News Releases from Johns Hopkins

May 8, 2008. Hérica Valladares, an assistant professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Classics at The Johns Hopkins University, is one of 30 emerging artists and scholars to win a Rome Prize in the American Academy of Rome's 112th annual competition.

May 7, 2008. Obesity may increase adults’ risk for having dementia, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

May 7, 2008. A complete list of Johns Hopkins University commencement speakers is available online.

May 7, 2008. A recent study by the U.S. Council on Competitiveness concluded that nurturing innovation has become a key strategy for national prosperity. To support that strategy and meet regional workforce needs, the Johns Hopkins Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals (EPP) will offer a new master's level concentration in Technical Innovation Management this fall.

May 6, 2008. Sonia Sarkar, a Johns Hopkins University junior from Austin, Texas, is one of 65 students from 55 U.S. colleges and universities to be named a 2008 Truman Scholar.

May 6, 2008. Kurt Herzer, a Johns Hopkins University junior from Melville, N.Y., is one of 65 students from 55 U.S. colleges and universities to be named a 2008 Truman Scholar.

May 5, 2008. 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.

May 1, 2008. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone — and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar wind that influences everything in our solar system.

May 1, 2008. Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi will receive the National Inventors Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, May 3, in Akron, Ohio.

April 30, 2008. Summary statement and key facts related to the 2000 Soil Study by the Kennedy Krieger Institute and The Johns Hopkins University.

April 30, 2008. 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.

April 29, 2008. Scientists at Johns Hopkins have outlined a new path for potential therapies to combat inflammation associated with sinusitis and asthma based on a new understanding of the body’s earliest immune response in the nose and sinus cavities.

April 29, 2008. Johns Hopkins University professor Adam Riess is among the 212 fellows elected to the 228th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

April 24, 2008. 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.

April 23, 2008. A Johns Hopkins University biologist, in research with implications for people suffering from seasonal affective disorder and insomnia, has determined that the eye uses light to reset the biological clock through a mechanism separate from the ability to see.

April 17, 2008. 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.

April 17, 2008. Now that green is not just a color but also an environmentally conscious way of living and doing business, there is a growing need for classes that incorporate "green" knowledge.

April 16, 2008. 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.

April 15, 2008. The 37th annual Johns Hopkins Spring Fair takes place April 25, 26, and 27.

April 8, 2008. Stefanie DeLuca, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at The Johns Hopkins University, was recently named a William T. Grant Scholar, a major fellowship given each year to four to six early-career scholars conducting high-quality research in the social and behavioral sciences.

April 8, 2008. Statement issued by Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health regarding POPLINE family-planning database.

April 8, 2008. 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.

April 8, 2008. Surgical teams at Johns Hopkins performed what is believed to be the first six-way donor kidney swap among 12 individuals Saturday, April 5. The 10-hour surgeries used six operation rooms and occupied nine surgical teams at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

April 7, 2008. 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.

April 4, 2008. Statement by Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, regarding POPLINE Database.

April 2, 2008. For men, having a parent with hypertension greatly increases the risk for developing high blood pressure throughout adulthood, according to the results of a long term prospective study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

April 2, 2008. Researchers at Johns Hopkins, as part of a large, multi-institutional study, have found one gene variant that is linked to an increased risk of lung cancer.

March 31, 2008. 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.

March 27, 2008. Long known for its role in preventing anemia in expectant mothers and spinal birth defects in newborns, the B vitamin folate, found in leafy green vegetables, beans and nuts has now been shown to blunt the damaging effects of heart attack when given in short-term, high doses to test animals.

March 26, 2008. 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.

March 26, 2008. What is believed to be the largest study of its kind for the genetic roots of inflammatory bowel diseases has suggested new links to Crohn’s Disease as well as further evidence that some people of Jewish descent are more likely to develop it.

March 20, 2008. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan.

March 19, 2008. One day last spring, fossil hunter and anatomy professor Kenneth Rose, Ph.D. was displaying the bones of a jackrabbit’s foot as part of a seminar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine when something about the shape of the bones looked oddly familiar.

March 10, 2008. 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.

March 7, 2008. 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.

March 5, 2008. The images in "Mapping the Cosmos: Images from the Hubble Space Telescope," an exhibit running through July 27 at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, are both art and science.

March 4, 2008. Patients cared for by hospitals with residents in training have a 17 percent less chance of dying after lung cancer surgery compared with patients undergoing surgery at non-teaching hospitals, according to results of a Johns Hopkins study.

March 4, 2008. The Johns Hopkins University's Evergreen Society, a 23-year-old continuing education program for older men and women, has received a $100,000 grant from the Osher Foundation that will be used to engage additional faculty, provide scholarships and enhance outreach to prospective students.

February 27, 2008. 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.

February 27, 2008. The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra's 16th Annual Free Concert for Children and Families, Fireworks & Swordplay, features thrilling music from Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet.

February 26, 2008. A pair of Johns Hopkins and government scientists have discovered that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self-expression flow.

February 25, 2008. Middle school students participating in a stock investing program that teaches them strategies for earning, saving and investing money outperformed other students in several key academic areas, according to researchers at the Center for the Social Organization of Schools at the Johns Hopkins University.

February 20, 2008. In the second part of a two-part interview, Johns Hopkins University President William R. Brody discusses what can be done to improve U.S. health care and what doctors — and patients &mdahs; can do to make it happen.

February 17, 2008. 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.

February 15, 2008. A new full-service patient care and clinical research center for people with a relatively rare and disabling brain disorder will be launched at Johns Hopkins with initial support from a $450,000 National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) grant funded by the Gordon and Marilyn Macklin Foundation.

February 12, 2008. 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.

February 12, 2008. 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.

February 12, 2008. 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.

February 11, 2008. 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.

February 8, 2008. Grants of $779,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow The Johns Hopkins University and the Bibliothèque 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.

February 7, 2008. Less sleep can increase a child’s risk of being overweight or obese, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

February 4, 2008. 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.

February 4, 2008. 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.

January 28, 2008. A modified version of a popular high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet can significantly cut the number of seizures in adults with epilepsy, a study led by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests.

January 24, 2008. Research by a group of scientists studying the effects of heavy marijuana use suggests that withdrawal from the use of marijuana is similar to what is experienced by people when they quit smoking cigarettes.

January 22, 2008. Researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified a common genetic alteration that appears to be associated with autism only when inherited by sons from their mother.

January 16, 2008. Maternal and child undernutrition are the cause of more than 35 percent of all child deaths and 11 percent of the global disease burden, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

January 15, 2008. Johns Hopkins University President William R. Brody, who is promoting a fuller and more meaningful discussion of health care reform issues, talks in this special edition of "Great Ideas" about what's missing from the debate in the 2008 presidential campaign.

January 11, 2008. 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."

January 10, 2008. For stories about the 2008 presidential campaign, consider the following sources from The Johns Hopkins University.

January 9, 2008. 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 a mysterious type of cosmic explosion farther back in time than ever before.

January 8, 2008. A Johns Hopkins communications expert argues in her new book, Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, that past women candidates for the White House have been obscured in the press.

January 3, 2008. Politicians may sling mud at one another, but wise workers will stay above the fray during the 2008 presidential election campaign by keeping heated political discussions out of the workplace, says P.M. Forni, director of the Civility Initiative at The Johns Hopkins University.

December 11, 2007. 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.

December 10, 2007. 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.

December 3, 2007. 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.

December 3, 2007. 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.