Paula Boggs, A&S ’81, released her first CD this summer, an unusual track for the top Starbucks executive and distinguished lawyer. She enjoys playing open mic nights because “It’s a highly vulnerable format, with instant feedback.”

The shelves at your store are filled with items that have been enhanced by things too small to see. They are so small, in fact, that each speck would make up the same portion of a regulation soccer ball as a soccer ball would of the entire earth. Tiny particles added to sunscreen transform it […]

Joseph McGowan, Ed ’04 (MS) Good leadership can be learned in countless ways—while fighting a war, rising through the corporate ranks, working to improve a public school system. So says Joseph McGowan, the director of federal programs for the School of Education’s Division of Public Safety Leadership (DPSL). For the past 12 years, McGowan, who […]

The Power to Prosper:  21 Days to Financial Freedom by Michelle Singletary, Bus ’93 (MS) (Zondevervan) Singletary’s 21 steps require a determination to “fast” from unessential spending for three weeks—tactically, by swearing off credit cards, and philosophically, by conforming one’s character to biblical teachings. Singletary is a personal finance columnist for The Washington Post (her […]

By focusing on the nutritional value of native food sources, Johns Hopkins researcher Jane Guyer seeks to fight widespread hunger in Africa.

When President Ron Daniels took office last year, he expressed an intent to bring the university’s various divisions together in entrepreneurial and academic collaboration. “There’s more that we can do to knit the various parts of the university,” he told Johns Hopkins Magazine last winter. Daniels took a step toward realizing that goal when he […]

National, state records fall after students Rajiv Mallipudi and Roosevelt Offoha pick up powerlifting

Johns Hopkins spring sports teams reeled in one Centennial Conference championship after another in May, continuing an excellent run by Hopkins athletics during the 2009–2010 season. Women’s track won the first conference championship in school history by upsetting Haverford College, which was favored to win its fifth straight crown. Senior Laura Paulsen ran off with […]

It’s no surprise to learn that a Johns Hopkins physician developed the very concept of safe and modern surgery—and, on top of that, implemented revolutionary sterilization techniques and created the residency training concept for medical school. Yet somehow, despite these and other advances that have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, William Stewart Halsted remains a virtual […]

…For a decade, birds have been prime suspects in the spread of avian flu across the United States. But expansion of the disease did not match their migration patterns. New research led by Jason L. Rasgon, associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, points to Culex tarsalis mosquitoes as the more likely culprits. […]