Category: Featured
Montgomery Co. students get an early immersion in research
October 19, 2009
Scooping cups of beans into a container may not seem like a scientific learning experience, but it is when you equate those beans with the investment needed to take a drug from discovery to commercialization.
MESSENGER gains critical gravity assist for Mercury orbit
October 5, 2009
MESSENGER successfully passed Mercury on Tuesday, Sept. 29, on its third flyby, gaining a critical gravity assist that will enable it to enter orbit about Mercury in 2011 and capturing images of 5 percent of the planet never before seen.
Biologist Evangelos Moudrianakis wins ‘Greek Nobel Prize’
October 5, 2009
Evangelos “Van” Moudrianakis, a Johns Hopkins University biologist and biophysicist, has won the 2009 Bodossaki Aristeio in Biomedicine for his pioneering work shedding light on the structure of the complex web of DNA and proteins (histones) that make up chromatin—work that has provided valuable insight into how the genetic information of chromosomes is regulated.
Now on tap: The ‘fizzics’ of beer
October 5, 2009
Physicist’s JHU Press book delves into science of popular beverage
Great Scott: Fitzgerald’s Baltimore
September 28, 2009
Even the great ones get writer’s block. F. Scott Fitzgerald described such a circumstance—and how he nudged himself out of it with a bus trip, a leisurely stroll and a trip to his local barbershop—in an article titled “Afternoon of an Author,” published in Esquire in 1936.
Using stimulus dollars to decode human number sense
September 28, 2009
That’s why a team of psychologists at The Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is using a $1.6 million National Institutes of Health grant, underwritten in part by the federal stimulus package, to finance a multifaceted study aimed at decoding some of the mysteries of the human approximate number system, or ANS. They want to find out, for instance, everything from how it changes from infancy through adulthood to the impact that number sense acuity has on later success (or failure) in academic and higher order mathematics.
Lisa Feigenson is teaming up with her research partner and husband, Justin Halberda, both assistant professors in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, on the project.
MESSENGER spacecraft prepares for final pass by Mercury
September 28, 2009
On Tuesday, Sept. 29, the MESSENGER spacecraft will fly by Mercury for the third and final time, passing 141.7 miles above the planet’s rocky surface for a final gravity assist that will enable it to enter orbit about Mercury in 2011. With more than 90 percent of the planet’s surface already imaged, the team will turn its instruments during this flyby to specific features to uncover more information about the planet closest to the sun.
A haven for young minds
September 21, 2009
For 30 years, CTY has been the go-to place for gifted pre-college kids
HOP-SIP launches Social Entrepreneurship Speaker Series
September 21, 2009
The Hopkins Social Innovations Partnerships, a university wide program created in 2008 to champion social entrepreneurship, will this week launch the JHU Social Entrepreneurship Speaker Series.
JHU-led experts issue guide on lung cancer in ‘never-smokers’
September 21, 2009
A committee of scientists led by Johns Hopkins investigators has published a new guide to the biology, diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer in never-smokers.