Word: royden
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Also, Constance Royden of Wellesley of College (computational neuroscience); Leslie C. Shaw of the University of Massachusetts at Boston (anthropology and archaeology); Patricia L. Sipe of Smith College (mathematics); Sandra Steingraber of Columbia College, Chicago (poetry and biology) and Ritsuko Taho of the MIT (visual arts...
When a publicity-hungry guerrilla gang kidnaped miner Scott Royden Heimdal near the Colombia-Ecuador border last April and demanded a $1.5 million ransom, his family in Peoria, Ill., despaired: the sum was utterly beyond its reach. Then Marge and Roy Heimdal heard that the kidnapers had cut the ransom to $60,000, and issued an appeal for help. Over the next four days, all Peoria joined in a frantic campaign to raise the cash. Children sold lemonade; retirees held bake sales...
...There is a ferment at MIT for change," said Leigh H. Royden, a member of the Faculty Search committee. "We need someone who can bring MIT into the next century, make breaks with the past and take some kinds of risks...