Category: Alumni Spring 2011

Calling Out the Catcallers

February 28, 2011 |  by Gadi Dechter

Rebecca Chiao, SAIS ’04 Weeks before its formal December launch, the Cairo-based website HarassMap was already buzzing with dozens of contributions. “Car full of pervs in Zamalek,” read one anonymous report of sexual harassment in the Egyptian capital. “Nearly every male passing me slowed to ogle and smirk, making me less confident and more angry […]

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Other Duties as Assigned

February 28, 2011 |  by Brennen Jensen

Michael D. White, SAIS ’76 Mike White had a rough workweek last summer as a rookie employee with DirecTV, the satellite television provider. He was clumsy wielding a power drill during a rooftop dish installation. Clueless in the warehouse, he was instead dispatched outside to jump up and down in a dumpster to flatten a […]

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Flash Nonfiction

February 28, 2011 |  by Gadi Dechter

It took years for human trafficking whistleblower Kathy Bolkovac to turn her story into a major motion picture. It took Cari Lynn, A&S ’97 (MA), just six weeks to write the book.

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Moth Fancy

February 28, 2011 |  by Brennen Jensen

John Cody, Med ’49 (Cert)—illustrator, author, and retired psychiatrist—has spent a lifetime painting beautiful and ornate saturniid moths.

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At Home in the City: Forging a New Partnership with Baltimore

February 28, 2011 |  by Mike Field

The Volunteer Summit takes a fresh look at old challenges. First up: finding innovative ways to engage with the local community.

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Johns Hopkins, Engaged

February 28, 2011 |  by Johns Hopkins Staff

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 […]

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Shelf Life

February 28, 2011 |  by Lew Diuguid

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 […]

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Alumni Notes — Spring 2011

February 24, 2011 |  by Johns Hopkins Staff

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 […]

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