Issue: 2011 August 29
Nag factor: How do kids convince parents to buy junk foods?
August 29, 2011
Sure they’re fun and kids love them, but could cartoon characters used in marketing contribute to the obesity epidemic as well as create nagging children? Today, some parents find themselves having a battle in the cereal aisle. Recognizable characters and logos prompt children to make repeated requests for a range of products, including low-nutrition foods […]
New composite material may restore damaged soft tissue
August 29, 2011
Biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins have developed a new liquid material that in early experiments in rats and humans shows promise in restoring damaged soft tissue relatively safely and durably. The material, a composite of biological and synthetic molecules, is injected under the skin, then “set” using light to form a more solid structure, like […]
Peabody season opens with music by Joe, Franz and Thad
August 29, 2011
Peabody’s 2011–2012 season will open on Tuesday, Sept. 20, with An Evening with Joe Burgstaller and Friends, the first of eight concerts in the Sylvia Adalman Chamber Series. Burgstaller, a former full-time member of the Canadian Brass who teaches trumpet at the Peabody Conservatory, will be joined by pianists Julian Lawrence Cargiulo and Hector Martignon, […]
Here comes the Class of 2015
August 29, 2011
In a synchronized swirl of activity, members of the Class of 2015 checked into the Homewood campus last week to begin their college adventure. Cars, trucks and vans, all stuffed with cargo, lined up in caravan fashion on Wednesday and Thursday as the freshmen moved into Johns Hopkins residence halls. It was a tale of […]
Can we build better science courses?
August 29, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University is, figuratively speaking, going back into the learning laboratory to augment, enhance, rejigger and, in some cases, reinvent its foundation science courses. Lloyd B. Minor, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, has launched a yearlong universitywide effort called the Gateway Sciences Initiative to promote wider adoption of successful teaching […]
$30 mill creates center for personalized cancer care
August 29, 2011
A $30 million gift from the Commonwealth Foundation for Cancer Research has enabled the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center to establish a Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine. The gift from the Richmond, Va.–based foundation will be used to support research and the development of new technologies that pinpoint the novel genetic characteristics of each patient’s cancer. […]
Universities band together to join Orphan Works Project
August 29, 2011
Leaders at Cornell, Duke, Emory and Johns Hopkins universities jointly announced last week that they would begin making the full text of thousands of “orphan works” in their library collections digitally accessible to students, faculty and researchers at their own institutions. Orphan works are out-of-print books that are still subject to copyright but whose copyright […]
Bug busters: JHU to host daylong symposium on infection imaging
August 29, 2011
Doctors can peer inside the human body to look for tumors, detect a blockage in an artery or see a crack in a bone, but common afflictions like bacterial and viral infections are far more difficult to track, and even the most sophisticated imaging devices can offer only a less than definitive answer. “Although CT […]
School of Nursing announces two new ‘arrivals’
August 29, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is adding a couple of branches to its virtual family tree this fall as it welcomes SimNewB and Sim Man 3G to its simulation manikin family. “The use of simulation in nursing education is increasing, and Johns Hopkins is at the forefront of utilizing it,” said Joyce Vazzano, […]
JHU to review chronic wound treatment, identify best practices
August 29, 2011
An estimated $25 billion is spent annually on treating chronic wounds on patients in the United States. These chronic wounds deeply affect the quality of life of more than 6 million people who have them. The most common types of chronic skin wounds and skin ulcers are related to venous disease (conditions related to or […]