Category: Previously Featured
Homewood’s gardening guru
March 22, 2010
Mark Selivan loves to take time out of his day to smell the roses. To be fair, he gives equal opportunity to the tulips, daffodils, crocuses, magnolias and other colorful blooms that have popped up across the Homewood campus. No surprise that Selivan, the university’s grounds manager, revels in the onset of spring. The native […]
Researchers receive $1 mill to map ‘mobile DNA’ in humans
March 22, 2010
Sequencing the human genome was just one step in understanding our biology; researchers still know very little about the function of most of our DNA. Now, a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has been awarded $1 million in stimulus funding to examine how certain mobile segments of DNA known as […]
China’s Peiyang Chorus on U.S. college tour
March 22, 2010
China’s renowned Peiyang Chorus of Tianjin University will perform at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 23, in Johns Hopkins’ Shriver Hall Auditorium as part of an East Coast tour at the invitation of seven U.S. universities to promote cultural exchange between academic institutions in China and the United States. Other campuses on the tour are […]
Making a case for Archaeology
March 15, 2010
Helmut Guenschel, a veritable Picasso of museum display cases, clearly delights in discussing his signature patented design: concealed door hinges that provide a compression seal and are capable of holding 1,000-pound glass panels. On a recent trip to Guenschel’s plant in Middle River, Md., the German-born engineer showed off a demonstration model, a giant door–sized […]
SPH student/JHH resident named Cambridge Gates Scholar
March 8, 2010
On the eve of his interview for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Trevor Ellison crammed as if for a Jeopardy match. The 34-year-old read anything and everything he could, even memorizing national capitals and names of heads of state. “I was thinking of anything that they could possibly ask me, just crazy things,” Ellison says. “I […]
Pediatric palliative care initiative launched by JHU researchers
March 8, 2010
An initiative to build empathy and understanding among medical professionals who treat children with chronic health conditions has been awarded a $1 million two-year grant from the National Institute for Nursing Research, an agency of the National Institutes of Health. Co-directed by Cynda H. Rushton, associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, the […]
Johns Hopkins, city schools launch service partnership
March 2, 2010
Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels and Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés A. Alonso today announced a new program offering full-time benefits-eligible university staff up to two days per year of paid leave to pursue service opportunities in the Baltimore City public schools. Unveiled at Barclay Elementary/Middle School, the Johns Hopkins Takes Time for […]
Montgomery County Campus to house NCI facility
March 1, 2010
The National Cancer Institute will soon house about 2,100 researchers and support staff on the Johns Hopkins Montgomery County Campus in the Shady Grove Life Sciences Center in Rockville, Md. NCI, a part of the National Institutes of Health, will occupy a new facility, consisting of twin seven-story buildings totaling 575,000 square feet of space. […]
M. Gordon ‘Reds’ Wolman, 85, international expert in river science
March 1, 2010
(Read President Ronald J. Daniels’ message to the Johns Hopkins community regarding the passing of “Reds” Wolman) M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, an internationally respected expert in river science, water resources management and environmental education, and an important and beloved member of The Johns Hopkins University faculty for more than half a century, died at his […]
Scanning for skin cancer: Infrared system looks for melanoma
March 1, 2010
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a noninvasive infrared scanning system to help doctors determine whether pigmented skin growths are benign moles or melanoma, a lethal form of cancer. The prototype system works by looking for the tiny temperature difference between healthy tissue and a growing tumor. The researchers have begun a pilot study of 50 […]