How Stanley Mazaroff—who has been a Baltimore employment lawyer, a 62-year-old Johns Hopkins freshman, and Blue Jay lacrosse legend Jerry Schnydman’s Little League baseball coach—became the author of an art history book is a complicated story. That’s appropriate given the complex and conflicted relationship of the title characters in Mazaroff’s tight, focused work, Henry Walters […]

…By using Internet search strings such as “pro-anorexia,” “pro-bulimia” and “thin and support,” Bloomberg School researchers found dozens of websites that present dangerous ideas and encourage eating disorders. The study, led by associate professor Dina L.G. Borzekowski, analyzed the content of 180 such sites. Ninety-one percent were open to the public, and 84 percent offered […]

I couldn’t understand why a disease like schizophrenia persists in humans. People who have these diseases don’t reproduce very well, either because they’re sick, or they’ve been locked up, or because they were killed. —Robert H. Yolken, director of developmental neurobiology at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, quoted in the Baltimore Sun, 07.31.10. Yolken is […]

Jephta Drachman does not believe in debt. As the president of the board of trustees for the Shriver Hall Concert Series, which produces chamber music concerts on the Homewood campus, Drachman has overseen the organization, through 18 years of highs and lows. When she began, the series had gone from years of sold-out seasons to […]

$333,333.33: The amount Chuck Bennett received as one of three winners of the $1 million Shaw Prize for excellence in science. Bennett, a professor of physics and astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, split the loot with two Princeton faculty, physicist Lyman A. Page Jr. and astronomer David N. Spergel. The trio […]

“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 […]