Day: May 9, 2011
Cementing a home for bioethics
May 9, 2011
Three months after moving into its new home, the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is already seeing the benefits of bringing its faculty and staff under one roof. Institute Director Ruth Faden and Director of Administration Julia Chill beam with pride as they show off the wholly renovated interior of the former police station—originally […]
APL sets its sights on Titan’s seas
May 9, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is managing a project to explore the organic seas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of three proposals selected by NASA last week as candidates for the agency’s next Discovery Program mission. The Titan Mare Explorer, or TiME, would perform the first direct inspection of an ocean environment beyond […]
Artificial grammar learning reveals inborn language sense
May 9, 2011
Parents know the unparalleled joy and wonder of hearing a beloved child’s first words turn quickly into whole sentences and then babbling paragraphs. But how human children acquire language—which is so complex and has so many variations—remains largely a mystery. Fifty years ago, linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky proposed an answer: Humans are able to […]
Edward D. Miller, dean of School of Medicine and head of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to retire
May 9, 2011
Edward D. Miller, the Frances Watt Baker and Lenox D. Baker Jr. Dean of the School of Medicine and the first chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has informed President Ronald J. Daniels that he intends to retire, effective June 30, 2012. “We are about to witness the end of an era,” said Daniels […]
Nanotech for cancer is focus of symposium
May 9, 2011
Nanotechnology has yet to be fully exploited for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The fifth annual symposium of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, scheduled for Friday, May 13, aims to explore some of the ways this small-scale technology can be used to combat this dreaded disease. The event will take place from 8:30 […]
Gadi Kaufmann of RCLCO to give Berman real estate lecture
May 9, 2011
Through its generosity and visionary thinking, the family of Baltimore businessman Allan L. Berman became the driving force behind real estate business education at The Johns Hopkins University with the creation in 1989 of the Allan L. Berman Institute for Real Estate Development and an annual lecture. This year’s lecture will be given by Gadi […]
A fresh look for JHU Press’ historic building
May 9, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University Press recently completed an extensive two-year renovation of its historic main building, an 1897 former church in Charles Village where the Press has been located since 1993. The project, by Read & Company Architects of Baltimore, reconfigured offices, redesigned the front and back entrance lobbies, and created new meeting space on […]
Turning ‘bad’ fat into ‘good’: A future treatment for obesity?
May 9, 2011
By knocking down the expression of a protein in rat brains known to stimulate eating, Johns Hopkins researchers say they not only reduced the animals’ calorie intake and weight but also transformed their fat into a type that burns off more energy. The finding could lead to better obesity treatments for humans, the scientists report. […]
Animal studies reveal new route to treating heart disease
May 9, 2011
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have shown in laboratory experiments in mice that blocking the action of a signaling protein deep inside the heart’s muscle cells blunts the most serious ill effects of high blood pressure on the heart. These include heart muscle enlargement, scar tissue formation and loss of blood vessel growth. Specifically, the Johns […]
Climate change analysis predicts increased heat wave fatalities
May 9, 2011
Global climate change is anticipated to bring more extreme weather phenomena such as heat waves that could impact human health in the coming decades. An analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, using three different climate change scenarios for the final decades of the 21st century, calculated that the […]