Category: Featured
Creativity fuels ideas for cancer cures
January 23, 2012
Historic Hurd Hall on Johns Hopkins’ East Baltimore campus was filled to capacity on Jan. 13 with students, faculty and staff waiting to hear five scientists—all in the early part of their careers—describe their novel ideas on how to cure metastatic cancer. The five were finalists, chosen from among 44 entrants, in a competition on […]
Enhancing the golden years
January 23, 2012
The aging of America is undeniable. Nearly 10,000 people turn 65 every day, with the total number of senior citizens to soon pass the 40 million mark. The number will climb only higher, as people reaching age 65 have an average life expectancy of an additional 18.6 years, according to the Administration on Aging, and […]
Hubble detects one of the most distant supernovae yet observed
January 17, 2012
A team of Johns Hopkins astrophysicists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant Type Ia supernova, the farthest stellar explosion that can be used to measure the expansion rate of the universe. The supernova is the remnant of a star that exploded 9 billion years ago. The sighting is the first finding of an […]
3 … 2 … 1 … Intersession liftoff
January 17, 2012
When launching a rocket, don’t fire the ejection charge too soon after thrust phase termination. Why? Well, imagine parallel parking at 50 miles an hour, or slamming on bike brakes going full speed downhill. Things could get messy. Don’t ignite the charge too late, either, unless you want your re-entry parachute to deploy, or be […]
Remembering Mr. Hopkins
January 9, 2012
Faculty, staff, retirees, alumni and other friends and supporters gathered at Green Mount Cemetery on Dec. 24, 2011, to honor the man who left his fortune and his name to launch The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Mr. Hopkins died the morning of Dec. 24, 1873, leaving $7 million in his will […]
Wm. Polk Carey, whose gift launched business school, dies at 81
January 9, 2012
At the turn of the 21st century, Johns Hopkins was one of only three top-ranked U.S. universities without a full-time business school. JHU had offered business courses since the early 1900s, but in a part-time format. Then, on Jan. 1, 2007, a sea change: The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School was launched with Wm. Polk […]
A new leader for Johns Hopkins Medicine
December 19, 2011
Doctor, scientist, teacher, mentor, administrator, leader. The incoming dean of the School of Medicine and chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine is all of these. But which came first? “My love of science developed first, in high school,” Paul Rothman said. “It was during college that the idea of being a physician first developed, […]
Nobelist Adam Riess gets the star treatment in Sweden
December 19, 2011
Two months after being named a recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics, Adam Riess accepted his Nobel medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences during a ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday, Dec. 10. During their time in Stockholm, Riess and his fellow laureates were treated as celebrities. In addition to receiving their […]
NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes begin space environment tests
December 19, 2011
NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes, twin spacecraft being built and tested at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, have entered a challenging series of tests designed to certify that they are ready for their August 2012 launch and two-year mission in Earth’s orbit. The coordinated measurements of the two RBSP spacecraft will advance our […]
In treating third-degree burns, hydrogel helps grow new skin
December 19, 2011
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a jellylike material and wound treatment method that in early experiments on skin damaged by severe burns appeared to regenerate healthy, scar-free tissue. In the Dec. 12–16 online Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers reported their promising results from mouse tissue tests. The new […]