June 2016

Quote of the week /

June 30, 2016

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Marie Curie
Quote of the week /

June 22, 2016

There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”

David Foster Wallace
Quote of the week /

June 15, 2016

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali
News /

June 7, 2016

Picower Retreat!

We attended the department-wide retreat in Newport, RI! The event was from June 6-7.
Quote of the week /

June 1, 2016

Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they’re on an unemployment line and can’t feed their families

Neil deGrasse Tyson