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What one grad taught—and learned from—some Baltimore boys
May 23, 2011
Karen Hong came to the William Donald Schaefer House for Boys in Baltimore’s Reservoir Hill neighborhood as a freshman four years ago, believing she had something to teach the 14- to 18-year-olds receiving residential drug and alcohol treatment at the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services facility. But it didn’t take her long to discover that […]
Pre-K students come to play—and learn—at JHU
May 23, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University School of Education, Whiting School of Engineering and Peabody Institute joined together on Thursday to host more than 40 students from Samuel Morse Elementary School in West Baltimore as Baltimore City Public Schools launched its new citywide initiative called Pre-K at Play. The program’s goal is for pre-K students to get […]
Pens with potential win global health prize
May 16, 2011
Could simple tests using chemical-filled pens and costing less than a penny per test save the lives of thousands of pregnant women and newborns in impoverished areas? A low-cost Antenatal Screening Kit that aims to accomplish this goal won the grand prize last week for a team of Johns Hopkins graduate students who entered an […]
Summer in the city: A big draw for students
May 16, 2011
The university’s Center for Social Concern unveiled a new student program last fall, not sure what reaction it would get. Here was the pitch: Spend the better part of the summer in Baltimore interning at a nonprofit community-based organization or city social service agency. The program had 25 slots. More than 200 students applied. “The […]
Marking a milestone
May 16, 2011
Members of the Johns Hopkins community celebrated a milestone in the construction of the Homewood campus’s Brody Learning Commons on Monday, May 9. The topping out ceremony, which included placing a beam that had been signed by students, faculty and staff into the building’s structure, marked the completion of the first phase of the project. […]
Engineering students wheel out their capstone projects
May 16, 2011
During two engineering design showcases last week, Whiting School students demonstrated that they had learned to think big—and, in some cases, think small. At events on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses, biomedical and mechanical engineering students described the many months they had spent brainstorming, designing and testing their prototypes. They also displayed and demonstrated […]
Cementing a home for bioethics
May 9, 2011
Three months after moving into its new home, the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is already seeing the benefits of bringing its faculty and staff under one roof. Institute Director Ruth Faden and Director of Administration Julia Chill beam with pride as they show off the wholly renovated interior of the former police station—originally […]
APL sets its sights on Titan’s seas
May 9, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is managing a project to explore the organic seas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of three proposals selected by NASA last week as candidates for the agency’s next Discovery Program mission. The Titan Mare Explorer, or TiME, would perform the first direct inspection of an ocean environment beyond […]
At journey’s end
April 25, 2011
Before Karen Hong left for college, she and her parents didn’t discuss sex—at all. Hong, in fact, recalls the many awkward moments in the presence of her parents when television or movie characters just kissed on screen. Bedroom scenes? Off-limits. However, Hong’s interest in sexual health issues as a public health studies major at Johns […]
Getting the word out
April 25, 2011
In Jessica Anya Blau’s well-received debut novel, a 14-year-old girl named Jamie must navigate the choppy waters of adolescence amid a backdrop of sex, cigarettes, surfers, tanning and free-spirited parents who unabashedly sit poolside au naturel. In the book, set in Santa Barbara during the summer of 1976, Jamie rebels against her parents’ inflated open-mindedness […]