Issue: Spring 2016, Volume 13, Number 2
Features
Gray Matters
Hopkins professors are equipping undergraduate students with the analytical tools they need to navigate through the ethical dilemmas of today—and tomorrow.
Can Data Save Our Cities?
Last year, a team from Hopkins began meeting with mayors across the country to help solve their most pressing urban issues. The results have been encouraging. The solution? Data.
The Craft of Writing
The Hopkins Review is a contender in the wide world of literary journals.
Centerpiece
Sunset viewed from the south/southwest corner of the front entrance to Gilman Hall.
News
Snapshot: From the Office of María Portuondo
Take a peek into the world of this history of science and technology professor, who also happens to be an electrical engineer.
$10 Million Gift Creates Humanities Institute
This gift—the largest ever to Johns Hopkins exclusively for the support of the humanities—establishes the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.
New Hope for Heart Disease Patients
Bristol-Myers Squibb recently purchased Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals, a company co-founded by John Toscano, vice dean for natural sciences and a chemistry professor.
The Art of the Book
Book Arts Baltimore is an informal partnership among local institutions whose goal is to celebrate artists’ books and book arts with courses, lectures, and exhibitions.
A New PARADIM in Crystal Growth
Johns Hopkins University is establishing a cutting-edge crystal growth facility as part of a national research project to revolutionize technology.
A Roadmap to Diversity
In an effort to address race, diversity, and equity across Johns Hopkins, President Ronald J. Daniels issued a comprehensive report called the JHU Roadmap on Diversity and Inclusion.
Faculty
Cervantes: No One-Hit Wonder
William Egginton’s new book on Cervantes arrives in bookstores just in time for the 400th anniversary of the Spanish writer’s death.
More Faculty Books
New publications from Krieger School faculty.
Snapshot: From the Office of María Portuondo
Take a peek into the world of this history of science and technology professor, who also happens to be an electrical engineer.
Classroom
Syllabus: Seeing Stars
Not every Nobel laureate chooses to teach an entry-level science course that includes freshmen, but Professor Adam Riess does it every year.
Major Infatuation: Biophysics
Students tell us why they love their major, in three sentences or less.
Community
They’ve Got It in the Bag
The President’s Day of Service inspires hundreds of Johns Hopkins students, faculty, and staff to spend a day giving back to the community.
Alumni
Curriculum Vitae: Daniel Weiss
Daniel Weiss, President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
On the Financial Frontlines
Marc Hochstein ’94 is editor-in-chief of “American Banker.”
Navigating the History of the Navy
Kristina Giannotta ’03 (PhD) is branch head of histories for the Histories and Archives Division of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Casting an Independent Shadow
Sunday “Sunny” Boling ’99 is a Hollywood casting director.