We don't have sufficient wellness facilities at the Dome, and we need to expand wellness on campus. Also, the availability of the building as well as the ideal location played major roles.

Wellness is in great demand by current and future students. We could increase quality of campus life as well as increase our profile as a recruiting tool for students.

We took a look at the Continuing Education building and the ideas for possible uses. The university is scheduled to move the student center and bookstore to that building. Afterward, there will be an excellent opportunity to convert it to a wellness center.

There are too many things being legislated that should be left up to the DOE.

I guess rock stars are role models for the kids who listen to that music. My role models have all been geologists - you know, the guys who are doing fieldwork until they're 70.

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.