While others discarded DNA clues in rape cases before a database existed, this pathologist saw the future.
Thirty years ago, police had few investigative tools for tracking down the perpetrators of sexual assaults, particularly stranger rapes when a victim may never see her assailant's face. So when a victim was seen at a hospital, the sexual assault exam was really only able to determine that there had been recent sexual activity and, if the examiner was lucky enough to find the right trace evidence...
A BSA alum makes the giant move to Los Angeles.
Autumn Johnson did the practical thing after graduating from the Baltimore School for the Arts in 2000: went to college, got a degree, and entered the "real world." But, in a few years she realized her true calling was acting. The 25-year-old Ashburton resident packed up her car this summer and headed for Hollywood. Before she left, she contacted a prospective agent and arranged to move in with...
Jane's Jewishness had always been a part of her—just not a big part. So why did she decide to get bat mitzvahed—in her mid-40's?
What if I open my mouth and no words come out? What if I've forgotten everything I've studied for the past two years? What if I sneeze on the sacred scroll?
These were my thoughts as I stood in front of my family and friends for this milestone event. After two years of preparation, my big day, March 29, 2008—22 Adar II 5768 according to the Jewish calendar—had finally arrived. I was becoming a...
The bagel baron on the best advice he ever forgot, stolen library books, and the real way to eat a bagel.
Others have come and gone at Belvedere Square. Greg Novik of Greg's Bagels has stayed put—out of sheer stubbornness, he says. It paid off. The market is thriving, and Novik is having the last lox, er, laugh.
Where did you go to school? I graduated from Hopkins '68 with a degree in economics! And now look at me. What a joke.
What book or film most changed your life?The book is called...
He's been a perfectionist, personally monitoring every aspect of his family-run restaurant for 20 years. So is Linwood Dame beginning to ease up? Don't count on it.
Wearing his trademark horn-rimmed glasses, chef's whites, and well-worn Dansko clogs, Linwood Dame stands in the corner of his open kitchen, puts a pinch of English sea salt over a watermelon-and-feta salad and simultaneously studies the row of lunch tickets to make sure the food is finding its way to the tables in a timely fashion.
"Was this tuna returned because the first piece was overcooked...
For five first-year teachers, the view from the other side of the classroom is challenging, exciting, and, yes, a little scary.
Don't smile for the first three months.
That was the advice science teacher Taylor Shannon received last year as she headed into her first teaching job at Baltimore's Northeast Middle School.
Students see your kindness as weakness, she was told. So Shannon, 24, was afraid to be too nice.
"I wanted to build relationships," she says. "But I was afraid they would mistake it as a friendship."
Soon...
The Hopkins neurosurgeon—and local hero—on Rocky, mastering his fear, and the 3-pound enigma.
His story has been well told: Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa ("Dr. Q" to friends) was an illegal immigrant from Mexico who put himself through medical school—at Harvard, no less—and now is a top neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins. Below, he tackles a slightly lesser challenge: The Baltimore Grill.
Where did you go to school?I started my education in a small rural school in a quiet,...
Kids from rough circumstances climb high
Nine years ago, Matthew Weinberg, CEO of Weinberg Group, a global business consulting firm, walked into three Baltimore City and County high schools with a more or less blank check, wanting to invest in high academic achievers he believed were underserved by the system. The need in the workplace he was most focused on: science- and technology-related fields.
He started out with 18 students,...
Two Hopkins doctors give cancer patients one last escape.
There are lots of medical studies underway at any given time in the medical research mecca that is Baltimore. But two Johns Hopkins psychologists are looking for volunteers for a study that's both unusual and that sounds, at first blush, barely legal: They're recruiting cancer patients who are willing to take the hallucinogen psilocybin in order to have a life-affirming mystical experience.
The...
The BSO hopes a music program creates social change at a West Baltimore elementary school.
If you think putting a violin in the hands of a six-year-old sounds premature, think again.
This month, first graders at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in West Baltimore will begin OrchKids, an after-school music venture led by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and based on the Venezuelan program El Sistema. OrchKids is funded by BSO music director Marin Alsop, and Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda...
