100 years of educating educators
In 1909, Johns Hopkins unrolled a plan to serve Baltimore-area teachers

Students in the 1921 Summer Courses for Teachers gather for a class photograph in front of Homewood's Gilman Hall. The session was part of the College Courses for Teachers program that has evolved into today's School of Education.

In 1908, university President Ira Remsen helped lure Edward F. Buchner, a charismatic professor of education and philosophy at the University of Alabama, to Johns Hopkins. Buchner's appointment would have wide-ranging and long-lasting effects.
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Study finds persistence of diversity problems in academic medicine
A survey study believed to be one of the first efforts to put hard numbers around long-held beliefs about diversity in medical school faculties has affirmed that awareness and sensitivity to racial and ethnic diversity are believed to be poor by most faculty, and even poorer among faculty who are members of underrepresented minorities.
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Global warming may delay the recovery of stratospheric ozone
Increasing greenhouse gases could delay, or even postpone indefinitely, the recovery of stratospheric ozone in some regions of the Earth, a Johns Hopkins earth scientist suggests. This change might take a toll on public health.
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