Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Guest blogger William (Billy) Mills is a 6th-year Ph.D. candidate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an Adjunct Instructor in the Departments… Read More »Excelling at Hopkins: How to Make the Most of Your Time in Graduate School
Having to conduct three rotations across various labs for the first year of my human genetics Ph.D. experience has been both an exhilarating and arduous… Read More »Finding Mentorship As an Underrepresented Scientist
Would a union help graduate student workers at Hopkins? @GraciousSteward examines a graduate student union contract negotiated by the same union that @TRUhopkins proposes graduate… Read More »Is TRU for You? What a Graduate Student Union Could Mean for Hopkins Graduate Workers
Are Ph.D. candidates students or employees? The answer is a little fuzzy, which makes it difficult to find a work-life balance while pursuing your Ph.D.… Read More »Living in the Gray Area Between Student and Employee
Adapting to her new environment in grad school has not only required Riley Bannon to learn new things, but also unlearn the way she thought… Read More »5 Things I Had to Unlearn in Graduate School
Graduate students must pass a challenging oral exam to advance in their Ph.D. program. How can they navigate this checkpoint during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Despite their divided administrations, the Johns Hopkins history of medicine and history of science and technology departments intersect weekly in their colloquium series, enabling a… Read More »The Value of Weekly Seminars
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… Read More »The Graduate Student Association: a Voice for Graduate Students Across Campus
Soon, there will be an exciting and different twist on the traditional Ph.D. training environment: XDBio — the Cross-Disciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences.
Graduate student Bernat Navarro-Serer's Ph.D. wasn’t a reassurance of his professional goals, but instead opened a whole world of career options.