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'Last Lecture' Professor Randy Pausch Dies

NPR | By Alex Chadwick,
Alex Cohen
Published July 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM EDT

Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch's last lecture made him famous worldwide when it was put online. A published version of that lecture became a best-selling book. Pausch died Thursday night after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

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Alex Chadwick
For more than 30 years, Alex Chadwick has been bringing the world to NPR listeners as an NPR News producer, program host and currently senior correspondent. He's reported from every continent except Antarctica.
Alex Cohen
Alex Cohen is the reporter for NPR's fastest-growing daily news program, Day to Day where she has covered everything from homicides in New Orleans to the controversies swirling around the frosty dessert known as Pinkberry.