Alumni, parents, friends, students, and faculty came together over a perfect fall weekend in October to get down to business (see previous page) and celebrate. There were intense discussions, busy meetings, and fireworks over Gilman Hall, but at the heart of it all were our people. __________________________________________________________________ Faculty—including Ben Vinson, a Krieger School history professor […]

Short, by Cortright McMeel, A&S ’94 (St. Martin’s) This short title riffs on several levels. The novel is about an energy trader’s scheme to rig a massive short trade and blow away others in the pit. The plot turns on an immense short circuit caused by a light-plane pilot dropping a chain across the cables of […]

1951 John Collins, A&S ’51, has published Seeing the Unseen: Opening the Closed Circuit of Everyday Consciousness (Xulon Press, 2010). Donald H. Dembo, A&S ’51, a cardiologist, retired from his position as an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in June 2010. Solomon Golomb, A&S ’51, ’53 (MA), is a full-time faculty […]

Teaming Up Kids with sickle cell disease (SCD) grow up facing a future of potential organ damage, vision problems, infections, and stroke. But perhaps the most agonizing part of living with the disease is dealing with the “crises”—unpredictable attacks of intense pain that take over little bodies, often sending them to a hospital for narcotics […]

Michael D. Portman, A&S ’96 Michael Portman arrived in Austin from Los Angeles a few years ago, in desperate need of a haircut. He asked his longtime buddy Jayson Rapaport where to find a good hair salon, casually mentioning how much he liked the ones he’d known in L.A. —unisex places that were stylishly low-key, […]

The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters, by Bruce Parker,  A&S ’80 (MA), ’85 (PhD) (Palgrave Macmillan). As late as 2004, much of the world was ignorant of tsunamis, in any language. But when nearly 3 million died in an Indian Ocean tsunami that year, a […]

Brian Linden, SAIS Nanj ‘88 (Cert), offers travelers “a non-urban-based intellectual retreat” in China’s Yunnan Province.

Johns Hopkins University is creating and supporting mentorship opportunities.

Meet the new president of the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association.

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 […]