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100,000
1,500
5,000,000
The number of students he’s worked with during his association with the University
The number of projects completed for companies across the country and around the world by Illinois Business Consulting, a program he founded in 1996 in the College of Business
The monetary value of the grant he helped secure from the Kauffman Foundation to establish the Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership in 2004
51 How many times he’s visited China since 1978; Paul began working as an assistant director of the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities project in China in 1967
15,300 The number of steps he took every day for 9 days climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 2011; he is the oldest American to accomplish this feat and is preparing for two additional climbs as part of a Mayo Clinic study on hypoxia
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The number of times he’s seen Billy Elliot; he has a fondness for the musical because Karolyn, his wife of 54 years, was a ballet dancer, his father was a coal miner, and his grandson, Paul III, auditioned for the show
105,000 How many miles he’s logged since he began running more than 35 years ago
20,855 The number of days he’s been a proud Illini; Paul enrolled in the University in 1956 and earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. in economics from ILLINOIS
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E NTREPRENEURIAL L EADERSHIP
In 2012, 492 guests attended his 80th birthday party in Italy; the celebration included 9,000 gelato cones and a Chicago-based orchestra that played the ILLINOIS fight song
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Paul Magelli
S ENIOR D IRECTOR , A CADEMY
492 & 9,000
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