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.
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
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
Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineers and physicists have completed a study that suggests that mechanical forces exerted by cells that build scar tissue following a heart attack may later disrupt rhythms of beating heart cells and trigger deadly arrhythmias. Their findings, published in a recent issue of the journal Circulation, could result in a new target for heart disease therapies.
June 15, 2011 Tags: arrhythmias, Cardio Bioelectric Systems Laboratory, Circulation, Dan Reich, heart attack, Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Leslie Tung, Susan Thompson
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Physics and Astronomy, Public Health, Uncategorized
