Jun 26, 2008 5:22 pm US/Eastern
Johns Hopkins Grad Student Killed In Iraq
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Nicole Suveges, a Johns Hopkins University graduate student in political science who was working in Iraq while doing research for her dissertation, was among four Americans killed in an explosion Tuesday. Courtesy: The Daily Herald (Ill.)
Students and professors alike were shocked earlier this week to hear of one of their rising stars killed in a bombing in Iraq.
Mike Schuh reports Nicole Suveges was doing double duty.
The Johns Hopkins University campus first got a look at Nicole Suveges when she enrolled in 2000 as a grad student.
"She was just an outstanding person," said Hopkins professor Matthew Crenson. "And from the very beginning, she was interested in the Middle East."
But once the war in Iraq began, she changed her area of study. She wanted to know how the transition to democracy affected ordinary citizens. That's what she was doing in Baghdad when she was killed.
It was Tuesday in Sadr City. A bomber blew up some government offices. Suveges and 10 others died. She was there helping the troops understand Iraqis.
The company says, "She came to us to freely give of herself in an effort to make a better world. A leading academic, she believed in translating what she learned into action."
And she followed action. This was her second tour of Iraq as a civilian. The first was in 2006.
A decade ago she was an army reservist in Sarajevo.
"Well, she took a lot of chances," said Crenson.
The young woman was known to be brave, and now she is sadly missed.
Crenson fondly remembers Suveges as a natural-born leader, someone who, despite her own workload, would organize parties and gatherings. She was a magnet to other students.
Suveges is originally from the Chicago, Ill. area. There's no word yet on funeral arrangements.
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