot of the world of math.
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Genetic risk scores are increasingly being used in health care settings, but scholars, policy makers, and the general public are increasingly concerned that genetic information could be used in other non-medical settings to make decisions--such as insurance providers, schools, or financial institutions. In a new study, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science Rebecca Johnson and colleagues examined public attitudes towards the use of genetic information in non-medical settings.
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