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Features

Of Mice and Medicine
By Michael Anft
Research at Johns Hopkins owes a lot to Mus musculus — the mighty house mouse, made mightier by genetic engineering.

Market Research
By Dale Keiger
Self-described "market nut" Helen Tangires, A&S '78, says that public food markets aren't just a place to buy local goods. They're part of our moral economy.

Green Idea! It Might Just Work
By Siobhan Paganelli, A&S '08
Johns Hopkins leaders aren't the only ones committed to sustainability. Here are five students who are contributing to a greener campus and a healthier world.

A Pleasure to Be Bought
By Kathleen Waters Sander
An excerpt from Mary Elizabeth Garrett: Society and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age tells the surprising story behind Garrett's founding gift to the School of Medicine.

  Wholly Hopkins

Wholly Hopkins: Matters of note from around Johns Hopkins

Medicine: "HiCy" relieves MS symptoms

Astronomy: Looking for ET on the plane

Genetics: Victor McKusick, Med '46, dies

Peabody: Relax, breathe, play flute

Homewood: Cogenerating lower costs

Public Health: Measuring cultural competency

Arts and Sciences: Grad student killed in Iraq

SAIS: The faces of Chinese power

Engineering: Helping ICU patients walk

Research: Did that beaker just moo?

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

Departments

Contributors: Very Small Things
The Big Question: Is That a Euro in Your Pocket?
Editor's Note: There's Hope
Letters: Reactions to Urban Violence
Essay: Stand and Deliver Promises
Golomb's Gambits™ A Fan Crossword
Ruminations: The Agony of Watching Defeat
Alumni Notes and Awards
Alumni News
Your Other Life: Entertainment, with Strings Attached

 

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Magazine, September 2008

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