Anne Marie McKenzie-Brown, Med ’87 Investing by Proxy For Anne Marie McKenzie-Brown it is all about the vicarious satisfaction of helping others help others. As chair of the Alumni Council’s Student Grants and Programs Committee, McKenzie-Brown supports the enterprising efforts of students who pitch projects that aim either to serve others through community-based work or […]

A few years after graduation, Steve Naron landed a job as a high-level consultant with the Center for Naval Analyses, thanks in part to his Johns Hopkins education. But when the center shipped him off to Toastmasters International, the public-speaking organization, he realized one thing he hadn’t learned in school was how to present effectively in front of a crowd.

Adam Segal, A&S ’03 (MA) And Justice for All Adecade ago, Adam Segal heard a moving speech by the leader of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA). The speaker, who was in the midst of an ultimately unsuccessful bid for a congressional seat, told of thousands of black farmers discriminated against by the U.S. Department […]

Nancy Glass, Nurs ’94, Nurs/SPH ’96 (MSN/MPH) Pork Project Nancy Glass, associate director of the Center for Global Health and associate professor in the School of Nursing’s Department of Community Public Health, believes economic empowerment is often the key to helping victims of violence reclaim their lives. Yet in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the […]

Robert Duncan, A&S ’71 A Bit of Baltimore Lawyer Robert Duncan has cultivated a Johns Hopkins community far from his alma mater, in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Every year the longtime president of the Alumni Association’s Denver chapter leads a corps of volunteers in planning at least three events for that region’s 1,000 […]

1947 Walter A. Lyon, Engr ’47, ’48 (MS), has helped to bring Johns Hopkins’ Engineering Innovation Program to Harrisburg Science Tech High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 1953 Robert A. Erlandson, A&S ’53, former Baltimore Sun correspondent, presented on his life and career at an event sponsored by the Historical Society of Baltimore County in October. […]

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 to curb […]

Xiao Le, A&S ’13 (far left), and Ah Young Shin (far right), a graduate student at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, went hiking with Joanne Dorrett, wife of Paul Dorrett, A&S ’69, and the young student she mentors in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. Their outing was supported by the Alumni Association’s new initiative to connect alumni and students in the Baltimore area. TASTE, short for “Take a Student to Events,” matches alumni and students for one-time shared experiences, which this fall have included hikes, dinners out, and ballgames. Find out more at alumni.jhu.edu/taste.

Eighteen Johns Hopkins travelers spent two weeks this fall touring China, with stops for special events with local Alumni Association clubs featuring prominent alumni speakers. In Beijing, after touring Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, and China’s Great Wall, travelers joined local club president Boyong Wang, SAIS Bol ’01, SAIS DC ’02, and other alumni to hear Zhu Min, A&S ’91 (MA), ’96 (PhD), a recently appointed vice governor of the People’s Bank of China, speak about the interconnectedness of the global financial system.

It is the story of the perception-defying Troop 759, a group of four city kids and their two troop leaders, as they head off to summer camp.