May 9, 2010
Honoring a Professor, 2 Men Plan a Cross-Country Bike Trip to Fight ALS
Courtesy Saul Goldberg
Saul Goldberg (left), a former student of Tony Judt (right), an NYU professor who has Lou Gehrig's disease, will bike from the Oregon coast to Brooklyn, N.Y., with a friend. The cyclists plan to raise money along the way for research that could lead to a cure.
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Courtesy Saul Goldberg
Saul Goldberg (left), a former student of Tony Judt (right), an NYU professor who has Lou Gehrig's disease, will bike from the Oregon coast to Brooklyn, N.Y., with a friend. The cyclists plan to raise money along the way for research that could lead to a cure.
Riding a bike requires extensive use of lower body muscles—hamstrings, quadriceps, and calves, among others—that the historian and former New York University professor Tony Judt can no longer use. He was diagnosed in 2008 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease (The Chronicle, January 15).
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