“What’s it like to be Spider-Man’s stunt double?” Ask Illinois grad Chris Silcox, ’08 FAA, who appears in the latest installment of the Marvel Studios franchise. Check out this interview with
Forty-one years ago, I was offered a job teaching special education at a school on the Navajo Nation Reservation in Chinle, Ariz. At the time I thought, “I can do
When I saw the ad for the director of library and archives position at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in 2008, I jumped at it. At the
I grew up in Chicago in a family of educators. Like a lot of people applying to college, I didn’t know what to choose as my major. “You like math
When I was a kid, I loved storms. Any time there was severe weather—thunderstorms or snowstorms—I went nuts. My dad and I used to take benches from the garage at
I was drawn to sports because of my father. He would take us to White Sox games—we lived in Park Forest, a suburb of Chicago—and we never had a bad
My first exposure to homelessness was in the ’80s, here in Washington, D.C. I was working in a Capitol Hill community organization that served public housing residents. I started seeing
Comedians live life a little more intensely. Things that other people endure, we take as a slight. I was at a restaurant the other day, and these two women were
When I went to my 25-year high school reunion, several people came up to me to say, “You’re about the only person I know who did what he said he
Before I undertake creating the product, the marketing must be there. That’s the problem with many inventors. They just accidentally come across something. But how many inventors do you know
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