Norman C. Shealy, BSM’56, MD’56, HS’56-’57, PhD, wakes up at 5 a.m. every weekday for a workout before heading into the clinic. “A light day is an hour of exercise,” he says. “Ninety minutes is more typical.”

The fortified Toyota Land Cruiser slipped and bounced in the muddy hollows of the rain-drenched Mongolian steppe. The driver, a native Mongolian man named Inka who spoke little English, slowly engineered the vehicle along what just two days earlier was a dusty pair of dirt tracks.

On Valentine’s Day 2009, Meg Lindenberger was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Marilyn Pike, T’73, PhD’79, MD’85, hit the jackpot when she opted to work as a research technician after earning her undergraduate de­gree at Duke.