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restaurant concept by Alex Bowman.
Murray reached outside of the college to work Murray developed pancreatitis in 2008, slipped into
with colleagues in different disciplines. With Ann a coma and almost died. He awoke in The Drake
Welsh, a professor of management in the business Center nearly three months later.
school, he co-taught and co-created something
called the Ecollaborative. Over the years, it came to “It was like Rip Van Winkle,” he said. “‘Do you
include lecture and studio courses; the involvement know where you are?’ ‘No.’ ‘Do you know what’s
of design, business and occasionally engineering happened to you?’ ‘No.’When I looked in a mirror,
students; and then project work with companies I didn’t recognize myself. I’d lost 60 pounds. I had
like GE Appliances, Procter Sc Gamble and Delta. a long gray beard — I looked like the Unabomber!
And Murray was leveraging this work toward Robert came to see me and thought he was in the
earning his PhD. wrong room.”
“But then life happened,” Murray wistfully recalled. ]7_;e ultimate L-omeback
“My life partner of 10 years Passed away in 2005' He had to relearn talking and walking, wasn’t able to
MY dad died in 2007 When [Current DA-AP dean] go home because he couldn’t negotiate the stairs, and
Robert Prob“ was Promoted from design School needed well over a year to return to the classroom at
director to dean that same year, I was named interim full strength _ and with new Clarity
design school director. During the year I served in
that role, I was still grieving, I was not taking care of “I had to let the PhD thing go, as well as any kind of
mY5e1fa and I learned 1Wa5 diabetic? administrative role,” Murray said. “I just wanted to
teach. And now here I am more than eight years >
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