Category: Featured
Neha Deshpande wins prestigious Truman Scholarship
April 12, 2010
Neha Deshpande, a Johns Hopkins University student from Monmouth Junction, N.J., is one of 60 students from 54 U.S. colleges and universities to be named a 2010 Truman Scholar. The prestigious award is given each year by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation to extraordinary undergraduates in their third year of college who are committed […]
Museums and Society Program hosts community symposium
April 12, 2010
Befitting its name, the Program in Museums and Society in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is hosting a community symposium this week with a group of Baltimore-based curators, artists and collectors to discuss the challenges and opportunities museums face in making their collections more accessible, engaging and relevant to local audiences. “Collections and […]
Spreading our academic wealth
April 5, 2010
Nobel Prize winner Carol Greider will give the inaugural talk in the Provost’s Lecture Series, which is intended to spread the wealth of academic excellence at Johns Hopkins among its campuses. Greider, the Daniel Nathans Professor and director of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences in East Baltimore, […]
Civil engineer assesses damage to Chile’s hospitals
April 5, 2010
Judith Mitrani-Reiser, an assistant research professor of civil engineering in Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering, recently spent a week in Chile looking at how well buildings and infrastructure had withstood the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the nation on Feb. 27. Mitrani-Reiser studies safety and economic issues associated with structures, how structural risks can […]
Can an incentive program help drug users with mental issues?
April 5, 2010
Men and women trying to shake their drug habits while also dealing with mental disorders pose difficult challenges for medical providers and health care policy-makers. And while combining psychiatric and addiction treatment services at one location holds great promise, this model has so far proved disappointing. What often happens is that patients show up to […]
Dean Nick Jones of the Whiting School of Engineering
March 29, 2010
This is the third in a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Nicholas P. “Nick” Jones hails from the bridge-building tradition of engineers—and he’s proud of it. Yet as the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering, Jones has led […]
New program to train next leaders in urban health, primary care
March 29, 2010
Before he came to Johns Hopkins to study medicine, Paul Doherty worked for a number of years in an HIV/AIDS clinic in Washington, D.C. There, Doherty regularly met people without reliable access to health care, with no stable income or, in some cases, no home to return to. “The work there is very challenging, and […]
Students show how they’d like to study in Learning Commons
March 29, 2010
The Sheridan Libraries have announced the winners of the yrBLCspace design competition—an opportunity for students to provide their vision of an ideal group study room in the Homewood campus’s future Brody Learning Commons. The contest, sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries, was open to all students using any medium, from cocktail napkin to Google […]
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 […]