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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.”
Linda Birnbaum
NIEHS director
Distinguished Alumni Award
Emil Javier
Former minister of science
The Philippines
Ahmed Abukhater
Digital aviation, Boeing
Palestine powerlifting champ
Ashley Llorens
Intelligent Systems Center
Johns Hopkins
Laura Niklason
Yale professor
Alumni Achievement Award
Amir Isfahani
President/CEO
Flow Science, Inc.
Harvey Yu
Data scientist
GIC of Singapore
Scott Slimmer
Laboratory manager
Harvard University
Avinash Kumar
Research scientist
Intel Labs
