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Current Issue: Summer 2009

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The Acts of God Algorithm

Americans love to live in the path of natural disaster: on the coasts and near fault lines. That's just one reason the insurance industry is headed for the perfect storm.| Feature Article

The Waiting Game Unraveling a genetic puzzle

Not Varsity Sports The team that has the most fun wins

Amazing Grace Grace Bumbry redefined opera

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Alumni Notes | Or click here to submit a note

Irvin Yalom (MED’56) of Palo Alto, Calif., a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, has published a number of textbooks and best-selling novels. His book When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession (Harper Perennial, 1992) was selected for the Austrian event “One City, One Book,” a reading project that gives away 100,000 copies of a chosen title to Vienna residents. Irvin was a guest at the program’s gala dinner on November 15, 2009, in Vienna’s city hall.

Gary M. Ford (LAW’77) of Bethesda, Md., was appointed chief executive officer of MicroCredit Enterprises, a private sector, antipoverty program that provides small business loans to impoverished entrepreneurs in developing countries who live on $1 per day or less. Gary also is a principal at the Washington, D.C., law firm Groom Law Group.

Olga Stamatiou (CFA’82,’84) of Beaufort, S.C., founded the nonprofit SEEWALL CHILD, which creates art-based interactive displays to reduce patients’ fear and anxiety in hospital settings. The organization recently received a grant to provide displays to crisis centers, child-based relief programs, hospital emergency rooms, and other areas of need. Visit www.seewallchild.com, or e-mail Olga at olga@seewallchild.com.

Cameron Davis (CGS’84, CAS’86) of Evanston, Ill., was appointed senior advisor of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency in July 2009. He is President Barack Obama’s point person for restoring the Great Lakes. Cameron also published his first book, a genealogical memoir, or “genoir,” titled Confluence: Genoir of an American Family (Booksurge, 2009). Cameron “tries to show how to make family histories fun to read” by using his own 300-year family story as an example, “including encounters with Lincoln, Washington, and Chicago gangsters — all true,” he writes.