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Medicine
Urgent med school
Published Winter 2017
In war-torn Syria, there's a desperate need to find more effective ways to prepare the next generation of medical students in a hurry / Johns Hopkins Magazine
'Walter just knows stuff'
Published Winter 2017
Oscar-winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch likes to dive into obscure subjects—including some discounted 18th-century astrophysics that, he thinks, deserves another look / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Genetics
Revising the genome
Published Winter 2017
CRISPR lets scientists edit our genetic source code. This is going to be interesting. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Sourcing a younger crowd
Published Winter 2017
Through their startup, GiveCampus, two Hopkins alums have helped more than 400 K-12 schools, colleges, and universities raise more than $100 million / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Voice of influence
Published Winter 2017
Wendy Osefo, a visiting assistant professor in the School of Education, founded a project to boost graduation rates for minorities on college campuses / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Q+A
Higher education's changing landscape
Published Nov 27, 2017
A conversation with Columbia sociologist Jonathan Cole, one of the country's leading thinkers on higher ed reform
History project
Mapping Frederick Douglass
Published Nov 27, 2017
Students in Johns Hopkins graduate seminar research, visit regional sites of significance in young slave's life
Leaders+Legends
Mikulski on leadership, business, trade
Published Nov 21, 2017
Longtime U.S. senator speaks a part of Carey Business School's Leaders+Legends series
Case competition
Hopkins team takes first
Published Nov 17, 2017
Interdisciplinary solution to pneumonia vaccine problem declared most innovative, viable by a panel of Pfizer executives
Philosophy
Truth and consequences
Published Nov 16, 2017
Richard Bett, chair of the philosophy department, says we could learn from the skeptics of ancient Greece