Here are the results from the faculty fact match! Thanks to everyone who submitted a fun fact.
| Allen Hurlbert | worked as a carny in Alaska. |
| Haven Wiley | if given a choice among all birds, would choose to be a Turkey Vulture because they have a peaceful life floating about in the air all day. |
| enjoys square dancing in his/her free time. | |
| Pat Gensel | once took a rifle to the bathroom to deter polar bears on Bathurst Island. |
| Christina Burch | received All-ACC honors in 1995 for swimming at U. of Maryland. |
| kept a black widow spider and her egg sack as a pet. | |
| John Bruno | is a talented kite-surfer. |
| has five animals for pets: a cat, a gecko, dogs, ponies, and gerbils. | |
| Bob Goldstein | built a chicken coop in his/her backyard. |
| Joel Kingsolver | lived in a teepee for a semester at Duke. |
| Bill Kier | likes to wind-surf and recently biked 100 miles. |
| Maria Servedio | is a descendent of a pope. |
| Ty Hedrick | once had to dress up as a cowboy for work. |
| Bob Duronio | likes to sing along to their favorite band “Queen”. |
| Steve Rogers | is Captain America. |
| Lauren Buckley | knows all the words to Soca Santa, a Caribbean Christmas tune |
| runs ultamarathons. | |
| Peter White | is a Mad Men watcher and Bob Dylan listener. |
| was clubbed by the police during the Columbia riots in 1968. | |
| Bob Peet | has two cats named Piper and Gleason who have a gmail account. |
| is dropping everything to visit “The Wave” this Christmas. | |
| Alan Weakley | lived at the Goathouse cat refuge, which provides shelter for thousands of free-roaming cats. |
| received a PhD 25 years after they initially started graduate school. | |
| Sabrina Burmeister | had a biology professor as an ancestor who had a porpoise named after him. |
| Mark Peifer | eats whole carrots for lunch nearly every day. |
| Alain Laederach | speaks fluent French and Swedish. |
| skillfully flies large model airplanes. | |
| Todd Vision | plays jazz piano. |
| Charles Mitchell | has retired from fishing. |
| wears a white headband when running at night. | |
| Jeff Dangl | has named scientific reviews after Grateful Dead songs. |
| Keith Sockman | can be seen on Wednesday nights and Saturday mornings racing around at 30mph in wool cycling apparel. |
| was a Colorado ski bum. | |
| Chris Willett | plays basketball, tennis, and hockey. |
| David Pfennig | collects fossils. |
| Kerry Bloom | was the president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in college. |
| Elaine Yeh | did an industry post-doc at Ciba-Geigy, now known as Novartis. |
| Joe Kieber | once held an aerophobic airplane passenger’s hand during an entire 3 hour flight on the way back from a conference. |
| Frank Conlon | has been known to misspell his/her own name at the bottom of emails |
| James Umbanhower | competes in an annual decathalon with his/her former college track team. |
| Corbin Jones | has two dogs named after Chinese take-out: moo shu and chow fun |
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