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Studying welfare’s treatment of single vs. married mothers
October 19, 2009
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
October 19, 2009
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.
Our newest Nobelist: Carol Greider
October 12, 2009
Carol Greider honored for her groundbreaking work on telomeres
JHU brings virtual learning to Baltimore County schools
October 12, 2009
Software engineers at Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory, in collaboration with JHU’s Center for Technology in Education, have developed a prototype Virtual Learning Environment to provide Baltimore County students with a gaminglike experience to augment existing math and science curricula.
Raise the Roof – Gilman Hall
October 12, 2009
Crews — with the indispensable assistance of a 200-foot, 350-ton crane — last week completed the steel grid frame for the 60-by-60-foot glass skylight that will top Gilman Hall’s new atrium space. Designed, fabricated and installed by Novum Structures, the skylight will feature 154 square glass panels and span the entire courtyard without intermediate support. The arched structure, a precisely engineered combination of compression members and tension cables, will be less than 10 inches thick. The glass panels and cables will be installed in the coming weeks to shut out the elements and allow work to continue in the atrium below. Gilman, the oldest academic building on the Homewood campus, is scheduled to reopen for the fall 2010 semester.
MESSENGER gains critical gravity assist for Mercury orbit
October 5, 2009
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’
October 5, 2009
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
October 5, 2009
Physicist’s JHU Press book delves into science of popular beverage
Great Scott: Fitzgerald’s Baltimore
September 28, 2009
Even the great ones get writer’s block. F. Scott Fitzgerald described such a circumstance—and how he nudged himself out of it with a bus trip, a leisurely stroll and a trip to his local barbershop—in an article titled “Afternoon of an Author,” published in Esquire in 1936.
Using stimulus dollars to decode human number sense
September 28, 2009
That’s why a team of psychologists at The Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is using a $1.6 million National Institutes of Health grant, underwritten in part by the federal stimulus package, to finance a multifaceted study aimed at decoding some of the mysteries of the human approximate number system, or ANS. They want to find out, for instance, everything from how it changes from infancy through adulthood to the impact that number sense acuity has on later success (or failure) in academic and higher order mathematics.
Lisa Feigenson is teaming up with her research partner and husband, Justin Halberda, both assistant professors in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, on the project.