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"It’s not ‘What do I want to say?’ but ‘What conversation should I start?’" Howard Collinson, director of the Museum of Art, moving the museum toward a two-way model of communication with the community it serves (Iowa City Gazette, April 2).

"The task you’re trying to accomplish isn’t filling up a Palm Pilot with data. It’s changing physician practices." George Bergus, associate professor of family practice, looking to technology to make a fundamental change in how doctors do their jobs (Des Moines Register, April 3).

"To figure out how someone else feels—for example, from looking at their face—requires us to imagine what it would feel like if we made that same face." Ralph Adolphs, assistant professor of neurology, searching for the seat of empathy in the human brain (Iowa City Press-Citizen, April 4).

"It’s not going to preserve itself. Unless we take an active effort to preserve history, we won’t have anything to leave to our children and our grandchildren." Doris Malkmus, librarian, underscoring the urgency of the Rural Women’s Project in preserving the fast-disappearing papers and artifacts of Iowa’s farm women (Iowa City Press-Citizen, April 8).

"I have written many poems that sound to others as if they were written by a Martian." Marvin Bell, professor in the Writers’ Workshop, summing up the body of work that earned him the status of Iowa’s first poet laureate (Des Moines Register, April 11).

"New work is a very hard sell. People may come to it out of respect for the theater or curiosity or something, but it’s hard. Next year should have a really good combination of the new and the known." Wally Chappell, director of Hancher Auditorium, striking the balance between pleasing his crowd and stretching their understanding (Iowa City Press-Citizen, April 11).

"The heart and soul of some people’s careers are in some of those freezers." Jeff McCullough, administrative associate in biological sciences, pressing for more renovations in his department’s labs to keep experiments safely at the right temperatures (Iowa City Press-Citizen, April 12).

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