http://www.jhu.edu/news News stories and press releases from the Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. en-us The Johns Hopkins University 2008. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:05:00 EDT dgips@jhu.edu (Debra Gips) dgips@jhu.edu (Debra Gips) http://www.jhu.edu/news/rss/images/artsci.gif http://www.jhu.edu/news News stories from the Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/may09/bagger.html Jonathan A. Bagger has been elected to the Board of Directors for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI). Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 27 May 2009 16:30:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/may09/bagger.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/may09/supreme_court.html Reporters who are looking for expert perspectives on Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, should consider Johns Hopkins University Adam Segal, director of the Hispanic Voter Project, and Joel Grossman, professor of political science. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Tue, 26 May 2009 12:05:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/may09/supreme_court.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/may09/greene.html Jack P. Greene, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University, has been selected as one of 33 fellows at the National Humanities Center for the 2009-2010 academic year. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Fri, 15 May 2009 13:55:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/may09/greene.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/may09/vision.html To the casual observer, the student seemed absolutely normal. Though she often made mistakes in spelling and math, those were usually ascribed to carelessness. After all, the girl -- known here as "AH" to protect her anonymity -- was a top student in history at The Johns Hopkins University. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Fri, 08 May 2009 15:20:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/may09/vision.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/may09/blackhole.html Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the universe's present expansion rate to a precision where the error is smaller than five percent. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 07 May 2009 15:35:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/may09/blackhole.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/may09/souter.html If you're looking for an expert to put the career and legacy of David Souter into perspective -- as well as someone who can talk about what happens next and how the high court will likely change -- consider Johns Hopkins University Professor Joel Grossman. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Sat, 02 May 2009 08:05:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/may09/souter.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/apr09/riess.html Adam Riess was among 72 scientists elected today to membership in the National Academy of Sciences at the organization's 146th annual meeting, held in Washington, D.C. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:35:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/apr09/riess.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/apr09/cherlin.html After a divorce or break-up, parents need to be very cautious about bringing new love interests into their homes, according to Andrew Cherlin, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:45:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/apr09/cherlin.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/apr09/aaas.html President Ronald J. Daniels and three Johns Hopkins University faculty members are among the 210 fellows elected to the 229th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:05:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/apr09/aaas.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/apr09/advocacy.html Supporting a cause is central to the mission of most nonprofit organizations in the United States, but a lack of resources often forces lobbying and advocacy to the backburner, according to a roundtable of leaders and experts gathered by the Johns Hopkins University Nonprofit Listening Post Project. Mimi Bilzor / E-mail: mimi@jhu.edu (Mimi Bilzor) Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:55:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/apr09/advocacy.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/apr09/guggenheim.html Six faculty members in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University are among the 180 artists, scholars and scientists who have been named 2009 Guggenheim Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:40:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/apr09/guggenheim.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/apr09/csos_research.html Johns Hopkins University research scientists Joyce Epstein and James McPartland are among 44 scholars who were recently named American Educational Research Association Fellows. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:45:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/apr09/csos_research.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/apr09/jpl_spitzer.html Life on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around other stars? Led by a Johns Hopkins University researcher, a new study from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hints that planets around stars cooler than our sun might possess a different mix of potentially life-forming, or "prebiotic," chemicals. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:50:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/apr09/jpl_spitzer.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/apr09/vonderheydt.html Writing in a recent issue of the journal Neuron, JH researchers demonstrate that nerve cells in a special region of the brain's visual cortex are able to "grab onto" figure-ground information from visual images for several seconds, even after the images themselves are removed from our sight. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:00:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/apr09/vonderheydt.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/mar09/grad_rates.html A dozen states significantly improved their high school graduation rates between 2002 and 2006, while the rest of the nation lagged behind, according to a report by researchers at the new Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:45:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/mar09/grad_rates.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/univ09/feb09/tuition.html Tuition for full-time undergraduates at The Johns Hopkins University will increase 3.8 percent next fall, the smallest percentage growth in 35 years for the university's two largest undergraduate schools. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/univ09/feb09/tuition.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/feb09/dwarf.html There is more than one way to make a dwarf galaxy, and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has found a new recipe. It has, for the first time, identified dwarf galaxies forming out of nothing more than pristine gas likely leftover from the early universe. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:40:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/feb09/dwarf.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/feb09/global_warming.html Increasing greenhouse gases could delay, or even postpone indefinitely the recovery of stratospheric ozone in some regions of the Earth, a Johns Hopkins earth scientist suggests. This change might take a toll on public health. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/feb09/global_warming.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/jan09/comstock.html Charles L. Bennett, a professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, has been chosen by the National Academy of Sciences as the winner of the 2009 Comstock Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in cosmology. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:20:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home09/jan09/comstock.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/jan09/egypt.html Follow along online as Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team of students, artists, conservators and photographers return to their investigation of Mut Temple this month, once again focusing their attention on the temple's Sacred Lake. Bryan and her crew are resuming their excavation in Luxor, Egypt, and are sharing their work via "Hopkins in Egypt Today," their popular digital diary offering a virtual window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:33:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/jan09/egypt.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/jan09/big_ideas.html All eyes are on President-elect Barack Obama during the countdown to Inauguration Day. Reporters seeking an African-American viewpoint for stories about this historic political moment should consider contacting Lester Spence, an assistant professor of political science at The Johns Hopkins University. Spence wants to look beyond Jan. 20 and has drafted a list of his favorite big ideas for the next President. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:55:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/jan09/big_ideas.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/jan09/naacp.html The Center for Africana Studies at the Johns Hopkins University will be marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with a history conference, Friday, Feb. 6 and Saturday, Feb. 7 on the Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. The event is free and open to the public. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:40:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home09/jan09/naacp.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/dec08/aaas.html Five Johns Hopkins University researchers have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by their peers. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:05:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/dec08/aaas.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/dec08/magma.html A crew drilling on the Big Island of Hawaii has discovered magma, the molten rock material -- never before found in its natural habitat underground -- that is the central ingredient in the evolution of planets and the lifeblood of all volcanoes. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:42:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/dec08/magma.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home08/dec08/kurt.html Kurt R. Herzer, a Johns Hopkins University senior from Melville, N.Y., who has dedicated his studies to improving the quality and safety of healthcare systems around the world, has been selected by the British government as a Marshall Scholar, one of 40 chosen nationwide. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:10:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home08/dec08/kurt.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home08/dec08/rishi.html Rishi Mediratta, a Johns Hopkins University alumnus from Portage, Mich., has been selected by the British government as a Marshall Scholar, one of 40 chosen nationwide. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:10:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home08/dec08/rishi.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/dec08/storage.html A computer facility that could eventually handle enough data to fill 1 billion diskettes has won the Storage Challenge at SC08, the 8th annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/dec08/storage.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/dec08/math_achieve.html Teachers have a greater impact than new textbooks or computers when it comes to raising math scores, according to a comprehensive research review by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education. Theresa Norton / E-mail: Tnorton1@jhu.edu (Theresa Norton) Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:25:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/dec08/math_achieve.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/oct08/depth.html A team of Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists has discovered patterns of brain activity that may underlie our remarkable ability to see and understand the three-dimensional structure of objects. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:30:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/oct08/depth.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/oct08/tovar.html A team of chemists at The Johns Hopkins University has created water-soluble electronic materials that spontaneously assemble themselves into "wires" 10,000 times smaller than a human hair. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:25:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/oct08/tovar.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/oct08/karlin.html Kenneth D. Karlin, Ira Remsen Professor of Chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the American Chemical Society's 2009 F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry and has been chosen by the Sierra Nevada section of the ACS to receive the 2009 Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist Award. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:50:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/oct08/karlin.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/sep08/macarthur.html Two Johns Hopkins University professors -- a physician who champions scientifically rigorous, common-sense approaches to improving patient safety and an astrophysicist who was a leader in the discovery of the universe's "dark energy" -- were named today as winners of MacArthur Fellowships, the so-called "genius grants." Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:45:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/sep08/macarthur.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/univ08/sep08/adichie.html Acclaimed novelist Chimamanda Adichie, an alumna of The Johns Hopkins University, is one of 25 scholars, scientists and artists this year to win a MacArthur Fellowship, a $500,000 "no strings attached" award given to people who demonstrate exceptional creativity and promise in their chosen field. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:40:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news/univ08/sep08/adichie.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/sep08/number_sense.html Knowing how precisely a high school freshman can estimate the number of objects in a group gives you a good idea how well he has done in math as far back as kindergarten, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University found. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/sep08/number_sense.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/aug08/charities.html America's nonprofit organizations are focusing on their missions to attract and retain the next generation of employees, according to a new report released today by the Johns Hopkins University Nonprofit Listening Post Project. Hillary Belzer / E-mail: hbelzer@jhu.edu (Hillary Belzer) Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:30:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/aug08/charities.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/aug08/memory.html Adjusting our behavior to such changing circumstances enables us to achieve our goals. But how, exactly, do our brains switch so elegantly and quickly from one well-entrenched plan to a newer one in reaction to a sudden change in circumstances? Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:20:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/aug08/memory.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jul08/elections.html For stories about the 2008 presidential campaign, consider the following sources from The Johns Hopkins University. Listed with each source is a brief description of his or her area of expertise or particular take on the campaign. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:50:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jul08/elections.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jul08/toddler.html Which is easier to remember: 4432879960 or 443-297-9960? The latter, of course. Adults seem to know automatically, in fact, that long strings of numbers are more easily recalled when divided into smaller "bite-sized chunks," which is why we break up our telephone and Social Security numbers in this way. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:30:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jul08/toddler.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jun08/nicole.html Political scientist Nicole Suveges was civilian Army contractor Nicole Suveges, a Johns Hopkins University graduate student in political science who was working in Iraq while doing research for her dissertation, was among four Americans killed in an explosion Tuesday in the offices of the district council in the critical Sadr City section of Baghdad. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:25:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jun08/nicole.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jun08/civility.html Johns Hopkins University's resident civility maven P.M. Forni takes the guesswork out of defusing more than a hundred different everyday hackle-raising scenarios in his new book, The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude (St. Martin's Press, June 10, 2008). Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:40:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jun08/civility.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jun08/supercon.html Johns Hopkins University researchers and colleagues in China have unlocked some of the secrets of newly discovered iron-based high-temperature superconductors, research that could result in the design of better superconductors for use in industry, medicine, transportation and energy generation. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:50:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jun08/supercon.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jun08/seti.html A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible extraterrestrial intelligence in our galaxy. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jun08/seti.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/may08/celenza.html Christopher Celenza, a professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at The Johns Hopkins University, is among 190 artists, scholars and scientists who have been named 2008 Guggenheim Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Chosen from more than 2,600 applicants from the United States and Canada, the fellows were appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Wed, 21 May 2008 15:30:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/may08/celenza.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/may08/telescope.html Thanks in part to a Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist, the final frontier got a bit closer today with the launch of a new application that allows people to easily explore the night sky from their own computers. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/may08/telescope.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/may08/smolensky.html Paul Smolensky, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Cognitive Science at The Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed to an International Blaise Pascal Research Chair by the Ecole Normale Superieure, a prestigious French institution of higher education. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Fri, 09 May 2008 15:05:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/may08/smolensky.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/may08/giacconi.html Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi will receive the National Inventors Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, May 3, in Akron, Ohio. The award is given annually to an individual who has fostered creativity and innovation throughout his lifetime. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 01 May 2008 17:05:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/may08/giacconi.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/apr08/riess.html Johns Hopkins University professor Adam Riess is among the 212 fellows elected to the 228th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy made its announcement April 28. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 01 May 2008 09:25:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/apr08/riess.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/apr08/nas.html Gregg L. Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Jane I. Guyer, Ph.D., a professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences were elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences for their excellence in original scientific research. Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States. Semenza and Guyer will be inducted into the Academy next April during its 146th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:05:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/apr08/nas.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/apr08/sight.html If you think your parents let your younger siblings get away with a lot, you're probably right. A new study from researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere concludes that parents do punish older children more harshly -- and what's more, that they are wise to do so. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/apr08/sight.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/apr08/parenting.html If you think your parents let your younger siblings get away with a lot, you're probably right. A new study from researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere concludes that parents do punish older children more harshly -- and what's more, that they are wise to do so. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:30:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/apr08/parenting.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/mar08/bennett.html NASA released this week five years of data collected by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) that refines our understanding of the universe and its development. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:10:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/mar08/bennett.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/rose.html Grants of $779,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow The Johns Hopkins University and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France to provide scholars with virtual access to more than half the known versions of Le Roman de la Rose, a medieval poem on the art of love that was the most-read work of French literature for hundreds of years. Pamela Higgins / E-mail: pamela.higgins@jhu.edu (Pamela Higgins) Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/rose.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/3d_image.html Technology invented by scientists from The Johns Hopkins University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev can make three-dimensional imaging quicker, easier, less expensive and more accurate, the researchers said. Robin Ferrier / E-mail: rferrier@jhu.edu (Robin Ferrier) Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/3d_image.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/egypt08.html Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team are again sharing their work with the world through an online diary, a digital window into the day-to-day life on an archaeological expedition. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:10:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/egypt08.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/museum.html Students anywhere in the world interested in a career in museums can now earn a Johns Hopkins University master of arts degree in museum studies in an innovative online program. Ken Schappelle / E-mail: kschappelle@jhu.edu (Ken Schappelle) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:10:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/museum.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/applicants.html Forgive the admissions counselors at The Johns Hopkins University if they look a bit tired and hazy-eyed these days. After all, they're working long hours to read the largest number of undergraduate applications in the university's history. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:45:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/applicants.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jan08/elections.html For stories about the 2008 presidential campaign, consider the following sources from The Johns Hopkins University. Listed with each source is a brief description of his or her area of expertise or particular take on the campaign. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:45:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jan08/elections.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home08/jan08/gammaray.html Using the powerful one-two combo of NASA's Swift satellite and the Gemini Observatory, astronomers from a number of institutions, including Johns Hopkins, have detected amysterious type of cosmic explosion farther back in time than ever before. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:55:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home08/jan08/gammaray.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jan08/mediabias.html A Johns Hopkins communications expert suggests that potential Madame Presidents running in past campaigns have been obscured in the press. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:45:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/jan08/mediabias.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/dec07/beemon.html Karen Beemon, a professor and chair of the Department of Biology at The Johns Hopkins University, has won the third annual M. Jeang Retrovirology Prize, which recognizes outstanding mid-career retrovirologists ages 45 to 60. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/dec07/beemon.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/dec07/magma.html About a decade ago, Johns Hopkins University geologist Bruce Marsh challenged the century-old concept that the Earth's outer layer formed when crystal-free molten rock called magma oozed to the surface from giant subterranean chambers hidden beneath volcanoes. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/dec07/magma.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/nov07/vonderheydt.html M.C. Escher's ambiguous drawings transfix us: Are those black birds flying against a white sky or white birds soaring out of a black sky? Lines in Escher's drawings can seem to be part of either of two different shapes. How does our brain decide which of those shapes to "see?" In a study published this month in Nature Neuroscience, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University demonstrate that brains do so by way of a mechanism in a region of the visual cortex called V2. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:55:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/nov07/vonderheydt.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/nov07/biofilms.html Using an innovative device with microscopic chambers, researchers from four institutions, including Johns Hopkins, have gleaned important new information about how bacteria survive in hostile environments by forming antibiotic- resistant communities called biofilms. These biofilms play key roles in cystic fibrosis, urinary tract infections and other illnesses, and the researchers say their findings could help in the development of new treatments and preventive measures. Mary Spiro/ E-mail: mspiro@jhu.edu (Mary Spiro) Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:20:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/nov07/biofilms.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/nov07/biotech.html Students anywhere can now study online to earn a master of science in biotechnology or bioscience regulatory affairs at The Johns Hopkins University, the university's Advanced Biotechnology Studies program announced. Ken Schappelle / E-mail: kschappelle@jhu.edu (Ken Schappelle) Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:50:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/nov07/biotech.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/nov07/dagdigian.html Paul Dagdigian, Arthur D. Chambers Professor of Chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, has been named 2007 Maryland Chemist of the Year by the American Chemical Society's Maryland Section. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/nov07/dagdigian.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/cfe.html Seeking to blend the studies of economics and finance, the Johns Hopkins University this fall has established the Center for Financial Economics, an innovative, comprehensive new program that ultimately will offer an undergraduate minor and major and train graduate students in financial economics, said Adam Falk, the James B. Knapp dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:50:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/cfe.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/aaasfellows.html Six Johns Hopkins University researchers have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by their peers. Jef Boeke, Ph.D., Sc.D., Paul D. Feldman, Ph.D., Nirbhay Kumar, Ph.D., Thomas C. Quinn, M.D., Theresa A.B. Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., and David Valle, M.D., are among 471 new fellows around the world. Election as a fellow honors their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:10:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/aaasfellows.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/fuse.html The intrepid never-say-die space telescope known as FUSE has finally reached its mission's end and will be turned off after more than eight years of discoveries on everything from planets and nearby stars to galaxies and quasars billions of light-years away. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/fuse.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/civility.html Popular primetime TV shows like "The Office" or "30 Rock" find humor in the rudeness and sarcasm of fictional employees, but in the real world, workplace boorishness is no laughing matter: Several forms of 9-to-5 incivility earned spots on the "Terrible Ten" list of rude behaviors, based on a new survey of 615 workers and others in Baltimore. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) (Amy Lunday) Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:40:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/civility.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/sep07/cortical.html It's well known that the child's brain has a remarkable capacity for change, but controversy rages about the extent to which such plasticity exists in the adult human brain -- particularly, in the part responsible for vision. Now, scientists from The Johns Hopkins University and MIT offer evidence -- derived from both brain imaging and behavioral studies -- that the adult visual cortex (the area of the brain that receives images from the eyes) does, indeed, have the ability to reorganize. Moreover, that reorganization affects visual perception. The study appears online today in an advance publication of The Journal of Neuroscience. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:50:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/sep07/cortical.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/aug07/mencken.html The Johns Hopkins University has acquired what is believed to be the largest privately held collection of items associated with writer and journalist H.L. Mencken, nearly 6,000 books, articles, letters, photographs and other items amassed over 44 years by an Ohio accountant with a passion for the Sage of Baltimore. Pamela Higgins / E-mail: pamela.higgins@jhu.edu (Pamela Higgins) Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:15:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/aug07/mencken.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jul07/afroamer.html The Johns Hopkins University has been awarded $476,000 to collaborate with the Baltimore-based Afro-American Newspapers to open the 115-year- old newspaper company's historic archives to access by scholars and others. Pamela Higgins / E-mail: pamela.higgins@jhu.edu (Pamela Higgins) Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jul07/afroamer.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jul07/igert.html Which of the human brain's biological and computational structures make language possible? What can the recent advances in computer processing of human language tell us about the nature of language and the process by which children learn it? Is there a precise, mathematical science of human language and if so, what is it? Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jul07/igert.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jul07/quantum.html An international team of scientists, including several at The Johns Hopkins University, has detected a hidden magnetic "quantum order" that extends over chains of nearly 100 atoms in a material that is otherwise magnetically disordered. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jul07/quantum.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jul07/gruber.html Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Adam Riess, who led the first study revealing the existence of a mysterious "dark energy" permeating the universe, will share one of the most prestigious prizes in cosmology, it was announced today, Tuesday, July 17. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:50:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jul07/gruber.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jun07/egypt.html For a second time this year, Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her archaeological crew are sharing their work with the world. Online now is a special bonus season of their popular digital diary, a virtual window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) (Amy Lunday) Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:45:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jun07/egypt.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/may07/epp2007.html Beginning with the fall 2007 semester, the Johns Hopkins University Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals (EPP) will offer a fully online master of science degree program in environmental planning and management in collaboration with the university's Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. This online program will focus on water resources planning. Diana Schulin / E-mail: dschulin@jhu.edu (Diana Schulin) Wed, 30 May 2007 11:25:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/may07/epp2007.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/may07/arts.html The Johns Hopkins University has awarded approximately $25,000 in grants to students and faculty to stimulate new courses in the arts and other arts-related efforts on the university's Homewood campus, said Winston Tabb, the university's vice provost for the arts. Heather Egan Stalfort / E-mail: hestalfort@jhu.edu (Heather Egan Stalfort) Thu, 24 May 2007 12:55:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/may07/arts.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/may07/darkmatt.html Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive galaxy clusters. The ring's discovery is among the strongest evidence yet that dark matter exists. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 16 May 2007 11:05:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/may07/darkmatt.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/may07/olson.html A Johns Hopkins geophysicist was among 72 U.S. scientists elected today to membership in the National Academy of Sciences at the organization's 144th annual meeting, held in Washington, D.C. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 02 May 2007 13:45:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/may07/olson.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/apr07/summer.html The Center for Summer Learning at The Johns Hopkins University has announced the launch of a national fund-raising and education campaign to generate $50 million in public investment for summer learning programs. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:45:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/apr07/summer.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/apr07/armitage.html N. Peter Armitage of the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University has received a Sloan Research Fellowship to continue his investigations into the effects of strong interaction between electrons in complex materials. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:45:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/apr07/armitage.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/apr07/posner.html Johns Hopkins University researchers have cured malaria-infected mice with single shots of a new series of potent, long lasting synthetic drugs modeled on an ancient Chinese herbal folk remedy. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:45:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/apr07/posner.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/mar07/cherlin.html In an age when cohabitation and divorce are common, single parents concerned about the developmental health of their children may want to choose new partners slowly and deliberately, new research from The Johns Hopkins University suggests. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:45:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/mar07/cherlin.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/mar07/flexcar.html Baltimore's first car-sharing program hits the road this week at The Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus, where four Flexcars will be available to students, faculty, staff and neighbors from the Greater Homewood community. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:15:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/mar07/flexcar.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jan07/elecfish.html Scientists have long struggled to figure out how the brain guides the complex movement of our limbs, from the graceful leaps of ballerinas to the simple, everyday act of picking up a cup of coffee. Using tools from robotics and neuroscience, two Johns Hopkins University researchers have found some tantalizing clues in an unlikely mode of motion: the undulations of tropical fish. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jan07/elecfish.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jan07/fuel.html Researchers have synthesized a new class of aluminum-hydrogen compounds with a unique chemistry that could lead to the development of more powerful solid rocket fuel and may also, in time, be useful for hydrogen-powered vehicles or other energy applications. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jan07/fuel.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jan07/egypt1.html Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her crew are once again sharing their work with the world through an online diary, a digital window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:15:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jan07/egypt1.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jan07/barnett.html Bruce Barnett, a Johns Hopkins University physicist, has been selected to receive the Maryland Association of Higher Education's 2007 Outstanding Faculty Award in recognition of his innovative approach to teaching introductory physics to Johns Hopkins undergraduates and his pioneering work in introducing physics and astronomy to the general public. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jan07/barnett.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/dec06/prem.html Nanomaterials scientists at The Johns Hopkins University are teaming with colleagues at Howard University and Prince George's Community College to attract and train materials scientists from underrepresented minority groups, especially African-Americans. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/dec06/prem.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/nov06/energy.html Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have discovered that dark energy, a mysterious repulsive force that makes the universe expand at an ever-faster rate, is not new but rather has been present in the universe for most of its 13-billion-year history. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/nov06/energy.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/nov06/exotic.html A team of scientists, including four at The Johns Hopkins University, has discovered two new subatomic particles, rare but important relatives of the familiar, commonplace proton and neutron. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/nov06/exotic.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/nov06/packard.html Johns Hopkins University biologist Samer Hattar has been awarded a Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering for the year 2006. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/nov06/packard.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/oct06/elmarra.html An ancient, untouched Syrian tomb that wowed the archaeological world on its discovery by Johns Hopkins University researchers nearly six years ago has revealed another secret: It is not alone. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/oct06/elmarra.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/oct06/panstarr.html The Johns Hopkins University is joining eight other institutions worldwide to utilize a revolutionary new telescope, funded by the U.S. Air Force to detect asteroids and comets on collision course with Earth, but also capable of discovering unprecedented numbers of important, dynamic astronomical objects such as eclipsing planets and dark-energy measuring supernovae. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/oct06/panstarr.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/oct06/fire.html Andrew Z. Fire, one of two winners of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has been an adjunct professor in the Biology Department at The Johns Hopkins University since 1989. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/oct06/fire.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/sep06/harvey.html Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett has been awarded the 2006 Harvey Prize, given annually by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology for breakthroughs in science and technology, human health or peace. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/sep06/harvey.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/aug06/pluto.html Generations of schoolchildren have memorized "My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" (or a variation thereof) in order to remember the order of the nine planets in our solar system. For 70 years -- ever since it was discovered -- the "p" in that oft-repeated mnemonic device has stood for Pluto, the ninth and smallest planet. But is Pluto actually a planet? Or is it something else? Astronomers have been debating this issue -- often, hotly -- since Pluto's discovery seven decades ago. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/aug06/pluto.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/aug06/gruber.html Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett is a member of the science team that has won the Peter Gruber Foundation's 2006 Cosmology Prize. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/aug06/gruber.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/aug06/surfaces.html For most people, soap bubbles are little more than ethereal, ephemeral childhood amusements, or a bit of kitsch associated with the Lawrence Welk Show. But for Johns Hopkins University mathematician William Minicozzi, the translucent film that automatically arranges itself into the least possible surface area on the bubble wand is an elegant and captivating illustration of a mathematical concept called "minimal surfaces." Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/aug06/surfaces.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/aug06/milky.html Scientists using NASA's Johns Hopkins University-operated Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer satellite have learned that far more "heavy" hydrogen remains in our Milky Way galaxy than expected, a finding that could radically alter theories about star and galaxy formation. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/aug06/milky.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/aug06/newcell.html Big changes -- and improvements -- to the Integrated Imaging Center at Johns Hopkins University's mean enhanced opportunities for researchers everywhere needing a close-up look at cells, life's smallest building blocks. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/aug06/newcell.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/aug06/adept.html A Johns Hopkins astrophysicist is principal investigator of a proposal, accepted today by NASA, to design a space mission to determine the properties of the mysterious dark energy that is causing the expansion rate of the universe to speed up. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/aug06/adept.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jul06/coral.html Leopards may not be able to change their spots, but corals can change their skeletons, building them out of different minerals depending on the chemical composition of the seawater around them. That's the startling conclusion drawn by a Johns Hopkins University marine geologist, writing in the July issue of the journal Geology. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jul06/coral.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jul06/bennett.html Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett has been appointed to four National Academy of Sciences boards that advise the government on the nation's space science programs. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jul06/bennett.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jun06/shaw.html Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Adam Riess and two colleagues today were awarded this year's $1 million Shaw Prize in astronomy for their discovery that an unexplained, mysterious "dark energy" is driving an ever-faster expansion of the universe. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jun06/shaw.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/apr06/ameracad.html Two Johns Hopkins University faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, part of a class of 175 new academy fellows that also includes two former U.S. presidents and the chief justice of the United States, the academy announced Monday. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/apr06/ameracad.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/apr06/fried.html The American Academy of Arts and Letters has bestowed one of eight 2006 Academy Awards in Literature on Michael Fried, the J.R. Herbert Boone Professor in the Humanities at the Krieger School of Arts and Science at The Johns Hopkins University. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/apr06/fried.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/apr06/hormone.html Evidence is mounting that estrogen, a hormone critical to a woman's sexual development, should also be thought of as a neurotransmitter when acting in the brain, a Johns Hopkins University behavioral neuroscientist said. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/apr06/hormone.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/apr06/corces.html Victor Corces, a professor in the Biology Department at The Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 5 Apr 2006 13:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/apr06/corces.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/mar06/wmap.html Scientists peering back to the oldest light in the universe have new evidence for what happened within its first trillionth of a second, when the universe suddenly grew from submicroscopic to astronomical size in far less than a wink of the eye. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/mar06/wmap.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/mar06/memory.html A research team that included members from The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Minnesota Medical School has for the first time identified a substance in the brain that is proven to cause memory loss. This identification gives drug developers a target for creating drugs to treat memory loss in patients with dementia. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/mar06/memory.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/feb06/ravedata.html An international team of astronomers released to the public the first data collected as part of the Radial Velocity Experiment, an ambitious spectroscopic survey aimed at measuring the speed, temperature, surface gravity and composition of up to a million stars passing near the sun. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/feb06/ravedata.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ06/feb06/baltarch.html The Johns Hopkins University's Sheridan Libraries have launched the Baltimore Architecture Project, a collaborative effort that will bring together on-line documents relating to Baltimore's rich architectural history that are now scattered among libraries, churches, hospitals, and museums throughout the city and elsewhere. Pamela Higgins / E-mail: pamela.higgins@jhu.edu (Pamela Higgins) Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ06/feb06/baltarch.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jan06/queen.html A Johns Hopkins University archaeological expedition in Luxor, Egypt, has unearthed a life-sized statue, dating back nearly 3,400 years, of one of the queens of the powerful king Amenhotep III. The statue, which dates to between 1391 and 1352 B.C.E., was uncovered earlier this month by the expedition's director, Betsy Bryan, Johns Hopkins professor of Egyptian art and archaeology. Amy Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jan06/queen.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jan06/falk.html Adam F. Falk, a Johns Hopkins University faculty member since 1994, has been appointed the James B. Knapp Dean of the university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Falk, a theoretical physicist, will officially assume the position on Feb. 1. He has been acting dean of the university's oldest school since January 2005. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jan06/falk.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jan06/connor.html When a human looks at a number, letter or other shape, neurons in various areas of the brain's visual center respond to different components of that shape, almost instantaneously fitting them together like a puzzle to create an image that the individual then "sees" and understands, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University report. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jan06/connor.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jan06/zhu.html Imagine a computer that doesn't lose data even in a sudden power outage, or a coin-sized hard drive that could store 100 or more movies. Magnetic random-access memory, or MRAM, could make these possible, and would also offer numerous other advantages. It would, for instance, operate at much faster than the speed of ordinary memory but consume 99 percent less energy. The current challenge, however, is the design of a fast, reliable and inexpensive way to build stable and densely packed magnetic memory cells. A team of researchers at The Johns Hopkins University has come up with one possible answer: tiny asymmetrical cobalt or nickel rings that can serve as memory cells. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jan06/zhu.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/jan06/wyse.html An international team of astronomers today announced the first results from the Radial Velocity Experiment, an ambitious all-sky spectroscopic survey aimed at measuring the speed, temperature, surface gravity and composition of up to a million stars passing near the sun. Those first results from the project, known for short as RAVE, confirm that dark matter dominates the total mass of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The full survey promises to yield a new, detailed understanding of the origins of the galaxy, they said. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/jan06/wyse.html http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her crew are once again sharing their work with the world through an online diary, a digital window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig. Starting Thursday, Jan. 5, visitors to "Hopkins in Egypt Today" at http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html will find photos of Bryan and her students working on Johns Hopkins University's 11th annual excavation at the Mut Temple Precinct in Luxor, where they continue to explore the Egyptian New Kingdom (1567 to 1085 B.C.E.). Amy Cowles Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Thu, 5 Jan 2006 01:20:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/jan06/biloxi.html Several college students, including 15 undergraduates from Johns Hopkins University, will be spending part of their winter break this January in Biloxi, Miss., helping victims of Hurricane Katrina rebuild their homes. The team -- including students from from Loyola College in Maryland, and one from University of Delaware -- will depart Baltimore for Biloxi on Sunday, Jan. 8. Once in Mississippi, they will be hosted by the First Presbyterian Church of Biloxi, which has welcomed the local students to join its hurricane relief effort. Amy Cowles Lunday / E-mail: amylunday@jhu.edu (Amy Lunday) Tue, 3 Jan 2006 01:20:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/jan06/biloxi.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/dec05/giving.html Just who in the world is the most generous? Would it be Americans, who lead the world in cash donations to charities, measured as a percentage of gross domestic product? Or is it the good people of the Netherlands, who give more of their time and money combined and thus lead the world in overall philanthropic behavior? The latest report on both giving and the time value of philanthropic behavior as a percentage of GDP will spur such questions. The report is compiled by the Center for Civil Society Studies at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies. Mimi Bilzor / E-mail: mimi@jhu.edu (Mimi Bilzor) Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:10:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/dec05/giving.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/nov05/physics.html Five of the top eight physics and astrophysics articles most cited in 2004 were authored by researchers from The Johns Hopkins University's Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, according to the SPIRES database of Stanford University. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/nov05/physics.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/nov05/kbowen.html Kit H. Bowen, E. Emmet Reid Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University, has been named 2005 Maryland Chemist of the Year by the American Chemical Society's Maryland Section. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/nov05/kbowen.html