Wolman has served in numerous capacities for professional and community organizations, and is currently serving on the National Research Council, the consultative arm of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a board member of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, and past chairman of the board of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and The Park School in Baltimore. When asked to reflect on his long and successful career, Wolman spoke glowingly of the academic life. I don't believe there is a freer existence than in a good academic institution like Hopkins. One of the dilemmas of social policy is that the attention span of the political process does not accord at all well with the characteristics of the environment.
Good politicians have to do something in less than the time scale of forever.