Charles McC. Mathias, former U.S. senator from Maryland, received the Howard Seidman Award for Distinguished Service to Johns Hopkins from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences during the Johns Hopkins Convocation in Washington, D.C., in November.

Mathias holds a distinguished visiting professorship at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and is a fellow of the Krieger School's Washington Center for the Study of American Government. From the left: former U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania William Clinger, A&S '51, a fellow at the Washington Center and last year's recipient; Hopkins President William R. Brody, who presented the award; Mathias; and Harold Seidman.

An Evening With the Stars, a benefit co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian and Alaskan Native Health, brought out more than 20 NFL players and raised over $40,000 toward the expansion of Native Vision, a year-round, community-based mentoring program for Indian youth. The event was held in November in Washington, D.C. The center's partners include the NFL Players Association and the Nick Lowery Charitable Foundation. The third annual football and life skills camp is slated for June on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, when the year-round program will be officially launched; more than 300 youths from 25 tribes are expected to attend. From the left: Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association; NFL veteran player Nick Lowery; and Mathuram Santosham, center director.