1999-10-01
- Molly Melching (AB, '71; AM, '79, French) arrived in Senegal in 1974 as a graduate exchange student on a six-month visa. Twenty-five years later she is still there. She has found a home among its people and her destiny in promoting literacy and self-help among its rural poor.
Upon her arrival in this former French colony, Melching immersed herself in the Senegalese culture and mastered Wolof,...
- 1999-10-01 - Ed Cupp (PhD, '69, entomology) saw his first victims of river blindness during a field trip to Guatemala in 1969. He was a graduate student at Illinois at the time, but he never forgot the sight. Lesions and nodules covered the bodies of children and had spread to the eyes of many adults. Today, Cupp is an internationally recognized medical entomologist whose exhaustive studies of the insect...