{"id":6390,"date":"2021-07-05T10:45:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=6390"},"modified":"2021-12-02T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T17:21:13","slug":"you-can-quote-me-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/summer-2021\/you-can-quote-me-5\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Quote Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On selecting Marc Parlange as 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 12th president:<\/strong>
\u201cParlange has advanced global scholarly research, navigated financial challenges, built strong industry partnerships and developed a depth of experience in creating more diverse and inclusive communities, especially for the most historically marginalised members of our society.\u201d<\/blockquote>Thomas M. Ryan, 溏心vlog免费B站 trustee and chair of the presidential search committee
The Canberra Times<\/em><\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n
On the findings of outside researchers who reported the existence of \u201cforever chemicals\u201d and other pollutants around the summit of Mount Everest:<\/strong>
\u201cEverest is treasured very highly as a unique monument for the globe. It\u2019s kind of sad to see very high concentrations at some places on the mountain. We say, \u2018Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints,\u2019 but we leave chemicals.\u201d<\/blockquote>Rainer Lohmann, professor of oceanography and director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Superfund Research Center on Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances
The Washington Post<\/em><\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n
On the value of increased fat stores and the many fascinating ways birds\u2019 bodies change to prepare for seasonal migration:<\/strong>
\u201cFlying is the most energy-intensive form of locomotion. But it\u2019s also more efficient if you want to go farther, faster. You actually get better fuel economy when you use fat as fuel for a flying animal compared to a runner.\u201d<\/blockquote>Scott McWilliams, professor of wildlife ecology and physiology
Audubon<\/em><\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n
On how the pandemic has tested long-held notions that work is best performed in a traditional workplace and reliant on face-to-face interactions:<\/strong>
\u201cFrom what I know, engagement of employees is the key to successful organizations. If employees are engaged, they\u2019re going to do what is necessary to collaborate, to reconnect, to be in touch with other employees when they need to be.\u201d<\/blockquote>Aimee Phelps, teaching professor of management and human resources
Providence Business News<\/em><\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n
On early small-scale efforts suggesting that dogs can be trained to sniff out COVID infections:<\/strong>
\u201cThere seems to be evidence that COVID patients might emit ammonia at trace levels that dogs could be sniffing.\u201d<\/blockquote>Otto Gregory, professor of chemical engineering
Scientific American<\/em><\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n
On a paper that, if proven correct, would not only challenge Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity but also prove the existence of near-extremal black holes:<\/strong>
\u201cWe would love to know if nature would even allow for such a beast to exist. It would have pretty dramatic implications for our field.\u201d<\/blockquote>Gaurav Khanna, professor of physics and director of 溏心vlog免费B站 Research Computing
Wired<\/em><\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n
On the effectiveness of treating clothing with permethrin to protect against tick-borne diseases including Lyme:<\/strong>
\u201cWe\u2019ve done tests with clothing, and we can watch the ticks fall off and die. So there is good scientific evidence that this works and it actually works pretty well.\u201d<\/blockquote>Thomas Mather, professor of entomology and director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for Vector-Borne Disease and the TickEncounter Resource Center
The New York Times<\/em><\/cite><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

溏心vlog免费B站 experts are quoted in the media frequently. Here are a few that bear repeating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summer-2021","architecture-currents","architecture-media-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6390"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8908,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions\/8908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}