Category: Alumni
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.
Read moreHusband 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.
Read moreSvetoslav 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 […]
Read morePhil 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.
Read moreArthur 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 […]
Read moreShlomo 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 […]
Read more1942 Doris K. Avery, Nurs ’42, received the Non-Commissioned Officers Association World War II Veterans Medallion at a ceremony held at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii on February 5. The medal recognized Avery for service as a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps. 1943 Walton E. Stevens, A&S ’43, is the senior member of […]
Read moreStay Healthy at Every Age: What Your Doctor Wants You to Know, by Shantanu Nundy, Med ’08 (Johns Hopkins University Press) Using the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force as his major source of recommendations, Nundy prescribes healthy practices attuned to one’s years, flags symptoms, and recommends timely screenings and/or counseling for 23 chapters’ worth of […]
Read moreHomewood undergraduates stepped up to celebrate the Johns Hopkins legacy—and the big shoes left for them by generations of alumni—during the first-ever Student Philanthropy Education Week. As the campus prepared for alumni to return for Reunion 2010, the Student Alumni Society sponsored a week of daily events aimed at building awareness of alumni giving, including […]
Read moreDoug Woodring, SAIS ’96 Far, far away from any major landmass, the deep waters of the remote North Pacific are expansive and blue, and full of trash. Plastic bottles, abandoned fishing nets, unmoored buoys, the occasional stuffed toy—a so-called “plastic vortex” of floating debris scattered over thousands of square miles. Much of the plastic has […]
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