During his visit this spring, acclaimed theater director Paulo Landi took on a new challenge: teaching conversational Italian.

Robins School Faculty Accomplishments for the months of April and May 2010, as collected via Digital Measures

Matt McDermott, '11: This highly involved Robins School student has a breadth of experience enviable to most.

Service at a local elementary school awakened an interest in education policy in Elle Carabetta.

Unlike most future doctors, Jordan Walter, '10, says it was his decision to double major in philosophy that gave him a competitive edge over other medical school applicants.

In April, just a few weeks before exams, the students in Ethical Decision Making in Health Care went to Johns Hopkins Hospital, one of the nation's best hospitals, to learn how medical professionals apply the theories they had been studying to real-life-and-death scenarios.

After being exposed to the work of cartoonist R. Crumb last fall, artist scholar Anthony Ferguson, '10, pursued a darker and more introspective direction in his paintings and cartoons.

"Health care is a prime topic in the national conversation," said Jepson School Dean Sandra J. Peart, "and the leadership and ethical challenges are ongoing and complex.” Video of presentation by Johns Hopkins CEO is posted.

“We’re trying to foster a Jepson community of active minds, participative government and facilitating administration,” said Jepson School Government Association 2010-2011 President Alex Cramer.

New Orleans native Juliette Jeanfreau, ’10, returned home to research hurricanes Katrina and Betsy with the dean of Westhampton College. The experience inspired her to look at suffering from a slightly different perspective for her senior honors thesis.