Day: February 14, 2011
E2SHI: New acronym, big ambitions
February 14, 2011
Drawing on faculty expertise in environmental science and engineering, public health and other areas, The Johns Hopkins University has launched its Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Health Institute to promote research and education in topics ranging from green energy practices to climate change and related health issues. “This kind of research right now is distributed all […]
Something in Commons
February 14, 2011
Mike Yassa knows brain science, but caramel apples leave him in sticky knots. Yassa, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, wrestled with the treat at the Charles Commons Connections welcome back event on Feb. 1, his first official appearance as the Homewood residence hall’s new faculty in residence. “My caramel […]
Foreign Affairs Symposium to highlight global citizenship
February 14, 2011
The annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium at Johns Hopkins returns on Wednesday, Feb. 16, when former Sen. Chuck Hagel will be the first of 10 prominent speakers to visit the Homewood campus during the spring semester. Hagel’s talk at 7 p.m. in 110 Hodson Hall begins the series of topical lectures and panel discussions under […]
JHU launches certificate in biotechnology education
February 14, 2011
This summer, The Johns Hopkins University will begin offering a unique graduate certificate in the field of bioscience education to address a national shortage of teachers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, often referred to as STEM. The new 20-credit graduate certificate in biotechnology education was created through a partnership between Johns […]
CEO of Veolia Transportation to speak at Leaders + Legends
February 14, 2011
Mark Joseph, chief executive officer and vice chairman of Veolia Transportation, is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series on Wednesday, Feb. 16. The event will take place from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. The title of his remarks is […]
Safety checklist use yields 10 percent drop in hospital deaths
February 14, 2011
A Johns Hopkins–led safety checklist program that virtually eliminated bloodstream infections in hospital intensive care units throughout Michigan appears to have also reduced deaths by 10 percent, a new study suggests. Although prior research showed a major reduction in central line–related bloodstream infections at hospitals using the checklist, the new study is the first to show […]
Johns Hopkins’ Andrew Ewald honored by anatomy society
February 14, 2011
Andrew Ewald, who studies how cells build organs and how these same cellular processes can contribute to breast cancer metastasis, will receive the American Association of Anatomists’ 2011 Morphological Sciences Award for his “outstanding contributions to the field of epithelial morphogenesis.” He will present an award lecture at the Annual Meeting of the American Association […]
‘.jpg’ for the mind: How the brain compresses visual information
February 14, 2011
Most of us are familiar with the idea of image compression in computers. File extensions such as “.jpg” or “.png” signify that millions of pixel values have been compressed into a more-efficient format, reducing file size by a factor of 10 or more with little or no apparent change in image quality. The full set […]
Peabody Chamber Opera remembers the ’50s at Theatre Project
February 14, 2011
Peabody Chamber Opera will present Remember the Fifties—a double bill of one-act operas about the decade of Eisenhower, Burma Shave and I Love Lucy—at Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St., from Feb. 24 to 27. The two works are Lee Hoiby’s This Is the Rill Speaking of 1991 and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti of […]
Slowing growth of bladder, breast cancer cells
February 14, 2011
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered that nitroxoline, an antibiotic commonly used around the world to treat urinary tract infections, can slow or stop the growth of human breast and bladder cancer cells by blocking the formation of new blood vessels. The results, appearing in the Dec. 15 issue of […]