Teaming Up Kids with sickle cell disease (SCD) grow up facing a future of potential organ damage, vision problems, infections, and stroke. But perhaps the most agonizing part of living with the disease is dealing with the “crises”—unpredictable attacks of intense pain that take over little bodies, often sending them to a hospital for narcotics […]

The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters, by Bruce Parker,  A&S ’80 (MA), ’85 (PhD) (Palgrave Macmillan). As late as 2004, much of the world was ignorant of tsunamis, in any language. But when nearly 3 million died in an Indian Ocean tsunami that year, a […]

Michael D. Portman, A&S ’96 Michael Portman arrived in Austin from Los Angeles a few years ago, in desperate need of a haircut. He asked his longtime buddy Jayson Rapaport where to find a good hair salon, casually mentioning how much he liked the ones he’d known in L.A. —unisex places that were stylishly low-key, […]

Brian Linden, SAIS Nanj ‘88 (Cert), offers travelers “a non-urban-based intellectual retreat” in China’s Yunnan Province.

Johns Hopkins University is creating and supporting mentorship opportunities.

Meet the new president of the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association.

Ruth Barnard, Nurs ’58 (Dipl) When nursing professor Ruth Barnard retired in 2000 after teaching for 25 years at the University of Michigan, she planned to spend a lot of time watering and weeding the colorful Knockout roses in her delightful front-yard garden. But then she got a phone call from the pastor at her […]

Kids with sickle cell disease (SCD) grow up facing a future of potential organ damage, vision problems, infections, and stroke. But perhaps the most agonizing part of living with the disease is dealing with the “crises”—unpredictable attacks of intense pain that take over little bodies, often sending them to a hospital for narcotics to curb […]