A New Era for Science

By Rachel Wallach Photography by Will Kirk The fall semester marked the opening of the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories, rising in […]

Food and the City

Students explore food options for Baltimore’s low-income residents.

In the Margins

Meet two academic sleuths who are looking in places long ignored to discover new things about old texts.
Raffi Wartanian plays the oud

Exploring the Ancestral Homeland

Raffi Wartanian ’08 recently returned from his ancestral homeland of Armenia after 10 months there as a Fulbright fellow.

Jami Attenberg '93

A Hunger to Write

For the past year, Jami Attenberg ’93 has been on the road promoting her critically acclaimed third novel, The Middlesteins. Now she can return to what she loves most: writing fiction.

Sonya

Capturing the Faces of Addiction

The photography of Chris Arnade, PhD ’94, as seen in his Flickr series, “Faces of Addiction,” exposes a range of human experience in the South Bronx.

Minor in Art Makes Its Debut

After nearly 40 years as an outlet for student creativity, the visual arts program at the Krieger School has become a full academic minor.

From the Classroom to the Classroom

Five recent Krieger School graduates make up the first cohort of a program designed to support undergraduates who want to make a difference in urban schools.

Samuel Chirtel

Samuel Chirtel ’14: Tales of Istanbul

Student Research
Sam Chirtel will graduate in June with a degree in biophysics, but he may be well on the road to being a novelist.

Student Research
Diana Jeang

Diana Jeang ’14: Seeking Immunity

Student Research
The goal of Diana Jeang’s research is to determine what biological and immune factors in the vaginal mucosa may inhibit or favor the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in women.

Student Research
James Foley

Spotlight on: Krieger School’s Popular Film and Media Studies Program

As the Film and Media Studies Program approaches its 20th anniversary, it continues to grow at a dynamic pace.

Exploring the New Physics of Inflation

Three Johns Hopkins University theoretical physicists have received a $1.3 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to develop new ideas for the origin of the universe and alternative ways to test those ideas.

The Transformative Power of the Word

Bookshelf
In her new novel Someone, Writing Seminars faculty member Alice McDermott uncovers the beauty and poignancy beneath the stuff of everyday life—birth, death, love, marriage, faith, work.

Bookshelf
Baby Booking still

 Abby Harri ’14 and Michael Nakan ’14: Searching for Justice

Student Research
Abby Harri and Michael Nakan are collaborating on Baby Booking, a documentary that paints a picture of the state of juvenile justice in Baltimore.

Student Research
Heshy Roskes

Heshy Roskes ’14: Smashing Particles

Student Research
Physics and astronomy major Heshy Roskes used his research award to travel to CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, to work on the famed Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Student Research
Kate Pipkin

Editor’s Note

Editor's Note
One of the most interesting things about the Krieger School is the broad diversity of its brain power.

Editor's Note

Sarah Horton ’14: Immigration and Housing

Student Research
Sarah Horton is using her Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award to investigate why many Hispanic immigrants choose to come to Baltimore.

Student Research

More Faculty Books

Bookshelf
What's new on the bookshelves from Krieger School faculty.

Bookshelf
Elizabeth McIntosh

Elizabeth McIntosh ’14: No Faerie Tale

Student Research
Elizabeth McIntosh’s project focuses on the influence of Elizabeth I’s patronage on Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.

Student Research
Alessandra Villarreal

Alessandra Villarreal ’14: Piecing Together Fragments

Student Research
Alessandra Villarreal’s research took her to Cahal Pech, an archaeological site in Belize, to analyze and interpret Pre-classic Maya architecture.

Student Research

Learning From My Learning Disorder

Student Voices
Diagnosed with dyslexia at a young age, Tess Thomas ’14 didn’t know what the future held for her, but she did know one thing: she was going to keep moving forward.

Student Voices

New Faculty

The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences welcomed a talented group of new faculty members in 2013, with specialties ranging from medieval art to geocriticism, to conformal field theory.

News Briefs

By the Numbers
What's new and notable around the School of Arts & Sciences.

By the Numbers
Gail McGovern '74, president and CEO of the American Red Cross

Resilience Amid the Rubble

Every new leader faces a baptism-of-fire moment, but few have it as rough as Gail McGovern ’74 did when she became president and CEO of the American Red Cross in 2008.

Eric Wan

Eric Wan ’14: Seeking Quality of Life

Student Research
Eric Wan is working with researchers from the School of Medicine to measure the quality of life of women across the different procedures and stages of breast reconstruction after mastectomy surgery.

Student Research

Top of the Pops

Emily Bihl '13’s blog Rye & Rivet has been her platform for sharing profiles of heritage craftspeople, small batch spirits, and recipes for retro cocktails. This summer, Bihl created the Rye & Rivet pop-up shop as an extension of her blog and a way to spotlight products and makers showcased there.

Peter Beilenson

Down to "The Wire"

Classroom Encounters
Peter Beilenson uses episodes from the popular television series to illustrate how city institutions have failed to cure Baltimore’s public health problems.

Classroom Encounters
Dean Katherine Newman

Inside Our New Citadel of Science

From the Dean
The rebirth of science education is taking place inside a stunning structure of glass and wood, light and air, with soaring ceilings and the natural environment visible from every angle.

From the Dean

An Investment Worth Making

Expert Opinion
Gregory F. Ball, vice dean for science and research infrastructure, talks about what happens when scientific research goes under the federal budget knife.

Expert Opinion

Krieger.jhu.edu

Worth A Surf
Cool student videos, super-easy navigation, colorful “fields of study” pages—these are just a few of the features you can find in the newly designed Krieger School of Arts and Sciences website.

Worth A Surf

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