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 […]

…For a decade, birds have been prime suspects in the spread of avian flu across the United States. But expansion of the disease did not match their migration patterns. New research led by Jason L. Rasgon, associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, points to Culex tarsalis mosquitoes as the more likely culprits. […]

We give up. We’re fighting a losing battle here. And we strongly suspect the extra  “s” was a typo in the first place. —University President Ron Daniel [sic], quoted in a press release announcing the changing of the university’s name to John Hopkins, and dated 4.1.10. (That would be April Fools’  Day.) Parents and grandparents […]

15 Rank of Johns Hopkins University among “The 50 Most Stressful Colleges” as determined by The Daily Beast. After cheerily noting that Cornell University endured six student suicides in this academic year alone, the website applied some dubious methodology to the top 50 universities as listed by the annual U.S. News & World Report survey—that […]

This is your brain on art Beauty is in the brain of the beholder. Sure, the eye may appreciate lush colors and graceful lines, but the chain of command goes like this: The optic nerve delivers hues and shapes to the mind. Specific clusters of neurons fire off. And we experience pleasure, or some other […]

A life worth living? John Freeman wants Americans to think differently about death. It is not a discussion that most people will like because what the Johns Hopkins clinical bioethicist and professor emeritus of neurology and pediatrics wants is for Americans to think about death not as a failure but as an answer. “I want […]