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(04/28/16 4:55pm)
On my way out of college, I've spent some time thinking about loose ends, trying to tie each as efficiently as possible. Laced with bittersweet feeling, I write this piece, leaving my undergraduate career with a PSA.
(03/24/16 5:55pm)
The Career Center recently announced the appointment of Anne Garner as the new director, to start in May. Staff changes inevitably lead to differences in operation, the Editorial Board hopes that with this new leadership comes some much-needed improvements to the Career Center.
(03/10/16 4:08pm)
This past Saturday, the Hopkins men’s lacrosse team came through with a 17-7 win against Princeton University. The home game was well-attended by students and alumni, and the win brought the team to a 2-2 record for the season.
(03/26/15 2:23pm)
The recent announcement of Angelina Jolie Pitt’s removal of her ovaries and fallopian tubes after showing early signs of ovarian cancer has women across the nation thinking about genetic testing for cancer. Some doctors describe ovarian cancer as one of the most deadly due to its late-stage discovery, which limits treatment options.
(03/05/15 6:04pm)
Coming in at the top, the iPhone is the world’s top-selling smartphone for the first time in three years. The smartphone market becomes increasingly competitive every year, and with that Apple, Lenovo, Samsung, Huawei and LG Electronics have shuffled in ranks for selling the most phones worldwide.
(03/05/15 6:02pm)
“Where does one begin to tell a story?” Dava Sobel asked attendees in Hodson Hall this past Friday as the best-selling author gave a short talk and reading from her latest work. “They have something to say and don’t know where to start,” Sobel said.
(02/05/15 5:07pm)
The recent outbreak of measles in the United States has raised flags in the public health world.
(01/29/15 5:13pm)
Nisu Patel, a 19-year-old junior, has spent his time outside class working in a research lab on Homewood Campus. He tells us how he thinks computational sciences are the key to understanding and treating diseases in the future.
(11/20/14 6:38pm)
Flashing back to the third grade, you’re surrounded by the bright vibrancy that encompassed the welcoming elementary school walls. It’s Tuesday, and the weekly spelling quiz is about to begin. You studied, but not enough; your mother got you a new paint set, and you spent the majority of last evening mixing colors and painting. Your palms are clammy and then quickly escalate to moist as your teacher instructs the class to spell the first word. The unthinkable has happened, and you are faced with the impending doom that tricky inflected endings bring. Your neighbor, with a champion smile on her face, frantically spells the word. You hear an eraser being rubbed against paper to your left, and swift as a feather, your neighbor’s answer sheet has been flown to the ground. Do you dart your eyes and look to your left? Or do you hold up to your honest upbringing and ignore the paper on the floor, even if it could save your test? Would you really resort to cheating? Being exposed to situations like this in life is inevitable, but do we act? Being the creative individual you are, the answer is yes.
(09/04/14 8:22pm)
With a few shocks to the brain, scientists have made it possible to never forget a friend’s birthday, lose track of keys or have to deal with uncomfortable encounter of forgetting an acquaintance’s name. A research team at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has used this knowledge for more than just key tracking but for enhancing the retention network of memory-impaired individuals.
(04/17/14 4:06pm)
Over the past few years it has become increasingly evident that emergency physicians overlook tens of thousands of strokes each year. These missed diagnoses are not equally distributed among the population, but ER doctors disproportionately miss strokes of women, minorities and younger patients.
(04/10/14 3:58pm)
Not only does water pollution contaminate the source of a vital life element, but it appears to have more surprising effects: changing the sexual classification of male fish.
(04/03/14 3:34pm)
AIDS Alliance, Hopkins’ AIDS awareness club on campus, held an annual banquet not only to satisfy the Indian food cravings of students all around, but also to raise awareness about AIDS in the Baltimore community. This past Friday, in one of the Charles Commons ballrooms, club president and senior Bryan Kohrs assembled his team to put together an unforgettable and educational banquet. At the banquet, the club emphasized the prevalence of AIDS in our local community.
(03/13/14 3:07pm)
As today’s world continues to have an increase in expected human lifespan, there may be something holding society back: homosexual prejudice. Recent studies have indicated that there exists a direct correlation between anti-gay stigma and shortened lifespans. The study suggests that the shortened lifespan can affect both those who hold the prejudice and those towards whom the prejudice is directed.
(02/21/14 7:06pm)
In genetics, X marks the spot. The X chromosome, one of the two sex-determining chromosomes in humans, has become increasingly popular for scientists studying chromosome inactivation, the mosaic expression of genes in females and the genetics of sex differences. Researchers at the University of Helsinki, joining this wave of X chromosome investigations, have founding a correlation between the X chromosome and human height. This correlation may explain the height difference in females and males.
(02/08/14 12:50am)
It is not large mammals nor hungry creatures that stand as the Magellanic penguin’s biggest predator: It is climate change. A recent study conducted by Dee Boersma at the University of Washington claims that changing weather patterns are threatening the chicks of this penguin species.
(11/07/13 8:14pm)
During the search for our doppelgangers in the world, we may miss the question that eludes many of our minds: What exactly makes each face so distinct? It’s common sense that we have eyes, a nose, and a mouth, but how is it possible that we can recognize between hundreds of our friends solely from these features? Geneticist Axel Visel of Berkeley Lab’s Genomics Division has made discoveries in the field that allow us to better answer this question.
(10/18/13 9:21pm)
Self-assembling robots are a new breed of a once thought to be impossible machine of another world. Not just hunks of metal and buttons that can pick up and drop objects, more than the robotic carpet cleaner Roomba, and well beyond the mechanic dance move from the 1960s, self-assembling robots have catalyzed a new generation of automatic devices.
(04/18/13 11:26pm)
Could it be that the missing link between geology and biology has been discovered? Just ask Terry Kee, a reader at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. In his most recent study in the University’s chemistry department, Kee researches how non-living rock essentially converted into the building blocks of life.
(03/28/13 5:56pm)
Researchers find combination of immune cells and antibodies that may lead to a universal flu vaccine