On detecting and stopping explosives used by terrorists:
“We think about how to detect and mitigate the threats for today, while we’re still realizing that if we get really good about today’s threats, there’s going to be a different threat tomorrow.”
Jimmie Oxley, URI professor of chemistry and co-director of URI’s Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation and Response
CBS This Morning
On his team’s discovery of microplastics in the Canadian Arctic:
“The plastic just jumped out in both its abundance and its scale.”
Brice Loose, URI professor of oceanography and chief scientist of the Northwest Passage Project
Reuters
On URI’s improving enrollment, retention, and graduation rates:
“The 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.”
David M. Dooley, president, University of Rhode Island
The Chronicle of Higher Education
On his $15 million gift to URI’s College of Business:
“One of the challenges the University has had—the College of Business included—is we are trying to train students for jobs that don’t 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.”Al Verrecchia ‘67, M.B.A. ‘72, Hon. ‘04, former chairman and CEO of Hasbro, Inc.
The Boston Globe
On what a Broadway actor feels like at the end of a day when he’s done two seven-hour shows:
“It always comes back to a profound sense of gratitude because you do it and you listen to the people who’ve come to see it and the effect that it had on them, and you say, ‘Well, screw any feelings that I had of exhaustion, I’m doing this for these people.’”Andrew Burnap ‘13
People
Andrew Burnap made his Broadway debut last fall as Toby Darling in Matthew Lopez‘s two-part, seven-hour-long production, The Inheritance.
On declining fertility and birthrates in the U.S.:
“It’s 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.”
Melanie Brasher, URI professor of sociology and demographer
The Washington Post
On whether primates have an easier time giving birth than humans:
“It’s 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.”
Holly Dunsworth, URI associate professor of anthropology
Netflix series Sex, Explained, season 1, episode 5
On running new models that help researchers predict tsunamis more accurately:
“The 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.”
Stefan Grilli, URI professor of oceanography and global tsunami expert
BBC News