The Krieger School’s Marina Rustow examines the Cairo Geniza, an invaluable collection of Jewish documents dating from 900 to 1250.

The research subject, a woman in her 60s, reported a blinding light that flooded her consciousness, a luminosity she interpreted as an emanation from God, an invitation to the heavens. “I felt a sense of joyous expansion as it opened fully to me, like entering a splendid palace, yet the feeling was completely natural and […]

Education researchers offer cautious good news. From 2002 to 2008, the number of dropout factories fell from 2,007 to 1,746. What worked?

During John Grunsfeld’s 800 hours in space, much of it spent floating in the ether with a tool in his hand, he tweaked mirrors, fixed wrecked cameras, and dodged shards of space junk as NASA’s longtime “repairman” of the Hubble Space Telescope. Nowadays, Grunsfeld is in a safer place. He’ll keep his head in the […]

The gains made by public health in the past century may be rolled back as oil becomes more scarce and expensive.

Two new transdisciplinary research initiatives are getting a home of their own. Johns Hopkins recently announced that John C. Malone, Engr ’64 (MS), ’69 (PhD), chairman of Liberty Media Corporation, has pledged $30 million to the Whiting School of Engineering for a new research building that will rise four stories above Decker Quad and encompass […]

In the fifth paragraph of his recently published memoir, pianist Leon Fleisher writes, “If my story is about anything, it’s about being very careful when your dreams come true.” Fleisher, who has been a revered teacher at Peabody Conservatory since 1959, began studying the piano at age 4; by 16 he had performed with the […]

As the year 1814 entered its last months, the owner of a Baltimore music store sought to profit from the sudden popularity of a new song titled “Defence [sic] of Ft. McHenry.” Thomas Carr, proprietor of Carr’s Music Store on Baltimore Street, apparently didn’t like the song’s name because when he published the tune in October […]

…Violent assaults in health care facilities occur four times as often as assaults in other U.S. workplaces. School of Medicine research by Gabor D. Kelen and Christina L. Catlett, professor and assistant professor, respectively, of emergency medicine, found a rate of eight assaults per 10,000 workers in health care settings, versus two per 10,000 in […]