Day: November 9, 2009
Hollywood at Homewood
November 9, 2009
Film and Media Studies students and theater minors delighted in the opportunity last week to pick the brain of director David Fincher and other principal members of the upcoming major motion picture The Social Network. For two days, Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus served as a shooting location for the Columbia Pictures film, which chronicles the founding of Facebook.
JHU family celebrates student’s life
November 9, 2009
Family, friends and hundreds of members of the Johns Hopkins University community filled the gymnasium of Homewood’s Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center on Tuesday afternoon to memorialize and celebrate the life of Miriam Frankl, a vivacious, confident and bright young woman who clearly captivated many.
MESSENGER reveals more territory on Mercury
November 9, 2009
A NASA spacecraft’s third and final flyby of the planet Mercury gives scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet’s surface and provides new scientific findings about this relatively unknown planet.
N.Y. photographer/multimedia talent arrives as artist in residence
November 9, 2009
This month, the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins is hosting its second artist in residence, photographer and multimedia artist Hank Willis Thomas, who is collaborating with students and staff in the Digital Media Center on the Homewood campus.
JHU Course Catalog: Puritan Maidens to Pop Culture Tweens: The History of Youth in America
November 9, 2009
The course: Puritan Maidens to Pop Culture Tweens: The History of Youth in America is offered by the Department of History in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. It’s one of the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship courses, sponsored annually by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences. The fellowship program is designed to foster innovation in the undergraduate curriculum, give advanced graduate students experience teaching their own undergraduate courses and provide funding for graduate research. The semester’s work for the 19 undergraduates is worth 3 credits.
CCP awarded USAID grant for worldwide malaria project
November 9, 2009
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs has been awarded a five-year grant from the United States Agency for International Development to ensure the distribution and proper use of long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets, known as LLINs, in malaria endemic countries.
Low cholesterol may shrink risk for high-grade prostate cancer
November 9, 2009
Men with lower cholesterol are less likely than those with higher levels to develop high-grade prostate cancer, an aggressive form of the disease with a poorer prognosis, according to results of a Johns Hopkins collaborative study.
Insulating film could lead to less-power-hungry screen displays
November 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting the compound in a different way, the researchers have turned it into a thin film insulator, which instead blocks the flow of electricity but can induce large electric currents elsewhere. The material, called solution-deposited beta-alumina, could have important applications in transistor technology and in devices such as electronic books.
Escalating pension costs hurting nonprofits, survey finds
November 9, 2009
Most nonprofit organizations offering retirement benefits to their workers report that these plans are under stress, according to survey results released Nov. 5 by the Johns Hopkins Listening Post Project.
Report looks at ninth-grade retention rates, early intervention
November 9, 2009
More than 90,000 students in six states repeated ninth grade in 2004–2005, with nearly three in 10 students repeating in one of them, according to a new report from the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University.