Day: March 22, 2010
Tuitions are set for 2010-2011
March 22, 2010
Tuition for full-time undergraduates at The Johns Hopkins University will increase 3.9 percent this fall, the second consecutive increase below 4 percent. “Johns Hopkins understands that this has been a very difficult time,” President Ronald J. Daniels said, “and we have worked hard to recognize the challenges faced by many students and families in a […]
Public Health awarded $15 mill for lab renovations
March 22, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will receive nearly $15 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for renovation and modernization of laboratory space at its main facility at 615 N. Wolfe St. The grant was awarded by the National Center for Research Resources, part of the National Institutes of Health. The […]
SoM to host ‘A Tribute to 150+ Women Professors’ celebration
March 22, 2010
Florence Sabin, the famed pathologist, became the first woman given the title of full professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in 1917. The second female professor wasn’t named until more than 40 years later. And when Janice Clements was promoted in 1990, she was only the 24th woman in the nearly 100-year […]
Homewood memorial service set for M. Gordon ‘Reds’ Wolman
March 22, 2010
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, April 11, on the Homewood campus to celebrate the life of M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, an internationally respected expert in river science, water resources management and environmental education. Wolman, an important and beloved member of The Johns Hopkins University faculty for more than half a century, died […]
JHU faculty and staff star in NIH videos about careers in genomics
March 22, 2010
Video interviews featuring faculty and staff from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and School of Medicine debuted last week on the National Human Genome Research Institute’s Web site. The independently produced videos are meant to inspire high school and college students to consider careers in genomics or genetics. The library of nearly 50 […]
Tournées Festival of Contemporary French Cinema debuts at Homewood
March 22, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, marks the beginning of the first Tournées Festival of Contemporary French Cinema at Johns Hopkins. The festival, to be held over two weeks on the Homewood campus, will be launched with a screening of The Class (Entre les murs), Laurent Cantet’s cinéma vérité–style story about a junior high school in a tough […]
Homewood’s gardening guru
March 22, 2010
Mark Selivan loves to take time out of his day to smell the roses. To be fair, he gives equal opportunity to the tulips, daffodils, crocuses, magnolias and other colorful blooms that have popped up across the Homewood campus. No surprise that Selivan, the university’s grounds manager, revels in the onset of spring. The native […]
Broholm of KSAS wins Neutron Scattering Society research award
March 22, 2010
Collin Broholm, the Gerhard H. Dieke Professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins, has won the Neutron Scattering Society of America’s 2010 Sustained Research Prize for outstanding studies of correlated electron physics in magnets, metals and superconductors, as well as for the development of neutron scattering techniques. According […]
Researchers receive $1 mill to map ‘mobile DNA’ in humans
March 22, 2010
Sequencing the human genome was just one step in understanding our biology; researchers still know very little about the function of most of our DNA. Now, a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has been awarded $1 million in stimulus funding to examine how certain mobile segments of DNA known as […]
Inexpensive acne drug found to prevent HIV breakout
March 22, 2010
Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a safe and inexpensive antibiotic in use since the 1970s for treating acne effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating. The drug, minocycline, likely will improve on the current treatment regimens of HIV-infected patients […]