Hats off to our best Blue Jays
The accomplishments of Johns Hopkins’ student-athletes never looked so good.
Recent visitors to Homewood’s Newton H. White Athletic Center would undoubtedly have noticed the attractive new displays in the building’s lobby that commemorate the 114 members of Johns Hopkins’ Athletic Hall of Fame and the university’s 35 NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients.
Goal: Find out if diet and exercise affect cardiovascular health
Everyone knows that a healthy diet and adequate exercise are effective weapons in the battle against obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Carey Business School moving to Legg Mason Tower
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School is moving to the new Legg Mason Tower at 100 International Drive in Baltimore’s Harbor East.
N.Y. photographer/multimedia talent arrives as artist in residence
This month, the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins is hosting its second artist in residence, photographer and multimedia artist Hank Willis Thomas, who is collaborating with students and staff in the Digital Media Center on the Homewood campus.
Seeing tumors in a new light
As a Johns Hopkins electrical engineer, Jin U. Kang has spent years tinkering with lasers and optical fiber, studying what happens when light strikes matter. Now, he’s taking on a new challenge: brain surgery.
Boys at the barre: Peabody adds new young dancers
Producing Peabody Dance’s end-of-season student performances requires creative planning when it comes to filling boys’ roles, says Carol Bartlett, artistic director of Peabody Dance.
Chemical-catching researchers look to copy canine ‘sniffer’
A dog’s nose, with its thousands of olfactory receptors, is one of the best chemical detection “sniffers” in military and police circles. That’s why a Homeland Protection Business Area team at Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on its RealNose program, which aims to construct a sensor that would operate like—and as well as—a dog’s nose. The sensor will eventually be integrated into a system that could simultaneously detect more than 20 chemicals.
Unraveling the physics of cancer
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology have been awarded a $14.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to launch a research center aimed at unraveling the physical underpinnings that drive the growth and spread of cancer. The new Johns Hopkins Engineering in Oncology Center at INBT includes 11 Johns Hopkins faculty members affiliated with the INBT and four investigators from partner universities. The project’s participants say that they hope this new line of research will lead to never-before-considered approaches to cancer therapy and diagnostics.
Armstrong Medical Education Building dedicated
More than a century ago, Johns Hopkins revolutionized the teaching of medicine with a new curriculum that merged evidence-based science with patient-centered clinical care. This so-called Hopkins model became the national gold standard for modern medical education.
Instrumental arrangement
When Daniel Trahey joined Peabody’s Music Teacher Mentoring Program in 2004, the Conservatory graduate and professional tuba player assumed he’d focus on pedagogy. Trahey thought he would show Baltimore City’s public school music teachers proper woodwind finger techniques, teach them how to play the bassoon or find ways to make the school’s band tighter or choir more in tune.
Studying welfare’s treatment of single vs. married mothers
Robert Moffitt, a Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Economics, and his research partner will use a one-year $48,339 grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue to study whether the U.S. welfare system’s assistance based on marital status factors into single mothers’ decisions to stay single, cohabit or marry.
Montgomery Co. students get an early immersion in research
Scooping cups of beans into a container may not seem like a scientific learning experience, but it is when you equate those beans with the investment needed to take a drug from discovery to commercialization.
MESSENGER gains critical gravity assist for Mercury orbit
MESSENGER successfully passed Mercury on Tuesday, Sept. 29, on its third flyby, gaining a critical gravity assist that will enable it to enter orbit about Mercury in 2011 and capturing images of 5 percent of the planet never before seen.
Biologist Evangelos Moudrianakis wins ‘Greek Nobel Prize’
Evangelos “Van” Moudrianakis, a Johns Hopkins University biologist and biophysicist, has won the 2009 Bodossaki Aristeio in Biomedicine for his pioneering work shedding light on the structure of the complex web of DNA and proteins (histones) that make up chromatin—work that has provided valuable insight into how the genetic information of chromosomes is regulated.
Now on tap: The ‘fizzics’ of beer
Physicist’s JHU Press book delves into science of popular beverage
