Manuel Barrueco became entranced by the guitar when he was an 8-year-old in Santiago de Cuba. Part of what entranced him was the music of Francisco Tárrega. Tárrega was a 19th-century Spanish composer and guitarist who did much to bring classical guitar to the recital stage. By the time he was 11, Barrueco was performing […]

It’s a dreary day in one of Baltimore’s trendier neighborhoods. A young man with a gaunt face and big glasses sits at an unsteady table in a mid-scale hipster hash house. He picks at his late lunch of steak and Brussels sprouts and spies on a middle-aged couple seated on a public bench out front. […]

In 1997, Johns Hopkins made the title on Edward Miller’s business card really long when it named him dean of the School of Medicine, university vice president for medicine, and the first-ever chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Next summer, Miller will simplify his designation. He has announced he will retire from Hopkins on […]

When Edmond Baganizi, SPH ’11, explored Baltimore by bus, he was moved by the poverty he saw. “Poverty is one of the things that make people more prone to violence here, just like in Rwanda,” he says. Baganizi feels that connection in his bones. As a child in Rwanda, he and a few of his […]

In a New York Review of Books essay covering a flurry of books critical of U.S. higher education, scholar Peter Brooks summarized the charges: “Above all, the university has become unjustifiably expensive, inaccessible, and unaccountable.” What are federal and state governments getting for their money? What are students (and parents) getting for their money? Can […]

Navin K. Singh, assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the School of Medicine, estimates he has operated on more than 500 children as part of volunteer medical missions to correct cleft palates, lips, and noses. Hoping to bolster the kids’—and their parents’—spirits and make them feel less different and alone, he and Johns […]

If you are a fan of Johns Hopkins lacrosse, you’ve probably grown used to buying pretzels, Italian sausage sandwiches, and sodas in the southeast end of Homewood Field. Well, prepare for a change. This summer, construction begins on the new 14,000-square-foot Cordish Lacrosse Center, which will house both men’s and women’s lacrosse programs and include […]

…Johns Hopkins researchers may have found an alternative to liver transplants. A team led by Yoon-Young Jang, assistant professor of oncology at the Kimmel Cancer Center, demonstrated that adult stem cells that had been genetically reprogrammed to revert to an embryonic state succeed in regenerating liver tissue in mice. The research appeared in the May […]

How does a hundred-pound rock walk itself 100 yards across a cracked, dry desert surface? Johns Hopkins researchers investigate.

Associate professor Christopher Nealon explores the subversive side of contemporary American poetry.