How an Innovative Course Is Taking On the Largest Mass Migration Crisis Since WWII
Cracchiola, who led the team credited with building the world’s fastest racing wheelchair at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, crushing four world records and winning seven medals, including four gold, recalls reading the expressions in the room that first day: the stunned, the expectant, the fearful and the hopeful. “We were doing introductions and students stood up and started excusing themselves for their majors,” he said, “saying things like, ‘I’m sorry, I’m not an engineer.’” Cracchiola cut the pity party short: “As of this moment, you’re all engineers. ...
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