http://www.jhu.edu/news News stories and press releases from the Johns Hopkins University's main academic campus at Homewood in Baltimore. These stories include news from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering and all relevant centers, institutes and other affiliated organizations. en-us The Johns Hopkins University 2005-2006. Thu, 5 Jan 2006 01:20:00 EST dgips@jhu.edu (Debra Gips) dgips@jhu.edu (Debra Gips) http://www.jhu.edu/news/rss/images/homenews.gif http://www.jhu.edu/news News stories from the Johns Hopkins University's main academic campus at Homewood. 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/deanship.html A. James Clark, a leading commercial builder and university trustee emeritus, has committed $10 million to The Johns Hopkins University to endow the deanship of the university's Whiting School of Engineering in honor of his mentor and business colleague, Benjamin T. Rome. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Mon, 05 May 2008 09:25:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/may08/deanship.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/univ08/apr08/fritz_medal.html Kristina M. Johnson, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at The Johns Hopkins University, has been selected to receive the John Fritz Medal, widely considered the highest award in the engineering profession. The honor, established more than a century ago and given to such innovators as Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Westinghouse and Orville Wright, will be awarded to Johnson on May 5 by the American Association of Engineering Societies. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:20:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/apr08/fritz_medal.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/apr08/zring.html A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has solved important puzzles concerning how certain proteins guide the reproduction of bacteria, discoveries that could lead to a new type of antibiotics. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:10:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/apr08/zring.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/apr08/mosaic.html The Johns Hopkins University will provide at least $5 million over the next five years in matching funds for departments seeking to improve faculty diversity, including hiring and retaining outstanding women and underrepresented minority scholars. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:45:00 EDT http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/apr08/mosaic.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/mar08/strine.html Michael Strine, currently chief financial officer of New Castle County in Delaware, has been appointed executive director of financial planning and analysis at The Johns Hopkins University. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:45:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/mar08/strine.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/mar08/tuition.html Tuition for full-time undergraduates at The Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus will rise 5 percent this fall to $37,700, an $1,800 hike that is slightly smaller than this year's increase. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:15:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/mar08/tuition.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/mar08/brody.html William R. Brody, who has led The Johns Hopkins University to a deepened commitment to undergraduate education, diversity, the community, and research that advances human society, and who has directed a transformative renewal of its facilities, will retire as president on Dec. 31, he informed the board of trustees today. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/mar08/brody.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/gupta.html Yash Gupta, inaugural dean of the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, has been elected to the board of directors of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the global accrediting organization for business schools. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:20:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/gupta.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/brainlab.html Johns Hopkins researchers from the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine have devised a micro-scale tool -- a lab on a chip -- designed to mimic the chemical complexities of the brain. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:50:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/brainlab.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/chemistry.html Two Johns Hopkins chemists -- one bioinorganic and the other environmental -- have joined forces to create a new approach for studying pollutant reactions in the environment. By drawing on their different areas of expertise, researchers Justine P. Roth and Alan T. Stone hope to develop a better way to predict the behavior of previously unexplored pollutants, including some hazardous metals. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:05:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home08/feb08/chemistry.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/feb08/viceprovosts.html Three new vice provosts have been appointed at The Johns Hopkins University in a restructuring that Provost Kristina M. Johnson said would strengthen connections between her office and the university's faculty. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:25:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/feb08/viceprovosts.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/univ08/jan08/healthcare.html Retirement Living TV, The Johns Hopkins University and the National Coalition on Health Care announced today that they are producing a multi-part series, "Healthcare '08: Search for Solutions." The series begins airing on Monday, Jan. 14, at 2 p.m. EST on RLTV. AARP, Johns Hopkins, NCHC and RLTV will also make the series available on their Web sites. "Healthcare '08: Search for Solutions" will give presidential candidates and other public leaders an informal forum to discuss their views on the possible solutions to the healthcare crisis facing baby boomers and seniors in America. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:25:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ08/jan08/healthcare.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_info/news/home07/dec07/wind.html Using smoke, laser light, model airplane propellers and a campus wind tunnel, a team led by Johns Hopkins University researchers is trying to solve the airflow mysteries that surround wind turbines, an increasingly popular source of "green" energy. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:55:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/dec07/wind.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/univ07/dec07/r&d.html The Johns Hopkins University performed $1.49 billion in science, medical and engineering research in fiscal year 2006, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total R&D spending for the 28th year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking. Lisa De Nike / E-mail: Lde@jhu.edu (Lisa De Nike) Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:35:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ07/dec07/r&d.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/tactile.html A Johns Hopkins researcher has joined experts from four other institutions who plan to create a dynamic electronic surface to allow blind or visually impaired people to "feel" mathematical graphs, diagrams and other visuals now displayed on computer screens. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:50:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/nov07/tactile.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/home07/oct07/gupta.html Yash P. Gupta, an innovative educator who has led three prominent business schools, has been appointed the first dean of The Johns Hopkins University's new Carey Business School, launched this year to re-invent business education by arming students with both business skills and critical knowledge from other disciplines. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/oct07/gupta.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/fishkill.html By applying state-of-the-art holographic microscopy to a major marine biology challenge, researchers from two Baltimore institutions have identified the swimming and attack patterns of two tiny but deadly microbes linked to fish kills in the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:15:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/fishkill.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/celldivision.html In process that is shrouded in mystery, rod-shaped bacteria reproduce by splitting themselves in two. By applying advanced mathematics to laboratory data, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has solved a small but important part of this reproductive puzzle. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:25:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/celldivision.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/oct07/incubator.html Integrating silicon microchip technology with a network of tiny fluid channels, some thinner than a human hair, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have developed a thumb-size micro-incubator to culture living cells for lab tests. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/oct07/incubator.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/sep07/ragweed.html To a person with a pollen allergy, an 18-acre ragweed field sounds like a sneezy, red-eyed zone of misery. But to two environmental engineering researchers at Johns Hopkins, the parcel presented a rare and valuable opportunity to learn how the troublesome weeds grow, reproduce and scatter their pollen under varying weather conditions. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:05:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/sep07/ragweed.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/univ07/sep07/textmessage.html The Johns Hopkins University on Thursday, Sept. 6, will activate a system to alert students, faculty and staff by text message in the event of a major emergency that threatens the lives or safety of members of the campus community. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/univ07/sep07/textmessage.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/aug07/risk.html A new book, co-written by a Johns Hopkins University professor and an outside colleague, seeks to examine health questions in a new light. Authors Erik Rifkin and Edward Bouwer are not physicians; both are environmental scientists with decades of experience in analyzing health risks connected with air, water and soil pollution. By directing this expertise at data from mainstream medical studies, the researchers believe they have found a fresh way to help the average reader assess common health risks. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:45:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/aug07/risk.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/univ07/jul07/provost.html Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has been appointed provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at The Johns Hopkins University. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:10:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/univ07/jul07/provost.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jul07/west.html James E. West, a Johns Hopkins engineering faculty member who co-invented the microphone used in most telephones and many other electronic devices worldwide, has been named a recipient of the nation's highest honor for technological innovation. In a statement released Monday, President George W. Bush announced that West is one of five people who will receive the 2006 National Medal of Technology. Bush will present the medals during a White House awards ceremony on July 27. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:55:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jul07/west.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/language.html The Johns Hopkins University has been awarded a long-term, multimillion dollar contract to establish and operate a Human Language Technology Center of Excellence near Johns Hopkins' Homewood campus in Baltimore. The center's research will focus on advanced technology for automatically analyzing a wide range of speech, text and document image data in multiple languages. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:20:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jun07/language.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jun07/histhous.html The Johns Hopkins University announces a new naming structure to improve awareness of its museums. The umbrella title, Historic Houses of Johns Hopkins, becomes the Johns Hopkins University Museums; Homewood House Museum becomes Homewood Museum and Evergreen House becomes Evergreen Museum and Library. Heather Egan Stalfort / E-mail: hestalfort@jhu.edu (Heather Egan Stalfort) Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:15:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jun07/histhous.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/jun07/ortho.html Inspired by the device used to find lost coins in the sand, Johns Hopkins undergraduates have invented a small handheld metal detector to help doctors locate hidden orthopedic screws that need to be removed from patients' bodies. The device emits a tone that rises in pitch as the surgeon moves closer to the metal screw. It also serves as a surgical tool to guide the removal of the hardware. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:10:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/jun07/ortho.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/finaid.html Ellen Frishberg, director of student financial services at the Homewood campus of The Johns Hopkins University since 1989, has submitted her resignation, the university said today. Frishberg resigned Friday, effective immediately. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Mon, 21 May 2007 16:15:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/may07/finaid.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/home07/may07/rotaviru.html A thin strip that dissolves in the mouth like a popular breath-freshener could someday provide life-saving rotavirus vaccine to infants in impoverished areas. The innovative drug-delivery system was developed by Johns Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering students. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Mon, 14 May 2007 10:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/may07/rotaviru.html http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/may07/micro1.html Johns Hopkins undergraduates have invented a device to improve cell therapy for diabetes patients by anchoring transplanted insulin-producing cells inside a major blood vessel. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Mon, 07 May 2007 10:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/may07/micro1.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/loancode.html The Johns Hopkins University announced today that it is adopting the code of conduct proposed by the New York attorney general to govern the relationship between universities and student loan companies. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home07/apr07/loancode.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/mar07/cardio.html With $8.5 million in federal support, leading researchers at three universities, including Johns Hopkins, are creating an ambitious digital network that will allow cardiovascular researchers worldwide to easily exchange data and expertise on heart-related illnesses. The project, called the Cardiovascular Research Grid, is expected to be a boon to the large community of heart researchers who will use these digital tools to find new ways to prevent, detect and treat life-threatening cardiac ailments. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:40:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/mar07/cardio.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/feb07/chip.html Using a biochemical version of a computer chip, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has solved a long-standing mystery related to the mating habits of yeast cells. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/feb07/chip.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/feb07/karchin.html Certain cancer risks can be passed down through families, the result of tiny changes in a family's genetic code. But not all genetic changes are deadly. To help medical counselors and physicians identify the mutations that pose the greatest health risks, researchers at four institutions, including Johns Hopkins, have developed and validated a new computer tool. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/feb07/karchin.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/hanes.html The layers of mucus that protect sensitive tissue throughout the body have an undesirable side effect: they can also keep helpful medications away. To overcome this hurdle, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a way to coat nanoparticles with a chemical that helps them slip through this sticky barrier. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jan07/hanes.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/home07/jan07/hybrid.html By joining a sugar to a short-chain fatty acid compound, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a two-pronged molecular weapon that kills cancer cells in lab tests. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home07/jan07/hybrid.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/dec06/taylor.html Drawing on advances in robotics and computer technology, Johns Hopkins University researchers are designing new high-tech medical tools to equip the operating room of the future. These systems and instruments could someday help doctors treat patients more safely and effectively and allow them to perform surgical tasks that are nearly impossible today. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/dec06/taylor.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/dec06/hager.html Borrowing ideas from speech recognition research, Johns Hopkins computer scientists are building mathematical models to represent the safest and most effective ways to perform surgery, including tasks such as suturing, dissecting and joining tissue. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:20:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/dec06/hager.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ06/dec06/schools.html Johns Hopkins University trustees, in response to a $50 million gift for business education, voted Monday to establish both an innovative new business school to produce leaders with broad, interdisciplinary preparation and an education school dedicated to the most pressing needs of the nation's public schools. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ06/dec06/schools.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/nov06/robots.html By substituting mechanical instruments for human fingers, robotic tools give surgeons a new way to perform medical procedures with great precision in small spaces. But as the surgeon directs these tools from a computer console, an important component is lost: the sense of touch. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/nov06/robots.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/smarttag.html Johns Hopkins researchers will take part in a new multi-institution project to improve the security of "smart tags," the wireless devices that allow drivers to zip through automatic tollbooths and let workers enter a secured area with the flash of a card. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/sep06/smarttag.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_info/news/home06/sep06/nanobio.html Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a way to use a brief burst of electricity to release biomolecules and nanoparticles from a tiny gold launch pad. The technique could someday be used to dispense small amounts of medicine on command from a chip implanted in the body. The method also may be useful in chemical reactions that require the controlled release of extremely small quantities of a material. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/sep0 6/nanobio.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/aug06/britni.html While still a senior in high school, a Baltimore teenager toiled 10 hours a week in a Johns Hopkins University engineering lab, helping to develop a new drug delivery system that could someday reduce tuberculosis deaths in impoverished nations. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/aug06/britni.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/braille.html To help provide a low-cost communication tool for blind people, undergraduates at The Johns Hopkins University have invented a lightweight, portable Braille writing device that requires no electronic components. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jul06/braille.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/home06/mar06/vortice.html For decades, scientists who study hurricanes, whirlpools and other large fluid vortices have puzzled over precisely how these vast swirling masses of gas or liquid sustain themselves. How do they acquire the energy to keep moving? The most common theory sounded like it was lifted from Wall Street: The large vortices collect power as smaller vortices merge and combine their assets, in the same way that small companies join forces to create a mega-corporation. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news/home06/mar06/vortice.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/feb06/alarm.html Drawing on lab experiments and computer studies, Johns Hopkins researchers have learned how a common protein delivers its warning message to cells when an infectious agent invades the body. The findings are important because this biological intruder alarm causes the body's immune system to leap into action to fight the infection. Learning more about how this process works, the researchers said, could lead to better treatments for diseases that occur when the immune system overreacts or pays too little attention to the infection alarm. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/feb06/alarm.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/feb06/natengin.html Two Johns Hopkins faculty members -- one with expertise in coastal engineering and the other in speech recognition technology -- have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering. Robert A. Dalrymple and Frederick Jelinek from the university's Whiting School of Engineering were among 76 new members and nine foreign associates named to the academy, according to a Feb. 10 announcement from the organization. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/feb06/natengin.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/glass.html Using state-of-the-art lab techniques and powerful computer simulations, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered how atoms pack themselves in unusual materials known as metallic glasses. Their findings should help scientists better understand the atomic scale structure of this material, which is used to make sports equipment, cell phone cases, armor-piercing projectiles and other products. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:30:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jan06/glass.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/mideast.html U.S. policy in the Middle East is driven by baseless fears that an "oil weapon" can cut off our fuel supply, a Johns Hopkins researcher has concluded. In a peer-reviewed journal article, Roger J. Stern argues that the decades-old belief that petroleum-rich Persian Gulf nations must be appeased to keep oil flowing is imaginary, and the threat of deployment of an "oil weapon" is toothless. His review of economic and historical data also shows that untapped oil supplies are abundant, not scarce. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:20:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jan06/mideast.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/univ05/dec05/tuition.html Tuition for undergraduate students at The Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus will rise next year to $33,900, a 7.2 percent increase that will enable the university to cover new operating costs without cutbacks in critical programs for students.The increase of $2,280 from this year's $31,620 tuition was approved by the board of trustees at its December meeting. The boost is $800 larger than the increase of $1,480, or 4.9 percent, that went into effect this fall for undergraduates in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and then Whiting School of Engineering. Dennis O'Shea / E-mail: dro@jhu.edu (Dennis O'Shea) Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/univ05/dec05/tuition.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/dec05/cubes.html Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a self- assembling cube-shaped perforated container, no larger than a dust speck, that could serve as a delivery system for medications and cell therapy. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/dec05/cubes.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/dec05/dnanano.html Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a new method of finding specific sequences of DNA by making them light up beneath a microscope. The researchers, who say the technique will have important uses in medical research, demonstrated its potential in their lab by detecting a sample of DNA containing a mutation linked to ovarian cancer. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/dec05/dnanano.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/nov05/nano.html A $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, announced today, will help create a new graduate training program in Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University. The NBMed program will provide interdisciplinary training in nanotechnology and biology to a new generation of graduate students from three schools within Johns Hopkins. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/nov05/nano.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 http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/nov05/noise.html Hospital noise levels have grown steadily in the past five decades, disturbing patients and staff and raising the risk of medical errors, according to Johns Hopkins University accoustical engineers. Phil Sneiderman / E-mail: prs@jhu.edu (Phil Sneiderman) Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/nov05/noise.html http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/audio-video/culturefest.html Johns Hopkins undergraduate students have been planning, organizing and staging a weeklong CultureFest for nearly 20 years. It's a celebration of cultural diversity on the Homewood campus, featuring dancing, singing, ethnic meals and other fun events. Join the fun by watching this short video. Glenn Small / E-mail: glenn@jhu.edu (Glenn Small) Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:00:00 EST http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/audio-video/culturefest.html