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.
On Saturday, May 8, 1999, Dana died of what appeared to be an accidental overdose of a painkiller called Loritab. Later, on May 21, a coroner's inquest ruled her death a suicide due to a large amount of drugs in her body and her history of past suicide attempts. She was 34 years old.