Fifteen students spent the fall semester researching immigration, census and land records; creating family trees; writing essays about their discoveries; and, with College funding, testing their own genetic origins through Ancestry.com. As a final celebration, they gathered on Orchard Street, where their professor, Rick A. López ’93, hosted them in his kitchen as they read each other’s essays and cooked and shared family recipes.
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