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1 week 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.
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2 weeks 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).
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3 weeks ago | 
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?
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3 weeks ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
hub.jhu.edu | Brennen Jensen
Hearing loss is an inevitable aspect of aging. Everyone experiences it to some degree. But for more than a third of those age 65 or older, the loss is severe enough to be an impairment. And our aging population means hearing loss rates are rising, projected to double by 2060.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
hub.jhu.edu | Brennen Jensen
One of the most exciting moments in a professor's life must be unpacking the first print copies of their latest book. As the author of four works, Christopher Cannon, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics at Johns Hopkins University, knows this feeling well. But when recently opening the box from Oxford University Press containing his fifth book, he was both proud of his achievement and daunted by the size of his literary offering. "It was bigger than I imagined," Cannon says.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
hub.jhu.edu | Brennen Jensen
It was right here in this house," Kevin Puts says of the phone call that changed his life. We're sitting in the kitchen of his rangy Arts and Crafts home in a leafy corner of Yonkers, New York. It's an early fall morning, but the Peabody composition professor— shoeless and casually clad in a black pullover—is reflecting on an unseasonably warm April afternoon in 2012. An otherwise mundane Monday when the pressing issue was whether to take his toddler son, Ben, to play in the park after his nap.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
hub.jhu.edu | Brennen Jensen
A group of recent college grads sharing a house is not unusual. But the foursome that moved into an East Baltimore row house in September is a little different. Violinists Derek Chen and KuanHao Yen, violist Amelia Eckloff, and cellist Tim Beccue all graduated from Peabody Conservatory last spring. Instead of chasing down gigs in Baltimore and beyond, they auditioned to become yearlong fellows in the nonprofit Mount Vernon Virtuosi's String Quartet.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
hub.jhu.edu | Brennen Jensen
Who was Gertrude Stein? Should she be remembered as a pioneering writer? An early and insightful collector of modern art? A den mother to a 1920s cohort of creatives—Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce—for whom she coined the term the "Lost Generation"? A woman who made little effort to hide her longtime lesbian relationship decades before the LGTBQ+ rights movement began? Yes. All of this and more.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
hub.jhu.edu | Brennen Jensen
Debuting in 1866, the 625-seatMiriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall is flanked by looming caryatids and fronted by a capacious hardwoodstage and orchestra pit. The auditorium is the largest of the Peabody Institute's sextet of performancespaces. It's also the oldest music venue in Baltimore and one of the oldest such halls in the country(famed Carnegie Hall is 25 years younger). Scores of musical luminaries have performed or visitedhere: Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Hilary Hahn.
