Explore a chronological archive of interviews, articles, podcasts, videos, and public conversations featuring Sian Leah Beilock. Use the year filters below to browse coverage of her work across higher education, cognitive science, leadership, and public policy.
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2026
- The Atlantic: Why So Many Writers Are Athletes
- The Wall Street Journal: Is a Four-Year Degree Worth It? (op-ed by Sian)
- Slate: Why Ilia Malinin Choked: Lessons From an Olympics Disaster
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: Higher Ed Is at a Turning Point. 11 Scholars Predict What’s Next.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: Sian Beilock’s Star Turn (profile)
- Heterodox Academy: Universities Have a Trust Problem. This President Is Trying to Fix It
- Inside Higher Ed: Presidents Puzzled on Rebuilding Public Trust in Higher Ed
- Future U Podcast: The College President Who Isn’t Afraid of Speaking Up
- The Christian Science Monitor: Pointers for Restoring Trust in Higher Education
2025
- All-In Podcast: The College Crisis: Heads of Dartmouth & Berkeley Debate the Decline of US Universities
- Milken Institute: Dartmouth’s Beilock Says Colleges Should Be Brave Spaces
- Bloomberg: Dartmouth President Says Endowment Tax Hike Threatens Research
- CNBC: Dartmouth president: Need to ensure American students are competitive
- World Economic Forum: Debating Education
- Bloomberg: Dartmouth President on Protests and Diversity
- ECNY: Sian Beilock, President of Dartmouth College, discusses the current distrust of institutions
- The Atlantic: Teach Students How to Think, Not What to Think (op-ed by Sian)
- The Atlantic: The Progress Summit: Building a Foundation for the Future
- Forbes: Dartmouth’s Evergreen AI Puts Student Wellness to the Test
- WCAX: Experts Gather at Dartmouth to Discuss Global Decline in Youth Mental Health
- MS Now (Morning Joe): ‘We Are an Education Institution, Not a Political Institution’: Dartmouth President
- Forbes: Dartmouth Adopts Claude AI
- DealBook Summit 2025: How Campuses Are Preparing for the Future
- The New York Times: DealBook Summit: Education Leaders Feel the Weight of Preparing Graduates for a New World
2024
- Ted Radio Hour: Why we choke under pressure, according to a cognitive scientist
- The Times of London: Students can’t converse with people who disagree with them, says Ivy League chief
- NPR: In ‘The Atlantic,’ Dartmouth president writes: ‘Saving the Idea of the University’
- New York Magazine: What Dartmouth Did Differently on Campus Israel Protests
- The New Yorker: The Chaos Continues at Columbia
- Associated Press: Cardona praises Dartmouth culture in allowing freedom of expression, keeping students safe
- Inside Higher Ed: Dartmouth constructive dialogue program responds to conflict
- The Boston Globe: Dartmouth reinstating SAT, ACT requirement for applicants after pause during pandemic
- The New York Times: A Top College Reinstates the SAT
- The Washington Post: Dartmouth will require SAT scores from applicants again
- ABC News: Dartmouth reinstates SAT/ACT scores, drawing attention to role of standardized tests
- The Wall Street Journal: How Dartmouth Keeps Its Cool
- Diverse Education: Top Women of 2024
- Times Higher Ed Podcast: Campus talks: an interview with Sian Beilock, president of Dartmouth
2023
- Forbes: 27 Historic Firsts For Women In 2023
- The Wall Street Journal: Who Read What in 2023: Leaders in Business, Science and Technology
- NH Business Review: 2024 New Hampshire 200 Recipients Named
- Fortune: These nine successful CEOs were high school sports stars: Here are the lessons they’ve taken from the pitch to the boardroom
- The Telegraph: Springboks are rugby’s mentality monsters, but history of choking has made Proteas the opposite
- Science: First things first
- Fortune: How businesses can partner with colleges to create diverse entry-level pipelines after affirmative action reversal
- New York Times: People in Their 20s Aren’t Supposed to Be This Unhappy
- Washington Post: Technology fueled America’s youth mental health crisis. How it can help end it.
- Huffington Post: Afraid You’ll Choke Under Pressure? Try These 4 Tips From Pro Athletes.
- Fortune: Your child didn’t get into their first choice for college. Now what?
- Mercer: Embracing equity, inclusion and belonging
- Politico: Women Rule the Ivies
- Reuters: Beyond the ‘yips’: Dallas kicker Maher faces mental battle in playoffs
- The Los Angeles Times: How will Damar Hamlin incident affect teammates? A former player shares his experience
2022
- CBC: From soccer penalties to job interviews, why we choke when it matters most
- Ed Surge: How to Help Kids Overcome Their Fear of Math, According to a Brain Scientist
- Business Insider: How to Prepare for Your Performance Review This Year
- Quartz: Dartmouth’s first female president has advice for companies on leveraging the strengths of women
- BBC: Why Does Maths Make Me Anxious?
- USA Today: Ashley Judd’s mother, Chrissy Teigen’s baby and why we’re so judgmental about grief
- MarketWatch: Inflation has hit women more ‘acutely,’ experts say. Here’s why.
- Financial Times: Imposter syndrome: Turning self-doubt into a positive
- AP News: In NYC, ads for jobs will have to say what they pay
- The Washington Post: How to cope with social anxiety about returning to the office
- EducationWeek: Math Anxiety Weakens How Students Study. Here’s What Teachers Can Do
- Entrepreneur: A Cognitive Scientist Reveals Why We Choke Under Pressure and How to Avoid It
- The New York Times: Mikaela Shiffrin Stumbled. What Happens Next Matters More.
- Los Angeles Times: Olympic athletes deal with expectations, which leads to crushing pressure
- Fortune: Managing mental health can help us stay focused as the pandemic looms on
- CNBC: Experts discuss Mikaela Shiffrin and how to overcome a crisis of confidence: ‘It happens to everyone’
- USA Today: Our Olympic athletes are having a mental health crisis. What are we doing about it besides watching?
- The Economist: Navigating labour market trends and the future of frontline workers
- Fivethirtyeight: Why Great Tennis Players Don’t Always Make Great Coaches
- Forbes: In Defense Of “Flip-Floppers”
- CNBC: Is the ‘Zoom Ceiling’ the New Glass Ceiling? Experts Worry Remote Work Will Hold Women Back
- Intentional Performers Podcast: Sian Beilock on Performing Under Pressure and Leading Teams
2021
- Impakter: Sports Watching as a COVID Coping Mechanism
- Forbes: What College Students Need From Parents Right Now
- Wall Street Journal: Sian Beilock On How To Beat Job Anxiety
- CNBC: Women are leading the way in the ‘Great Resignation.’ Here’s what it means for employers and job seekers
- Hechinger Report: To attract more students to STEM fields in college, advocates urge starting in sixth grade
- Working Mother: 5 Things to Consider If You Want to Go Back to School and Complete Your Degree
- The Hill: Workplaces should intentionally ‘weed in’ talented female leaders
- Chicago Tribune: Op-ed: In the age of social media, how do we protect young women’s well-being? Nurture resilience.
- NBC News Online: How stress impacts Olympic athletes’ performances
- Forbes: Why You Need To Take A Vacation: Three Science-Backed Reasons
- The New York Times: Simone Biles Rejects a Long Tradition of Stoicism in Sports
- NBC News: Simone Biles bows out of Olympics all-around final. Don’t force her to dissect her failures.
- Hidden Brain Podcast: Stage Fright
- The Hill: Resilience will bring women back to work — realism will help them thrive
- The New York Times: Tenure in Our Colleges: Problems and Promise
- Higher Ed Dive: President Speaks: Colleges must do more to close the gender gap in financial fluency
- Fast Company: It’s time to talk about the unintended consequences of flexible and hybrid work for women
- Boston Globe: A working mother’s manifesto: Pandemic provides a once-in-a-generation chance to course correct how we work
- Live Greatly Podcast: Sian Beilock | How Not To Choke Under Pressure
- India Education: Livestream Roundtable Chat with Experts in Honor of MTV’s #MentalHealthAction Day
- Work Hard Play Hard Podcast: https://workhardplayhardpodcast.com/lander?oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Nurse stress: How to stop worrying about everything
- The Lily: Parents want to work from home for good. But for moms, the effects could be dire.
- Quartz: How to calm your anxiety about returning to the office
- FastCompany: The link between mental health and financial literacy for Gen Z – Fast Company
- NextAdvisor, 2021
- High Performance Mindset Podcast: 416: How to Avoid Choking Under Pressure with Dr. Sian Beilock, Cognitive Scientist, Author & President of Barnard College
- Vox: We shouldn’t go back to “normal.” Normal wasn’t good enough.
- Cision: 10 PR Experts and Influencers to Watch in 2024
- Sporting Kid Live: https://nays.org/sklive/features/conquer-choking-helping-young-athletes-succeed-in-crunch-time/
- The Washington Post: Remote work could mean fewer women in the office. Here’s how companies can maintain equity.
- Business Insider: How to relax your mind in situations of great tension and stress, according to an expert on human thinking
- USA Today: How can women get back to work in the middle of a pandemic?
- 5 Things Podcast-USA Today: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recession-disproportionately-hurt-women-how-can-they/id975311694?i=1000513825936
- Forbes: How To Kickstart Creative Problem Solving
- Slate – How To! Podcast: How To Be a Badass On and Off the Court
- Yahoo! Finance: Women’s financial literacy failing to keep pace with men’s: RPT
2020
- Education Week: Spotlight: Math Instruction
- Morning Consult: Companies That Support Women, Retain Women
- Project Syndicate: Managing Well in the Work-From-Home Era by Sian Beilock
- Inside Higher Ed: The Pulse Podcast: Interview with Sian Beilock of Barnard College
- Psychologists Off the Clock Podcast: 172. Performing Under Pressure with Sian Beilock
- Planbook: How to Bring Social-Emotional Learning to Your Math Classroom (And Why You Should)
- Perception Action: 327 – Interview with Sian Beilock, Barnard, Building a Toolbox for Performing Under Pressure
- The Guardian: Under pressure: why athletes choke
- Rod’s Pulse Podcast: Interview with Dr. Sian Beilock
- New York Daily News: Encouraging your kid makes all the difference: A lesson for overwhelmed parents
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: Virtual Forum: Supporting Faculty and Staff Mental Health
- The Hill: Re-imagining Higher Education with Dr. Sian Beilock
- The New York Times: For French Open Contenders, Serving Is Mental. So Stop Thinking So Much.
- Minding the Brain Podcast (audio): #33 Don’t Choke! Why we sometimes fail under pressure
- American Psychological Association: The Monitor: The best way to promote your research
- Everyday Health: https://www.everydayhealth.com/coronavirus/its-not-a-fantasy-sports-can-help-us-through-these-pandemic-times/
- WNYC: An In-Depth Look At New York Education
- Sports Illustrated: Beyond the Baseline Podcast: 2020 U.S. Open Champion Dominic Thiem and Cognitive Scientist Sian Beilock
- Inside Higher Ed: Faculty members struggle with burnout
- Tech & Learning University: How to Create a Curriculum for Remote Learning
- The Boston Globe: Welcome to college! Please stay in your room. Alone – The Boston Globe
- Sports Illustrated: Exploring the Ramifications of No College Football on the Players
- ESPN: 2020 NHL playoffs in a vacuum: How players are coping with empty arena games
- Abundantly Clear Podcast : EP 147 – Sian Beilock – Perform Better Under Pressure
- Raising Good Humans Podcast: Ep 55: What We Can Do To Perform Better Under Stress with Professor Sian Leah Beilock
- Authority Magazine: Barnard College President Sian Leah Beilock: To succeed when it counts, closely mimic “game day” conditions
- The School of Greatness Podcast: 976 How To Stop Choking Under Pressure With Psychologist Sian Beilock
- American Psychological Association, Speaking of Psychology Podcast: Speaking of Psychology: How students and academia are navigating COVID-19, with Sian Beilock, PhD
- The Business of Giving Podcast: Barnard President on Leading a College Through Uncertain Times
- Bloomberg Businessweek: Barnard President on Coronavirus Impact on Higher Ed
- Financial Times: How to be more confident in front of colleagues
2019
- Futurity: Math-anxious people avoid hard problems even with cash on the line
- Inverse: Study finds math anxiety can equal bad decision-making
- The New York Times: Opinion | Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure
- Bloomberg: Watch Barnard College President on Gender Bias and Female Presidential Candidates
- Fast Company: 7 tips for getting off to a good start at your first job
- Men’s Health: How Not to Choke Under Pressure
- The Business of Giving: Sian Beilock, President of Barnard College, Joins Denver Frederick
- Mic: Why you need to take a real lunch break and stop worrying about what your co-workers think
- Mic: How to network successfully without coming off like a professional leech
- Quartz: Why do Election 2020’s male candidates get better coverage than women?
- The Washington Post: Don’t worry about your child’s everyday stress. It may be helping.
- NBC News: Better: NCAA Final: How to perform your best when it matters most
- Wired: Free Throws Should Be Easy. Why Do Basketball Players Miss?
- FiveThirtyEight: Legendary Quarterback John Elway Can’t Figure Out Quarterbacks
- Fox 5: Good Day New York: Celebrating 50 Years of Activism on the Barnard College Campus
- Crain’s New York Business: Barnard’s president aims to serve an increasingly STEM-focused student body
- Wired: When It Comes to Super Bowl Kickers, Who Will Choke First?
- Education Week: These Simple Writing Exercises Helped More Low-Income Students Pass Biology
2018
- The Muse: Yes, It’s Totally Normal to Get Nervous Doing Basic Parts of Your Job
- GQ: How to Handle Stress and Stop Cracking Under Pressure
- NPR: How To Make Sure Your Math Anxiety Doesn’t Make Your Kids Hate Math
- Education Week: Breaking the Link Between Parents’ Math Anxiety and Students’ Progress
- The New York Times: How to Accept a Compliment — Even if It’s From Yourself
- BrainFacts: What is Performance Anxiety?
- Monitor on Psychology: 5 questions for Sian Beilock
- Freakonomics: Why We Choke Under Pressure (and How Not To)
- The New York Times: Opinion | Teaching and ‘Doing’ Can Go Together
- The Hechinger Report: How to help children overcome math anxiety
- NBC News Digital: How elite athletes can learn to avoid choking
- The New York Times: Why Trying to Be Less Awkward Never Works
2017
- The New York Times: No Such Thing as a Math Person
- The New York Times: Fending Off Math Anxiety
- The Wall Street Journal: An Expert Take on Performing Under Pressure
- Education Week: How Much Math Anxiety Is Too Much?
- Scientific American: How Much Math Anxiety Is Too Much?
2016
- TIME: Motto: Jordan Spieth Masters: Why People Choke
- Slate: The Bedtime Math app helps fight summer math loss.
- Science: Getting into grad school
2015
- Inside Higher Ed: Helping Ph.D.s to prepare for diverse careers
- CBS Miami: 5 Surprising Mental Benefits Of Exercise
- New York Magazine: Stress Can Be a Very Useful Thing
- New York Magazine: A Soda Bottle’s Shape Tricks You Into Buying It
- NPR: Your Brain May Want That Bottle Of Soda Because It’s Easy To Pick Up
- KQED News: Why Kids Need to Move, Touch and Experience to Learn
- The Guardian: Can I do anything to stop test anxiety? | Health & wellbeing
- New York Magazine: How Parents Give Their Kids Math Anxiety
- Yahoo Parenting: How Parents’ Math Anxiety Can Affect Kids’ Achievement
- U.S. News and World Report: Hate Math? Then Your Children Will Too
- The Telegraph: Children’s maths abilities hindered by anxious parents
- The New York Times: Square Root of Kids’ Math Anxiety: Their Parents’ Help
- The Today Show: Study finds parents can give their kids anxiety about math
- Slate: Mom and Dad Are Fighting: Back-to-school season from a teacher’s perspective, and new findings on parents’ and children’s math anxiety.
- Marketplace: Helpful parents can cause children’s math anxiety
- U.S. News and World Report: How Parents Add to Math Anxiety
- The Conversation; When parents with high math anxiety help with homework, children learn less
- CBC: Parents’ math anxiety can pass to kids, study says
- Quirks & Quarks: Children Catch Math Anxiety From Parents
- AAAS: Science: Math App Adds Up for Math-Anxious Families
- NPR Science Friday: Use Elephants to Overcome Your Math Stress
- Ed Weekly: Students With Math-Anxious Parents May Benefit From Free App
- Yahoo Parenting: The Bedtime Routine That Boosts Kids’ Math Scores
- NPR: Where The Wild Fractions Are: The Power Of A Bedtime (Math) Story
- Daily Mail: Sums before bed boost results: Story-based ‘Bedtime Math’ app helps children get ahead in class
- Chicago Magazine: Here’s Where Your Kid’s Math Anxiety Actually Comes From
- PRI: This parent-led bedtime story app will help your kid rock at math
- AAAS: Bedtime problems boost kids’ math performance | Science | AAAS