Word: mentored
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...Like most of the other Indians who received green cards, Ajjampur is fluent in English but doesn't speak any German. Datango provided a mentor, an Indian who had graduated from a German university, to help Ajjampur and his other Indian colleagues settle in. They went shopping together and learned such mundane tasks as how to navigate the streetcars that still ply East Berlin. Initially the three Indian programmers shared a furnished apartment. "When I arrived Datango had already arranged a nice, fully furnished place for us," Ajjampur said. "If they hadn't helped us, we would have been...
...Students remember Sorensen as a warm and engaging mentor who was always willing to give generously of his time and energy. Just before his death, Sorensen received an "Excellence in Mentoring Award" from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Rubin, now chair of Citigroup, is the former Secretary of the Treasury and a mentor to Harvard president-elect Lawrence H. Summers...
...year and a half Summers served as secretary—from July 1999 until the end of the administration—Summers proved that he had learned much from his mentor. He managed the bureaucracy well, remaining a close adviser to the president and maintaining the political capital the Treasury had built up during the Rubin years. He kept relations with the other branches of the government civil and productive. He demonstrated his skills as a people picker, finding a wealth of talent to fill openings beneath him and coordinating the restructuring of the IRS that culminated with the search...
...ways like its collections in Widener Library—-deep and comprehensive, yet often underused or difficult to find. Summers, who earned a stellar reputation for his teaching-—as a professor, a teaching fellow for Social Analysis 10, a tutor in Lowell House and as a mentor to undergrads and graduate students alike-—should understand the benefits that connections between students and faculty can bring. According to some reports, Summers was chosen in part because of the vision he articulated for a world-class College at a world-class University; the growth...