Day: November 2, 2009
Johns Hopkins Medicine and the health care debate
November 2, 2009
While concepts for health care reform volley back and forth in Washington, D.C., and around the nation, Johns Hopkins has quietly but meaningfully injected itself into the debate.
Seeing tumors in a new light
November 2, 2009
As a Johns Hopkins electrical engineer, Jin U. Kang has spent years tinkering with lasers and optical fiber, studying what happens when light strikes matter. Now, he’s taking on a new challenge: brain surgery.
Launching the Global MBA
November 2, 2009
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School officially launched the Johns Hopkins Global MBA program on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at the New York Stock Exchange. More than 300 Johns Hopkins and Carey Business School alumni, donors, students, faculty and staff, as well as prominent members of the New York area’s corporate community, attended the event. The school is poised to start recruitment of the program’s charter class for its fall 2010 launch
JHU profs join VP Biden in event touting stimulus success
November 2, 2009
Three Johns Hopkins researchers on Friday joined Vice President Joe Biden in an event at the White House complex touting the early success of a $787 billion federal stimulus and tax relief program designed to reinvigorate the nation’s ailing economy.
Boys at the barre: Peabody adds new young dancers
November 2, 2009
Producing Peabody Dance’s end-of-season student performances requires creative planning when it comes to filling boys’ roles, says Carol Bartlett, artistic director of Peabody Dance.
Chemical-catching researchers look to copy canine ‘sniffer’
November 2, 2009
A dog’s nose, with its thousands of olfactory receptors, is one of the best chemical detection “sniffers” in military and police circles. That’s why a Homeland Protection Business Area team at Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on its RealNose program, which aims to construct a sensor that would operate like—and as well as—a dog’s nose. The sensor will eventually be integrated into a system that could simultaneously detect more than 20 chemicals.
Lessons learned: Risk of serious flu-related sickness far outpaces risk of injectable vaccine in pregnant women
November 2, 2009
Pregnant women who catch the flu are at serious risk for flu-related complications, including death, and that risk far outweighs the risk of possible side effects from injectable vaccines containing killed virus, according to an extensive review of published research and data from previous flu season
Kids’ mortality reduced when moms get iron/folic acid
November 2, 2009
Offspring whose mothers had been supplemented with iron/folic acid during pregnancy had dramatically reduced mortality through age 7, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Speeding discovery in neurological disease: The nose knows
November 2, 2009
Trying to understand neurological disease by studying cells in a dish is limited by the availability of the right cells. For years, researchers have relied on postmortem human brains as a source for schizophrenia-affected neurons. Now, Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a novel method via nasal biopsies of schizophrenia patients, establishing a faster way to make neurons in a dish for further study.
40 years of electronic music
November 2, 2009
A free multimedia concert by the Peabody Computer Music Consort on Tuesday, Nov. 3, will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Electronic Music Studio at the Peabody Conservatory. The concert, 40 Years of Looking to the Future, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall.