P U B L I C    P O L I C Y    &    I N T E R N A T I O N A L
A F F A I R S

Matters of Taste
By Dale Keiger,
In the kitchen with Sid Mintz as he whips up a rather unusual Thanksgiving feast--and laments the fact that Americans don't take their food seriously.
Online Recipes - Good news for those cooks who have been clamoring for the recipes prepared by Professor Sidney Mintz!
In Short - Thinking about Japan's future... why the president should be above the law... a hilltop lecture... from welfare to work

S C I E N C E    &    T E C H N O L O G Y

Blow, Bonnie, Blow!
By Sue De Pasquale,
Hopkins civil engineers take their research into the eye of the storm in hopes of one day preventing some of the damage wrought by hurricanes.
In Short - Ecologists take a slice of life... the inner workings of the mitochondria... a leap into the wireless realm of Public Health

O N       C A M P U S E S

When Academics Meet the Press
By Melissa Hendricks
Talking to the media is a little like doing the tango, say Hopkins researchers who've been in the limelight. There are several right ways but many more wrong ones.
In Short - Mourning at Public Health... the value in very old trash... Tutorial Project celebrates 40 years

H U M A N I T I E S    &    T H E    A R T S

Santos: The Art of Devotion
From the Collection of Barbe Awalt (MA '76) and Paul Rhetts
In the 400 years since the Spanish introduced Catholicism to the Southwest, artwork depicting saints and holy scenes has endured as a focus for personal devotion.
In Short - Centuries-old tapestries return to Peabody... "A Doll House," richly done... preserving Cuba's patrimony... online journals pay off

H E A L T H    &    M E D I C I N E

Women of War
By Joanne P. Cavanaugh
"Uncle Sam Needs Nurses!" blared the military recruitment brochures in 1941, and hundreds of Hopkins nurses heeded the call. We bring you a few of their stories.
In Short - A genetic link to schizophrenia... chlamydia and teens... X marks the spot in prostate cancer... healthy signs... HIV's toll on women

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