First Two Schwarz Instructors Named

Winter 2005

**Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering PhD students Meredith Bauman (left) and Kelly Hardesty are proud to have their names lead off the list of those honored with the Schwarz Instructorship.**

A luncheon on October 24 honored the two inaugural recipients of the William H. Schwarz Instructorship in Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Laboratory. They are Meredith Bauman (see a profile of her on page 26) and Kelly Hardesty, both of whom are PhD students in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

The Schwarz Instructorship fund was established in 2000 by 10 alumni from the Class of 1953 and one from the Class of 1956 to honor their former instructor, William H. Schwarz ’51, ’55 MS, ’57 PhD. Schwarz, who died in 1995, was committed to making the Chemical Engineering Laboratory a defining moment of undergraduate education. The Schwartz Fund supports the graduate students teaching this pivotal course

Three Notable Alumni Who “Pay it Forward”

IN THE 1950s, one in three Engineering undergraduates at the Johns Hopkins University received a Maryland State Senatorial Scholarship. These scholarships, which covered as much as full tuition, were provided to the University through a legislative appropriation that had begun when the Engineering school opened its doors in 1913. Each state senator could award scholarship…

Circuit Completed

The prototype fund in the Faculty Scholar Program embeds two goals of its creator, Vinod K. Agarwal ’77 PhD: to honor his mentor and to recognize the contributions of a junior faculty member in the Whiting School. One year shy of completing his electrical engineering doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh, Vinod K. Agarwal faced…

“It just Makes Sense”

With the fruits of his successful career in finance and banking, George Elder ’51 has a history of making wise investments. He is continuing that tradition by investing in the Whiting School, while receiving benefits in return. George Elder ’51 likes to say his career was “checkered.” Certainly it was somewhat unorthodox, and undoubtedly it…