Category: Featured
A town hall on No Child Left Behind
December 14, 2009
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, one of the seminal measures of the Bush administration, ballyhooed a lofty goal of having 100 percent of U.S. students achieving at grade level by the year 2014.
Mousetraps and rubber bands
December 14, 2009
Some were short and stocky, others broad and brawny. Some were stripped down to their essentials, others gussied up with glittery decoration. But all the student-built balsa wood and foam-core cars had one thing in common: The directive to be powered by no more than two mousetraps and six rubber bands. Their goal: to deliver a small, free-standing “flag” (actually a one-and-a-half-inch plastic ball, weighted internally with silicone so that its three-inch plastic flagpole always pointed upward) to a specific point on a three-dimensional course. The cars’ drivers were teams of students in a Whiting School of Engineering course called Freshman Experiences in Mechanical Engineering.
Three, two, one … lights on!
December 14, 2009
Hundreds of students and several senior administrators crowded near the steps of the Homewood campus’s Eisenhower Library on Monday evening to flip the switch on the holiday season with the annual Lighting of the Quads ceremony.
A homecoming for historic windows
December 7, 2009
As the massive renovation of Gilman Hall enters its final nine months, many of its historic glass treasures have returned with a pristine sparkle and luster.
Exploring schizophrenia at the molecular level
December 7, 2009
About 1 percent of the population is affected by schizophrenia, a severe form of mental illness that has proven difficult to study and treat, according to Russell Margolis, director of the Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Program.
A cell’s ‘cap’ of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease
December 7, 2009
It turns out that wearing a cap is good for you, at least if you are a mammal cell.
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Engineering in Oncology Center have shown that in healthy cells, a bundled “cap” of filaments holds the cell’s nucleus—its genetic storehouse—in its proper place. Understanding this cap’s influence on cell and nuclear shape, the researchers said, could provide clues to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer, muscular dystrophy and the age-accelerating condition known as progeria.
New home for Carey Business School
November 30, 2009
The leadership of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School has set out to redefine the nature and workings of a 21st-century business education in order to address today’s global social, economic, health and environmental challenges. Dean Yash Gupta has said that he wants students to learn to think critically, act ethically, comprehend issues in a global context and understand that business is all about “people.”
Celebrating the season with JHU Museums
November 30, 2009
The winter holidays and the 19th century are inexorably entwined. To see the proof in the plum pudding, look no further than the animated retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday fable, A Christmas Carol, that swoops into theaters this month.
After inpatient drug rehab programs, what support works best?
November 30, 2009
One of the greatest challenges in helping substance abusers recover is ensuring that they have access to—and participate in—follow-up care, counseling and support after their release from inpatient rehabilitation programs.
Hats off to our best Blue Jays
November 16, 2009
The accomplishments of Johns Hopkins’ student-athletes never looked so good.
Recent visitors to Homewood’s Newton H. White Athletic Center would undoubtedly have noticed the attractive new displays in the building’s lobby that commemorate the 114 members of Johns Hopkins’ Athletic Hall of Fame and the university’s 35 NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients.