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...Weed attended Yale University, graduating with a degree in political science and a letter of commendation in biology...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...never thought I would do this well with science at college, even though I was always good at it in high school," says Weed, who took most of his electives in biology...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...core of Weed's Yale experience was based on the university's help in granting him access to science via computers...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...Yale was the first university to think in terms of doing optical scanning, or converting paper text into electronic text as fast and as efficiently as possible," Weed says. "The university purchased a $15,000 system to do the job, and I spent a lot of time during my first two years just figuring out what to do with it. By November 1990, I was able to benefit greatly from it, and scanned 20,000 to 40,000 pages of materials over my last two-and-a-half years at Yale...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...Weed's college years consisted of more than just biology and computers...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: A Medical Sciences Student Overcomes Remarkable Obstacles | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

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