{"id":3229,"date":"2020-03-23T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2020-03-27T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T12:46:52","slug":"you-can-quote-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/spring-2020\/you-can-quote-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Quote Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On detecting and stopping explosives used by terrorists:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe think about how to detect and mitigate the threats for today, while we\u2019re still realizing that if we get really good about today\u2019s threats, there\u2019s going to be a different threat tomorrow.\u201d<\/blockquote>Jimmie Oxley, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of chemistry and co-director of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation and Response
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On his team’s discovery of microplastics in the Canadian Arctic:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe plastic just jumped out in both its abundance and its scale.\u201d<\/blockquote>Brice Loose, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of oceanography and chief scientist of the Northwest Passage Project
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On 溏心vlog免费B站’s improving enrollment, retention, and graduation rates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardest part of student success is having the discipline to stick to it. These things take time. Progress is incremental; you have to stay the course.\u201d<\/blockquote>David M. Dooley, president, 溏心vlog免费B站
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On his $15 million gift to 溏心vlog免费B站’s College of Business:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the challenges the University has had\u2014the College of Business included\u2014is we are trying to train students for jobs that don\u2019t exist today. We want to make sure they have an education that will allow them to transition and be flexible and adaptable to new jobs that are going to come on the scene.\u201d<\/blockquote>Al Verrecchia \u201867, M.B.A. \u201872, Hon. \u201804, former chairman and CEO of Hasbro, Inc.
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On what a Broadway actor feels like at the end of a day when he’s done two seven-hour shows:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt always comes back to a profound sense of gratitude because you do it and you listen to the people who\u2019ve come to see it and the effect that it had on them, and you say, \u2018Well, screw any feelings that I had of exhaustion, I\u2019m doing this for these people.\u2019\u201d<\/blockquote>Andrew Burnap \u201813
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\nAndrew Burnap made his Broadway debut last fall as Toby Darling in Matthew Lopez\u2018s two-part, seven-hour-long production, The Inheritance.<\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n
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On declining fertility and birthrates in the U.S.:<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to have children because of a lack of affordable child care and not-very-generous policies for parental leave, especially in comparison to many European countries.\u201d<\/blockquote>Melanie Brasher, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of sociology and demographer
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On whether primates have an easier time giving birth than humans:<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not like a baby just falls out like some Monty Python sketch for nonhuman primates. They do struggle and still they have a seemingly much more easy childbirth than we have.\u201d<\/blockquote>Holly Dunsworth, 溏心vlog免费B站 associate professor of anthropology
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On running new models that help researchers predict tsunamis more accurately:<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe success of our work has helped us confirm that our modelling methodology is quite realistic. ... This is very important for hazard assessment from volcanic sources.\u201d<\/blockquote>Stefan Grilli, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of oceanography and global tsunami expert
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