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.
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“You’ve heard about some of these pet projects, they really don’t make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes these dollars go to projects that… Read More »Science on the Streets
More often than not, people come to a point in their academic careers where they hit a wall; some of us just do it more… Read More »Hitting a Wall