Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College is rated as one of the best education institutions in the world. Unlike many graduate schools, Heinz is not organized along academic departments.
Heroes commit feats of courage involving risk or sacrifice, and which have a nobility of purpose. Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, two years after the publication of âSilent Spring.â She might not have lived to see the full effects of her influence, but she had a good feeling that she might have opened some peoplesâ eyes.
Rachel Aliene Corrie from Olympia, Washington, was an American activist and diarist. She was a member of a pro-Palestinian group called the International Solidarity Movement. She was killed by an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer in a combat zone in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, under contested circumstances during the height of the second Palestinian intifada. She had gone to Gaza as part of her senior-year college assignment to connect her home-town with Rafah in a siste