One Day College
Put your thinking caps on—it’s time for
One Day College is a full day of immersive, virtual programming to enrich your mind and analyze current events. Learn from Dartmouth professors at the top of their fields about topics critical to the election cycle, from foreign policy to artificial intelligence.
Can’t stay the whole day? Don't worry! Registrants will have access to recordings of all panels after the event, so you can learn at your leisure.
Pricing
Standard Rates
General Alumni: $50
Young Alumni: $30
Early Bird Rates!*
General Alumni: $35
Young Alumni: $25
*Valid through August 31
Program Schedule
10:10–11:10 a.m.
Cracks in the Melting Pot: The Economics of Immigration
Elizabeth Cascio and Ethan Lewis
11:25 a.m.–12:25 p.m.
Foreign Policy and the Election: What’s at Stake? (It’s not exactly what you’ve been told)
Jennifer Lind and Daryl Press
12:40–1:40 p.m.
How Human-Centered Design Can Save the Planet
Alexis Abramson
1:55–2:55 p.m.
Conspiracy Theories, Misinformation, and A.I. in the 2024 Election
Brendan Nyhan and Adam Breuer
3:10–4:10 p.m.
Faculty Research Special Features
“Vox Populi: The Science of the Constitution”
Sonu Bedi
and
“False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers”
Casey Stockstill
About the Speakers
Alexis R. Abramson ’93a
Dean and Professor, Thayer School of Engineering
Alexis Abramson is the 13th dean of Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. Prior to joining Dartmouth, she was the Milton and Tamar Maltz Professor of Energy Innovation at Case Western Reserve University and served as a director of the university’s Great Lakes Energy Institute focused on creating sustainable energy technology solutions. During the Obama administration, Abramson served as chief scientist and manager of the Emerging Technologies Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Program. In 2018, she served as technical adviser for Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a $1 billion effort launched by Bill Gates to combat human-driven climate change.
Abramson is an entrepreneur, having co-founded Edifice Analytics, which provides no-touch, virtual commercial building energy audits and portfolio management services. She earned her BS and MS in mechanical engineering from Tufts and a PhD in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley.
Abramson is leading efforts at Thayer to expand Dartmouth’s global impact through human-centered engineering, research, and entrepreneurship—and elevating Thayer’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Under her tenure, Thayer has attracted a record number of PhD and master’s degree applicants, and for the second time in Dartmouth’s history awarded more undergraduate engineering degrees to women.
Sonu Bedi
Joel Parker 1811 Professor in Law and Political Science
Hans ’80 and Kate Morris Director of the Ethics Institute
Professor of Government
Sonu Bedi has been teaching at Dartmouth since January 2007. He is the author of four books: Private Racism (Cambridge University Press 2019), Rejecting Rights (Cambridge University Press: 2009), Beyond Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation: Legal Equality without Identity (Cambridge University Press: 2013), and Political Contingency (NYU Press: 2007) (co-editor). He has published articles in leading peer reviewed journals in political science and political theory as well in numerous law reviews. He was awarded the Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching twice, chosen by a vote of the class of 2014 and the class of 2017. His research interests are in the areas of contemporary political theory; constitutional law and theory; and race, law, and identity.
Adam Breuer
The Dartmouth College Professor in Cyber Security, Technology, and Society
Assistant Professor of Government and Computer Science
Breuer graduated from Dartmouth in 2009 with a major in government. He went on to become Harvard University’s first double PhD in government and computer science. He has returned to Dartmouth as a member of the academic cluster “Meeting New Challenges of Cybersecurity,” a collaboration between the fields of computer science, engineering, government, neuroscience, and sociology.
Elizabeth Cascio
Professor of Economics
DeWalt H. 1921 and Marie H. Ankeny Professorship in Economic Policy
As an economist, Cascio studies education, public policy, and children’s well-being in historical perspective. Her research draws inspiration from major policy shifts in 20th-century America, like publicly funded early education and landmark federal legislation related to civil rights, education, and immigration legislation. She has received financial support from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation to conduct research, and she holds research associate positions with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Cascio received her PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and joined the Dartmouth faculty in 2006.
Ethan Lewis
Professor of Economics
Lewis’s research investigates the impact of U.S. immigration policies, including the impact of the Reagan amnesty and how firms adapt to restrictions on hiring foreign low-skill labor. His work has been covered in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Newsweek, and NPR. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a CESifo fellow, and an external research fellow at the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London. Lewis co-edits the Journal of Human Resources and is an associate editor of the Journal of Labor Economics. He joined Dartmouth in 2006, having completed his PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003 and previously worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Jennifer Lind
Associate Professor of Government
Faculty Associate, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Research Associate, Chatham House, London
Lind joined the Dartmouth faculty in 2005 and is an expert on international relations of East Asia and U.S. foreign policy toward the region. Lind previously worked as a consultant for RAND and for the U.S. Department of Defense. She participates regularly in U.S.-European dialogues and in U.S.-Asia dialogues, including those focused on the US-Japan alliance. Lind recently authored the book, Half-Vicious: Authoritarian Adaptation, China’s Rise, and the Future of Geopolitics, which is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She has published numerous scholarly articles and regularly writes for wider audiences in outlets such as Foreign Affairs and The New York Times. She is also editor-in-chief of a newsletter, Blue Blaze, that analyzes international security affairs. Lind holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a master’s degree from the School of Global Policy & Strategy from the University of California, San Diego; and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Brendan Nyhan
James O. Freedman Presidential Professor
Professor of Government
Nyhan studies misperceptions about politics and healthcare. He co-authored The New York Times bestseller All the President’s Spin (Touchstone, 2004) with Ben Fritz and Bryan Keefer, and has published academic scholarship in journals including Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and more. He previously contributed to The New York Times’s The Upshot and as a media critic for Columbia Journalism Review. Nyhan co-directs Bright Line Watch, a watchdog group that monitors the status of American democracy. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023 and has been named a Guggenheim Fellow, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and a Belfer Fellow. Nyhan completed his PhD in political science from Duke University, worked at Dartmouth from 2011 to 2018, and returned to the College in 2019.
Daryl Press
Professor of Government
Director, Institute for Global Security
Press's research and teaching focus on U.S. foreign policy, deterrence, and the future of warfare. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Press joined the Dartmouth faculty in 2000. He has published two books, Calculating Credibility (2005) and The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution (2020), and his work has appeared in leading academic journals such as International Security, the American Political Science Review, and Security Studies, as well as in the popular press including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and The Atlantic Monthly. Press is the co-founder of the Strategic Forces Bootcamp, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, and the Seminar on Conventional Force Analysis, which promotes open-source military analysis. He consults frequently for the U.S. government.
Casey Stockstill
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Casey Stockstill is an assistant professor of sociology at Dartmouth College and author of the award-winning book False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers (NYU Press, 2023). She studies race and class inequalities in the United States, with a focus on early childhood. Stockstill’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation.