Abby Abelson K'74 has been named chair of the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases at Cleveland Clinic. Abelson joined Cleveland Clinic in 2002 and had served as interim chair since May 2008. "I am honored to chair a department that has a long tradition of accomplishments in patient care, research and education. Our staff includes national leaders and it is an honor to support them in our continued growth," said Abelson.

More ...

George Baker ’74 returned to Hamilton on March 3 and spoke with students about starting their career search in Washington. The discussion, titled “So You Want to Work in Washington, D.C.: A User’s Guide to Finding a Job in the Nation's Capital,” introduced students to the nature of the Washington job market and provided a framework for beginning the search. Baker is a partner at Williams & Jensen PLLC in D.C., a litigation lobbying firm where he started working in 1980.

More ...

John Donohue '74 has been appointed C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. The chair commemorates a family whose ties with the university span three generations, and Donohue will be the fifth distinguished faculty member to hold the endowed chair since it was established in 1977 by the Carlsmiths.

More ...

Jane Friedman of Writer’s Digest has interviewed John Sundman '74 about the challenges of self-publishing for her blog There Are No Rules. Sundman is the author of Acts of the Apostles, Cheap Complex Devices, and The Pains and is developing his fourth novel, Creation Science.

More ...

Gordon Kaye '74 will be one of four industry professionals to judge Hudson Valley Wine Magazine’s first-ever "The Face of the Hudson Valley Wine" Label Competition.  The competition is currently accepting entries from all winemakers in the Hudson Valley American Viticultural Area.  Awards will go to the best-designed labels in a series of categories, including "Best Type Design," "Best Use of Illustration or Photography," "Most Memorable Label" and more.  Judging will take place in May 2010 and the winning labels in all categories will be published in the Summer 2010 issue of Hudson Valley Wine Magazine.    More ...

Dr. Rocco Orlando '74 was named as the first chief medical officer for regional health provider Hartford Healthcare and Hartford Hospital in Connecticut.  Also named a senior vice president, Rocco will head the staff of three acute care hospitals and other specialty health care providers.  His job will be to help and inspire Hartford Healthcare staff to reach national recognition in patient quality and safety.  Elliot Joseph, president and CEO of Hartford Healthcare and Hartford Hospital described Dr. Orlando as “a proven leader with the talents, experience and personality to guide the clinicians of Hartford Healthcare into the future."  More ...

Susan Hartman K'74, a journalist, has been working with a team of three award-winning photographers and a videographer on a documentary project, based on her New York Times cover story, Jump Rope Girls, 20 Years On. This project follows three remarkable young Brooklyn women.  Hartman has known these young women—and written about them—since they were 11. The project includes, Destiny's Sweet Sixteen, a video. More ...

When he traveled to Berlin in 1987, President Ronald Reagan said famously, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” And while the United States certainly played an important role in the end of the Cold War, there were other (arguably more significant) factors at work. In his book The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Simon & Schuster, 9/09), author Michael Meyer ’74 contends that domestic resistance movements and certain key figures within the USSR at the time – in particular Hungarian Prime Minister Miklós Németh – were the true impetuses behind the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. In so doing, Meyer rejects the “common knowledge” interpretation of Cold War history and uncovers hitherto-undervalued people, events, and perspectives. More ...

On the evening of October 14, students in the Program in Washington were welcomed into the office of Williams and Jensen, a leading government affairs law firm, for a presentation on politics and lobbying by principals George Baker ’74 and Frank Vlossak ’89. More ...

Study Buddies is an on-campus mentoring program that in recent months has taken initiatives to expand its mission. Co-directors Pat Hodgens '09 and Ben Dropkin '11 coordinate the partnership between HAVOC and For the Good Inc., a Utica non-profit run by Kirkland alumna Cassandra Harris-Lockwood '74. More ...