HANOVER, New Hampshire, Oct. 10 (TNSjou) -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * Assessing Overconfidence Among National Security Officials A new Dartmouth study analyzes assessments from NATO members and allies. * National security officials are "overwhelmingly overconfident," which hinders their ability to accurately assess uncertainty, according to new research by Jeffrey Friedman, an associate professor of government. When they thought statements had a 90% chance of being  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, Oct. 8 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * Safer Solvent for Organic Chemistry Labs When the EPA banned a carcinogenic solvent, Dartmouth chemists found greener alternatives for undergraduate labs--and showed other schools how to make the switch. * The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It's also what generations of chemistry students have used to dissolve pain reliever tablets in a lab exercise designed  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * IN THE STATES: Voters Continue to Call Out Republican Senate Candidates For Shutting Down the Government and Refusing to Fix their Health Care Crisis * Maine Rep. Anne Graham: "This is going to hurt us all, and Susan Collins has let us down consistently" As the Republican government shutdown drags on, voters in Senate battleground states continue to call out GOP Senate candidates fo  more

ITHACA, New York, Oct. 7 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Turner appointed Chair of Northeast Extension Directors * Andrew Turner '88, M.P.S. '93, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension and associate dean for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Human Ecology, has been named Chair of the Northeast Extension Directors (NEED) network. He succeeds Dr. Roy Beckford of the University of New Hampshire in this role. NEED is a collaborative netwo  more