On May 3, I and four other Johns Hopkins students volunteered with the Personalized Genetics Education Project, or pgEd, at a congressional briefing titled “Enduring the Extremes: Space Travel, Genetics and Astronaut Health.” This briefing, co-hosted by Rep. Louise Slaughter and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, was motivated by NASA’s goal to conduct landing missions to a(...)
Events and Happenings
From Opera to Burlesque, Johns Hopkins Shows Off Talent at Spring Tonic
Posted by Sarah Robbins | Events and HappeningsWhen you think of graduate students, they are often in a white coat, behind the lab bench, diligently punching numbers into a calculator or carefully pipetting the same colorless liquids back and forth. Of course, this is one part of the life of a student, but it’s not the whole story. Students came in droves(...)
May 4, 2016
Hopkins Outreach at the B’More Healthy Expo
Posted by Diana Cholakian | Events and HappeningsDoctors rarely have the chance to provide a variety of free and comprehensive services to patients under one roof, but the seventh annual B’more Healthy Expo at the Baltimore Convention Center was an opportunity to do just that. In a setting where health screenings, informational sessions, exhibits and entertainment were available, members of the community(...)
Apr 11, 2016
Share Your Thoughts With the Class of 2016
Posted by Audrey Huang | Events and HappeningsDear faithful followers, We are excited to celebrate Match Day 2016 with the medical students tomorrow. We will be monitoring social media channels and celebrating with everyone matching, including our own blog writer Arielle Medford! If you're there, please feel free to share with us your pictures, thoughts or well wishes for the class of(...)
Mar 17, 2016
Becoming a Science Storyteller: Tips on Communication
Posted by Xuan Pham | Events and Happenings“Nobody has to read this crap!” Ed Yong began his talk at a recent American Society of Human Genetics symposium, The Art and Science of Science Communication, with a bombshell. As scientists, we hold information in the highest regard, especially information we discovered while toiling away in the lab. But Yong insists that no one has(...)
Dec 14, 2015
School of Medicine’s Student-Led Group Brings Joy Through Music
Posted by Stephanie Zuo | A Day in the Life, Events and HappeningsLast December, a group of 15 medical students gathered in the lobby of the Sheikh Zayed Tower in The Johns Hopkins Hospital. That evening, the glass-enclosed space was filled with hospital staff members exhausted after a long day of work and worried family members of patients in the emergency room. The students formed a small semicircle and,(...)
Dec 4, 2015
Lessons Learned in Graduate School: Be Good to Your Data
Posted by sarahlaskey | Events and HappeningsPart 3 in a series of posts called “Lessons Learned in Graduate School.” Read Part 1 | Part 2. If you find yourself unenthused at the thought of topics like data management and correspondence security, you’re not alone. I usually keep these ideas filed away in the category of “probably important but too much trouble(...)
Dec 2, 2015
Highlights from the 2015 American Society of Human Genetics Conference
Posted by Xuan Pham | Events and HappeningsAs the American Society of Human Genetics concluded its 65th annual meeting in Baltimore, the air around the Johns Hopkins McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine still seems to buzz with the excitement of it all. Among the plethora of innovative research and technologies presented, the society devoted some focus to those entities whose existence is(...)
Oct 23, 2015
Preparing for Conferences: Inside the 2015 ASHG Annual Meeting
Posted by Xuan Pham | A Day in the Life, Events and HappeningsAttending scientific conferences is one of my favorite things about being a graduate student. I get the opportunity to hear what is hot in the field, who is leading the charge and how they’re doing it. As a genetics student, I’m partial to the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) conference, an annual meeting dedicated(...)
Oct 5, 2015
Johns Hopkins Postdocs Receive Crash Course in Leadership
Posted by Paul Sirajuddin | Events and HappeningsWhat makes someone a leader? Is it an individual who makes the important decisions in a group setting? Or is it someone who is able to dream and carry out his or her vision? For many new postdocs beginning their careers around the country, being put in leadership positions for the first time can be(...)
Aug 18, 2015