It has been an incredibly difficult week in more ways than one. The news of a respected professor's passing should not come as a surprise given how old she was, but she had been larger than life for the entirety of the country's tech education history. A venerable icon, a living history, a person I could only hesitantly call a mentor because I was never directly mentored (to be recognized would be my greatest honor). The Informatics program never existed without her — until now. More than f...