A really long shot

[semiprosaic]

There was a girl who lived in our old neighborhood when I was probably around elementary school age, 8-10 or so...maybe younger or older, I forget. She's a year or two older than me I think. We had lots of fun times together and managed to stay in touch for several years as pen pals. Let me back up. Their family was in Chambana because her dad was

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[kelglitter]

Just a shot in the dark of course, but is it possible that http://www.ihhcpar.rutgers.edu/about_us/members.asp?v=2&d=1&i=456 is her? If so it would appear she did her undergrad in Tel Aviv and is working on a PhD now at Rutgers in NJ.

There is also a Michal Shapira that is a biology prof in Israel that has done some work in CU for sure with Gene Robinson's group.

Gotta love Google and the U of I's stalker network setup.

[kelglitter]

I meant that based on the possibility that she had a parent that was also named Michal.

[semiprosaic]

Thanks for taking the time! There's always a chance...

:)

[kelglitter]

Yeah, I kind of like wild-goose-chases. I have to do stuff like that for work all the time... if I can hunt down a professor at an Indian university, I ought to learn how to do it for an Israeli university too... except that I don't happen to be able to read Hebrew or Arabic or any languages that aren't Latin or Germanic in origin other than Japanese. Indian university sites are usually in English. Not so for Middle-Eastern universities.

Also a long shot, but

[poppins17]

Have you tried searching Facebook?

Re: Also a long shot, but

[semiprosaic]

thanks for the idea. I don't remember if I have or not...which means obviously if I did it wasn't very recently.

by the way, do you happen to own season 1 and/or 2 of StarGate Atlantis?

Re: Also a long shot, but

[poppins17]

No, I'm sorry I don't. :(

Re: Also a long shot, but

[semiprosaic]

No worries, I thought it was worth a chance anyway.

I tried facebook, but no dice.