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? […]

Carey Business School’s ground-breaking program has drawn students from across the world to southern Baltimore. The two-year, full-time program’s new curriculum is interdisciplinary in orientation and emphasis.

Paul Auwaerter does not, as a rule, invest a lot of time in considering what might have killed a South American liberator 180 years ago. As clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine, Auwaerter is a busy man. But this was a compelling case. The liberator was the liberator, […]

Jesse Rosenthal began his scholarly career by earning a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College in English, no surprise for someone recently added to the Krieger School’s English faculty as an assistant professor. But his minor was mathematics, and he programmed computers for fun. So the idea of applying computers and quantitative analysis to the study […]

Any veteran special education teacher will tell you: There’s no way to predict how a student with autism will fare in the classroom. Danielle Liso at the School of Education works to raise awareness to about the incurable disease.

In the tradition of violin making, Giovanni Paolo Maggini holds a distinguished pedigree and place. The Italian, who made instruments between 1590 and 1630, learned his trade from Gasparo da Salo, dubbed the father of all fiddle makers. An exacting craftsman, Maggini only made 60 or so instruments in his lifetime. Collectors have long prized […]

How Stanley Mazaroff—who has been a Baltimore employment lawyer, a 62-year-old Johns Hopkins freshman, and Blue Jay lacrosse legend Jerry Schnydman’s Little League baseball coach—became the author of an art history book is a complicated story. That’s appropriate given the complex and conflicted relationship of the title characters in Mazaroff’s tight, focused work, Henry Walters […]

…By using Internet search strings such as “pro-anorexia,” “pro-bulimia” and “thin and support,” Bloomberg School researchers found dozens of websites that present dangerous ideas and encourage eating disorders. The study, led by associate professor Dina L.G. Borzekowski, analyzed the content of 180 such sites. Ninety-one percent were open to the public, and 84 percent offered […]