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.
Though much of their correspondence was destroyed shortly before Carsonâs death, the rest was published by Freemanâs granddaughter in 1995 as Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952â1964: An Intimate Portrait of a Remarkable Friendship.