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What is the common thread between engineering, public health and global affairs? Ask Ryan Alezz, a 2025 graduate from the University's Whiting School of Engineering, who was named a 2026 Schwarzman Scholar. Through this fellowship, he will travel to China for a year-long, fully funded master's in global affairs at Tsinghua University. In an interview with The News-Letter, Alezz looked back on his time at Hopkins, reflecting on how it culminated in his selection for this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
(04/01/26 6:00am)
A fourth-year doctoral student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Hopkins, William Brakewood, is undertaking a new venture: the creation of a start-up, Microbiome Foundries, which designs bacteria to regulate surface microbiomes. Currently working in the Betenbaugh Lab, Brakewood’s research spans numerous topics of interest in microbiology.
(03/31/26 11:27pm)
Yayuan Liu, a Russell Croft Faculty Scholar and Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Hopkins, was awarded the Sloan Fellowship on Feb. 17, 2026, for her work in carbon capture, water remediation and electrochemical imaging platforms. The Sloan Fellowship is an award that grants early-stage researchers $75,000 over two years. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation values creativity, innovation, and leadership, selecting only 126 research fellows from more than a thousand of nominated applicants.
(04/01/26 3:30am)
Rajiv McCoy is a newly tenured Associate Professor within the Department of Biology at Hopkins. He is renowned for his research in evolutionary genetics. In an interview with The News-Letter, he discussed his specific interests within the field of biology and expanded upon his passion for scientific research and discovery.
(03/13/26 6:17am)
Elephants, it turns out, have been outsmarting scientists for decades — just not in the way we originally thought. Joshua Plotnik, director of Comparative Cognition for Conversation Lab at the City University of New York, delivered a PBS Colloquium lecture on March 4 in Gilman Hall about cognitive flexibility in Asian elephants and revealed a few of the insights gained in the field of comparative cognition.
(03/13/26 3:56am)
John P. Toscano is a professor in the Hopkins Department of Chemistry. He joined the department in 1995 as an assistant professor, eventually becoming a full professor in 2003. He later served as vice-chair of the department in 2004, and served as chair from 2005 to 2011 and again from 2013 to 2014. He also served as vice dean and interim dean for the University’s natural science departments.
(03/28/26 1:30pm)
Divyansh Lalwani, a recent Biomedical Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Statistics graduate, recently released “overlay,” a software that reduces the effort that comes with switching screens by relying on overlays, content that lays on top of the overall screen. In an interview with The News-Letter, Lalwani described the program and the journey that led to its creation.
(03/04/26 4:55pm)
On Jan. 16, Senior Research Specialist Sarah Ernst at Hopkins School of Medicine was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award for her work building “Maryland Lighthouse,” demonstrating this year’s theme – “Impact: The Power of Communities.” “Maryland Lighthouse” focuses on providing emotional and financial support to families dealing with pregnancy loss, infant loss and child loss.
(02/25/26 8:00am)
Liisa Hantsoo is a clinical psychologist and an assistant professor at the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the School of Medicine. Hantsoo conducts clinical research in sex-specific mood disorders like premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and postpartum depression in addition to providing cognitive behavioral therapy to patients having significant premenstrual mood issues or post-partum or pregnancy-related depression and anxiety. In an interview with The News-Letter, Hantsoo explained one of her current studies along with her thoughts on the changing landscape of reproductive health.
(02/26/26 3:00am)
On Thursday, Feb. 19, the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health invited Dr. Charlotte Yeh to talk about the intersection of technology, business and health within the field of age-related hearing loss. This event is part of their broader seminar series that runs from September to April and features speakers with expertise in topics surrounding sensory function, aging and public health. Having been one of the center’s very first inaugural seminar speakers back in 2018–19, Yeh has been a part of the center’s rich history and is also the only speaker they have had back.
(02/25/26 1:42am)
Take a few minutes to catch up on some intriguing recent scientific developments.
(02/27/26 7:00am)
Professor Younan Xia is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Hopkins well reputed for his extensive experience and work with nanomaterials. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering, a significant accomplishment. In an interview with The News-Letter, he discussed his research and shared some of his insights.
(02/27/26 3:00am)
In honor of its 150th anniversary, Hopkins launched the “Next Conversations” series on Feb. 18, held at the George Peabody Library. Bringing together classicist Karen ní Mheallaigh, philosopher Jenann Ismael and Nobel-Laureate astronomer Adam Riess, the session moderated by Sean Carroll sought to tackle the complex conundrum of how humanity can find its place in an ever-expanding universe.
(02/24/26 10:29pm)
On Thursday, Feb. 19, Ali May, an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presented her research on the various ways tissue resident macrophages shape embryonic salivary gland development as part of the Department of Biology Seminar Series. Through her research, primarily on embryonic salivary glands, May presented her investigation on macrophages and their capabilities to potentially guide organ development, expanding the role of these cells outside of fighting infection and sculpting tissue architecture during the cell cycle.
(03/01/26 11:52pm)
On Friday, Jan. 23, I had the privilege of attending the University of Maryland’s Spatial Biology Symposium, which featured talks on developmental biology, cancer and neuroscience. In this piece, I highlight one particular talk that caught my interest — given by Elana Fertig, Dean E. Albert Reece Endowed Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland. Fertig’s talk centered around rethinking how we can predict and monitor the carcinogenesis of pancreatic cancer through a spatial biology and computational lens. Although my knowledge in the field of spatial biology is limited, frankly, I would like to offer my best understanding of the key ideas and takeaways.
(02/12/26 5:00am)
Dr. Debraj “Raj” Mukherjee is a neuro-oncosurgeon at the Hopkins Hospital. In an interview with The News-Letter, he discussed his medical career and work with the Peace Education Program in Baltimore, for which he was recently awarded the 2025 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service.
(02/13/26 5:00am)
Jeff Bowen is a social psychologist who has been an associate teaching professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences since the fall of 2017. He primarily teaches undergraduate research methods and statistics classes and also runs an undergraduate research lab focused on the social psychology of interpersonal relationships. In an interview with The News-Letter, Bowen discussed his lab’s focuses on romantic partnerships, how people navigate both online and in-person social experiences and the methods used to measure these concepts and experiences.
(02/11/26 5:00am)
Anicca Harriot, a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins specializing in tissue engineering, was recently awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service at Hopkins’ Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration on Jan. 16. This year’s theme for the award was “Impact: The Power of Communities.” As the CEO of Vanguard: Conversations with Women of Color in STEM, #VanguardSTEM for short, Harriot has greatly contributed to the community of women and non-binary people of color pursuing careers in STEM-related fields.
(02/09/26 11:29pm)
As the year prepares to take off, let’s take a moment to reflect on the scientific discoveries that have already made it so special.
(02/09/26 7:09pm)
Breast cancer is the most common cancer found in women in the United States, with more than 300,000 new cases being diagnosed each year. While approximately half of diagnoses are middle aged women (50-70 years old), about 10% are women under the age of 45 and 20% are women over the age of 70. Current forms of treatment range from surgery such as lumpectomy (removal of a tumor from the breast) and mastectomy (removal of all breast tissue from the breast) to radiation therapy to chemotherapy, as well as multimodal approaches involving two or more treatments.
