NFL adviser

Beth Richie, director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.

“It’s an opportunity to go far beyond anything I’ve been doing in research.”

Beth Richie, director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, on being named senior adviser to a National Football League policy group on domestic violence and sexual assault, Oct. 9 Crain’s Chicago Business

“We need to address the girl with the skinned knees who likes to climb trees (that would have been me) and the girl who wears a tutu everywhere. Because one of these days they will engineer a scientific discovery that will knock our socks off.”

Veronica Arreola, director of UIC Women in Science and Engineering, on different ways to make science attractive to girls, Oct. 7 USA Today

“This is a phenomenal accomplishment.”

José Oberholzer, director of cell and pancreas transplantation, on a potential cure for diabetes using stem cells, Oct. 9 Harvard Gazette