Ruth Barnard, Nurs ’58 (Dipl) When nursing professor Ruth Barnard retired in 2000 after teaching for 25 years at the University of Michigan, she planned to spend a lot of time watering and weeding the colorful Knockout roses in her delightful front-yard garden. But then she got a phone call from the pastor at her […]

The only place to find serenity is in the moment, says Sara Dasso, Engr ’00, owner of the Two Rivers Yoga studio in New Braunfels, Texas. “You can’t find it in the past, and you can’t wait around for it to happen in the future. Now is the only time there is.” Dasso studied materials […]

“There are a lot of things we can agree on. We can start by facing reality: Government can’t solve all of our problems, but we have to admit that it can play a role in the solution. For example, it used to not be as big a deal to extend unemployment benefits in hard times. […]

Robert Mertz was part of a team that has renovated and refurbished Lockhouse 22 near Potomac, Maryland to represent a locktender’s life in the 1830s and is the most basic—no heat, no running water, no electricity.

The original Gilman Hall opened its doors in 1915. The new Gilman opened in July after a three-year, $73 million renovation. All 10 of the Krieger School’s humanities departments now are under one roof, occupying sleek new offices with heating and air conditioning that actually works. From the quad, the exterior and trademark clock tower look the same, […]

Husband and wife team use local, organic ingredients to construct Mixt Greens design-your-own salad menu. David and Leslie Silverglide, now have seven locations including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington D.C.

Svetoslav R. Stoyanov, Peab ’03, ’05 (GPD) When Svet Stoyanov finished high school in Bulgaria, he resolved to study percussion in the United States. It was a risky idea because if he couldn’t find a conservatory willing to take him, he would be required to serve in the Bulgarian military. Still, he only applied to […]

Phil Thuma, HS ’83, a second-generation physician missionary, partnered with the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, headquartered within the Bloomberg School of Public Health, to establish the Malaria Institute at Macha.

Arthur T. Benjamin, Engr ’85 (MSE), ’89 (PhD) At a sold-out show one Saturday morning in June, Arthur Benjamin—aka the Mathemagician—added a surprise guest to the end of his act. Ten-year-old Ethan Brown, wearing a tie for the occasion, timidly took the stage from his seat in the front row. Three months earlier, Ethan had […]

Shlomo Zvi Sternberg, A&S ’53, ’55 (MA), ’56 (PhD), the George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, was elected to the American Philosophical Society on April 24. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Leroy E. Hood, Med ’64, a leading scientist in systems biology, biotechnology, im­­mun­ology, and genomics, was selected by the Foundation for the Future […]