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Glenn Rifkin

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Kenya The New York Times world
19 Aug 2024
Woodie Flowers, an innovative and flamboyant mechanical engineering professor at MIT (he liked to roller-blade and ride unicycles through its august halls) who championed a hands-on learning philosophy that reshaped engineering and design education and turned him into something of a celebrity, died Oct. 11 in Boston. He was 75.
Woodie Flowers, Who Made Science a Competitive Sport, Dies at 75