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...award, given annually to MIT seniors or graduate students, recognizes rising inventors who demonstrate remarkable creativity, a “portfolio of inventiveness,” and potential to mentor future inventors, according to the Lemelson-MIT Program’s executive director Joshua Schuler...
...admiration is reciprocated. Cullen D. McAlpine ’11, the current president of DAPA, described Travia as a “gifted mentor and leader” with the unique ability of focusing the energy of a group and inspiring students with his own passion for peer education...
...Steven has been fortunate enough throughout high school to have a lot of great coaches make him better and mentor him,” his dad, Glenn Keith remarked. “They’ve embraced Steven, and if it wasn’t for those people, he wouldn’t be the wrestler he is today...
...reasons to believe the 52-year-old might succeed in the Delta. His family is from the southern Ijaw tribe - the first time the rebels have been able to talk to one of their own in the presidency. And he knows his homeland. In 2007, Edwin Clark, a longtime mentor and powerful backer to Jonathan, took the then newly elected vice president to the wild and dangerous creeks of the Niger Delta. "He met some of the militant leaders," says Clark. "He is aware of their demands, their aspirations and he is aware of everything, the neglect of our people...
...septuagenarian Clark, who has suddenly become one of the most influential men in Africa, is another factor. Nigerian leaders often come with a powerful mentor working behind the scenes; a backer whose office is the only way to get to the big guy. On Feb. 11, two days after his protégé took office, a mass of Nigeria's rich, powerful and wannabes - parliamentarians, former ministers, ex-governors, a former police chief and even the head of a state-owned television station - crowded into the expansive living room of Clark's Abuja mansion. Clark sensed his growing power...