Category: Divisions
Instrumental arrangement
October 26, 2009
When Daniel Trahey joined Peabody’s Music Teacher Mentoring Program in 2004, the Conservatory graduate and professional tuba player assumed he’d focus on pedagogy. Trahey thought he would show Baltimore City’s public school music teachers proper woodwind finger techniques, teach them how to play the bassoon or find ways to make the school’s band tighter or choir more in tune.
Two new Whiting School Faculty Scholars named
October 26, 2009
Natalia Trayanova and Louis Whitcomb have been selected as the first recipients of two new Faculty Scholar awards in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins. This designation, awarded for a three-year term, provides exceptional faculty with flexible financial support to promote their research, teaching activities and entrepreneurial thinking.
Design contest seeks student ideas for group study space
October 26, 2009
The Sheridan Libraries has launched a design competition and is inviting design submissions for a group study space for the new Brody Learning Commons. Called yrBLCspace, the contest is open to all Johns Hopkins University students and is being sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries.
Physicians have less respect for obese patients, study suggests
October 26, 2009
Doctors have less respect for their obese patients than they do for patients of normal weight, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The findings raise questions about whether negative physician attitudes about obesity could be affecting the long-term health of their heavier patients.
Now hear this: Scientists show how tiny cells deliver big sound
October 26, 2009
Deep in the ear, 95 percent of the cells that shuttle sound to the brain are big, boisterous neurons that, to date, have explained most of what scientists know about how hearing works. Whether a rare, whisper-small second set of cells also carries signals from the inner ear to the brain and has a real role in processing sound has been a matter of debate.
Genetic hint for ridding the body of hepatitis C
October 26, 2009
More than 70 percent of people who contract hepatitis C will live with the virus that causes it for the rest of their lives, and some will develop serious liver disease, including cancer. However, 30 percent to 40 percent of those infected somehow defeat the infection and get rid of the virus with no treatment. In the Sept. 16 advanced online edition of Nature, Johns Hopkins researchers working as part of an international team report the discovery of the strongest genetic alteration associated with the ability to get rid of the infection.
Nerve transplants possible treatment for ALS-related respiratory failure
October 26, 2009
Because the inability to breathe is an ultimate cause of death of patients with ALS, Johns Hopkins scientists are targeting the diaphragm as a therapeutic target by transplanting stem cells directly into rats’ cervical spinal cords, precisely where the motor neurons that control this respiratory muscle are located.
Policy set for H1N1 vaccine
October 19, 2009
As the first doses of injectable H1N1 vaccine began making their way into the pipeline, Johns Hopkins last week announced its plans for inoculating faculty, staff and students.
Researchers can predict hurricane-related outages
October 19, 2009
Using data from Hurricane Katrina and four other destructive storms, researchers from Johns Hopkins and elsewhere say they have found a way to accurately predict power outages in advance of a hurricane. Their approach provides estimates of how many outages will occur across a region as a hurricane is approaching.
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.