Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
After college, Talia Henkle became an English professor at a university for low-income students in Bogota, Colombia, for a year. She’s now pursuing a Ph.D. in immunology.
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Scientists at MIT Sloan created a data-driven interactive role-play exercise to drive home the urgency of the climate crisis. Ph.D. candidate Talia Henkle shares her experience participating in this exercise.
The more you know, the more you know you don’t know. In biomedical professions, sometimes that fact can be energizing and other times — demoralizing.
Last week, NPR published “Academic Science Rethinks All-Too-White ‘Dude Walls’ of Honor” on its website. This article addresses the message that walls of honor that… Read More »Representing Diversity on Portrait Walls Around Johns Hopkins: One Stride Taken, Many to Go
Dengue, a virus endemic to Latin America and Southeast Asia, infects about 400 million people and causes about 25,000 deaths each year by dengue hemorrhagic… Read More »The Dengue Vaccine Controversy Explained
Preclusion of efficacious scientific communication, nucleating from the cultivation of an elitist scientific culture, is a pervasive detriment to the impact of science. Wait, let… Read More »Re-thinking Language as a Scientific Tool
I first became concerned about unaffordable drug prices when I did one of my first-year research rotations in a lab that studied the hepatitis C… Read More »A Life or Debt Decision: Tackling Unaffordable Drug Prices in Maryland
In the wake of midterm elections, nine new STEM professionals will take seats in the U.S. Congress, eight in the House and one in the… Read More »Science Has New Advocates on Capitol Hill in Wake of Midterm Elections
Midterm elections are right around the corner. Now is the time to register to vote — the Maryland registration deadline is Oct. 16, 2018. Why… Read More »STEM Students: “Doc” the Vote!
As an immunologist-to-be, few things frustrate me more than hearing of misinformed antivaccine sentiments. I have been of the opinion for some time now that… Read More »Teaching About Vaccines — A Miracle of Modern Medicine