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An Illini love story, balcony-on-Fourth-and-Daniel edition ...
It was there, 18 years ago, where Ashley Llorens ('01) met his bride-to-be.
“She lived next door and our apartments shared a balcony," says Llorens, now chair of the Intelligent Systems Center at Johns Hopkins University.
"One evening, we and some friends made plans to go dancing. Her knee was still pretty hurt after surgery, and she had duct taped on an ACE bandage to shore it up for the night. On the way home, seeing her limp, I gave her a piggy-back ride.
"We stopped at a little pizza spot called Bonnie Jean’s and then joined our friends for a late-night chat. After talking all night, I knew I’d found someone special. We now live in Columbia, Maryland together with our two kids.”
Andrew Dahlem
COO
Eli Lilly and Co.
Donald Johanson
Paleoanthropologist
Discovered Lucy skeleton
Thyaga Nandagopal
Program director
National Science Foundation
Juan Santiago
Engineering professor
Stanford University
Bruce Bloom
CEO
Cures Within Reach
Amir Isfahani
President/CEO
Flow Science, Inc.
Vincent Ling
Senior director
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Stephanie Majewski
Associate professor of physics
University of Oregon
Paula Welander
Stanford assistant professor
Earth System Science
