alum

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Instead, the Harvard Business School alum talks like a real-life LinkedIn post and obsesses over how many seconds it takes to serve customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

When their bus breaks down on the way to a showcase, a troupe of ballerinas led by “Dance Moms” alum and one-time Sia protégée Maddie Ziegler becomes stranded in a remote hotel-bar-dungeon-arms factory outside Budapest.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

"Cosmically speaking, this fast radio burst is just in our neighborhood," says Kiyoshi Masui, associate professor of physics and affiliate of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, and a U of T alum.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

The resignation comes as students are pressuring the school to cut ties with Les Wexner, an alum and former board chair, over his association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

We were not allowed profanity or even obvious sarcasm, but Bailey looped his language around his tongue and issued it out to Mother in alum drops.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou