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Official portrait of Eddie Bernice Johnson, 107th Congress. Elected in 1992 from Texas's 30th congressional district, she was the first registered nurse elected to Congress.

Although it is not mentioned here that Aaron Ember ('01) was Jewish, it is noted later, as he would go on to teach Semitics at Hopkins. He was one of the first Jews to come from outside the Baltimore community and showcases the level of acceptance…

E. Emmet Reid used these notebooks for taking Organic Chemistry and Theoretical Chemistry lecture notes as an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins.

Salvarsan, also known as 606, was a synthetic drug developed by the scientist Paul Ehrlich in 1909 to treat syphilis. It was a path-breaking development that revolutionized the American medical profession’s ability to treat the disease. When World…

In 2013, Dr. Wei-Ping Andrew Lee (front center) performed the first-ever bilateral arm transplant at Hopkins. The patient was Brendan Marrocco (on Lee’s left), a veteran of the Iraq War