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 […]

4: Number of Johns Hopkins fall 2010 sports teams that qualified for the NCAA championships. Men’s and women’s cross country and men’s and women’s soccer all had embarked on tournament play as Johns Hopkins Magazine went to press. Women enjoyed the best regular seasons, with soccer earning its sixth straight Centennial Conference title and cross […]

If you don’t mind, I’m going to lie down—my ass hurts,” Matthew Klam tells a just-arrived stranger before stretching out on the couch in his office. Although the scenario—one guy flat on his back on a couch, the other in a chair with his legs crossed and a notebook in his lap—looks like something out […]

A patient, recently released from intensive care to the hospital’s main floor, gasps for breath. Her heart beats rapidly. A nurse recognizes that this patient is spiraling toward death. She notifies her supervisors to call in the hospital’s rapid response team of intensive-care specialists. The team, drawn from a cadre of physicians, nurses, and respiratory […]

Henry S. Cohn, A&S ’67, is a thorough reader. So when recently he finished the reissue of Helen Hopkins Thom’s biography Johns Hopkins: A Silhouette (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), he read the appendices. And there he encountered a mystery. The third chapter of Thom’s book, titled simply “Elizabeth,” concerns what may have been Johns […]

The School of Medicine’s Edbert Hsu is studying why crowds get out of control, and what can be done to control the chaos.

Kami and Zobi teach children health, hygiene, and tolerance, with a little help from the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Dina Borzekowski.

Sky watchers The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a massive and costly stab at capturing a large chunk of the visible universe in one electronic catalog/database, pulled in a cadre of the best universe-spanning minds starting in the 1990s. Now “the Sloanies” (as they’ve dubbed themselves) have opened up the skies for exploration by millions of […]