Issue: 2012 May 7
Thanks for the memory: Old material yields room for more data
May 7, 2012
A team led by Johns Hopkins engineers has discovered some previously unknown properties of a common memory material, paving the way for development of new forms of memory drives, movie discs and computer systems that retain data more quickly, last longer and allow far more capacity than current data storage media. The work was reported April […]
Human Language Tech Center of Excellence names director
May 7, 2012
Richard Cox, a world-renowned spoken language researcher, has been appointed director of the Johns Hopkins University–based Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. The HLTCOE was founded in January 2007 to research all aspects of speech and language technologies. It focuses on advanced technology for automatically analyzing a wide range of speech, text and document data […]
Facebookers to share organ donor status with friends, family
May 7, 2012
When Harvard University friends Sheryl Sandberg and Andrew M. Cameron met up at their 20th college reunion last spring, they got to talking. Sandberg knew that Cameron, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins, was passionate about solving the perennial problem of transplantation: the critical shortage of donated organs in the United States. And Cameron knew […]
At BME’s 50th, Trayanova named inaugural Sachs Professor
May 7, 2012
The Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering, consistently ranked as the nation’s leading program in this discipline, celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 4 with a daylong symposium that included the installation of Natalia Trayanova as the inaugural Murray B. Sachs Professor. “This occasion not only recognizes Murray and Natalia, two accomplished members of […]
Honoring the role of blacks at Johns Hopkins
May 7, 2012
Kelly Miller was born in South Carolina in 1863, the year the tide of the Civil War turned with the Battle of Gettysburg. Miller, the son of a free man and a slave woman, would head north when he turned 17 to chase his dreams of being a math scholar and honor his “band of […]
Homewood Art Workshops celebrates students and Leake
May 7, 2012
Homewood Art Workshops’ annual Studio Show—which showcases the best student work of the academic year—will have a special twist this week. Along with the exhibition and the presentation of the 2012 Eugene Leake Award for Outstanding Achievement, the event will celebrate the restoration and re-installation of a “lost” Leake painting. “May Rocks and Trees” (1984) […]
Radiation Belt Storm Probes arrive at Kennedy Space Center
May 7, 2012
NASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes safely arrived on May 1 at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., where they are scheduled for an August launch to begin their mission to study the extremes of space weather. Just after 10:30 p.m. on April 30, the spacecraft had departed Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory, where they were […]
Interpreting history and landscape
May 7, 2012
In the 19th century and early in the next, the lush grounds of Evergreen House featured seven elaborate glass conservatories with names such as Mushroom House, Melon House and Orchid House. The mistress of the mansion, Alice Whitridge Garrett, likely would have strolled into one of these houses on a spring day to care for […]
JHU awarded $15 million for AIDS research center
May 7, 2012
The Johns Hopkins University has been awarded $15 million over the next five years from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Center for AIDS Research. CFAR will support more than 180 HIV investigators from the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, School of Nursing and other schools. A major priority […]
Carey School to change program focus
May 7, 2012
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School has reorganized to focus its degree programs on the study of business issues related to health care and the life sciences, interim Dean Phillip Phan has announced. “We’re making this move not just because we are Johns Hopkins, with the best medical institutions in the world, but also because […]