Issue: 2011 August 1
Drug improves brain function in condition that leads to Alzheimer’s
August 1, 2011
An existing anti-seizure drug improves memory and brain function in adults with a form of cognitive impairment that often leads to full-blown Alzheimer’s disease, a Johns Hopkins University study has found. The findings raise the possibility that doctors will someday be able to use the drug, levetiracetam, already approved for use in epilepsy patients, to […]
Indie filmmaker’s cell-phone photos land him in the Baltimore Museum of Art
August 1, 2011
In a large box-shaped gallery inside the Baltimore Museum of Art, independent filmmaker Matthew Porterfield paces before an audience of admirers, fielding questions about his latest creative work, winner of Baltimore’s $25,000 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. In recent years, Porterfield, who teaches in the Krieger School’s Film and Media Studies program, has collected […]
Finding a fishy solution
August 1, 2011
There’s something fishy going on at Baltimore’s Cylburn Arboretum, and the results could be delicious—and sustainable. Earlier this summer, David Love, a microbiologist and project director with the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, began work on a demonstration aquaponics farm housed in a greenhouse at Cylburn, […]