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.
A Johns Hopkins biologist has been selected by the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences (PULSE) as one its new Vision and Change Leadership Fellows, a group charged with spending a year identifying and recommending ways to improve undergraduate life sciences education. Joel Schildbach, a biology professor and director of undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, is one of 40 faculty members selected from 250 applicants from 24 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands by PULSE, a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health.
September 19, 2012 Tags: Department of Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Joel Schildbach, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences, PULSE, science education, The Johns Hopkins University, undergraduate science education
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, University-Related
The old adage “Looks can be deceiving” certainly rings true when it comes to people. But it is also accurate when describing special, light-sensing cells in the eye, according to a Johns Hopkins University biologist. In a study recently published in Nature, a team led by Samer Hattar of the Department of Biology at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Tudor Badea at the National Eye Institute found that these cells, which were thought to be identical and responsible for both setting the body’s circadian rhythm and the pupil’s reaction to light and darkness, are actually two different cells, each responsible for one of those tasks.
July 25, 2011 Tags: circadian rhythms, Department of Biology, intrinsically photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, piRGCs, pupillary light reflex, Samer Hattar, Shih-Kuo (Alen) Chen, The Johns Hopkins University, Tudor Badea, visual functions
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences
Before the program ended on September 30, Johns Hopkins received $260 million in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation research grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the federal stimulus act or ARRA.
December 6, 2010 Tags: ALS, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, APL, Applied Physics Lab, ARRA, cocktail party effect, federal stimulus act, global climate change, Jeffrey Rothstein, Lloyd Minor, Mounya Elhilali, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, ocean circulation, ocean currents, Robert Moffitt, Ronald Daniels, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Thomas Haine, Whiting School of Engineering
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The Johns Hopkins University has to date been awarded more than $200 million in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation research grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the federal stimulus package. The 424 grants are financing investigations ranging from how the universe began to how men and women differ in their responses to the influenza virus to new strategies to prevent muscle loss caused by diseases such as muscular dystrophy. The grants also have underwritten the creation of 164 staff jobs, 32 of which are still open.
July 13, 2010 Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, ARRA, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Charles L. Bennett, Cynda H. Rushton, federal stimulus act, Jeffrey Rothstein, Jin U. Kang, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Scott Zeger, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Environment, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Technology, University Administration, University-Related
Why some people can enjoy a glass of wine with dinner or a few beers at a ballgame with no ill effects and others escalate their drinking and become dependent remains one of medicine’s baffling mysteries and a major public health concern. Using a $1 million stimulus-funded grant from the National Institutes of Health, a team headed by Elise Weerts, associate professor of behavioral biology in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is using brain imaging techniques to explore whether individual differences in the brain’s opiate receptor system could contribute to a person’s future risk of developing problems with alcohol.
April 19, 2010 Tags: addiction, alcoholism, brain, drug dependency, Elise Weerts, Integrated Program of Substance Abuse Research, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, opioid receptors, PET scans, social drinkers
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Psychology, Public Health
