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Issue 142 | May 2013

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Alumni of Note
Alumni of Note
Arielle Goren, A&S '05, is part mind reader, part political speechwriter.

Aloke S. Chakravarty, A&S '94, is one of the prosecutors leading the case against the Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

The FDA has approved Robert Greenberg's, Med '94, '98 (PhD), bionic eye system.

English teacher Peter Sipe, A&S '95, SAIS '96, talks about grade school memories and lockdown drills.
 
Spotlight Event
Chapter Event
A forum with
JHU entrepreneurs
June 9
San Mateo, CA
 
Alumni Journeys
Alumni Journeys
Montreal to
New England
A journey by ship
Professor Eliot Cohen
Sept. 30-Oct. 12
 
Book of the Month
Book of the Month
The Secrets of Surviving Infidelity
by Scott Haltzman, MD
 
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Shop online through the JHU alumni Amazon portal and help support the alumni association.
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Top Story
Top Story We're up to it!
Johns Hopkins has launched Rising to the Challenge, a $4.5 billion campaign focusing on discovery, solving problems, and supporting students. Guests at a May 4 launch event learned that more than 40 percent of the goal has already been committed...and heard a celebratory performance by a swinging faculty/trustee band.
University News
University News Gearing up for graduation
Classes are over and soon the class of 2013 will don caps and gowns, accept hard-earned diplomas, and head out into the real world. Catch the commencement webcast here on Thursday, May 23, at 8:40 a.m.
And by the way...
Yeah: Our graduates-to-be are pretty darned awesome.
You can help
Johns Hopkins friends are contributing to a memorial fund for Anne Smedinghoff, A&S '09, a U.S. diplomat killed in Afghanistan. They're also backing an assistance fund for Jessica Kensky, Nurs '09, who — with her husband — was seriously injured in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Biopsies, from the inside out
Engineers are sending what are essentially dust speck-sized pathology robots into the body to collect tissue samples and then bringing them back out.
An opinionated faculty
A sociologist's New York Times opinion piece on marriage, a philosopher's on humanist foreshadowing of a scientific discovery, and a bioethicist's on organ donation by convicts.
Debauchery in the desert
Life in ancient Egypt wasn't all pyramids and sphinxes, of course. There was also the ritual public drunkenness and sex.
Infecting the mosquitoes
Turnaround is fair play, right? If we infect mosquitoes with (to them) harmless bacteria, we may be able to stop them from transmitting malaria.
Book talk I: Johns Hopkins history
Faculty member Bill Leslie is commissioned to write a history of the university.
Book talk II: U.S. foreign policy
SAIS Dean Vali Nasr criticizes Obama administration policy and discusses his book, The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat, on C-SPAN's "After Words."
Menopausal medicine
Trainee gynecologists want more education on the needs of menopausal patients.
Sports Beat
Senior middle-distance star Annie Monagle has overcome spinal, foot, and shin fractures, iron deficiency, and even an ulcer to become a track All-American. She, several men's and women's teammates, men's and women's tennis, and the baseball squad all have qualified for NCAA post-season competition. For the first time in 42 years, however, men's lacrosse did not make the cut. Find NCAA results here.
Milestones & Transitions
The university will soon have a new provost and vice provost for student affairs.

Nursing Dean Martha Hill is now an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Nursing.

Engineering Dean Nick Jones will become provost at Penn State, and Peabody Director Jeffrey Sharkey has chosen not to remain for a second term.
Research Highlights
Blocking a single gene may be the key to defanging aggressive cancers.

The brain can collate unconnected memories about places, allowing us to mentally map out new routes from one spot to another.

Bad diagnoses are a worse problem than botched surgery or medication mistakes.
Alumni News
Alumni News Congratulations and welcome
Congratulations to the class of 2013 and welcome to the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association. You are one of us now! Connect with fellow alumni through Facebook and Twitter. We can't wait to meet you.
Learning from one another
A select group of graduating seniors developed meaningful connections with recent grads during the 2013 Students and Young Alumni Leadership Symposium.
Join the club
Have you ever considered joining the Johns Hopkins Club? If not, it's a great time to think about membership. Stop by the club for lunch, dinner, or a special event to get a taste of the facilities. Not local to Baltimore? Not a problem. Members can enjoy reciprocal privileges across the U.S. and around the world. Join the club by July 28, 2013, and get your initiation fee waived — up to $425 for residents and up to $220 for non-residents. Learn more.
Rising
Rising And, action!
Grab some popcorn and enjoy video highlights from Rising to the Challenge launch weekend, an action-packed celebration featuring students both stepping up and bringing down the house, as well as a cast of hundreds putting campaign ideas to work in our community.
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