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$333,333.33: The amount Chuck Bennett received as one of three winners of the $1 million Shaw Prize for excellence in science. Bennett, a professor of physics and astronomy in the Krieger School of...
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Still solvent after all these years
Jephta Drachman does not believe in debt. As the president of the board of trustees for the Shriver Hall Concert Series, which produces chamber music concerts on the Homewood campus, Drachman has...
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I couldn’t understand why a disease like schizophrenia persists in humans. People who have these diseases don’t reproduce very well, either because they’re sick, or they’ve been locked up, or because...
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…By using Internet search strings such as “pro-anorexia,” “pro-bulimia” and “thin and support,” Bloomberg School researchers found dozens of websites that present dangerous ideas and encourage eating...
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Books
How Stanley Mazaroff—who has been a Baltimore employment lawyer, a 62-year-old Johns Hopkins freshman, and Blue Jay lacrosse legend Jerry Schnydman’s Little League baseball coach—became the author of...
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In the tradition of violin making, Giovanni Paolo Maggini holds a distinguished pedigree and place. The Italian, who made instruments between 1590 and 1630, learned his trade from Gasparo da Salo,...
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Advancing autism education, near and far
Illustration: Kim Rosen Any veteran special education teacher will tell you: There’s no way to predict how a student with autism will fare in the classroom. Jason could have an aversion to loud noises,...
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Jesse Rosenthal began his scholarly career by earning a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College in English, no surprise for someone recently added to the Krieger School’s English faculty as an...
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What killed Bolivar?
Simon Bolivar Paul Auwaerter does not, as a rule, invest a lot of time in considering what might have killed a South American liberator 180 years ago. As clinical director of the Division of Infectious...
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First Global MBA class hits town
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School welcomes its first Global MBA class this fall. Photo: Will Kirk/Homewoodphoto.jhu.edu Like any successful entrepreneur, Trevor Kuchar knows fortune often boils...
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Did asteroids bring water and life to Earth?
An artist’s concept of the asteroid belt. These orbiting rocks may harbor water in unexpected quantities. Photo: NASA Space scientists have put several men on the moon, robotically explored the...
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Two divisions of Johns Hopkins introduced new directors over the summer. In June, the School of Education announced that David W. Andrews would become its new dean on September 1. In July, Ralph D....
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Crocs, hippos, and the evolution of the brain
Illustration: Alex Nabaum How human brains became large enough during the march of evolution to vault our ancestors ahead of chimps and other primates has long been a puzzle. In an attempt to fill in...
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