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... Growing up in Paris, Brendon Hemily embraced inde-pendent travel on the city's comprehensive subway andbus system and valued the broader purpose of transit: helping people fulfill their lives. "Public transportation was something worth doing," Hemily recalls; from a young age, he knew it was a career path he wanted to pursue.
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... Cheryl Allen Richter was an agricultural engineeringmajor at Cornell University when she found a part-time job analyzing rural road data with the Cornell Local Roads Program. Director Lynne Irwin became Richter's mentor and helped her develop her career focus in pavement engineering; Richter then returned to Cornell for a master's degree in highway engineering.

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