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Looking back, I can see an interesting connection between my current life in the Windy City, three months in Sin City, and four years in Hamilton, N.Y.: a propensity for intellectual omnivorism.
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Clarissa Shah 鈥10, supply chain counsel for Emerson, a Fortune 150 manufacturing corporation, will deliver the keynote address during SophoMORE Connections, which takes place on campus January 18鈥19.
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