THIS WEEK IN SUSTAINABILITY: January 19th to January 25th, 2026
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- Jan 19
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Here's what's happening this week in Sustainability!
Keep it toasty! Come to the farm this Friday for our weekly 'Fireside Fridays' (see below)!
MONDAY, JANUARY 19th
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, JANUARY 20th
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!
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21st
SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE HOURS
12:00PM - 1:30PM | Robison 106
Join Sustainability Staff for office hours! 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!
SPEAKER EVENT - SCIENCE, SLAVE TRADING, AND 'MAKING' RACE
5:00PM - 6:30PM | Haldeman 41
Dr. Carolyn Roberts is a historian of science and medicine at Yale University, where she holds joint appointments in the Department of History of Science & Medicine, Department of History, and Department of Black Studies. Dr. Roberts is currently completing her book To Heal and to Harm: An Origin Story of Predatory Medicine in the Western World.
In this lecture, Dr. Roberts will be exploring some of the hidden figures who contributed to the fund of scientific knowledge and reflect upon foundational moments that shaped the sciences. The focus will be on Africa and the African diaspora in the context of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.
This talk is sponsored by the E.E. Just Program's Just Science Seminar Series.
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!
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22nd
SPEAKER EVENT - FORMERLY UNDOCUMENTED? THE POWER AND LIMITS OF IMMIGRANT LEGALIZATION
4:30PM - 6:00PM | Dartmouth Hall 105
Oscar R. Cornejo Casares, D'17 and Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Davidson College, will be drawing on in-depth life history interviews with 56 Latin American undocumented, semi-legal and formerly undocumented immigrants in the Chicagoland area. He argues that undocumented immigrants internalize structures of immigration law through long-term socialization, forming durably conditioned and conditioning dispositions connected to embodied exclusionary socio-legal histories. This research challenges the prevailing citizenship logics of pro-immigrant social movements and the scholarly understanding of legal status, demonstrating the need for the transformation of immigration structures.
Sponsored by Rockefeller Center, Latin American, Latino & Carribbean Studies, and Sociology Truxal Funds.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. MULTIFAITH CELEBRATION
5PM - 6PM | ROLLINS CHAPEL
Join the Tucker Center for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Multifaith Celebration to honor the legacy of Rev. King.
This year's theme is The Urgency of Now - A Time for Truth and Action. The keynote speaker for this celebration is Professor Dr. Shaonta' Allen (Assistant Professor of Sociology and an Affiliate with African and African American Studies and the Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality). The program will also include musical performances by the Rockapellas and the Gospel Choir, and several student speakers. Come and be inspired!
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23rd
FIRESIDE FRIDAY
3:30PM - 5PM | Rides from Behind Robo to the Organic Farm
Join Hannah C. and Hannah M. for a cozy trip to the O-Farm 🔥🪵! We will be spending time inside the barn by the warm wood fire. This is a relaxed seed-planning workshop where students have a chance to provide their input on what they want to see at the farm this spring 🌱💐🌻!
We will be discussing possible vegetables, flowers, etc as well as the thought process that goes into why we plant what we do. It will be a very relaxed discussion with no experience needed 😁🥬 Vans will pick up behind Robo after 2s (3:30) and arrive back on campus around 5pm!
Although we will be inside, please still dress warm and in layers because it will still be chilly
PUBLIC TALK: ART, MUSIC, AND THE URGENCY OF NOW
3PM - 4PM | Top of the Hop
This event is part of the campus-wide MLK celebration and in collaboration with the Hood Museum of Art.
Jason Moran, jazz pianist, innovator and former Artistic Director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center, is joined by Alisa Swindell, the Hood Museum's Associate Curator of Photography, for a thought-provoking discussion.
Join for a reception with light refreshments following the event! More information here.
RESEARCH SEMINAR: EMERGING MATERIALS AND DEVICES FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT NANOELECTRONICS
3:30PM - 4:30PM | Spanos Auditorium
Fabia Farlina Athena, energy postdoctoral fellow in electrical engineering at Stanford University, will be presenting advances at the intersection of materials science and device engineering that address challenges related to the memory wall bottleneck (a challenge being more increasingly faced with the rapid rise of data-intensive workloads).
Hosted by Professor Cong Chen!
SUNDAY, JANUARY 25th
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!
NEXT WEEK
Monday, January 26th
STAMPS SCHOLARS INFO SESSION
5:30PM | MOORE B03
Sophomores of all majors and nationalities are invited to attend the Stamps Scholars info session! The second of our info sessions, this time we’re focusing on the logistics of the application itself, including the timeline, budget, and D-Plan. Three ’27 Stamps Scholars will be there to share their experiences and answer questions.
Register through Dartmouth Groups here! For more information, including a recording of our fall term info session, check out our website
Email Scholars.Programs@dartmouth.edu with questions!
OTHER EVENTS
Tuesday, January 20th
HISTORY TEACH-IN - "VENEZUELA: THE DONROE DOCTRINE AND AMERICAN EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF SADOPOPULISM"
12:15PM - 1:30PM | Haldeman 041
Join the Dartmouth History Department for a Virutal History Teach-In with guest scholar Alejandro Velasco (Associate Dean for Faculty and Associate Professor of History, NYU) in conversation with Professors Bethany Moreton (History), Molly Geidel (WGSS), Jorge Cuellar (LALACS), and Pamela Voekel (History).
Pizza will be served! All are welcome.
Power Politics, Energy Security, and the Future of Venezuela
Tuesday, January 20 at 4:30PM
(IN PERSON) Haldeman Hall (map).
The event will not be livestreamed, but a recording will be made available online after the event.
The dramatic U.S. operation to arrest the President of Venezuela underscores the Trump Administration’s more assertive policy toward countries in the Western Hemisphere. How should we understand the evolving U.S. approach? What are its goals, and are they reasonable and attainable given the global geopolitical landscape? To what extent is this recent development a departure from past U.S. policy?
What role does oil—and concerns about “energy security”—play in U.S. actions toward Venezuela? Will private firms be able to rapidly increase Venezuelan energy exports? Can they be induced to try? And critically, how will local political dynamics and deep histories, both in Venezuela and across the region, shape the response to and effectiveness of the new U.S. policy?
Featured Panelists:
Daryl Press, Faculty Director of the Davidson Institute for Global Security, a leading scholar on U.S. foreign policy, deterrence, and the future of warfare.
Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht, Harris Distinguished Visiting Professor from Germany’s Technical University of Bergakademie Freiberg (sponsored by the Irving Institute) & Vice-Chair of Strategic Leadership for the World Energy Council.
Bill Davis, former CEO & Lead Country Manager – South Asia at ExxonMobil India.
Peter DeShazo, Visiting Professor, Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies
This event is co-sponsored by the Irving Institute for Energy & Society, Davidson Institute for Global Security at Dartmouth, Dickey Center for International Understanding, and the Office of the Provost.
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