In Review

Rochester Quotes

“It’s especially good for American football, where they spend a lot of time doing nothing in particular.”

—Ahmet Ekin, a doctoral student and computer scientist at the University, in the British newspaper The Guardian, describing a software program he has developed that allows users to create edited versions of sporting events that show only the action of the game

The Washington Post

“It’s frighteningly common. It’s very, very disturbing. You’re talking about people who haven’t even become adults yet who are already on the way to cardiovascular disease.”
—Michael Weitzman, professor of pediatrics and director of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Center for Child Health Research, led a study that shows about 4 percent of American teenagers suffer from a syndrome associated with being overweight, making them unusually prone to diabetes and premature heart disease later in life.

NPR’s Weekend Edition

“When you think of, say, the finale to the second act, one of the most famous sort of sayings in Germany comes from that piece of music: ‘First feed their faces, then talk right from wrong.’ When you look at the headlines in the newspapers today, and you think of, say, the situation in Iraq, you see how The Threepenny Opera somehow keeps renewing itself, and I think that it is one of those pieces that always finds a new audience each generation.”
—Kim Kowalke, the Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities at the University and chair of the College’s Department of Music, discussing the legacy of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s first opera as it celebrated its 75th anniversary

The Washington Times

“You can’t be the best physician in the world if you can’t communicate.”
—Ron Epstein, professor in the Department of Family Medicine and director of the Rochester Center to Improve Communication in Health Care, commenting on a new exam designed to measure the “bedside manner” of aspiring doctors

The Sunday Telegraph

“If this proves effective, we’re optimistic we’ll be able to make the vaccine available in vegetable form.”
—Robert Rose, assistant professor of medicine, whose research on genetically altered potatoes may help immunize people from the human papilloma virus, a cause of cervical cancer. In Rose’s study, the immune systems of mice that ate the high-tech potatoes produced antibodies against the virus.