Rochester Quotes

“It’s definitely in the forefront of their minds. About every month or so, I talk to a student who says he wants to make it his passion—whether coming up with alternative energy mechanisms or promoting energy conservation or working on the policy side.”

—Mark Zupan, dean of the Simon School, in the Los Angeles Times on the increasing importance of climate change to M.B.A. students.

USA Today

“We are seeing there is nothing magical about 9 planets, or 12. They come in all shapes and sizes, and we are learning more about them every day.”—Adam Frank, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, commenting on recent discoveries about the solar system.

Chicago Tribune

“It may be part of what they view as normal. We’re hoping we can change that so the goal can really be for the child to have no symptoms and no limitations on activities.”—Jill Halterman, associate professor of pediatrics and an asthma specialist at the Medical Center, talking about new federal guidelines intended to help doctors advise asthma patients.

New York Post

“It explains for the first time sportscasting’s most mysterious-ever firing.”—Curt Smith, senior lecturer in the Department of English, talking about some of the research that went into his new book, The Voice: Mel Allen’s Untold Story , a biography of the former Yankees baseball announcer.

BusinessWeek

“You’ve got a summer chamber music program, you’ve got a string quartet, you publish books—you’re entrepreneurial!”—Ramon Ricker, director of the Eastman School’s Institute for Music Leadership, recounting a faculty meeting about the roles that entrepreneurship can play in music education.

Reuters

“We do these studies because assuming what is right for full-term babies is right for very premature babies sometimes leads us to the wrong decisions.”—Carl D’Angio, associate professor of pediatrics, talking about a study he led that shows extremely preterm infants have similar immune responses as those born at term to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and the chickenpox vaccine.