Alumni, as a new academic year gets underway, make sure to connect with your peers on the Morehead-Cain Network (MCN). Share your interests, causes you care about, professional experience, and ways you can assist in powering the mission of the Program: moreheadcain-network.org

Thank you to Karen Brinson Bell for speaking with scholars at the first Food for Thought event of the fall semester! Bell serves as the executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections. (Photo by Anand Medlery ’27, Morehead-Cain Scholar Media Team)

Alan Murray ’77, former CEO of Fortune Media, has been tapped to lead the Dow Jones Leadership Institute, a new commercial venture that will seek to support C-suite executives through coaching, data and analysis, and networking. Alan Murray Dow Jones axios.com/2024/09/03/dow…

Dr. John Rose has joined the Morehead-Cain Foundation as faculty director for Dialogue and Discourse. In addition to his work with Morehead-Cain, Rose will serve as professor of the practice at the School of Civic Life and Leadership at @unc. buff.ly/3zkcDAA

Thank you to the eight members of the first class of women Morehead-Cains (1979) who returned to campus this past weekend for a reunion and scholar talk!

Morehead-Cain Alumni landed new jobs, received accolades, earned advanced degrees, and more. Here’s who made a move this summer. buff.ly/3XlBb47

Thanks to Zoya Teirstein at grist for telling how Hurricane Katrina turned our lives upside down and also pushed me to pivot and study disasters and resilience grist.org/extreme-weathe… NU School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Northeastern CSSH SSRC The Fulbright Program Morehead-Cain Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Scholars, join us for a Food for Thought talk with Yi Li, CEO of FarmWorks, on Friday, September 20. Li will give a talk on market-based solutions for global food security. RSVP: buff.ly/4d05pj5

All scholars are invited to join dinner with Abdullah Antepli of Duke Divinity School this week as part of the Dialogue and Discourse program. Antepli will deliver a talk entitled, “Israel and Gaza: Finding a Way Forward,” on Thursday, September 19. RSVP: buff.ly/3Zqipv8

David Wright ’80 of Robinson Bradshaw, immediate past chair of the Foundation’s board of trustees, has been appointed by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. robinsonbradshaw.com/newsroom-news-…

So happy to cross paths here in Longwood with my wonderful mentor Charlene Wong, MD on her visit to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health along with Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH! I’m so lucky that you laid the foundations of my passions for clinical medicine, health policy, and public health! Morehead-Cain

Scholars, join us for lunch on Thursday, September 26, with one of the speakers from the inaugural Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) North Carolina. Shobhaa De, an Indian novelist and columnist, will meet with scholars at 12:00 p.m. at the Foundation. RSVP: buff.ly/4dbjYjM