Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
Johns Hopkins University environmental engineer Edward J. Bouwer is available to speak to reporters wondering what could happen to the gasoline and oil on board the Costa Concordia if fuel starts to leak from the wrecked cruise ship.
January 25, 2012 Tags: Costa Concordia, Edward Bouwer, fuel leak, Geography and Environmental Engineering, oil spill
| Category: Engineering, Environment
Christian Davies-Venn, an instructor in the Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals program, has been elected vice president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. His term as AAEE vice president began on Jan.1. He is slated to serve as the academy’s president-elect in 2013 and as its president in 2014.
January 25, 2012 Tags: Engineering for Professionals, Engineering for Professionals graduate program, environmental engineering, environmental research
| Category: Engineering, Environment, Technology
At the “Touch and the Enjoyment of Sculpture: Exploring the Appeal of Renaissance Statuettes” exhibition — an exhibition at the Walters Art Museum through April 15 – visitors are invited to disregard the usual rule against touching. In fact, handling the objects d’arts – which include replicas of famous 16th century statuettes that are part of the Walters’ collection – is one of the reasons behind the exhibition, explains neuroscientist Steven Hsiao of the Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute, which is partnering with the Walters on this show – the fourth in a series of projects between the museum and Johns Hopkins.
January 23, 2012 Tags: baroque art, Joaneath Spicer, Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute, neuroscience, Renaissance statuettes, Steven Hsiao, The Johns Hopkins University, The Walters Art Museum, touch, Zanvyl Krieger Mind Brian Institue
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Psychology
Fifteen high school and middle school students from the Baltimore area will participate in a Computational Linguistics Workshop hosted by the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins.
January 20, 2012 Tags: Center for Educational Outreach, computational linguistics, Johns Hopkins
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, Technology
The Federal Reserve Board has appointed Johns Hopkins University Professor Jon Faust as special adviser in the Office of Board Members, effective Tuesday, Jan. 17.
January 19, 2012 Tags: Ben S. Bernanke, Center for Financial Economics at Johns Hopkins University, Federal Reserve System, Jon Faust, Jonathan Wright, Katherine Newman, Robert Barbera
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News
Maryland families and educators seeking early intervention services and special education information now have a user-friendly resource at their fingertips through a new website called Maryland Learning Links.
January 17, 2012 Tags: Bernard Sadusky, Center for Technology Education, Jackie Nunn, Johns Hopkins University School of Education, Maryland State Department of Education, MarylandLearningLinks.org
| Category: Education/K-12
On Friday, Jan. 20, The Johns Hopkins University will hold a daylong meeting of nearly 300 faculty members, academic leaders, staff members and outside experts to consider innovative, more effective alternatives to traditional large lecture/lab introductory science classes for undergraduates, graduate students and professional students.
January 13, 2012 Tags: Gateway Sciences Initiative, Lloyd Minor, science education, STEM
| Category: Engineering, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, University-Related
A team of Johns Hopkins astrophysicists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant Type Ia supernova, the farthest stellar explosion that can be used to measure the expansion rate of the universe. The supernova is the remnant of a star that exploded 9 billion years ago.
January 11, 2012 Tags: Adam Riess, astronomy, astrophysics, Hubble Space Telescope, Space Telescope Science Institute, supernovae
| Category: Physics and Astronomy, Technology
For stories about the 2012 presidential election and the issues discussed along the campaign trail, consider the following sources from The Johns Hopkins University.
January 11, 2012 Tags: 2012 presidential campaign
| Category: Government and Politics
Politicians may sling mud at one another, but wise workers will stay above the fray during the 2012 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.
January 10, 2012 Tags: 2012 presidential campaign, civility, P. M. Forni
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Government and Politics, Social Sciences
The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering has received a Coulter Foundation Translational Partnership Award that will result in $5 million in funding over the next five years to speed the movement of new medical devices out of the university’s labs and into hospitals and doctor’s offices.
January 10, 2012 Tags: bioengineering, biomedical devices, biomedical engineering, medical technology
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Technology
President Ronald J. Daniels issued a statement on the news of the death on Jan. 2 of William P. Carey, trustee emeritus of the university and donor of the gift that launched the university’s Carey Business School.
January 3, 2012 Tags: Ronald J. Daniels, William P. Carey
| Category: Business and Economics, Institutional News, University-Related
Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have discovered a way to make time stand still — at least when it comes to the yearly calendar. Using computer programs and mathematical formulas, Richard Conn Henry, an astrophysicist in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Steve H. Hanke, an applied economist in the Whiting School of Engineering, have created a new calendar in which each new 12-month period is identical to the one which came before, and remains that way from one year to the next in perpetuity.
December 27, 2011 Tags: calendar reform, day count, Gregorian calendar, Hanke-Henry Permanent Calender, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Richard Conn Henry, Steve H. Hanke, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Business and Economics, Engineering, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Physics and Astronomy
The man who left his fortune and his name to launch The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital will be honored at his grave on Saturday, Dec. 24, the 138th anniversary of his death. All are welcome.
December 20, 2011 Tags: Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, Green Mount Cemetery, Mr. Johns Hopkins
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Economic incentives can significantly increase blood donations from the public, according to a new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins business professor.
The findings also suggest that similar methods could be used to build up life-saving supplies of human bone marrow, organs, and body parts for transplantation.
December 20, 2011 Tags: American Red Cross, blood, body parts, bone marrow, donors, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Mario Macis, Nicola Lacetera, organ, Robert Slonim
| Category: Business and Economics, Medicine and Nursing, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Uncategorized
Six Johns Hopkins researchers have been elected by their peers as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Barry Zirkin of the Bloomberg School of Public Health; Kit Hansell Bowen and Sarah Woodson of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; Andrew Feinberg and Min Li of the School of Medicine; and Paula Pitha-Rowe of the Kimmel Cancer Center are among 539 new fellows from around the world. Election as an AAAS fellow honors scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
December 20, 2011 Tags: AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Andrew Feinberg, Barry Zirkin, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Kimmel Cancer Center, Kit Hansell Bowen, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Min Li, Paula Pitha-Rowe, Sarah Woodson
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Public Health
A new study led by Melissa Kibbe, a Krieger School psychologist and child development expert reveals that even though very young babies can’t remember the details of an object that they were shown and which then was hidden, the infants’ brains have a set of built in “pointers” that help them retain a notion that something they saw remains in existence even when they can’t see it anymore. The study results were published in a recent issue of the journal, Psychological Science.
December 19, 2011 Tags: Alan Leslie, infant development, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Melissa Kibbe, object permanence, Rutgers University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Psychology
Paul B. Rothman, a distinguished physician, scientist, educator and academic health care leader, was appointed Dec. 19 as the next dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine,
December 19, 2011 Tags: Carol Greider, Frances Jane Meyer, Francis Burch, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Lloyd B. Minor, Mike Weisfeldt, Paul Rothman, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, University Administration, University-Related
A brief summary of the career of Paul B. Rothman, appointed to serve as the dean of the School of Medicine and chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine beginning July 1.
December 19, 2011 Tags: Frances Jane Meyer, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Paul Rothman
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, University Administration, University-Related
The American social hierarchy places people of mixed-race ancestry below whites but above blacks, while additional social stratifications along color lines are simultaneously taking place within the nation’s multiracial groups, according to a Johns Hopkins University sociologist’s study of U.S. Census data. Pamela R. Bennett, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins, studied the residential location of people who identified themselves with more than one racial group when filling out their 2000 and 2010 census forms.
December 14, 2011 Tags: multiracial groups, Pamela R. Bennett, segreation, social position, U.S. Census
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University has established a new named professorship in civil engineering supported by an endowment set up by Michael G. Callas, a leading Maryland structural engineer who died in 2004. The university recently conducted a ceremony to recognize the gift and to designate Somnath Ghosh as the inaugural Michael G. Callas Professor of Civil Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering.
December 13, 2011 Tags: civil engineering, computational mechanics, Michael G. Callas, named professorship, Somnath Ghosh
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a jelly-like material and wound treatment method that, in early experiments on skin damaged by severe burns, appeared to regenerate healthy, scar-free tissue. In the Dec. 12-16 Early Online Edition of Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, the researchers reported their promising results from mouse tissue tests. The new treatment has not yet been tested on human patients. But the researchers say the procedure, which promotes the formation of new blood vessels and skin, including hair follicles, could lead to greatly improved healing for injured soldiers, home fire victims and other people with third-degree burns.
December 13, 2011 Tags: biomolecular materials, biotechnology, burn treatment, chemical engineering, nanobiotechnology
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
Reporters working on stories regarding tomorrow morning’s announcement out of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland about progress in the search for the elusive Higgs boson should consider speaking with Johns Hopkins experimental physicist Andrei Gritsan, a member of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment) group, one of the two competing teams of scientists working at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
December 12, 2011 Tags: Andrei Gritsan, CERN, European Center for Nuclear Research, God particle, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Higgs boson, Higgs field, Johns Hopkins University, Large Hadron Collider, sub-atomic particle
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy
Adam Riess, a professor in physics and astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University and a research scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, today accepted the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences during a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
December 10, 2011 Tags: accelerating universe, Adam G. Riess, Adam Riess, dark energy, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, Space Telescope Science Institute, supernovae, The Johns Hopkins University, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
A significant number of American teenagers graduate from high school unprepared to take their next big steps toward adulthood, according to a study by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona’s Center for the Study of Higher Education.
December 8, 2011 Tags: college preparatory, community college, for-profit colleges, high school curriculum, high school graduates, Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, Stefanie DeLuca, vocational education
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12, Social Sciences
