THIS WEEK IN SUSTAINABILITY: February 2nd to February 8th, 2026
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- Feb 2
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Here's what's happening this week in Sustainability!
It's Food Service Appreciation Week! Share your gratitude for our DDS employees!
ALSO come to the Irving Kitchen, this WEDNESDAY for a community and cookie event (more info below)!
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd
MATT TAYLOR: HAS EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY BECOME A THREAT TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY?
4PM - 5PM | Carson L01
Matthew D. Taylor is a visiting scholar at the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University. He is a theology and religious studies scholar who specializes in American Islam, Christian nationalism, and Christian extremism - with a PhD from Georgetown University and an MA from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Come join for this public talk sponsored by the History Department!
RETRIBUTION: DONALD TRUMP AND THE CAMPAIGN THAT CHANGED AMERICA
5:30PM - 6:30PM | Hinman Forum, Rocky
Join for a conversation with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent and author, Jonathan Karl and ABC News investigative journalist Peter Charalambous '20 to discuss Karl's newest book. This program is part of the Rockefeller Center's "Law and Democracy: The United States at 250" speaker series.
This program is cosponsored by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Dialogues, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences.
Register here!
FREE MARKET THRIFT STORE OPEN HOURS
4PM - 6PM | North Mass Basement
Excited by our thrift store and want to help sustain our efforts? Shocked by the amount of waste on campus and want a tangible way to curb it? Come to the Free Market!
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd
FREE MARKET THRIFT STORE OPEN HOURS
3PM - 5PM | North Mass Basement
Excited by our thrift store and want to help sustain our efforts? Shocked by the amount of waste on campus and want a tangible way to curb it? Come to the Free Market!
WILLIAMS-MYSTIC COASTAL & OCEAN STUDIES PROGRAM INFO SESSION
7PM | Irving Institute, IR-155 (Call to Lead Lab)
Dartmouth undergrads! Care about climate? Keen to build your multidisciplinary skills?
You're invited to an informal reception (cocoa and snacks!) to learn about the experiential, interdisciplinary Williams-Mystic Coastal & Ocean Studies program. Come talk to Dartmouth students back from their semester and learn how it fits in with the D-Plan. A WM semester is for all majors. All WM applicants are eligible to apply for the WM Climate Fellowship, which offers up to $7,000 in funding for climate-related internships in any discipline.
Information about the Williams-Mystic Coastal & Ocean Studies semester
Information about the Williams-Mystic Climate Fellowship
Questions? Email wmadmissions@williams.edu.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4th
SUSTAINABILITY COOKIE COMMUNITY EVENT
12:00PM - 1:30PM | Irving Kitchen
Join Sustainability Staff for office hours and MAKE COOKIES! Whether you’ve got a question about sustainability at Dartmouth or just want to spend time with others and eat some delicious homemade baked goods, all are welcome!
This is a time to gather, come one, come all!
UNIVERSALITY AND DIVERSITY IN SONG AND STORY
4:30PM - 6PM | Haldeman 41
How do cultural traits compare across human societies? Do genuine cultural universals exist? In this talk, Dr. Manvir Singh will share results from two large-scale comparative projects that investigate global patterns in music and storytelling.
Dr. Manvir Singh is an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Anthropology. He directs the UC Davis Integrative Anthropology Lab, which combines evolutionary, cognitive, and sociocultural methods and theory to understand the nature and origins of human behavior. Since 2014, he has worked with Mentawai communities on Siberut Island, Indonesia. Singh is also a contributing writer at The New Yorker.
Open to all! Sponsored by Society of Fellows and the Department of Religion.
FREE MARKET THRIFT STORE OPEN HOURS
7PM - 9PM | North Mass Basement
Excited by our thrift store and want to help sustain our efforts? Shocked by the amount of waste on campus and want a tangible way to curb it? Come to the Free Market!
FULBRIGHT AND UK AWARDS EARLY BIRD INFO SESSION
5:30PM
This info session is for '26s and '27s who want to get a head start on their Rhodes, Fulbright, and Marshall applications. If you’re interested in applying for one of these fellowships, but you plan on starting a full-time job this summer, traveling extensively, working on med school apps, etc., NOW is a great time to get started!
Please register for the location. Email Fellowships.Office@dartmouth.edu with questions.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5th
SOCIOLOGY REITMAN DEGRANGE LECTURE: DR. KARIDA BROWN
4:30PM - 6PM | Dartmouth Hall 105
Join Dr. Karida Brown for her talk: "If Bones Could Talk: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Colonial Aphasia, and Racial Capitalism in Early Modern Europe."
How does a nation remember itself as Europe’s first empire and yet forget the brutalities on which it was built? Dr. Brown's findings call for a reorientation of social theorizations of modernity—one that precedes 1492, foregrounds Africa and its peoples, and accounts for the cultural and epistemic mechanisms of remembering and forgetting as central to maintaining racial capitalism.
Open to all! Sponsored by African and African-American Studies Program and the Sociology Department.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8th
FREE MARKET THRIFT STORE OPEN HOURS
2PM - 4PM | North Mass Basement
Excited by our thrift store and want to help sustain our efforts? Shocked by the amount of waste on campus and want a tangible way to curb it? Come to the Free Market!
OTHER EVENTS/DEADLINES
Tuesday, February 3rd
WINTER UNWIND
3:30PM - 5:30PM | Morris Recital Hall
All from the Dartmouth Community are invited to gather together to relax, rejuvenate and connect through beautiful music, guided meditations, a time for authentic conversations, warm drinks and cookies!
This free event is brought to you by Mindful Dartmouth and an organizing committee of students from Dartmouth A&S, Geisel, Guarini, Thayer and Tuck.
Register here!
Tuesday, February 3rd
WINTER WARM-UP WITH RAMEN
5PM - 6:30PM | FGO Lounge
Love Buldak? Warm up with carbonara, veggie, spicy chicken; and more! Come find your perfect noodle match and add your favorite toppings next Thursday, February 5th from 5 to 6:30pm in the FGO Lounge!
Sponsored by the First-Generation Office.
RSVP here!
Wednesday, February 4th
26S DPCS DESIGN YOUR OWN INTERNSHIP - FUNDING DEADLINE!
3PM | Online
Design your own in-person internship experience. Work to support the mission of a remarkable nonprofit, make an impact on an under-resourced community, advance yourself professionally, and receive first-rate mentorship from an alumni mentor. Pick an issue to engage more deeply or a skill you'd like to master and design your internship around that aspiration!
For over 25 years Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS) has provided funding and mentorship for students wishing to pursue unpaid internships with domestic nonprofits serving under-resourced communities.
Meet with DPCS's staff or student director of internships during their office hours to build an effective project plan - make appointments here!
Wednesday, February 4th
IRVING INSTITUTE GRANT APPLICATIONS DUE!
11:59PM | Online, Irving
Looking for funding to support your Spring Term energy- or climate-related research or a project?
The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society offers grants up to $6,000 for enrolled undergraduate and graduate students who are advancing the Institute's mission of transforming humankind’s understanding of energy, climate, and society issues
Learn more and apply HERE by February 4!
NEXT WEEK
Monday, February 9th
Conversations on South Asia: Access to Power
12:15PM-1:30PM | Virtual
In Access to Power, Ijlal Naqvi (Associate Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University) explores state capacity in Pakistan by following the material infrastructure of electricity across the provinces and down into cities and homes. Naqvi argues that the national-level challenges of crippling budgetary constraints and power shortages directly result from conscious strategic decisions that are integral to Pakistan's infrastructural state. Proposing a novel sociology of Pakistani infrastructure, the book offers new insights into the everyday operations of the Pakistani state for delivery of a crucial service in the Global South.
Sponsored by the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages and the Bodas Family South Asia Programming Funds at Dartmouth College.
Register HERE
Tuesday, February 10th
The Scientific Case for Climate Liability
7PM | Via Zoom
Prof. Justin Mankin is an Assistant Professor of Geography and leads Dartmouth's Climate Modeling & Impacts Group
Their study is the basis for litigation and legislation by local and state governments seeking damages from large emitters for the costs inflicted on their communities by climate change.
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