Day: April 25, 2011
Bates president named new head of Center for Talented Youth
April 25, 2011
Elaine Tuttle Hansen, president of Bates College and an accomplished scholar, educator and leader, has been named executive director of The Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. Hansen will step down from the presidency of the Maine college in July after nine years and start her new position Aug. 1. She will succeed Lea […]
At journey’s end
April 25, 2011
Before Karen Hong left for college, she and her parents didn’t discuss sex—at all. Hong, in fact, recalls the many awkward moments in the presence of her parents when television or movie characters just kissed on screen. Bedroom scenes? Off-limits. However, Hong’s interest in sexual health issues as a public health studies major at Johns […]
JHU deans and faculty named AAAS fellows
April 25, 2011
A Johns Hopkins University dean, a vice dean and a professor are among the 212 fellows named to the 231st class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elected last week as new members were Katherine S. Newman, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and a professor of […]
John W. Griffin, nerve disorder expert and researcher, dies
April 25, 2011
John W. “Jack” Griffin, an internationally acclaimed and admired expert on diseases of the peripheral nervous system, founding director of the Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute and former director of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology, died April 16 after a long battle with bladder cancer. He was 69. Griffin was one […]
Thomas Fulton, 83, father of high-energy physics at JHU
April 25, 2011
Thomas Fulton, considered the father of high-energy physics at The Johns Hopkins University, died on April 8 of heart failure at the age of 83. Born Tomas Feuerzeug in Budapest, Hungary, in 1937, Fulton immigrated with his family to the United States when he was 14 years old in order to escape the Nazi regime. […]
Getting the word out
April 25, 2011
In Jessica Anya Blau’s well-received debut novel, a 14-year-old girl named Jamie must navigate the choppy waters of adolescence amid a backdrop of sex, cigarettes, surfers, tanning and free-spirited parents who unabashedly sit poolside au naturel. In the book, set in Santa Barbara during the summer of 1976, Jamie rebels against her parents’ inflated open-mindedness […]
Gregory M. Britton appointed editorial director at JHU Press
April 25, 2011
Gregory M. Britton, who has led the publishing program at the Getty Museum and related institutions since 2008, has been appointed editorial director at the Johns Hopkins University Press. When he joins the staff on May 16, Britton becomes a senior member of the Press’ executive committee and assumes leadership of the Books Division’s editorial […]
SAIS and INSEAD launch dual-degree program
April 25, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, a top international relations graduate school, and INSEAD, the leading international business school, last week announced an agreement to establish a dual-degree program. The new offering will allow students from both schools to work toward completing the SAIS Master of Arts and INSEAD […]
Discovered: ‘Thunder’ protein that regulates memory formation
April 25, 2011
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered in mice a molecular wrecking ball that powers the demolition phase of a cycle that occurs at synapses—those specialized connections between nerve cells in the brain—and whose activity appears critical for both limiting and enhancing learning and memory. The newly revealed protein, which the researchers named thorase after Thor, […]
Research sheds light on aneurysm growth, treatment in Marfan
April 25, 2011
The Johns Hopkins researchers who first showed that the commonly used blood pressure drug losartan may help prevent life-threatening aneurysms of the aorta in patients with Marfan syndrome have now discovered new clues about the precise mechanism behind the drug’s protective effects. The team’s findings not only answer many lingering questions—including how exactly the drug […]