In recent years, the opioid crisis has become one of the United States’ most pressing public health issues. Countless news articles, heartbreaking photos and harrowing documentaries have been released to the public in order to raise awareness about this unsettling issue.
Harindra Fernando gave a talk titled “Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations in Equatorial Atmosphere and Oceans” on Feb. 28 in Hodson Hall. The talk was sponsored by the Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics as part of their weekly seminar series and hosted by Rui Ni, an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Hopkins.
History helps us learn from the successes and failures of the past to direct our actions for the future.
People are always concerned about health. Climate change has many noted health effects, but this is rarely the focus of discussions of climate change.
The Whiting School of Engineering invited panelists Anita Samarth and Laura Bossi to discuss salary negotiation for women in industry, as part of the event series Hopkins Engineers Week on Wednesday, Feb. 19.
I’ve decided that for this edition of STEM major survival guide, we’ll be doing some myth debunking on a topic that is quite near and dear to my heart: BME-ing.
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.
