The Children’s Hospital Boston Archives and Harvard Medical School’s Archives for Women in Medicine and Warren Anatomical Museum celebrated Mary Ellen Avery ’48 in an exhibit featuring items from her pioneering career and contributions to pediatrics (Fall 2010).

Manic Mommies, a family/parenting web site co-founded by Kristin Sundin Brandt ’94, won two silver awards in the 2010 international W Awards competition, in the categories of copy/writing, and structure and navigation. [Read more...]

Robert (“Sky”) Sabin ’10 screened his short documentary “At the Heart Is the Guitar,” which explores the process of creating a handmade guitar, at the Woods Hole Film Festival (August 2010). Sabin made the documentary as a Wheaton Fellow and refined it as an independent study project under the direction of Associate Professor of Art and Film Jake Mahaffy.

In the Garden with Dr. Carver (Alpert Whitman & Company), which was illustrated by Nicole Lee Tadgell ’91, was published in September.

National Medal of Science winner Dr. Mary Ellen Avery ’48 is the subject of a new book, Mel: A Biography of Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, by Bojan Jennings, chemistry professor emerita (2010).

Jared Duval ’05 published Next Generation Democracy: What the Open Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change (Bloomsbury, 2010).

Joanne Kourepinos Adams ’82 was honored as Garden City (N.Y.) “Citizen of the Year” for 2010 in April. The award recognizes volunteerism and outstanding service to the Village of Garden City and beyond.

Betsy Smith Bergquist ’55 has published Up the Hill to Baker River School, a memoir of self-discovery and educational activism (Dog Ear Publishing, 2010).

Executive Elaine Brown ’77 co-authored The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women (Random House, 2010).

Ann Burkhardt ’76, clinical associate professor of occupational therapy at Quinnipiac University, received the President’s Award from the New York State Occupational Therapy Association, which recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the occupational therapy profession. [Read more...]