“Reds,” I said, “do you know that meander of Stony Run, the one off Linkwood Road, that’s eroding back toward that ugly apartment building?” Reds smiled at me like I was his best friend because he smiled that way at everybody, especially if they wanted to discuss meandering rivers. Yes, of course, he knew this […]

By going green, Davis Bookhart and Lawrence Kilduff aim to cut university emissions by 50 percent by 2025 while saving the institute some green to the tune of $10.3 million per year.

Karl Hibbitts’ pre-adventure adventure made him dizzy and nauseous, forced him to try and move the blood in his legs and torso up toward his woozy head, and spun him around like a top. And, he claims, he loved every minute of it. During a two-day simulation experience earlier this year, Hibbitts, a senior staff […]

The hardships of a longtime friend have stayed with Tristan Rhodes for decades. The friend is a woman whose life took a dramatic turn after she came out as a lesbian to her family. “She is a great thinker and an extremely talented writer who would have been a great literary talent,” Rhodes says. “She […]

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 […]

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 […]