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.
1 Died: April 12, 1912 in Glen Echo, Maryland. 2  Best known for: Founder of the American Red Cross. 3  Clara was giving a soldier a cup of water when he suddenly died. 4  She then noticed a hole in her sleeve from a bullet that narrowly missed her and killed the soldier.