Nurturing Future Scientists
City high school students delve into research in Hopkins laboratories

Britni Lonesome was a Baltimore City high school senior when Justin Hanes, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, permitted her to join his lab team.

While still a senior in high school, Britni Lonesome toiled 10 hours a week in a Whiting School of Engineering lab, helping to develop a new drug delivery system that could someday reduce tuberculosis deaths in impoverished nations. This month, the 18-year-old enters Johns Hopkins as a Baltimore Scholar, having already received local and national recognition for her work on the project.
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Book Talk: A Sociologist's Take on Black Sisterhood
While writing her first book, Krieger School sociologist Katrina Bell McDonald had in mind a very specific title — a title that name-dropped the book's inspiration — only to have her publisher's legal department nix the famous moniker at the last minute. If all had gone according to plan, Embracing Sisterhood: Class, Identity and Contemporary Black Women (Rowan & Littlefield, August 2006) would have given a titular hug to a very specific icon: Oprah Winfrey.
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Students and faculty: Not oil and water
Outside the classroom, the rapport between undergraduates and faculty can often be awkward and limited. Like oil and water — or rows of boys and girls at a grammar school dance — they just don't mix.
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