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The Village Review
By Janet Gilbert, Direct Mail and Renewals Coordinator, Journals There is a volunteering group Here at the Hopkins Press, That was set up to foster Teamwork and togetherness. Yes, our adjacent buildings on North Charles Street in the city Are bridged by the...
The Doctor Is In: Preventing the spread of measles
The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine. Guest post by Athena Kourtis Measles is very rare in countries with high rates of vaccination. In the United States, as in some...
Will the real Booker T. Washington please stand up?
Source material is the lifeblood of academic research (learn why here), and, courtesy of Michael Scott Bieze and Marybeth Gasman's Booker T. Washington Rediscovered, the JHU Press is now in the business of hosting such valuable content on our website. Students...
Myths about the Baltimore Orioles
Guest post by Frederick E. Taylor Baltimore Orioles fans must feel very frustrated. Their once-great franchise has fallen on hard times—14 consecutive losing seasons, a serious decline in attendance, and no dominant players to reverse their misfortune. Losing...
Can you judge a journal by its title?
They say you can't judge a book by its cover. Whether that's true or not is a post for another time, but it makes me wonder this--can you judge a journal by its title? Outsiders may look at Progress in Community Health Partnerships and wonder what they might...
City Trees in Spring
Guest Post by Leslie Day Apple blossoms Most people are surprised that trees actually flower. Yet this spring ritual of pink cherry blossoms, white clouds of Callery pear blooms, magnolia, apple, and purple leaf plum flowers exploded in March, about 5-6 weeks...
In Other Words: Progress in Community Health Partnerships
Editor S. Darius Tandon talks about research from the journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships, a groundbreaking publication in the area of Community Based Participatory Research based at Johns Hopkins University.
Unsung heroes
Guest post by Bo Beolens The joy of researching our eponym dictionaries is coming across unsung heroes whose remarkable lives may end up commemorated in a critter’s name. Often the collective memory fades and it is left to later generations to rediscover these...
A balancing act
Guest post by John M. Henshaw The Segway is that crazy looking self-propelled scooter that rolls on two side-by-side wheels. Not everyone is in love with the way they look, but no matter what you might think of their aesthetics, you have to admit that they are...
In like a polar bear . . . out like James Franco
No roaring lions (only polar bears) heralded the end of our mild winter here in Baltimore. Read on to see what we've been up to, who we've been meeting (can anyone say James Franco?), and what's in the works at the JHU Press. Journals News In an effort to help...