Day: November 29, 2010
Growing the family
November 29, 2010
For 16 struggling students at Baltimore’s Academy for College and Career Exploration, their family and support system just grew eightfold. The students, all freshmen at the Hampden-area high school, could use the assistance. Most have low grades, have failed several classes and have grave attendance issues. Without intervention, many are in danger of failing out. […]
Applied Physics Lab creates two new senior posts
November 29, 2010
The Applied Physics Laboratory, which throughout its history has encouraged and fostered innovation, has recently put a new leadership structure in place to ensure that the Lab operates efficiently, effectively and strategically well into the 21st century. Director Ralph Semmel has created two senior administration positions to make sure that the Lab is “well-positioned to […]
Two-year stimulus act funds 480 Johns Hopkins projects
November 29, 2010
Two years ago, the federal government launched an ambitious plan to revitalize a sluggish economy by pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into industries and projects that would create jobs, stimulate spending and finance research that would benefit humankind. The Johns Hopkins University was one of the beneficiaries of this plan, receiving before the program’s […]
HUT, 20 years later
November 29, 2010
Twenty years ago this week, the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope was launched into space aboard NASA’s space shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., as part of the 12-day Astro-1 astronomy mission. The telescope was conceived, designed and built by Johns Hopkins University astronomers and engineers to perform astronomical observations in the […]
Homewood Krieger School senior named Mitchell Scholar
November 29, 2010
Krieger School senior Mohammad Modarres will be studying in Ireland next year, having earned one of the top honors in academia: a George J. Mitchell Scholarship. One of 12 scholars selected from a nationwide pool of applicants, Modarres, a Bloomberg Scholar majoring in public health studies, will pursue a master’s degree in development practice, a […]
Johns Hopkins University Libraries to collaborate on digital initiative to expand access
November 29, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University Libraries have become the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in what is considered an “extraordinary” digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Launched in 2008, HathiTrust has a growing membership that currently comprises more than […]
Sleep in or head out? Here’s the snowdown
November 29, 2010
Hit the snooze button or dig the snow boots out of the closet? That’s what Johns Hopkins students, faculty and staff want to know when their clock radios awaken them early on winter mornings with news of an overnight storm. Johns Hopkins rarely closes for snowstorms, even when local school systems and other colleges do. […]
APL-led atmospheric mission extended for fourth time
November 29, 2010
Nine years after beginning its unprecedented look at the gateway between Earth and space and collecting more data on the upper atmosphere than any other satellite, NASA’s Timed (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) mission has been extended yet again to continue to study the influences of the sun and humans on our upper atmosphere. […]
Money awarded to researchers turning science into business
November 29, 2010
A Johns Hopkins researcher who designed a programmable vibrating wristband to treat neurological motor disorders has been awarded $50,000 to help in her quest to develop the product for market. Cynthia F. Salorio, an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a pediatric neuropsychologist at the Kennedy […]
Team honored at international synthetic biology competition
November 29, 2010
A Johns Hopkins undergraduate team that assembled fragments of DNA in a way that allows cells to respond to electrical “messages” has received honors in an international contest in the emerging field of synthetic biology. The students competed this month in the latest International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, also known as iGEM 2010. The contest, held […]