A Johns Hopkins University geologist is available to offer perspective on the powerful earthquake that struck Sunday night in Iran, killing more than 400 people and injuring more than 6,000.
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.
JHU Scientist Crowdsources Rocks Harboring Earthly “Extraterrestrials”
Crowdsourcing has been used to create an online photography archive, finance a British rock band’s tour and search for intelligent life on other planets. Now, Johns Hopkins University biologist Jocelyne DiRuggiero is hoping the approach can help her find rocks.
Climate Change Likely to be More Deadly in Poor African Settlements
Conditions in crowded, urban settlements in Africa make worse the effects of climate change, pushing temperatures to dangerous heights for children and the elderly in those areas, according to a new study led by a Johns Hopkins University scientist.
Scientists Use Satellites, Population Data to Build Malaria Early Warning System
A Johns Hopkins University scientist is part of a team working on a method to predict malaria outbreaks months in advance, potentially giving public health officials a chance to protect people from a disease that poses a risk to nearly half the world’s population and kills hundreds of thousands a year.
Johns Hopkins Scientists Help Show Links Between Genes, Body Tissues
Johns Hopkins University scientists are part of a research team assessing how a person’s genetic profile affects his body. The results could help show how individual genetic differences contribute to disease and guide treatments for heritable disorders such as Alzheimer’s, high cholesterol or Type I diabetes.
Johns Hopkins Scientists Win Grant for Machine Language Translation
A team of computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University has won a $10.7 million grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to create an information retrieval and translation system for languages that are not widely used around the world.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Catalonia Experts Available
The Catalonia region of Spain is considering becoming independent – a move that could happen as soon as Monday. Johns Hopkins University has experts available for perspective
Media Advisory: Cassini Saturn Mission Team Member at Johns Hopkins Available to Talk About What Scientists Have Discovered and the Work Ahead
Professor Darrell Strobel, an astrophysicist with the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, has been part of the Cassini-Huygens mission from the early planning stages and is available to speak with reporters.
Media Advisory: Cyber Security Conference at Johns Hopkins University Features Experts from Academia, Industry, Retired General’s Keynote on Threats
The 4th Annual Cyber Security Conference for Executives, co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins University and Compass Cyber Security, presents a forum for experts from academia, private business, and government to share their knowledge and experience.
Media Advisory: Hundreds of College Students to Gather at Johns Hopkins for Weekend of HopHacks
More than 300 graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University for the latest HopHacks, a marathon session challenging students to realize their best software and hardware ideas and compete for cash and other sponsored prizes.
Mapping the Brain, Neuron by Neuron
Johns Hopkins University experts are part of an international team of scientists that has taken another step toward mapping how brains work.
Method Determines Cell Age More Accurately, Could Help Elderly Patients
Led by scientists at Johns Hopkins University, a team of researchers is reporting progress in developing a method to accurately determine the functional age of cells, a step that could eventually help clinicians evaluate and recommend ways to delay some health effects of aging and potentially improve other treatments, including skin graft matching and predicting prospects for wound healing.
Johns Hopkins Scientists Develop Super-strong Metal for Next Tech Frontier
The technological future of everything from cars and jet engines to oil rigs, along with the gadgets, appliances and public utilities comprising the Internet of Things will depend on microscopic sensors.
Trouble is these sensors are mostly made of the material silicon, which has its limits. Johns Hopkins University materials scientist and mechanical engineer Kevin J. Hemker has led a team that is now reporting success in developing a new material that promises to help ensure that these sensors, also known as microelectromechanical systems [MEMS], can continue to meet the demands of the next technological frontier.
Media Advisory: Johns Hopkins Researchers to Present Their Work on Capitol Hill
Early career scientists, physicians, engineers and specialists in public health, nursing, music and marketing from Johns Hopkins University will gather on Capitol Hill in Washington to present their federally-funded research, emphasizing the importance of continuing federal support in the pursuit of new knowledge and innovation.
Media Advisory: Robots Play Soccer, Catch and Chess at Johns Hopkins
The Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering is staging a demonstration by students who have programmed robots and drones to perform an array of tasks, including playing chess with a real chess board and passing around a soccer ball.
Media Advisory: Astronaut Kate Rubins to Speak at Johns Hopkins University
Kate Rubins, the first person to sequence DNA in space aboard the International Space Station last year, will talk about her work as a scientist and astronaut.
Scientists Make the Case to Restore Pluto’s Planet Status
Johns Hopkins University scientist Kirby Runyon wants to make one thing clear: Regardless of what one prestigious scientific organization says to the contrary, Pluto is a planet. So is Europa, commonly known as a moon of Jupiter, and the Earth’s Moon, and more than 100 other celestial bodies in our solar system that are denied this status under a prevailing definition of “planet.”
Johns Hopkins Graduate Programs Rank Among U.S. News Best
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in nursing, education, medicine, and biomedical engineering are considered among the best in the country, according to the newest U.S. News & World Report rankings of “Best Graduate Schools.”
Media Advisory: Hundreds of College Students to Convene at JHU for Weekend of HopHacks
Graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University for the latest HopHacks, a marathon session challenging students to realize their best software and hardware ideas and compete for cash and other sponsored prizes.
Study Identifies Molecular Signal for Maintaining Adult Neuron
Research led by a Johns Hopkins University biologist sheds light on the subject, potentially pointing the way to a better understanding of how the structure of nerve cells in the adult hippocampus may deteriorate, which can lead to Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders.
Johns Hopkins Joins Alliance to Expand College Access For 50,000 Talented Lower-income Students
The Johns Hopkins University is joining 29 other colleges and universities to expand by at least 50,000 the number of talented low- and moderate-income students at the U.S. undergraduate institutions with the highest graduation rates.
Is Your Favorite Ballplayer Hitting When It Matters, or Just Padding His Stats?
In time for Major League Baseball’s Winter Meetings this week, a team of computer scientists from Johns Hopkins University is adding to the ocean of baseball statistics with what appears to be the first analysis of hitters’ performance when their team is either just about guaranteed to win, or hopelessly behind. In a 54-page unpublished paper consisting mostly of statistics, the three authors call this the “Meaningless Game Situation.”