Year: 2010
Career re-entry grant for women goes to Johns Hopkins physicist
November 1, 2010
As a young Russian physicist doing her training in Stuttgart, Germany, Natalia Drichko envisioned a career that included research on unusual superconductivity and eventually becoming a university professor there. Her plans did not include meeting an American scientist, getting married and moving to the United States. But that is exactly what happened. Now an associate […]
Michael Eicher named senior VP for external affairs, development
November 1, 2010
The university’s board of trustees on Sunday, Oct. 24, approved President Ronald J. Daniels’ recommendation that Michael C. Eicher be promoted to senior vice president for external affairs and development, a new position. Eicher joined Johns Hopkins in 2006 as vice president for development and alumni relations, a post that will be assumed by Fritz […]
Interim director of the Center for Language, Speech Processing named
November 1, 2010
Hynek Hermansky, professor of electrical and computer engineering, will serve as the interim director of WSE’s Center for Language and Speech Processing, effective today. Nick Jones, dean of the Whiting School of Engineering, made the announcement last week. Hermansky joined the Whiting School faculty in 2008 and is affiliated with both the CLSP and the […]
Surprise finding: Pancreatic cancers progress slowly
November 1, 2010
Pancreatic cancer develops and spreads much more slowly than scientists have thought, according to new research from Johns Hopkins investigators. The finding indicates that there is a potentially broad window for diagnosis and prevention of the disease. “For the first time, we have a quantifiable estimate of the development of pancreatic cancer, and when it […]
Knowledge gap, fears common in parents of children with MRSA
November 1, 2010
Knowledge gaps and fear—some of it unjustified—are common among the caregivers of children with a drug-resistant staph bacterium known as MRSA, according to the results of a small study from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. These caregivers thirst for timely, detailed and simple information, the researchers said. The study’s findings, published online in the Journal […]
Johns Hopkins researchers discover how to erase memory
November 1, 2010
Researchers working with mice have discovered that by removing a protein from the region of the brain responsible for recalling fear, they can permanently delete traumatic memories. Their report on a molecular means of erasing fear memories in rodents appeared Oct. 28 in Science Express. “When a traumatic event occurs, it creates a fearful memory […]
‘Intelligent’ surgical drill wins prize for JHU student inventors
November 1, 2010
An “intelligent” drill developed by Johns Hopkins students to improve orthopedic surgical procedures was awarded third-place honors in the undergraduate division of the 2010 Collegiate Inventors Competition. The team received $2,500 in prize money for its entry, which was among five finalist projects competing Oct. 27 at a Washington, D.C., ceremony. The students built the […]
Fred Jelinek memorial service set for Friday at Homewood
November 1, 2010
The Center for Language and Speech Processing and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are holding a service to remember and celebrate the life of Fred Jelinek on Friday, Nov. 5. Jelinek, the Julian Sinclair Smith Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, died on […]
Meatless Monday campaign comes to Homewood Nov. 1
November 1, 2010
Starting today, every dining hall on the Homewood campus will offer vegetarian menu specials as part of the Meatless Monday campaign. The national Meatless Monday campaign was launched in 2003 in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. The effort’s primary focus is […]
Campus Kitchen gets freezer from Housing, Dining Services
November 1, 2010
The Campus Kitchen at JHU, a student-run organization dedicated to using surplus food to provide nutritious meals for hungry men, women and children in the Baltimore area, now has more freezer space, thanks to Homewood’s Department of Housing and Dining Services. The new freezer will allow the organization to store more food and for greater […]