For most students, the summer is a time to relax and recharge, maybe take a class or two. But one Over the Mountain resident will spend her summer working at one of the most prestigious hospitals in the country.Elizabeth Wood of Vestavia Hills, a second-year pharmacy student at Auburn University, will spend the summer in Rochester, Minn., at Mayo Clinic. She was … [Read more...]
Mountain Brook AIDS Researcher Earns National Award
A noted AIDS researcher and Mountain Brook resident was one of only three doctors from the U.S. to receive the Clinical Excellence Award at the National Physician of the Year Awards ceremony in New York City March 31.Michael Saag, professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and director of the Center for AIDS Research, received the award at a … [Read more...]
Carpenter’s Book Strives for Complete Picture of His Father
By Keysha DrexelJournal editorWhen Douglas M. Carpenter of Mountain Brook set about to write his father's biography, the retired minister of Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills knew a part of that book would include how his father was the first of eight clergy members addressed in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" during Holy Week … [Read more...]
From Corn to Collard Greens: Brys Stephens’ New Cookbook Spotlights Southern Staples
By Donna CorneliusJournal feature writerBrys Stephens knows how to tell a story--on a plate and on the pages of his new cookbook.The 41-year-old Birmingham native is the author of “The New Southern Table,” which devotes each of its 13 chapters to a classic Southern ingredient. From okra to watermelon, the foods on which he focuses made frequent appearances on … [Read more...]
Father-Daughter Optometrists Will Show Their Style at Fashion Show
By Keysha DrexelThat old idiom about the apple not falling far from the tree fits Dr. Brooke Kaplan in the most stylish way.Not only is the 32-year-old optometrist in an eye care practice with her father, but she is also following in his fashionable footsteps to help raise money for Mountain Brook schools.Kaplan and her father, Dr. Jack Schaeffer, will … [Read more...]