The Wedding of
Ruba T. Borno and
Michael S. McCorquodale

About Ruba and Michael

Ruba and Michael met while they were both graduate students at the University of Michigan. GO BLUE! They have been described by their friends as "two of a kind."

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About Michael

Michael was born in suburban Dallas (Richardson), TX on November 12, 1974. He and his family moved to Toledo, OH shortly thereafter where Michael attended parochial elementary school at St. Patrick's of Heatherdowns. Michael went on to attend high school at Benet Academy in suburban Chicago. He then began undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he completed the Bachelor of Science degree with honors in 1997. For the next year Michael was with Hughes Space and Communications Company (now Boeing Space) in Los Angeles, CA. In 1998 Michael began graduate research at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he completed the Master of Science and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering in 2000 and 2004 respectively and where he was the sole national recipient of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Doctoral Fellowship in 2002. Currently, Michael maintains residences in both downtown Ann Arbor (with Ruba) and downtown San Francisco. He is the Founder and the Chief Technical Officer of Mobius Microsystems, a tier-1 venture-backed semiconductor company founded based on his dissertation research. Michael is also currently an adjunct faculty member at the Univeristy of Michigan. Mobius has been recognized for the for the largest potential high-tech job creation in the State of Michigan (2004) and the Innovation of the Year in the State of Michigan (2005) by Michigan's Governor, Jennifer Granholm. For more information see [http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~mmccorq]

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Mr. and Mrs. Talal H. Borno

Mr. and Mrs. Talal H. Borno live in Charlotte, NC and are the proud parents of Ruba.

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About McCorquodale Family Heritage

The McCorquodale's are a small clan from the Highlands of Scotland. The name originates from Old Norse Thorketill (Thor's kettle), in Gaelic MacCorcadail, and the clan held lands in Argyll in the fourteenth century. In much of the wedding stationary, the coat of arms from the last McCorquodale chief (pictued at left) was embossed. A coat of arms is, in Scottish tradition, a design belonging to a particular clan and used in a wide variety of ways. Coats of arms have their origins in the designs used by medieval knights to make their armour and shield stand out in battle or tournaments and enable quick recognition by allies or spectators. The designs were used to decorate clothing worn over the knight's armour, from which one derives the term coat of arms. In addition to being painted on the shield, elements of a knight's coat of arms were used to decorate the helmet crest, pavilion, and banners used by knights.

 

Guests may have noticed the official McCorquodale family tartan (pictured at left) during the wedding. A tartan is a specific woven pattern that signifies a particular Scottish clan. The pattern is made with alternating bands of colored threads woven as both warp and weft at right angles to each other. The weft is woven two over—two under the warp, advancing one thread each pass, forming diagonal lines. The resulting blocks of colour repeat vertically and horizontally in a distinctive pattern of squares and lines known as a sett.

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