Vivien Thomas was an African-American man who went from janitor to lab technician to pioneer in heart surgery at Johns Hopkins.Racial barriers in the 1930s created huge obstacles for him, but he never ...

Johns Hopkins University officially welcomed its second cohort of Vivien Thomas Scholars earlier this month, a group of 15 PhD students selected to join a prestigious program named for one of the ...

Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg Philanthropies Wednesday announced the launch of the $150 million Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative devoted to addressing historic underrepresentation in science ...

In today’s Black History Fact, we're looking at the life of Vivien Thomas, an innovator and respected teacher in the field of surgery. He supervised a research laboratory at Johns Hopkins Hospital ...

A new Johns Hopkins University scholars program is attracting more doctoral candidates to the Baltimore school specifically from the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities and ...

Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris remember Vivien Thomas, who in the '60s ran a research lab at Johns Hopkins Hospital, helping invent surgical... Black lab technicians at Johns Hopkins remember the man ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with the help of Bossier Parish high school students. Dr.

In the 15 months since he was named the inaugural director of the new Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, Damani Piggott has become something of a scholar of Vivien Thomas ...

Fred Gilliam and Jerry Harris remember Vivien Thomas, who in the '60s ran a research lab at Johns Hopkins Hospital, helping invent surgical techniques — even though he didn't have a medical degree.

Time now for StoryCorps. In the 1960s, Vivien Thomas ran a research lab at Johns Hopkins Hospital helping invent groundbreaking surgical techniques, even though he didn't have a medical degree. Thomas ...