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Siblings running to keep Sean Collier’s legacy alive
BOSTON — Rob Rogers and his sister, Jenn, hit the pavement training for a 26.2-mile emotional journey with their brother, Sean Collier, in their hearts and on their minds.
They’re the founders of Team Collier Strong, and the team is training for the 2014 Boston Marathon.
“Collier Strong to me means just to be the best person that you can, live life to the fullest, push through and enjoy the people who matter most to you,” said Rob Rogers.
Jenn Rogers spoke about the emotional toll Collier’s death has had on their family.
“We have some good days and some bad days. It’s hard when you come from such a huge family and you notice the weight of one missing, especially him,” she said.
Team Collier Strong was born in the wake of tragedy after MIT Police Officer Sean Collier was shot and killed on April 18, 2013, allegedly at the hands of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
It’s the team’s mission to keep his legacy alive and to raise money to send one self-sponsored police recruit through the Lowell Police Academy each year. The team’s training runs bring them to the banks of the Charles River overlooking the city and close to the campus Collier loved and patrolled.
“I just want them to remember, remember his sacrifice, remember our family in their prayers,” Jenn Rogers said.
For some, the long runs are a way to cope and reflect.
Rob Rogers said he often thinks about his last conversation with his brother. When he heard about the bombs at the marathon finish line on Boylston Street he checked to see if Collier was OK.
“I just sent a text and said, ‘Are you cool?’ He said, ‘Yeah,’ and that was the last thing I said to him, and I think about what I would say now. Tell him I’m proud of him. I miss him. He was just the best guy, the best man, the best brother, the best son, he truly mean so much to so many people,” he said.
Collier always gave 100 percent and on marathon day Team Collier Strong will make him proud. The team’s rallying cry is, “How strong? Collier STRONG!” When Rob Rogers crosses the marathon finish line this year his words to his brother will be, “We did it buddy!”
All proceeds donated to Team Collier Strong’s marathon run will support the Sean Collier Self-Sponsorship Scholarship.
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Hadi Kasab found dead in dorm room
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A 23-year-old graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been found dead in his room.
MIT says in a statement that the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office is following standard procedure in investigating the death of Hadi Kasab and that campus police have determined there is no threat to the community.
The Saida, Lebanon, native was found Thursday in his room at the Sidney-Pacific graduate residence hall. The cause of death has not been determined.
MIT says Kasab was second-year graduate student in its Computation for Design and Optimization program.
MIT President L. Rafael Reif encouraged students who may be affected by Kasab’s death to take advantage of the institute’s support and mental health services during “this painful time.”
Vest led MIT from 1990 to 2004
Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Charles M. Vest is shown in 1997.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —A former Massachusetts Institute of Technology president who began its initiative to offer classes for free online has died.
MIT announced Friday that Charles M. Vest died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night. He was 72.
Vest led MIT from 1990 to 2004. He was president of the National Academy of Engineering from 2007 until this year.
Vest asked a faculty committee in 1999 to explore how the Internet could expand MIT’s mission. The result was its non-degree OpenCourseWare project, which by 2007 offered more than 1,800 courses to learners worldwide. Other universities began exploring similar programs.
During Vest’s tenure, MIT expanded its research in cognitive science, genomic medicine, biological engineering and nanotechnology.
The West Virginia native was academic vice president at the University of Michigan before joining MIT.
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