Diana Jeang ’14: Seeking Immunity
Fall 2013The goal of Diana Jeang’s research is to determine what biological and immune factors in...
Heshy Roskes ’14: Smashing Particles
Fall 2013Physics and astronomy major Heshy Roskes used his research award to travel to CERN in...
Wretched Subjects
Spring 2012For most of us, the name Galileo Galilei evokes a vision of a nearly infallible...
Space is Her Passion
Spring 2012Like most people her age, Jessica Noviello uses Facebook to announce exciting developments in her...
Hopkins Astrophysicists Detect One of the Farthest Supernovae
Spring 2012A team of Johns Hopkins astrophysicists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant...
Solving the Mysteries of Vision
Spring 2012In the retina, the thin tissue carpeting the back of the eye, an intriguing type...
Can You Wrap Your Head Around M2-Branes?
Fall 2011Michael Beard, the aging wunderkind physicist, was worried. “He liked to think he was an...
Number Sense? Count On It from Birth
Fall 2011Illustration: Robert Neubecker When Melissa Libertus was in high school, she loved math—and was so...
Art and Amnesia: Solving Recovery’s Puzzles
Fall 2011Back in 2007, Lonni Sue Johnson was a successful artist and illustrator living in upstate...
Seeing the Eye's Not-So-Simple Subtleties
Fall 2011Long referred to as the window to the soul, the eye also plays an important...
Fresh Perspectives on Autism
Fall 2011The social met the spatial in Alex Murray’s recent study, which could hold out promise...
Putting the Focus on Quantum Matter
Spring 2011Scientists in a new institute in the Department of Physics and Astronomy are working to...