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Illustration: Werewolf runs from angry mob of people with torches
Creative Writing
Self-help for movie monsters
Published Fall 2021
Kathy Flann wants to help movie monsters survive human attacks with her fourth book, an entertainingly preposterous collection of tips for werewolves, mummies, cyborgs, ghosts, and other movie monsters / Johns Hopkins Magazine
David Bernstein (left) with Morris W. Offit
A lifelong friendship
Published Fall 2021
David Bernstein, A&S '57, credits his childhood friend Morris W. Offit, A&S '57, with sparking his involvement with Johns Hopkins decades after graduation. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Anne Smedinghoff
Remembering a friend and diplomat
Published Fall 2021
Anne Smedinghoff wanted to make a difference: "I don't think Anne would have been happy doing anything that wasn't challenging," says her friend Sarah Curry. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
image portraying the vastness of the universe
Mapping the universe's origin story
Published Fall 2021
The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope, which launches in December, will help astronomers understand the birth, evolution, and future of our universe / Johns Hopkins Magazine
What About the Baby
Essays
Writing counsel
Published Fall 2021
Reviewing Academy Professor Alice McDermott's new collection of essays, 'What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction' / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Rebekka Klausen
Hopkins chemist aims to develop longer-lasting, sustainable materials
Published Sept 22, 2021
Rebekka Klausen joins Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks with focus on increasing the lifetime of synthetic rubbers and designing plastics that can decompose upon a chemical trigger
Pumpkin with coffee cup
Brain science
Enticed by pumpkin spice
Published Sept 21, 2021
Perception researchers Jason Fischer and Sarah Cormiea explain how it's the scent that triggers autumnal memories and leaves us reaching for our wallets
Yiannis Sakellaridis
Unraveling a mathematical mystery
Published Sept 20, 2021
The Krieger School's Yiannis Sakellaridis earned the prestigious honor of speaking at the International Congress of Mathematicians, where he'll discuss a conundrum known as L-functions
Students in a course for the Program in Islamic Studies
9/11 anniversary
Turning trauma into action, advocacy
Published Sept 9, 2021
New course from Program in Islamic Studies provides tools to research, analyze the personal and systemic impacts of 9/11 while building advocacy and allyship
Andrew Cherlin
Sociology
Baby carriage before marriage?
Published Sept 7, 2021
New research by sociologist Andrew Cherlin suggests a historic shift away from the traditional marriage-then-baby continuum among college-educated moms