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One Tuesday morning, while standing next to my club’s harm reduction card, I watched as an elderly woman in a wheelchair pushed herself forward, nearly passing me on her way to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She looked up to greet me, then caught one glimpse of our banner which dons clip art images of a syringe, a small pipe with smoke coming out of it and Band-Aids.
On Thursday, Oct. 23, the Whiting School of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science hosted Aaron Roth, a professor of computer and cognitive science in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, to give a talk titled "Agreement and Alignment for Human-AI Collaboration." This talk involves the results of three papers: Tractable Agreement Protocols (2025 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing), Collaborative Prediction: Tractable Information Aggregation via Agreement (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms) and Emergent Alignment from Competition.
The subject of Henrietta Lacks remains an enduring mark of criticism on Hopkins as a reminder that scientific advancement has often come at the cost of ethical accountability. This legacy continues to be honored and examined today through events such as the annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture at Hopkins, an event that occurred recently on Oct. 4. This recent conversation sparked my renewed interest in one of my favorite books, Next by Michael Crichton.
The lungfish is a rarely studied organism, with scientific implications that extend far beyond its unassuming reputation. On Thursday, Oct. 23 the Biology Department Seminar Series featured Irene Salinas, an evolutionary immunobiologist at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque who presented her extensive research into the immunobiology of the African lungfish.
As we push through the fall semester, take a minute to learn about some of the recent discoveries and developments in drug discovery, quantum computing and cancer treatment.
In an interview with The News-Letter, sophomore Angelina Dong recounted her experiences as a University Undergraduate Research Fellow at the Hoke lab under Dr. Ahmet Hoke at the Hopkins School of Medicine. Currently majoring in Neuroscience and Medicine, Science and the Humanities, Dong joined her research lab in the September of her freshman year. Her project is titled “MAP4K4 Inhibition as a Promising Treatment for Chemo-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: Effects of MAP4K4 Inhibition on Paclitaxel Antineoplastic Capabilities.”
The COVID-19 pandemic tested governments, basic research scientists and pharmaceutical industries worldwide, forcing administrations, labs and companies to accelerate and innovate their research at warp speed. Each extra day it took for a treatment or vaccine to reach patients meant more pandemic-related casualties. One crucial factor in vaccine development was the race to understand the viral spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, a crucial viral surface component required for viral entry which had long been touted as a potential target for coronavirus vaccines.
Family has always been important to those working in population genetics. When Sohini Ramachandran was a postdoc, the issue of relatives in a dataset causing inaccurate results was considered a major problem in the field. In a Biology Department Seminar held at Mudd Hall on Oct. 9, she expanded upon two of her related research projects describing the analysis of genomic datasets.
On Sept. 22, 2025, President Donald Trump, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would be notifying physicians that the use of acetaminophen (Tylenol) by expectant mothers can be associated with a “very increased risk of autism.” This announcement has been met with widespread criticism from the scientific community.
What if we could trace the origins of disease back to just four letters — the DNA base — and even correct them at the molecular level?
On Oct. 8, 2025 the Department of Materials Science and Engineering hosted Yifei Mo for a seminar titled “Computation Accelerated Design and Discovery of Materials for Next-Generation Batteries.”
On Thursday, Oct. 9 the Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) hosted a Q&A with Christopher K. Haddock and Andrew Kolodny about their team’s recent publication: “Imagine the Possibilities Pain Coalition and Opioid Marketing to Veterans: Lessons for Military and Veterans Healthcare.” OIDA, which is co-created by Hopkins and University of California, San Francisco, won the Society of American Archivists Archival Innovation Award.
The Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) hosted its annual symposium on Thursday, Oct. 16. The symposium opened with remarks from Alex Szalay – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Big Data and Director of IDIES – on the rapid evolution of data science and its expanding applications. Over the past 25 years, many scientific breakthroughs have emerged from unique data sets, including the mapping of the entire human genome through the Human Genome Project and the imaging of the universe and celestial bodies via the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
There’s a modern parable about a man who loses his keys at night. Though he dropped them in the park, he searches beneath a streetlight. When a police officer asks why, the man replies, “Because this is where the light is.”
This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University and University of California, Santa Barbara) and John M. Martinis (University of California, Santa Barbara) for “the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Coincidentally, 2025 is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology commemorating 100 years since modern quantum mechanics’ initial development.
Nihar Shah, an accomplished artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, delivered a seminar at the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) on October 10th titled “LLMs in Science, the good, the bad and the ugly.” The seminar purveyed the role of AI in scientific research and peer review.
Thelma Escobar, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington, presented at the Hopkins Department of Biology’s Seminar Series on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. She discussed the progress her lab has recently made regarding chromatin modifications in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and the adaptive immune system.
On Oct. 4, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) hosted the 15th Annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, a commemoration that united science, ethics and remembrance under one name that transformed medicine.
As the semester starts to pick up, take a minute and read the latest scientific discoveries that have occurred within the past couple of weeks.
On Tuesday, Sept. 30, Professor Hey-Kyoung Lee from the Department of Neuroscience at Hopkins presented her research as the speaker of the Ru Chih Huang Department of Biology Colloquium Series.