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Branville Bard Jr. named vice president for public safety at Johns Hopkins
July 27, 2021
Veteran, reform-minded law enforcement leader has spent the past four years as police commissioner in Cambridge, Massachusetts
How materials science and engineering enhances the performance of Olympic cyclists
July 27, 2021
Each fall, engineer Orla Wilson challenges students to consider how material properties, structure, and processing affect performance in bicycle design
Johns Hopkins Hospital ranked No. 4 nationally by 'U.S. News'
July 27, 2021
The hospital is recognized in all 15 specialty areas, including No. 1 overall rankings in psychiatry and rheumatology
Bridging the broadband gap in wake of COVID-19
July 26, 2021
As director for broadband development and connectivity for Louisiana, alum Veneeth Iyengar is working to increase access to digital services for education, telehealth, and more
The Games go on, but without fans. Will athletes' performance suffer?
July 22, 2021
Vikram Chib, whose research focuses on the brain processes behind motivation and incentive and how they relate to motor actions, discusses what to expect from participants in the Tokyo Olympics
Study explores COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and ways to reduce it
July 22, 2021
Messages that emphasize vaccination within people's social groups shown to be more effective at reversing vaccine hesitancy than messages that highlight national vaccine statistics
As more athletes use cannabis for aches and pain, there's more we need to know
July 20, 2021
Epidemiologist and former Olympic triathlete Joanna Zeiger is breaking barriers in cannabis research for pain and recovery treatment.
How viruses mutate and what can be done about it
July 19, 2021
Virologist Andrew Pekosz discusses what we know so far about coronavirus variants and what they mean for our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 overall
New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation
July 15, 2021
Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities
Confronting a COVID-19 crisis half a world away
July 12, 2021
'Dome' catches up with the Hopkins students and faculty working to combat the coronavirus pandemic in India from afar