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

A Johns Hopkins historian defends the honor of the lowly—and he says misunderstood—alchemical investigator.

In June of 1910, Johns Hopkins Hospital admitted a 23-year-old woman after she experienced headaches, seizures, and numbness on her left side. Hopkins neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing diagnosed a tumor on the right side of her brain and decided to operate. He was well on his way to becoming a world-renowned neurosurgeon, but during the procedure […]

As field director for Peter Franchot’s successful 2006 campaign for comptroller of Maryland, Jacob Colker learned some things about mobilizing volunteers through Internet social networking. He used Facebook to recruit campaign volunteers, the first such use of social media in a statewide election, he believes. Along the way he learned that when people declined to […]

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 […]