Category: Around Hopkins
Study: Shedding belly fat helps improve blood vessel function
April 30, 2012
Overweight people who shed pounds, especially belly fat, can improve the function of their blood vessels no matter whether they are on a low-carb or low-fat diet, according to a study presented by Johns Hopkins researchers March 13 at an American Heart Association scientific meeting focused on cardiovascular disease prevention. In the six-month weight-loss study, […]
Innovating to safeguard troops
April 30, 2012
The Johns Hopkins University has won an award worth up to $90 million from the U.S. Army to tap the expertise of the nation’s top academic researchers to help the Army develop new lightweight materials to better protect soldiers and vehicles. Toward this goal, Johns Hopkins is forming a new institute where researchers will try […]
New classroom technology to be showcased at MSE Library
April 30, 2012
Winners of the 2011–12 Technology Fellows competition will demonstrate their innovations from 1 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 8, on Q-Level of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Homewood. All the winning faculty-student teams will be available to demonstrate how they used their $5,000 mini-grants to enhance undergraduate instruction. Projects cover a wide range […]
Professor’s documentary debuts in Baltimore May 6
April 30, 2012
A film produced and co-directed by Bernadette Wegenstein, director of the Center for Advanced Media Study in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, will have its Baltimore premiere at the Maryland Film Festival on Sunday, May 6. The documentary, See You Soon Again, tells the story of two Baltimore-area Holocaust survivors, Leo Bretholz and Bluma […]
Some melanomas use cloaking protein to hide from immune cells
April 30, 2012
Scientists at Johns Hopkins and Yale have found that melanoma cells use a cloaking protein to hide from immune cells poised to attack the cancer. Nearly 40 percent of their sampling of melanoma tissues contained the B7-H1 protein, also called PD-L1, and scientists say it could be used as a target for new therapies. For […]
Update: University flips the ‘on’ switch of large solar project
April 30, 2012
As part of its ongoing efforts to shrink its carbon footprint, The Johns Hopkins University has installed more than 2,900 solar panels on seven buildings in three locations: the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses and Johns Hopkins at Eastern. The solar panels are expected to produce 997,400 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year while reducing the […]
Tech transfer conference held at Carey School
April 30, 2012
Phil Phan and Wes Blakeslee were chatting last fall about the unprecedented success in technology transfer that Johns Hopkins and several other universities have experienced in recent years. Phan, interim dean of the university’s Carey Business School, asked Blakeslee, executive director of JHU’s Technology Transfer Office, for an explanation. What’s caused this remarkable growth? The […]
Focusing on discovery
April 30, 2012
Major League Baseball managers, habitual purveyors of cliches, like to declare after a loss that a season is a marathon, not a sprint. Bottom line, no matter how gloomy the present, there is plenty of time to turn this around and achieve the main goal. Research can follow a similar trajectory. You have good days […]
Student Book Collecting Contest winners announced
April 30, 2012
The Sheridan Libraries has announced the winners of this year’s Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest. The annual competition, which is sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries and was endowed in 2007 by longtime Friends Betty and Edgar Sweren, recognizes the love of books and the art of shaping a thoughtful and […]
Calendar — April 30, 2012
April 30, 2012
COLLOQUIA Wed., May 2, 3:30 p.m. “Core-Collapse Supernovae: Astrophysical Laboratories for Stellar Evolution and Explosion,” an STScI colloquium with Luc Dessart, OAMP. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW Wed., May 2, 4:30 p.m. “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask),” a Biology colloquium with Mark Van Doren, KSAS. Mudd Auditorium. […]