Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Kyla Britson is a Ph.D. candidate in cellular and molecular medicine. She has been playing violin since she was 10. She was in her college’s campus orchestra, and since moving to Baltimore she has been part of the Hunt Valley Symphony. She says playing the violin has always been her artistic break from science.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a graduate student in possession of a stipend must be in want of free food. It is this fact that the Graduate Student Association (GSA) uses to draw students to their multitude of events, but there is more to the GSA than you may expect.
This November, Nobel laureate Gregg Semenza gave an inspiring keynote presentation highlighting how researching basic scientific principles can improve our understanding of human disease.
Have you ever wondered if your cat really loves you? A recent study has shown that cats have the same ability as infants and dogs to form strong attachments to their caregivers.
“Kidneys…relax…” I know where my kidneys are located thanks to my anatomy classes, but how would I make them relax, and do I even want… Read More »Meditation: Building a Community Across the Hopkins Campus
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I started working in academia as an undergraduate laboratory technician in 2009. After a decade of experience and four years as a graduate student, I… Read More »Plan S: How Open Access Publishing Could Be Changing Academia
“[At Hopkins] we have the best medical students and the best graduate students in the world, and then we do everything in our power to… Read More »Partnering Toward Discovery: Behind the Scenes
If it sounds like it’s too good to be true, then it probably is. This proverb may come across as pessimistic; however, it seems to… Read More »Never a Dull Moment in Cardiology
I have been part of the Johns Hopkins community for the last five years — first as a laboratory technician and now as a graduate… Read More »The State of Johns Hopkins Medicine Address: What Is It?
The big 30 — it’s a birthday the average person approaches with considerable trepidation, but the laboratory of Jeremy Nathans is far from average. On… Read More »Happy 30th Birthday to the Nathans Lab!