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Goal: Giving feeling to a damaged hand or prosthetic limb
September 7, 2010
This is part of an occasional series on Johns Hopkins research funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If you have a study you would like to be considered for inclusion, contact Lisa De Nike at lde@jhu.edu. Back in 1980 when The Empire Strikes Back hit the big screen, it seemed like […]
Five BME doctoral candidates named 2011 Siebel Scholars
September 7, 2010
One graduate student is helping to create high-tech prosthetic hands that can be maneuvered by an amputee’s thoughts. Another is trying to convert ordinary skin cells into more useful stem cells. Still another is working to find signs of cancer in a single DNA molecule in a drop of blood. Yet another is making nanoparticles […]
A new year begins
August 30, 2010
Cars, trucks and vans, all stuffed with cargo, lined up in caravan fashion on the Homewood campus last Wednesday and Thursday as the Class of 2014 moved into Johns Hopkins residence halls. A large contingent of upperclassmen volunteers helped parents unload the vehicles as students checked into their housing and took in new surroundings. President […]
Whiting School of Engineering building is named for Hackerman
August 30, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University’s Computational Science and Engineering Building will be named Hackerman Hall in recognition of a lifetime of philanthropic support of the university and its Whiting School of Engineering by alumnus Willard Hackerman. The building, a headquarters for advanced interdisciplinary research crossing the borders of engineering, computer science, mathematics and medicine, will be […]
John Russell-Wood, 70, noted historian with eclectic interests
August 30, 2010
Anthony John R. Russell-Wood, the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University and a widely published expert in the history and culture of pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America, died Aug. 13 at his Lutherville home after a brief illness. A faculty member at Johns Hopkins since 1971, Russell-Wood, 70, was a […]
A ringing endorsement
August 30, 2010
The Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering student team that won the $20,000 grand prize in the 2010 Wharton Business Plan Competition at the University of Pennsylvania received another honor for its invention last week: the opportunity to preside over the NASDAQ Closing Bell. The Cortical Concepts team, which developed a spinal surgery device that increases the […]
Plans set for Johns Hopkins at Keswick
August 16, 2010
New paint’s being applied, elevators are being upgraded, security is being enhanced to Johns Hopkins standards, and a new name has been bestowed on the former Zurich Insurance Co. property in North Baltimore: Johns Hopkins at Keswick. By October, the first wave of Johns Hopkins employees—some 350 members of the Patient Financial Services Office currently […]
Johns Hopkins partners with Navy to staff global humanitarian mission
August 16, 2010
Johns Hopkins Medicine has signed an agreement with the U.S. Navy to provide medical and disaster research experts to staff the USS Iwo Jima during the next four months, as the ship sets sail to provide medical assistance to Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana and Suriname. The voyage is part of the Navy’s annual humanitarian […]
Showcasing the ancient world in new digs
August 16, 2010
In the past, visitors to Homewood’s Gilman Hall might have strolled by Sanchita Balachandran and wondered what she did. She’d have been the one wearing the respirator and purple rubber gloves, likely on her way to conserve an Egyptian mummy in a nondescript, dimly lit room on the first floor of the building. Balachandran, the […]
Materials scientist seeks dwarfism clues in cell’s membrane
August 16, 2010
This is part of an occasional series on Johns Hopkins research funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If you have a study you would like to be considered for inclusion, contact Lisa De Nike at lde@jhu .edu. Achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism, is caused by a genetic mutation: A single […]