Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Shannen Cravens is a Ph.D. student in molecular biophysics with a passion for teaching who enjoys weaving art into her lab life.
The academic motto of “publish or perish” can create an isolationist graduate school environment. It can be easy to convince ourselves that our impact is… Read More »Pharmacology Student Initiative: Building a Better Graduate Community
When attempting to elucidate the function of biological macromolecules, visual representations can be extremely useful tools. Often, these tools can help pinpoint the structural origin… Read More »Snapshot of a DNA Photocopier in ‘Hibernate’ Mode Reveals Potential Origin for Dwarfism
Does anyone remember being asked if they were left-brained or right-brained? That’s how I recall my friends and I attempting to find our academic niche.… Read More »Effective Communication: How Do Johns Hopkins Scientists Learn to Speak?
Anyone who has taken a biology or biochemistry class is familiar with the central dogma of the biological sciences, which describes the flow of genetic… Read More »New Mechanism of Protein Synthesis Linked to Alzheimer’s