Dr Aafia Siddiqui SB VII MIT 95 lived in McCormick Hall. She was accepted at MIT as a transfer student from the University of Houston in 1992. While living in Texas she won a nationwide essay competition about “how intercultural attitudes in America helped shape a multinational world.” Awards she won at MIT include the Carroll L. Wilson Award and the William L. Stewart, Jr. Award Her PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Brandeis was completed in 2001. She specialized in the process of learning in children who are developmentally challenged. Her dissertation was entitled:" Separating the Components of Imitation." Aafia and her 3 children disappeared as a result of extraordinary rendition in March of 2003 in her native Pakistan. Her oldest son recalled that his baby brother Suleman had been left bloody by the roadside during that 2003 kidnapping operation. Her two older children Ahmed and Maryam were released to her relatives after years in captivity.