Issue: 2011 October 10
Guidelines set for PhD student, JHU relationship
October 10, 2011
To bolster the already strong ties between the university and its PhD students, the newly instituted Doctor of Philosophy Board at Johns Hopkins has produced a statement of rights and responsibilities for all university PhD students. The statement, released today, lays out a series of common expectations for students, their faculty advisers and the JHU […]
Scuba diving improves function in vets with spinal cord injury
October 10, 2011
A small group of veterans with spinal cord injuries who underwent a four-day scuba-diving certification saw significant improvement in muscle movement, increased sensitivity to light touch and pinprick on the legs and large reductions in post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. The researchers, while calling the advances made over the course of a […]
Classifieds — October 10, 2011
October 10, 2011
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Homewood Museum hosts experts on historic landscape design
October 10, 2011
Homewood Museum will present its 11th annual Baltimore’s Great Architecture lecture series over three consecutive Mondays, Oct. 10, 17 and 24. The theme of this year’s series, History in the Landscape, is inspired by the current restoration of Homewood’s original 1801 brick privy. The series opens today, Oct. 10, with historian Michael Olmert exploring […]
Engineering for Professionals launches iPhone app
October 10, 2011
Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals, part of the Whiting School of Engineering, has created a free iPhone app for students, faculty and staff. The app, which also works on the iPod Touch and iPad, provides an easy way for affiliates to access the academic calendar, obtain timely information on the EP education centers and link […]
School of Nursing accelerates for second careers, more choices
October 10, 2011
College graduates and professionals seeking a career change and entry to the nursing profession will find a new and flexible accelerated option for earning a nursing degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Beginning in 2012, a four-semester, 17-month, late August–entry option joins the list of accelerated offerings leading to a bachelor of […]
JHU institute named as CUDA Center of Excellence by NVIDIA
October 10, 2011
Johns Hopkins University has been named a CUDA Center of Excellence by NVIDIA, a California-based visual and parallel computing technology company, honoring the university’s pioneering use of GPU computing and the CUDA programming model across research within multiple science and engineering departments. The Center of Excellence will be headquartered in Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Data […]
Notices — October 10, 2011
October 10, 2011
Funding for Prostate Cancer Research — Funding is available to support multidisciplinary research in prostate cancer through the Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund. Awards of a maximum of $75,000 per year for up to two years are available to fund career development and developmental research programs (pilot projects). New ideas are encouraged. The […]
PRS Guitars holds concert to benefit Kimmel Cancer Center
October 10, 2011
Since 2000, Paul Reed Smith Guitars has used music to raise more than $2 million for the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center’s Living with Cancer Resource Program, which offers supportive care programming and education to patients and families, free of charge. On Sunday, Oct. 16, the company’s flagship benefit concert—One Night, One Show, One Cause—returns […]
JHU’s newest Nobel laureate
October 4, 2011
In a day chock-full of metaphors used to explain universe-sized science, Adam Riess employed a simple image to convey to his 7-year-old daughter the life-altering award he had just won. What does winning the Nobel Prize for physics mean? It’s like getting a “great big gold sticker” on your school folder, he told her. Make […]