Alumni News: Winter/Spring 2026
Alumni honors, career moves, and items of note
The Senate confirmed Caroline Pogge, DrPH ’19, as Brigadier General in the Army.
Bookshelf
99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them, by Ashely Alker, SM ’09
In this “Anthony Bourdain-style greatest hits tour of death,” Ashely Alker, an emergency medicine doctor and self-described ‘death-escapologist,’ provides practical advice and stories from her experiences in life and medicine.
Jessica and the River Fairies, by Jeffrey Blander, SM ’00, SM ’04, ScD ’08
Blander’s fifth book and second children’s title, Jessica and the River Fairies is inspired by his late mother and co-author, Ann Blander and a short bedtime story she wrote for him as a child.
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