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Issue: Spring 2012, Volume 9 Number 2
Features
Big Data
<p>Science is drowning in bits and bytes of information; Krieger School researchers are casting a lifeline.</p>
On Display
<p>Finding museums in unlikely places</p>
Around the World in 16 Days
<p>The weeks between fall and spring semesters provide an ideal time to study abroad.</p>
Hopkins Symphony Orchestra Turns 30
<p>Composed of Hopkins undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members, the HSO is celebrating its 30th year.</p>
From the Dean
Students Today, Leaders Tomorrow
“Social Climbers and Charlatans in American Literature.” “Best Sellers in the Early Nineteenth Century.” “Theft, Theory and Telescopes.” “The Human Microbiome.” What do these intriguing titles have in common? They are all winners of the intensely competitive contest among advanced doctoral students to command their own classrooms as Dean’s Teaching Fellows. Every year, some 60 […]
News
Learning Chinese Opens Doors to Collaboration
As China’s economy continues to grow, so does the country’s scientific and technological prowess. Decades...
Homewood Arts Programs
When in search of a creative outlet, Johns Hopkins undergraduates need look no further than...
Hopkins Economist Appointed to the Federal Reserve
In January, the Federal Reserve Board appointed Professor Jon Faust as special adviser in the...
Richard Conn Henry & Steve Hanke
“One time throughout the world, one date throughout the world.” —Richard Conn Henry, professor in...
Rebuilding the Foundation of Science Education
A new university-wide initiative aims to change the way science is introduced to undergraduates. With...
From Graffiti to Hospital Waste
Growing up in Houston, William McCance ’12 never saw much graffiti. Then he came to...
Research
Professor Discovers Remains of Ancient Human Ancestor
It seems that “Lucy” was not the only hominin on the block in northern Africa...
Hopkins Astrophysicists Detect One of the Farthest Supernovae
A team of Johns Hopkins astrophysicists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant...
Reach Out and Touch Something
Pick up a pen, a cup, a book—no big deal; we don’t give it a...
Gauging Gatsby’s Universality
Chris Benner ’12, like countless other American students, has declared F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby...
A Breakthrough Ruling Rocks Not-so-Mundane Iowa
Andrew Rosenberg ’12 recognizes that his native Iowa—known for corn, soybeans, and the state fair—might...
Unearthing the Rise of Ethics in Medical Education
As a regular reader of medical journals, pre-med student Lindsey Hutzler ’12 thought nothing between...
Progress Versus Tradition in China
Christopher Mirasola ’12 spent the summer after his sophomore year studying Chinese in Beijing. There,...
Solving the Mysteries of Vision
In the retina, the thin tissue carpeting the back of the eye, an intriguing type...
Faculty
A Day Late and a Euro Short
A faculty roundtable discussion on the economic crisis in Europe…why it started, who it might...
The Plastic Beauty
In 2004 and 2005, women who didn’t like their looks could win makeovers on the...
Student Research
Conspiracy Theories Deconstructed
In March 2011, Nolan DiFrancesco, a Hopkins junior who was studying at the American University...
Classroom
Film & Media Studies
Worth a Surf: krieger.jhu.edu/film-media Film and Media Studies is an undergraduate program incorporating courses in film history,...
Space is Her Passion
Like most people her age, Jessica Noviello uses Facebook to announce exciting developments in her...
Wretched Subjects
For most of us, the name Galileo Galilei evokes a vision of a nearly infallible...
Community
Where are they now?
For some students at Johns Hopkins, the arts are pretty serious business, and they’re determined...
Alumni
“I Sit with Shakespeare and He Winces Not”
“When I was a freshman, sitting in my room in Griffin House,” John Guess, Jr....
Rwanda's Long Walk from Genocide to Well-Being
When Donald Koran ’80, MA ’82, PhD, worked in Rwanda from 1999 to 2001, as...
Hopkins Globetrotter Still on the Fast Track
After a childhood that took her from Vienna to Belgrade to Washington, D.C., and Jakarta,...
Fueled by Curiosity, Fulfilled by Storytelling
Frank Bond ’77 inside the Newseums’s News History Gallery. Will Kirk / Homewoodphoto.jhu.edu Standing beneath...
Traveling the World in the Name of Health
“Throughout my career, I’ve been a voice for putting patients first.” —Freda C. Lewis-Hall ’76...
On Campus
Model United Nations Conference Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Clad in business suits and high heels, flocks of young men and women hurry down...