Brennen Jensen

1 month ago | hub.jhu.edu | Brennen Jensen

Ulrich "Uli" Mueller was born in Germany and was pursuing a PhD from the University of Cologne when he came to Princeton University to perform some collaborative research in the 1980s. "The welcoming I received in this country was just amazing and I immediately didn't feel like a foreigner," says Mueller, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Biology at Johns Hopkins University.

2 months ago | hub.jhu.edu | Brennen Jensen

On the opening weekend of the 2025 Major League Baseball season last month, against the Milwaukee Brewers. The first three pitches thrown to Yankees batters were all promptly deposited over the outfield wall. Of particular interest to the baseball community was the science behind the slugging.

2 months ago | hub.jhu.edu | Brennen Jensen

As American industrial might is increasingly challenged and bested by global competitors, the medical technology field remains a bright spot. "Med tech is one of the few industries where America leads," says Youseph Yazdi, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID).

Mar 28, 2025 | hub.jhu.edu | Brennen Jensen

Conversations with Daniel Taylor, A&S '67, rarely run in a single direction. They twist and fork. Topical diversions arise, sidetracks are followed, and tangential anecdotes pile up. One minute he's describing the scourge of Himalayan leeches, next, an argument he had with actress Angelina Jolie, then he's back in '68 piloting a VW bus full of hippies from Germany to India. Did you hear about the time a black bear crawled on top of him while he lay in a tent reading Tolstoy in the Grand Tetons?

Mar 28, 2025 | hub.jhu.edu | Brennen Jensen

Women have been having abortions for thousands of years. And for just about as long, there have been, to one degree or another, organized efforts to prevent them from doing so. Such is the nutshell synopsis of a new history of abortion published in March by Mary Fissell, the J. Mario Molina Professor in the School of Medicine's Department of the History of Medicine. This much can be gleaned from the title alone: Pushback: The 2,500-Year Fight to Thwart Women by Restricting Abortion.