By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Businessman Richard Gygi witnessed the impact of HIV/AIDS when he traveled to Kenya and saw orphaned children surviving by living in the streets. The unforgettable images of poverty, hunger, and joblessness in Africa forged his resolve to tackle those issues to help...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In the summer of 2003, Fair and a colleague at the nonprofit where she worked began tutoring her grandson, her colleague’s son and a couple of their friends in reading, algebra and public speaking. While there, the young men also helped around the nonprofit, called...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Henry Liu turned poison into possibility. The former engineering professor found a way to transform fly ash – a toxic byproduct of burning coal – into bricks that look and function like the old standards made of clay. The innovation not only removes a...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Gary Grant works to address the many manifestations of racism and social/ economic/ environmental injustices found in the South, through advocacy, activism, education, capacity-building, leadership development, community organizing and action. In 1984 he established...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Before retiring from his post as field director at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s Copán Project, archaeologist David Sedat led the team that discovered the royal tomb of the founder of the ancient Maya city of Copán,...
