Year: 2010
On the street where we live
September 20, 2010
On Saturday, Sept. 11, the university hosted its sixth annual community block party, known as Convergence, for its Charles Village neighbors. Expanding from a modest start in 2004 with only 12 people in attendance, the event this year drew an estimated 1,000 JHU affiliates and neighbors of the Homewood campus, who came together on the […]
SAIS community mourns death of student after auto accident
September 20, 2010
A memorial service was held on Friday at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C., to honor Julia Bachleitner, 26, a SAIS student who died Tuesday from injuries suffered in an accident on Sept. 8 in the city’s Adams Morgan neighborhood. Following the service, a reception was held in SAIS’s Nitze Building. Bachleitner, a native of Austria, […]
Peabody celebrates birthday of Arthur Friedheim Library
September 20, 2010
To celebrate the 20th “birthday” of Peabody’s Arthur Friedheim Library, the public is invited to an open house at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25, during the Baltimore Book Festival on Mount Vernon Place. Remarks by Peabody Institute Director Jeffrey Sharkey and new head librarian Jennifer Ottervik will be followed by birthday cake. The state-of-the-art […]
JHU Press and Project MUSE launch e-book initiative
September 20, 2010
Project MUSE, the acclaimed online collection of scholarly journals managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, has announced a new initiative to incorporate scholarly book content into its research platform and offerings to libraries. Beginning next year, e-book collections will be available alongside MUSE journal collections, with an integrated discovery environment that allows for browsing […]
Study: Weight-loss surgery frees obese type 2 diabetics of insulin
September 20, 2010
Results of a large national study show that nearly three-quarters of obese patients with type 2 diabetes who undergo weight-loss surgery are able to stop insulin and other anti-diabetes drugs within six months. In the Johns Hopkins study of insured obese diabetic patients, researchers also found that in the third year following surgery, average annual […]
Researchers discover why some stem cells don’t change
September 20, 2010
Johns Hopkins researchers have determined why certain stem cells are able to stay stem cells. The report in the June 4 issue of Cell Stem Cell reveals that an enzyme that changes the way DNA is packaged in cells allows specific genes to be turned on and off, thereby preventing a stem cell from becoming […]
JHU’s 2009 annual security report is now available
September 20, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University 2009 annual security report of crime statistics and security policies, to be published by Oct. 1 by federal regulation, is now available on the university website at www.jhu.edu/~security. In keeping with the mandates of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, the report contains statistical […]
Cogito.com students learn about Gulf oil spill from JHU expert
September 20, 2010
Can the Gulf of Mexico recover from this spring’s massive oil spill? That’s the topic Edward Bouwer, chair of the Whiting School’s Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, explored in an hourlong webinar with some of the nation’s top middle and high school students on Wednesday night. The event was sponsored by the Johns Hopkins […]
JHU educators group hosting back-to-school picnic at APL
September 20, 2010
The Johns Hopkins chapter of Phi Delta Kappa International is hosting the annual PDK Area Back to School Picnic from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25, on the APL campus. This year’s theme is “Reclaim, Recruit and Retain!” Phi Delta Kappa International is a 100-year-old professional association for educators that focuses its work […]
Physicist: ‘Invisibility cloak’ may not be as far-fetched as it seems
September 20, 2010
A British theoretical physicist doing groundbreaking work in developing “invisibility materials” —a la Harry Potter’s famous invisibility cloak—will this week deliver the inaugural Robert Resnick Lecture, which honors a Johns Hopkins alumnus who was a renowned physics educator. Sir John Pendry of Imperial College London will present “Invisible Cloaks and a Perfect Lens” at 3 p.m. […]