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Hope on wings: Aviation alumni providing free flights to children with cancer
No child should ever miss cancer treatment because their family can’t afford a plane ticket. That’s the mission behind the Limitless Foundation, a nonprofit founded by Auburn Aviation alumni Push Saha ’23 and Tristan Lines ’23, which provides free air transportation to Atlanta for pediatric cancer patients.
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Pilot's coin collection funds Auburn aviation scholarship
To honor her late father, a U.S. Air Force pilot, educator and coin collector, alumna Judy Neher used his valuable coin collection to establish a scholarship for aviation students.
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Endowed English professor connects literature and role-playing games
Emily Friedman never expected a media trend built around recorded role-playing games to shape her research career. But today, she is helping define the emerging world of Actual Play, a booming genre she describes as “the biggest thing people haven’t heard of.”
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License to plunder: The role of pirates in the American Revolution
During the American Revolution, privateering became a powerful wartime strategy, giving the fledgling nation another way to challenge the world's greatest naval power.