What is it like to be the Health Commissioner of a complex city like Baltimore (whose health department happens to have been the first in the United States)? Dr. Leana […]
Unburied Treasure: Discovering ARTstor Collections
While on an expedition through the ARTstor Digital Library’s more than 1.9 million arts and humanities related images, you might use ARTstor’s robust search and filtering functionality to hunt for […]
The Value of Gaming in Higher Education
Guest blogger: Macie Hall, from the CER‘s Innovative Instructor. A recent article in the Educause Review might be of interest to readers thinking about the value of gaming in the curriculum. [See also The Innovative […]
Thank You!
So much for our New Year’s Resolution about procrastination (don’t judge!). Here’s our New Year’s video and a salute to all the people — students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends, parents, […]
Survey and Gift Cards: Your New Year’s Resolution
MSEL is resolved help you with all aspects of your research. We provide many services and resources, including: personalized research assistance information literacy training data management assistance instructional technology help […]
Teaching (and Learning) with Data
Developing statistical and quantitative literacy allows us to understand the numbers thrown at us on a daily basis, whether they are from the New York Times, the Census Bureau, or […]
Magical Moments for Teachers
The art of teaching keeps changing. At Hopkins, as at many other schools, our students work in labs, have flipped classrooms, use clickers and other “active learning” methods, attend lectures, […]
Five (Library) New Year’s Resolutions You CAN Keep
New Year’s resolutions are notoriously hard to keep. Here are 5 we can help you with! Find out who your liaison librarian is. Whether you’re a grad student and need […]
Sidney Mintz & Claude Levi-Strauss: Remembering when one titan of Anthropology encountered another
I was saddened to learn about the recent death of Professor Sidney Mintz. Professor Mintz’s towering stature in the field of anthropology was equally matched by his humility, as I […]
All sorts of endings
It’s the end of the year (or maybe the end of the world?) and since I’m writing this on a gray afternoon, my mind is focused on the end of […]