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(M.A.S. ITM ’10)

When her son was a toddler, Swapna Sasidharan (M.A.S. ITM ’10) grew increasingly concerned with his development. He did not crawl until he was three and a half years old, and was delayed in many other...

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LAW '12

“I never see it that I’m the one defending the bad guys,” says Heather Widell ’12. “I’m defending people, and I’m defending the [United States] Constitution.” Widell has run her own firm, the Law...

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LAW '03

“Everybody loves a good redemption story,” says Ginger Leigh Odom ’03. “Every sports movie is about coming from behind and having success, and I think that the expungement-and-sealing statute is an...

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LAW '90

Eileen O’Neill Burke ’90 was in the sixth grade when former justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow spoke to Burke’s class about her career as a judge. McMorrow went on to be the first woman to serve on the...

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LAW '12

“Mr. Ammoura, is that you?” It was summer 2011, and Ali Ammoura ’12 was a law student at Chicago-Kent College of Law when he heard a meek voice cut through the hustle and bustle of the lockup at the...

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M.S. Computer Science '88

“I was where I was when I was,” he says via telephone from India, where he is serving his second term as an independent member in the upper house of India’s Parliament, representing Bangalore and the...

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(Computer Science '03)

The first taste of craft beer for Ankur Jain (CS ’03) was a swig of Anchor Steam, whose nineteenth-century recipe and California ocean-port pedigree made it a great object lesson in a course he took...

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(M.S. Project Management ’25)

With nine years of experience in data management at consulting firms such as Cognizant, Capgemini, and KPMG, Kruti Halvadia (M.S. Project Management ’25) was moving up in her career. In addition to...

(MATH 2nd Year)

Leonardo Marciaga (MATH 2nd Year) has been participating in international math competitions since he was a youngster, attending middle school in his hometown of Chitré, Panama. He says competing has...