Category: Alumni

Puzzles and Promises

August 31, 2011 |  by Lisa Watts

One size fits all? Not anymore. How reading our genes may transform health care.

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Kudos for Kids Lit

August 31, 2011 |  by Mike Field

Elissa Brent Weissman, A&S ’05 Don’t let the boy wizard fool you. There may be surefire paths to riches out there, but writing for kids certainly isn’t one of them. “It’s not a get-rich-quick scheme,” says Elissa Weissman, a 27-year-old Writing Seminars alumna, dryly. With three published children’s books to her name and a fourth […]

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There’s an App for That!

August 31, 2011 |  by Lisa Belman

Bruce E. Blausen, Med ’87 (MA) Besides updating your Twitter status or slicing digital pomegranates with Fruit Ninja, your smartphone can also help you learn about gestational diabetes, mitral valve stenosis, and a host of other medical conditions, thanks to Bruce Blausen. His Human Atlas app—available for the Web, smartphones, tablet computers, and bedside LCD […]

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Push for Parks

August 31, 2011 |  by Mike Field

A new film from Rebecca Messner, A&S ’08, celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted and the U.S. urban parks movement.

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The Accidental Historian

August 31, 2011 |  by Lisa Belman

Peg Leiendecker, Nurs ’65, didn’t set out to create a museum in her home—it just happened.

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Alumni Notes

August 31, 2011 |  by Johns Hopkins Staff

1943 Robert “Bob” Resnick, A&S ’43, ’49 (PhD), is honored to have the American Association of Physics Teachers rename their undergraduate teaching award the Robert Resnick and David Halliday Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Physics Teaching. The naming commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1960 publication of their pioneering introductory physics textbook—still used worldwide today. […]

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Shelf Life

August 31, 2011 |  by Lew Diuguid

Second Sight: Views from an Eye Doctor’s Odyssey By David Paton, Med ’56, HS ’62 (CreateSpace) The son of a prominent ophthalmologist, David Paton survived the perils of a privileged upbringing, and of dyslexia, to become chief resident at the Wilmer Eye Institute, where East Baltimore’s ills focused him on the failings of medicine in […]

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Bird by the Hand

June 1, 2011 |  by Laura Dattaro

Abby Glassenberg, A&S ’97 As a student, Abby Glassenberg was the girl who had all the stuff: She had thread, she had scissors, she had glue, material, glitter—anything and everything crafty and creative. She even had the sewing machine she bought in eighth grade with her bat mitzvah money. She was also the only one, […]

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Mo Fun, Mo Adventure: Mo Baldwin

June 1, 2011 |  by Mike Field

Getting to know the new executive director of the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Long before anyone heard of a “bucket list”—where you write down all those things you intend to do before you kick the bucket—Mo Baldwin kept a running tally of her dreams and goals in the back of her Day-Timer. She still […]

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Alumni Notes

June 1, 2011 |  by Johns Hopkins Staff

1943 Alan Schwartzman, Engr ’43, a retired architect, writes that his son Paul Schwartzman, Engr ’82, is working with a wind energy company in Dublin and his other son, Eric, is teaching in Moscow. 1946 Sarah V. Bangs-Dinehart, Nurs ’46, is retired and living in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 1948 Eugene Blank, A&S ’48, Med ’54, […]

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