Category: Featured
New dean introduced at SAIS
April 2, 2012
Vali Nasr leads something of a double life. Triple, actually. There is Nasr the academic, a highly regarded teacher and scholar on Iran, the Middle East and the Islamic world. He has written eight books and played a leadership role on the school and university levels. And there is Nasr the counselor, consulted on foreign […]
New early warning system for seizures
April 2, 2012
Epilepsy affects 50 million people worldwide, and in a third of these cases, medication cannot keep seizures from occurring. One solution is to shoot a short pulse of electricity to the brain to stamp out the seizure just as it begins to erupt. But brain implants designed to do this have run into a stubborn […]
Historic Farm Day to revisit roots of Homewood Museum
March 26, 2012
Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Museum comes alive from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 1, with Historic Farm Day. The half-day of interactive activities and demonstrations is presented in conjunction with the museum’s current focus exhibition, Federal Foodies: From Farm to Table in Early Baltimore, on view through April 29. Historic Farm Day celebrates […]
Public Health’s Dr. Podcast
March 26, 2012
Thomas Burke considers himself a talk radio devotee. He’s a particularly big fan of NPR’s Car Talk, the popular weekly show in which Tom and Ray Magliozzi (also know as Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers) playfully unravel transmission malfunctions, brake squeaks, air conditioning failures and all manner of auto-related troubles for their devoted audience. […]
APL’s Messenger provides new look at Mercury’s landscape
March 26, 2012
Messenger completed its one-year primary mission on March 17. Since moving into orbit about Mercury a little over one year ago, the spacecraft—built and operated by Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory, which also manages the mission for NASA—has captured nearly 100,000 images and returned data that have revealed new information about the planet, including its […]
KSAS named beneficiary of $10 mill bequest
March 12, 2012
The Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences has been named a beneficiary of a charitable trust established by Leslie C. Norins, a 1958 graduate of the School of Arts and Sciences, and his wife, Ann “Rainey” Norins, to fund an endowed student and faculty exchange program in the sciences. The future […]
APL team developing solar probe for closest-ever flights past sun
March 12, 2012
Two-thousand-degree temperatures, supersonic solar particles, intense radiation—all of these await NASA’s Solar Probe Plus during an unprecedented close-up study of the sun. The team led by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory—which has been developing the spacecraft for this extreme environment—has been given the nod from NASA to continue design work on the probe, […]
The big reveal, Homewood-style
March 12, 2012
Earlier this month, Wolman Hall residents were given the first glimpse of the building’s recently completed renovation. The “oohs” and “ahhs” came fast and furious. The 92-year-old apartment building (once home to F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda) has been outfitted with a slew of upgrades, new spaces and multimedia knickknacks to make the […]
Garden parties
March 5, 2012
A student-created community garden on the Johns Hopkins at Eastern campus will soon bear fruit, literally. Students, staff and community volunteers recently constructed 10 raised beds and marked out areas for six communal rows and a future strawberry patch. Volunteers also built a tool shed on the 4,000-square-foot site, which will offer space for more than […]
A hat-trick in humanism
March 5, 2012
Students who have special education needs face varying degrees of challenges on the path to academic success. And that’s why Liza Brecher, a junior at Johns Hopkins majoring in the history of science, wondered: Why give these students and their families needless red tape and hurdles to contend with on top of life’s daily struggles? […]