Quotes by University Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes. Margaret Wertheim genesuniversitywomenscience As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a woman in Iran. Maryam Mirzakhani explainwomanstudentuniversity It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.' Matthew Stewart justuniversityidealismfinishing I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles. Merry Clayton sayalwaysuniversitycollege With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data - more than Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health, or any other scientific institution. Michael Specter universitydatahealthworld When I got to university, I would read plays and go, 'But these are about the past. Where are the plays that I love about now?' I couldn't find them, so I started writing. Mike Bartlett universitywritinglovepast I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying. Mircea Monroe studyinguniversityactingcollege To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Mona Eltahawy daymeuniversitylibrary I finished my university, was part of NSD, and did full length plays on stages. Mohit Chauhan fulldiduniversityfinished When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer. Mike Wallace michiganuniversityradiowanted During my senior year, when I was attending the University of Michigan and getting a drama degree, the Purple Rose Theatre was in its second season. The year before was the company's inaugural season. I, of course, wanted to work there. It was started by a really prominent local actor, Jeff Daniels. Matt Letscher universityworkrosedrama For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town. Mary Augusta Ward universityhousespringyears A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state. Mark Kennedy surveychilduniversityprotection In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner's early novels. Laurence Yep newuniversitysantanew-york I grew up outside Cleveland, Ohio, and I went to college at Boston University. I majored in film. Then I came out to Los Angeles. Lauren Shuler Donner outsideuniversityfilmcollege I played volleyball for Brown University and loved playing there. I played all four years and was captain my senior year. Second team all-Ivy, academic all-Ivy. I really loved it. When I was graduated, I figured that was it. Lauren Gibbs lovedyearuniversityteam I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Percy Julian bachelormasteruniversitygirl My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first job, aged 18, was buying fabric from my father to produce and sell ties. But I was also at university in Milan. Pier Luigi Loro Piana jobuniversityfamilyfather I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the deficiencies that first-year students show up with. Priyamvada Natarajan i-amseeuniversityphysics Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying. Priti Patel findinguniversitygradesfuture«89101112131415161718»
