By Deborah Heishman (English ’02)
Arts & Sciences Magazine – posted May 28, 2010 -
It’s a universal image: A child looks out her bedroom window, elbows propped on the sill, wondering if, at that very moment, another child from a faraway place can see the same stars. Perhaps earlier that evening she’d seen a PBS documentary on the Great Wall of China, the pyramids of Egypt, or the wildlife of Africa. And, just like that, it’s born. The wanderlust.
Philadelphia native Michelle Henry was no exception. Growing up, she dreamed of traveling the world and managed to squeeze in trips to Belize and Chile during her busy first year at U.Va. But it was a study-abroad class, taught by research associate professor Robert Swap in the College’s Department of Environmental Sciences, that began Henry’s journey to find her life’s calling.
