All Quoted

  • March 29, 2018

    “While the Chinese would prefer that North Korea not have nuclear weapons, their greatest fear is regime collapse.”

    —Jennifer Lind, associate professor of government in Australian Broadcasting Corporation

  • March 28, 2018

    “This is not enough diversity. We need more people sitting at the table who are familiar with the challenges of ordinary Americans.”

    —Andrew Levin, Professor of Economics, on candidates for Federal Reserve Board leadership in The Washington Post

  • March 27, 2018

    “Children who view advertisements for highly palatable foods, such as chips or candy, as part of TV shows or within video games will eat more snack foods, even if they already had a meal.”

    —Jennifer Emond, assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine in Reuters Health

  • March 26, 2018

    “If the travel is easy people will do it. But the travel will only be easy if there’s a demand for it. And the demand only comes when people are doing it. So something has to kind of kick start that cycle into being.”

    —Garrett Nelson, postdoctoral fellow in geography, on public transit in NHPR

  • March 23, 2018

    “The reason we’re seeing a lot of public art controversy erupting right now is that for many people the long legacies of settler nationalism, the legacies of slavery, the legacies of Jim Crow, the legacies of the Civil War era and its destruction of the social safety net—these things are playing out in a really pronounced way right now.”

    —Associate Professor of Art History Mary Coffey in VPR

  • March 22, 2018

    “We need more movies like ‘A Wrinkle in Time’, mixing science, fantasy, and strong female protagonists.”

    —Marcelo Gleiser, professor of physics and astronomy and the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy in NPR

  • March 21, 2018

    “My dream was to have a book to read to my daughter. This touches a core in me, and really elevates the language.”

    —Hilaria Cruz, Neukom Institute postdoctoral fellow, on developing a children’s book in her native language, Chatino, spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. in Star Tribune

  • March 20, 2018

    “I’m very hopeful, but hopeful in a Søren Kierkegaard way. My hope is a passion for what is possible, and I am very passionate about the possibility. Students are part of that passion. They are not stepping down. They’re engaging.”

    —Maya Wiley ’86 in Diverse Issues in Higher Education

  • March 19, 2018

    “The long history of psychology’s role in computing means the Cambridge Analytica bombshell makes unfortunate sense—and makes immediate regulation of these forms of data an urgent necessity.”

    —Luke Stark, postdoctoral fellow in sociology in Slate

  • March 16, 2018

    “That’s how a little melt leads to more melt, leads to more melt. Change makes more change.”

    —Ross Virginia, the Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science and director of the Institute of Arctic Studies in Voice of America

  • March 15, 2018

    “College provides students an opportunity to meet different people, expand their boundaries, and think about majors, careers and ideas that were not part of their previous experience.”

    —Bruce Sacerdote ’90, the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor in Economics in The Conversation

  • March 14, 2018

    “I love the film. Diversity sells, but it’s not provided the sustained opportunity to do so that predominantly white cast films are provided.”

    —Monica White Ndounou, associate professor of theater, talking about the new movie “Black Panther” in VPR

  • March 13, 2018

    “Larger fiscal deficits contribute to larger trade deficits with the rest of the world. So if you really want to address the United States’ trade deficit with China and with the overall world, we can do that by thinking about taxing and spending here at home.”

    —Matthew Slaughter, dean of the Tuck School of Business in CNBC

  • March 12, 2018

    “I think artists can play an important role in bringing attention to the beauty that’s there in other cultures’ music and their art. And I view it as part of our role as artists, as musicians, as educators to do this work. And to make our contribution to building a world in which there’s more respect for difference.”

    —Theodore Levin, the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music in VPR

  • March 9, 2018

    “Obviously, we’re shooting for gold. I don’t think anyone leaves the start thinking, ‘Huh, I don’t want to win today.’ ”

    —Staci Mannella ’18, competing in the 2018 Paralympics in USA Today

  • March 8, 2018

    “We like to think of software and algorithms as neutral and unbiased. In recent months, however, technology’s gender, racial, and cultural biases have come under increasing scrutiny.”

    —Roberto Rey Agudo, language program director of Spanish and Portuguese in Los Angeles Review of Books

  • March 7, 2018

    “North Korea’s friendly gestures towards the South and the U.S. come at a moment when Pyongyang needs more time for its scientists to collect and analyze data from last year’s missile tests.”

    —Khang Vu, MALS ’20 in Channel News Asia

  • March 6, 2018

    “Usually, all sides lose in a trade war.”

    —Douglas Irwin, the John French Professor of Economics in The Washington Post

  • March 5, 2018

    “Millions of people will continue to live in the shadows, living with the sword of deportation hanging over their heads, inhabiting a ghostly world, awaiting their passports to nowhere.”

    —Silvia Spitta, the Robert E. Maxwell 1923 Professor of Arts and Sciences in San Francisco Chronicle

  • March 2, 2018

    “It is clear that the content is identical.”

    —Hany Farid, the Albert Bradley 1915 Third Century Professor of Computer Science, talking about whether the video Russian president Vladimir Putin offers of a new, “invincible” nuclear weapon is actually an old video. in NBC News

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