Category: Divisions
Big boost for KSAS grad stipends
November 8, 2010
The School of Arts and Sciences will receive more than $5 million from the President’s Office over the next five years to fund graduate stipends. President Ronald J. Daniels made the announcement at the Oct. 23 rededication ceremony of the newly renovated Gilman Hall, the school’s flagship building. The investment, Daniels said, would allow the […]
2011 Arts Innovation Program grants announced
November 8, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University has awarded approximately $24,000 in grants to students and faculty to stimulate new courses in the arts and other arts-related efforts on the Homewood campus, said Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums. Initiated in 2006, the Arts Innovation Program offers funding to faculty to create new courses in […]
Young social entrepreneur makes spare minutes matter
November 8, 2010
Jacob Colker, a graduate student in the Communications in Contemporary Society program in the Krieger School’s Advanced Academic Programs, is among the first group of young social entrepreneurs to be honored by the Rolex Awards for Enterprise: Young Laureates Programme. On Thursday, Nov. 11, Colker and four other winners will be feted for their dedication […]
Food tastes better when you work hard for it, study shows
November 8, 2010
It’s commonly accepted that we appreciate something more if we have to work hard to get it, and a study by Johns Hopkins psychologists bears that out, at least when it comes to food. The study seems to suggest that hard work can even enhance our appreciation for fare we might not prefer, such as […]
Long hours + multiple nights on call = surgeon burnout
November 8, 2010
Just as with everyone else perhaps, the more hours surgeons work, and the more nights they spend on call each week, the more likely they are to face burnout, depression, dissatisfaction with their careers and serious work-home conflicts, according to a major new study led by Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic researchers. Yet a forced […]
Immune system’s bare essentials used to detect drug targets
November 8, 2010
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have taken a less-is-more approach to designing effective drug treatments that are precisely tailored to disease-causing pathogens, such as viruses and bacteria, and cancer cells, any of which can trigger the body’s immune system defenses. In a report published in the issue of Nature Medicine online Oct. 31, researchers describe a […]
Expectant moms and peanuts: Maybe not a good idea
November 8, 2010
Babies born to mothers who eat peanuts during pregnancy appear more prone to peanut allergy, according to research conducted by scientists at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and elsewhere and published online Oct. 29 in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The research team was led by Scott Sicherer, of the Mount Sinai School of […]
Positively negative: Cellular structure’s ‘enforcer’ role discovered
November 8, 2010
When cells make the proteins that carry out virtually every function of life, it’s vital that the right things happen at the right times, and—maybe more important—that wrong things are stopped from happening at the wrong times. Now Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a structure inside a cell’s protein-making machinery performs an unexpected negative […]
Pediatric hospitalizations for ATV injuries more than double
November 8, 2010
All-terrain vehicles are associated with a significant and increasing number of hospitalizations for children in the United States, according to a new report by the Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Over a nine-year period (1997–2006), hospitalizations for ATV injuries increased 150 percent among youth younger […]
One in two depressed teens prone to recurrence after recovery
November 8, 2010
Research conducted at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and elsewhere shows that regardless of the type of treatment they get, nearly half of severely depressed teens who recover from a depressive episode are likely to slip back into depression within two to three years. The findings of the multicenter NIH-funded study, which appears in the […]