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Article: PROFS' SECRET: MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE.(CAP TIMES)(GUEST COLUMN)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
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- August 20, 2008
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Byline: Phil Haslanger
Randy Pausch, a brilliant 47-year-old computer science professor who died last month from cancer, achieved spectacular fame in the nine months before his death with a lecture at his university that turned into an Internet sensation and a bestselling book.
Like Pausch, who earned his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University before becoming a professor there, Earl Madary was an alumnus of the college where he ultimately became a professor - Viterbo University in La Crosse. Like Pausch, he died in his 40s of cancer. Like Pausch, he had a huge impact on his students and on the institution of higher learning where he taught. Unlike Pausch, he is not a ...
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