1942 Doris K. Avery, Nurs ’42, received the Non-Commissioned Officers Association World War II Veterans Medallion at a ceremony held at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii on February 5. The medal recognized Avery for service as a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps. 1943 Walton E. Stevens, A&S ’43, is the senior member of […]

Stay Healthy at Every Age: What Your Doctor Wants You to Know, by Shantanu Nundy, Med ’08 (Johns Hopkins University Press) Using the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force as his major source of recommendations, Nundy prescribes healthy practices attuned to one’s years, flags symptoms, and recommends timely screenings and/or counseling for 23 chapters’ worth of […]

For the sake of happiness, indulge in this fantasy: Think of a tropical island where the sun shines and the fish jump, where exotic fruits fall off the trees into your hands and gracious people move through their paces as they have for centuries, and where time passes as slowly as the days unfold. Who […]

Carol Graham’s transition from Dr. Poverty to Dr. Happy began in the late 1990s when something she found in Peru did not make sense. Graham, SAIS ’86, was born in Lima in 1962, and spent so much time there as a child that she sometimes says “we” when speaking of Peruvians. (Her father, George C. […]

Sometimes waking life resembles a nightmare. Picture a graduate student walking through a Romanian orphanage that has hundreds of cribs. In each of them are two or three emotionally or physically malnourished infants, many crying or catatonic, with the student slipping from room to room like a ghost. For six hours she just wanders, never […]

How human brains became large enough during the march of evolution to vault our ancestors ahead of chimps and other primates has long been a puzzle. In an attempt to fill in the pieces, scientists have focused on the prehistoric diet.

Two divisions of Johns Hopkins introduced new directors over the summer. In June,  the School of Education announced that David W. Andrews would become its new dean on September 1. In July, Ralph D. Semmel, Eng ’85 (MS), became the new director of the Applied Physics Laboratory. A highly regarded expert on database systems and […]

Space scientists have put several men on the moon, robotically explored the farthest reaches of the solar system, and calculated the age and composition of the universe. But they’ve had a hard time nailing down two of the most basic questions about life on Earth: How did the surface of the planet become mostly water? […]

It doesn’t take much to be a “star” today. Precipitating that comment was a grizzly murder, bizarre even by Southern California standards. The killer stabbed his victim to death and wounded two colleagues using a sword that was his trademark as an actor. The press described the murderer, whose professional name was Steve Driver, as […]

The most common noun ending to indicate a profession, a special capability, a philosophical leaning, or the like, is -ist (e.g. chemist, hypnotist, socialist, etc.). There are literally hundreds of such English words, far too many to ask you to try to list all (or most, or many) of them. Here are a few other […]