JHUpdate: News from Johns Hopkins for Alumni, Parents, and Friends
Stories for alumni, parents, and friends Forward
No. 199; September 2018
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Welcomes, wisdom, and a whole lot of selfies
After unveiling their class banner and listening to inspiring words, the newest Blue Jays enjoyed some face time with President Ronald J. Daniels at Convocation.
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Good morning, Baltimore!
First-year students visited Camden Yards, Fells Point, and other highlights of their new hometown during the fifth-annual Baltimore Day.
VIEW PHOTOS
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We’d love a piece of your mind
We’ll be sending the 2018 Alumni Survey later this year — make sure your voice is heard by updating your record today.
UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION
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For the love of the book
A generation of Hopkins students has discovered the joy of book collecting and the wonder of artist’s books thanks to Betty and Edgar Sweren.
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You can enrich the Hopkins experience for our students

Gifts to the Alumni Association open doors to leadership, service, and social activities for our students, close to home and around the world.
MAKE YOUR GIFT TODAY
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Parker Solar Probe embarks on its historic voyage to the sun

Built at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, the probe launched in August and will begin sending back data in December.
WATCH THE LAUNCH

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Supercharge your career search

Access job openings posted by more than 50,000 approved employers through Handshake, Hopkins’ one-stop career-building shop.
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A Nobel medal provides inspiration — and an investment — in young scientists

Relatives of the late Hopkins professor Daniel Nathans auction his 1978 Nobel medal to support up-and-coming Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers.
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Learn for less with the Odyssey Program
Hopkins alumni receive 25 percent off dozens of courses, from photography to Spanish — all you need to do is call to register.
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Join today, become a member for life
Serving the Hopkins community since 1971, the Johns Hopkins Federal Credit Union offers savings and checking accounts, consumer and mortgage loans, and more.
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CLASS NOTES
Kevin-White.jpg Kevin White, Bus '18 (MBA)
White’s USee, a diagnostic tool and lens kit that helps provide eyeglasses in remote parts of the world, wins a
$1 million award
 
GREAT READS
Faces-of-Courage-book-cover.jpg Faces of Courage: Intimate Portraits of Women on the Edge
By Mark Tuschman
Val de Grace Books (Publisher: Paul Chutkow, MA (A&S ’71), A&S ’69) 
TRY SOMETHING NEW
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Third Annual JHAA Golf Outing
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10:00 a.m.
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Registration is still open! Enjoy a round of golf, a beverage cart sponsored by Hoop Tea, and a crab feast sponsored by Linton’s Crab House.

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Fall alumni weekends are here
It’s not too late to register for events at Homewood's Young Alumni Weekend (Sept. 28-29) and School of Nursing (Oct. 4-6 for reunion years 3 and 8).

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Hopkins Twin Cities: La Rondine with the Minnesota Opera
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7:30 p.m.
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Enjoy an evening at the opera! Before the performance, we’ll attend an Opera Insights lecture and afterward, we’ll take a private backstage tour.

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Travel the World
May 11 – 25, 2019
Dynasties of China and Tibet: The Yangtze River and the Himalayas

Explore the historic neighborhoods of Old Shanghai, imperial dignity of Mandarin Beijing, treasures of historic Xi’an, and Tibetan Buddhist “Sun City” of Lhasa.