Most college students instantly recognize a Solo cup. Its distinctive bright red color can be seen scattered among party-goers in late-night raves. Yet this color masks a darker reality.
Think dating is hard? Some birds have to do a perfect moonwalk to score a mate. This Valentines-inspired piece explores the mating rituals of four bird species.
Shubhayu Bhattacharyay, a senior studying Biomedical Engineering at Hopkins, recently received the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
The coronavirus has ignited many social and political issues. Racist discrimination and harassment have been observed around the globe, including in the United States.
Mathematics — four syllables that evoke a wide array of emotions and responses. Many of these emotions that arise are rooted in high school experiences of extensive formula memorizing and glitching of graphing calculators. However, mathematics is not simply a list of trigonometric identities.
At the intersection of art and science is science imaging, which tells visual stories of scientific processes. However, compared to other art genres, images from science rarely get much attention in art galleries.
Sakul Ratanalert, a lecturer in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Hopkins, focuses his research on a specific type of DNA nanostructure referred to as DNA origami.
On Feb. 13, Alex Keene, an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University, delivered a talk titled “Genetic and Evolutionary Dissection of Sleep-feeding Interactions” for the Department of Biology.
All conversations about Medicare for All eventually lead back to one question: How are we going to pay for this? Before delving into voices from Hopkins and our greater Baltimore community, I wanted to put the matter to rest once and for all.
Machine learning has proliferated virtual personal assistants, online video streaming services and social media platforms, providing users access to personalized technologies.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization officially named the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, “COVID-19”, which stands for Coronavirus Disease 2019. From now on, the novel 2019 coronavirus will be referred to as COVID-19.
A few months ago, I was incredibly disillusioned with America. I saw my country as a garden of withering: plants dying, weeds flourishing and gaping cracks in the earth. I knew our problems were only getting worse and worse, but I saw no solutions being implemented.
On Feb. 8, the first Science Olympiad Invitational at Hopkins was held on Homewood Campus. The competition was organized by students involved in Charm City Science League, a student group at Hopkins. Members of the organization mentor Baltimore students every week to help them prepare for olympiads. This year, Charm City Science League decided to host their invitational in order to serve as a practice competition for their mentees as well as other students, and to allow them to hone their skills before the regional and state tournaments.
Last year, a group of Hopkins students got together to develop a platform that would help pre-health students engage with medical professionals from across the University.
As a newly appointed Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science at the School of Medicine, Joshua Doloff is not only a research scientist advancing the fields of immunoengineering and regenerative medicine, but also a mentor to students.
For American football fans, the end of the Super Bowl may elicit uncontrollable joy or despondent regret. But for Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Nicholas Theodore, the Super Bowl’s conclusion brought an immense sense of satisfaction.
One in 9.2 quintillion (that’s 92 followed by 18 zeros) — those are the odds of one generating a perfect bracket for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Division-I Basketball Tournament, or what is more commonly known as “March Madness.” On Feb. 6, the Hopkins Undergraduate Society for Applied Math (HUSAM) invited Professor Tim Chartier from Davidson College to give a talk on how ranking methods and algorithms could better your chances of making a winning bracket.
David Yarkony, D. Mead Johnson professor of Chemistry and chair of the department, received the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in theoretical chemistry for 2020 last month, and will be honored in San Francisco this year.
