Next door: Neighbors Need Not

By Aleksandra Woźniak, Johns Hopkins University After returning from my travels, I feel as though I have stepped into a world separate from the one I have inhabited throughout the summer. Or perhaps it is the perspective I have gathered that has suddenly made the familiar seem distant. Somewhere between airport gates, where the languageContinue reading “Next door: Neighbors Need Not”

A Galician Summer  

By Aleksandra Woźniak, Johns Hopkins University My name is Ola. That is short for Aleksandra. I am from Chicago, and I study in Baltimore. But my roots reach into Lesser Poland, just south of Kraków. Over the past few years, the wind has blown, and I have swayed back and forth between the Great LakesContinue reading “A Galician Summer  “

From Baroque Theatricality to Enlightenment Precision: Ceroplastics Between Art and Science

By Jacopo Villani My name is Jacopo Villani, and I am a rising junior at Johns Hopkins University, where Iam pursuing a double major in the History of Art and Molecular and Cellular Biology. I was born in Pisa, Italy, and moved to Maryland when I was three years old. Growing up, I loved makingContinue reading “From Baroque Theatricality to Enlightenment Precision: Ceroplastics Between Art and Science”