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...understandably ask, did this ever come from? Seattle, as it turns out. In the early 1990s, as director of development for the Chicken Soup Brigade, a support organization for people with AIDS, Judy Werle was charged with dreaming up fundraising events. "I checked out places where people gathered and spent money, because I figured if you had that, you could redirect the money to a good cause," says Werle. That logic led her to bingo halls. "They were totally full of obsessed people," she says. "But it was also extremely boring. So we decided to liven...
...anything. Ironically, though, she can be reticent when discussing her own accomplishments.She seems a bit embarrassed when asked about the Marshall, which she sees as “an opportunity to spend two years in a great academic institution in an interesting country that I’ve never spent a significant amount of time in.” Next fall, she will begin work on a one-year masters degree in Criticism and Culture at the University of Cambridge in England.The degree, a “literary theory and philosophy taught course,” may sound like...
With the big match on Tuesday, I spent Monday morning practicing in Lowell’s squash courts. But when I got to the Murr Center on Tuesday evening, I found myself in an unfamiliar environment, given the different dimensions and superior quality of the squash courts...
...Edwards spent much of her father’s campaign working with college-age voters. She says she was pleasantly surprised to find that many students were highly engaged in the political process...
...travel,” says Capasso, adding that it is not unusual for a first-year professor to spend 10 to 12 hours preparing for each lecture. “The biggest challenge is to get organized.”It is this challenge that Aizenberg—who spent two years at Harvard in the 1990s as a postdoctoral fellow—is excited about.“Being at Bell Labs you are not exposed to the beauty of having students around,” Aizenberg says. She recalls enjoying having a handful of students intern...