Day: July 19, 2010
Carey Business School heads to Harbor East
July 19, 2010
Johns Hopkins’ business school will be in the moving business this week as it takes up residence at its new home on the waterfront at Harbor East. The Carey Business School, headquartered for much of the past decade at the Downtown Center at Charles and Fayette streets, will be moving equipment and supplies later this […]
Johns Hopkins University hits $200 million mark in ARRA grants
July 19, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University has to date been awarded more than $200 million in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation research grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the federal stimulus package. The 424 grants are financing investigations ranging from how the universe began to how men […]
Home again in Gilman Hall
July 19, 2010
If these Gilman walls could talk, they would have said, “Welcome home.” After more than two years away, the School of Arts and Sciences’ humanities faculty moved back into the extensively renovated Gilman Hall earlier this month. The building was re-populated from the top down, starting with the Department of German and Romance Languages and […]
Rare 17th-century violin is new star of Peabody’s collection
July 19, 2010
The Peabody Institute recently received a donation to its fine instrument collection that instantly becomes its finest. Karl Kostoff, 85, a former professional musician and longtime employee of the university’s Applied Physics Laboratory, has gifted to Peabody a rare Maggini violin crafted in 1620. Kostoff said that he wanted the instrument to be played and […]
Caroline Laguerre-Brown named vice provost for institutional equity
July 19, 2010
Caroline Laguerre-Brown, who for the past four years has worked to strengthen fairness, inclusion and diversity guidelines, programs and initiatives at The Johns Hopkins University, has been named vice provost for institutional equity. Laguerre-Brown, formerly associate vice provost for institutional equity, succeeds Ray Gillian, who retired last month. Her appointment was effective July 1. Provost […]
Steven Baxter, former dean of the Peabody Conservatory, dies at 63
July 19, 2010
Steven Baxter, dean of the Peabody Conservatory from 1996 to 2002, died on July 5 from mesothelioma at the Gilchrist Hospice Center in Towson. The Cockeysville, Md., resident was 63. An oboist, Baxter came to Peabody in 1984, teaching in and coordinating the Music Education Department, then serving as assistant dean for academic affairs and, […]
APL gets funding to test thought-controlled prosthetic limb
July 19, 2010
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a contract for up to $34.5 million to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to manage the development and testing of the Modular Prosthetic Limb, or MPL, on a human subject, using a brain-controlled interface. APL scientists and engineers developed the underlying technology under DARPA’s Revolutionizing […]
Ethical, scientific issues related to ‘post-market’ clinical trials
July 19, 2010
Amid growing concerns about clinical trials for drugs that have been approved by the FDA but are later linked to serious health risks, an independent committee at the Institute of Medicine led by two professors from The Johns Hopkins University has developed a conceptual framework to guide the agency through the tough decision of ordering […]
Hartwell grant supports innovative early-vision scanner
July 19, 2010
Of all the disorders of vision, amblyopia—sometimes referred to as “lazy eye”—may be one of the most frustrating for clinicians and public health officials. It is both relatively common, affecting as many as 380,000 children in the United States alone, and relatively easy to address if treatment is initiated before age 3. But few children […]
Pinpoint precision: Delivering a biochemical payload to one cell
July 19, 2010
Imagine being able to drop a toothpick on the head of one particular person standing among 100,000 people in a stadium. It sounds impossible, yet this degree of precision at the cellular level has been demonstrated by researchers affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University Institute for NanoBioTechnology. Their study was published online in June in […]