Issue: Fall 2012, Volume 10, Number 1
Features
Help Wanted
Climbing to Success in Today's Job Market
It Really IS Rocket Science!
An astrophysicist and his team build a sounding rocket—from scratch—in a lab on the Homewood campus.
Presenting…The Brody Learning Commons
This new addition to the Homewood campus offers users a “transformative experience.”
UnEarthed
Archaeology team digs up unexpected treasures in Egypt.
News
Keeping It Real in a Baltimore Jail
Zachary Athing ’13 tutors men in the Baltimore City Detention Center.
MindSumo
Businesses want problems solved on the cheap, and soon-to-be college graduates want the attention of prospective employers. Enter MindSumo.
Andrei Gritsan
On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle.
Welcome New Faculty
The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences welcomed a talented group of new faculty members in 2012.
Physics and Astronomy Department Mourns Death of Professor
Professor Zlatko Tesanovic, widely admired as a theoretical condensed matter physicist, died on July 26.
The EU Crisis: A Banking Perspective
Christopher Drennen ’95 served as lead technical negotiator during the sovereign restructuring of Greece.
Krieger School Welcomes Controversial Russian Scholar
After losing his job in Russia, Nikolay Koposov is now a guest professor at the Krieger School.
Italy’s Gatekeeper of the Humanities
Christopher Celenza is the director of the American Academy in Rome, where he’s gaining a new view of how the arts and humanities intersect.
Research
How Free Is Free Will?
The nature of free will and moral responsibility is a discussion philosophers have been having for centuries. Now neuroscientists are adding to the conversation.
Faculty
Immigration Nations
Political Science Professor Michael Hanchard talks about why immigration is such a hot-button political issue.
Becoming Muslim
Naveeda Khan wanted “to write a book that had the passion to legitimize Pakistan as a center of intellectual thought and creative expression.”
Student Research
The Gilman Years — Before Johns Hopkins
While writing his thesis on Daniel Coit Gilman, Kevin Chun ’12 uncovered little-known facts about Johns Hopkins’ first president.
Mapping Out Global Health Care Systems
How do socioeconomic conditions affect life expectancy? Do people in countries with nationalized medicine live longer?
Forging Connections Among Muslims
Rafee Al-Mansur and Mohamed Hamouda are producing a documentary film about African-American and immigrant Muslim communities in Baltimore.
Waste Not, Want Not
Lily Newman ’12 traced the fascinating past of medical waste and various views on disposal methods.
Undergrads Curate Exhibit About Post-war Jewish Life in Baltimore
Jews on the Move explores the postwar relocation of Baltimore’s Jewish community from the city to the northwest suburbs of Baltimore County.
Classroom
Con Men Characters of American Literature
Social Climbers and Charlatans in American Literature is a popular course in the English department.
Community
Keeping It Real in a Baltimore Jail
Zachary Athing ’13 tutors men in the Baltimore City Detention Center.
Lab Tech Witnesses More Than a Half Century of History and Change at JHU
Gerri Chester has spent her entire 55-year career as a lab tech in the biology department.
Alumni
Sea Tales Inspire Former Inmate
A book—and its author—helped a former bank robber chart a new course for his life.
The Missing Perspective in the Middle East (and Elsewhere)
Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein ’87 offers his unique perspective of the Arab Spring.
The Writing Life
Since earning her MA at Johns Hopkins in 1979, Louise Erdrich has written 13 novels.
It’s Hot: High-Tech Sentinel System for “Cold Chain” Process
Tom Smith ’11 is CEO of ESDA LLC, a high-tech startup he created with two friends during their freshman year.
On Campus
Undergrads Curate Exhibit About Post-war Jewish Life in Baltimore
Jews on the Move explores the postwar relocation of Baltimore’s Jewish community from the city to the northwest suburbs of Baltimore County.
Professor’s New Film Puts Students to Work
When Matthew Porterfield’s eagerly awaited film debuts in early 2013, several Johns Hopkins film majors will be listed in the credits.
Lab Tech Witnesses More Than a Half Century of History and Change at JHU
Gerri Chester has spent her entire 55-year career as a lab tech in the biology department.
Insights
Con Men Characters of American Literature
Social Climbers and Charlatans in American Literature is a popular course in the English department.
Immigration Nations
Political Science Professor Michael Hanchard talks about why immigration is such a hot-button political issue.
Becoming Muslim
Naveeda Khan wanted “to write a book that had the passion to legitimize Pakistan as a center of intellectual thought and creative expression.”