He had graduated from top-tier universities - credentials that could send him to an Ivy League school. But of the more than 10 universities he applied to, only one extended an offer.
A museum store room may have been lost to a fire had its alarm not been working, a fire service said.Suffolk Fire and Rescue was called to an automatic fire alarm within a building belonging to Ipswich Museum on Charles Street on Saturday night.
Crews found there had been a fire in the electrical intake to the property that had spread to the void between the ground and first floor levels.The fire service said there had been damage to the ceiling, but no artefacts being stored in the building had been affected before a stop message was received at 20:31 BST."Had the building have not had a working automatic fire alarm, the fire would have gone unnoticed for a considerable time and the building would have probably been lost," a spokesperson for the fire service said.
When crews arrived at the scene, they had to isolate the electricity to the property and remove the ceiling to access the fire within the void.UK Power Networks was also in attendance and the fire service said the electrical supply would be "out for a while".
A spokesperson for Ipswich Borough Council said they were "grateful" for the fire service's quick response.
"An early inspection indicates that there was no significant damage to the items stored in this location," they said."I've spent my life gathering and collecting strange bits of rust, neon, ready-mades and arcade machines thinking I'm completely mad, but when you see it all come together, it makes sense," she said.
Per Ardua will be switched on at the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre at 18:00 BST.Murals asking what men can do to tackle violence against women and girls have been put up at five railway stations in Birmingham and Coventry.
The stations together serve more than 1.8m passengers a year and the artworks are visible from the trains passing through.Created by Midlands artist Emily Kaye, they were developed for West Midlands Railway (WMR) and London Northwestern Railway (LNR).