We give up. We’re fighting a losing battle here. And we strongly suspect the extra  “s” was a typo in the first place. —University President Ron Daniel [sic], quoted in a press release announcing the changing of the university’s name to John Hopkins, and dated 4.1.10. (That would be April Fools’  Day.) Parents and grandparents […]

15 Rank of Johns Hopkins University among “The 50 Most Stressful Colleges” as determined by The Daily Beast. After cheerily noting that Cornell University endured six student suicides in this academic year alone, the website applied some dubious methodology to the top 50 universities as listed by the annual U.S. News & World Report survey—that […]

Over Alumni Weekend 2010, Homewood was practically bursting with programs, events, student volunteers, and—of course—alumni.

Ron Daniels hit the road this spring to meet alumni and friends and share his vision for the university.

Howard B. Dickler, A&S ’64, has been appointed the first chief operating officer of the new National Institutes of Health Center for Human Immunology, Autoimmunity, and Inflammation in Bethesda, Maryland. The trans-NIH CHI has been created to probe the human immune system in great depth using multiple high-throughput multiplex platforms both in normal individuals and […]

1940 Milton Rudo, A&S ’40, splits his time between Delray Beach, Florida, and Highland Beach, Illinois, and enjoys playing golf and bridge. 1944 Benjamin K. Silverman, A&S ’44, retired in July 2009 and moved to Bay Head, New Jersey. 1949 William F. Rienhoff III, Med ’49, a retired surgeon, is living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. […]

In six to 60 words (haikus welcome), tell us what makes you happy. We’ll print selected responses in the “What Makes You Happy?” feature in our HAPPINESS issue this fall. Just fill out the form below, and we’ll be in touch. (Photo: Creative Commons licensed from flickr user Éole.) // <![CDATA[ var host = (("https:" […]

Solutions to Golomb’s Gambits

Melanoma is relatively rare, accounting for only 3 percent of skin cancer cases nationwide. But it leads to 75 percent of all skin cancer deaths. Each year 70,000 Americans are diagnosed with the disease, and though curable if found early, it kills one in eight patients, many within six to nine months of diagnosis. Physicians […]

From recruiting top students to planning events, every year, thousands of alumni around the world donate their time and talent to Johns Hopkins.