Arts & Sciences Magazine > Spring 2015, Volume 12, Number 2

Issue: Spring 2015, Volume 12, Number 2

Features

Resilient to the Core

What happens when hardworking students encounter discouraging obstacles? Meet a few Hopkins students who have demonstrated resiliency in the face of daunting challenges.

The Eyes Have It

<p>By examining randomness on a microscopic level, biologist Robert Johnston and his team are working to better understand gene regulation.</p>

Play Ball!

The Blue Jays are loving their new state-of-the-art Babb Field at Stromberg Stadium. Check out their first win in the new digs.

Other Lives

<p>From flamenco dancing to powerlifting, many professors in the School of Arts and Sciences lead dramatically different lives outside the classroom.</p>

From the Dean

From the Dean's Desk: New Vision for the Krieger School

As the newly named James B. Knapp Dean, my job now is to begin formulating a vision for the School of Arts and Sciences.

New Vision for the Krieger School

“Being the interim dean of the Krieger School gave me a whole new view of this amazing institution…”

News

New Aronson Center Will Address World Problems, Train Future Leaders

Jeff and Shari Aronson’s gift will bring the Krieger School and SAIS (JHU’s School of...

Big Data Expert Named Bloomberg Professor

Alexander Szalay, a professor in the Krieger School’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been...

New Computing Center Will Deliver a Hefty Digital Punch

Two Maryland universities are preparing to open the nation’s sixth largest academic computing center.

Science Postdocs Take to the Classroom

The Dean’s Postdoctoral Science Teaching Fellowships program has two goals: to offer more small science...

Krieger School Welcomes New Dean

Get to know the new dean of the Krieger School, Beverly Wendland.

New Major in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities

Students who want to explore the intersections between medicine and the humanities will be interested...

Is There Value in Violence?

Benjamin Ginsberg, the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and the director of JHU's Center...

Drug Restores Brain Function and Memory in Early Alzheimer’s Disease

A novel therapeutic approach for an existing drug reverses a condition in elderly patients who...

Faculty

More Faculty Books

See what our faculty members have recently published.

Unraveling the True Machiavelli

Niccoló Machiavelli gets a bum rap, charges Christopher Celenza, chairman of the Department of Classics...

Student Research

two people standing outside holding a two-foot-long yellow rocket

William Cunningham '16 and Alexander Delavega '16: Rocket to the 14th Century

Two physics majors are designing and reconstructing a Ming Dynasty rocket mentioned in 14th-century Chinese...

Piper Janoe '16: Refugee Stories

The research of Piper Janoe is a pilot study aimed at discovering what it’s like...

Katrina Rios '15: Improving Dialysis Experience

Katrina Rios is conducting a pilot study on mental health improvements through activity-based learning in...

Ahmed Elsayyad '15: Rethinking Clinical Trials

Ahmed Elsayyad is investigating the ethical implications of an alternative way to get consent for...

Helen Zhao '16: Vaccination Wars

Helen Zhao is using philosophy to explore the controversial topic of vaccines.

Arielle Kaden ’16: Saving the Shtetlach

Arielle Kaden is researching the resurgence of Jewish life in Europe in the post-Holocaust era.

James Keiler '17: Unlocking Parkinson's Disease

Neuroscience major James Keiler's lab is using gene knockout to try to isolate the protein...

Jesse Chen '16: Asian-American Sensibilities

Jesse Chen traveled to major cities to interview a broad range of Asian-American people and...

Finding the Payoff in Classroom Misbehavior

Economics graduate student Victor Rondo is examining why women make less money than men, and...

Classroom

Getting Hands-on with Ancient Greece

Recreating Ancient Greek Ceramics isn’t a conventional class; it is a new hands-on course in...