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Features

Demanding a Hearing
By Maria Blackburn
Zara Husain, Ed '08, grew up deaf in Pakistan. She's now determined to see her country embrace a new word for deaf people: normal.

Boxed Volumes
By Dale Keiger
Johns Hopkins Magazine's resident bibliophile ponders the question: When the books are gone from Gilman Hall, what's left?

Good Golly!
By Catherine Pierre
Sculpture at Evergreen 2008 brings a giant glowing cube and a great green glob (among other works) to the stately Evergreen Museum & Library's grounds.

 
URBAN VIOLENCE:
CAN WE END
THE EPIDEMIC?

Street Smart Redefined
By Mat Edelson
Through Safe Streets, an innovative anti-violence program, ex-offenders are helping rewrite the code of the streets.

"Like Him Right There"
By Michael Anft
What does the random murder of Zachary Sowers tell us about urban violence? And how does a widow move on in the aftermath?

  Wholly Hopkins

Wholly Hopkins: Matters of note from around Johns Hopkins

Medicine: Rapid relief for sickle cell pain

Homewood: The "hidden" memorial

Honors: Provost wins Fritz Medal

Engineering: Z rings yield their secrets

Education: Certifying summer learning

Books: A poet of the everyday

APL: Oceans under Titan's surface

Arts & Sciences: The film that became a class

University: New money for diversity

Commencement: One student's banner day

Sports: A spring for the record books

Wholly Hopkins:   Syllabus | Investigations | Academese | Forever Altered | Here & Abroad | Bottom Line | Vignette | Up & Comer | Findings | JHUniverse | Vital Signs

Departments

Contributors: Inside Stories
The Big Question: What Does a Rocket Scientist Think About?
The Big Picture: Agenda Item: New Business
Editor's Note: Our Small Part
Letters: Words Good, Bad, and Divisive
Essay: Miracles for Sale
Golomb's Gambits™ Common Features
Ruminations: From the Ancients to the Moderns
Alumni Notes and Awards
Alumni News
Your Other Life: House Calls for Hives

 

Johns Hopkins
Magazine, June 2008

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