Program will send Morgan State University students to labs all over the world April 29, 2014 Johns Hopkins MEDIA CONTACT: Jill Rosen Office: 443-997-9906 Cell: 443-547-8805 jrosen@jhu.edu Morgan State MEDIA CONTACT: Jarrett Carter Office: 443-885-3022 Cell: 410-807-6474 jarrett.carter@morgan.edu WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, May 2. WHERE: The Center for the Built Environment and […]
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.
Media Advisory: Johns Hopkins, Morgan State Forge Major Engineering Partnership
April 29, 2014 Tags: Extreme Science Internship, Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, Ronald J. Daniels, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration
Media Advisory: Johns Hopkins experts available to discuss Supreme Court action on Fisher v. University of Texas
Supreme Court Fisher Decision: Lester K. Spence, an expert in racial politics and American political thought, and Joel Grossman, an expert in constitutional law, can discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Fisher v. University of Texas case.
June 24, 2013 Tags: Joel Grossman, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Lester K. Spence, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Government and Politics, Uncategorized
New Campus Accelerator Aims to Turn High-Tech Ideas into Businesses
The Johns Hopkins University is set to unveil FastForward, a groundbreaking business accelerator that promises to spark cutting-edge technology companies and then keep them in the city to bolster the local economy. The university’s Whiting School of Engineering launched FastForward to help turn the best ideas born on campus into moneymaking ventures. The university’s first accelerator is located in the historic Stieff Silver building on the north side of Baltimore near the Homewood campus.
June 24, 2013 Tags: computer science, FastForward, Nicholas P. Jones, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Business and Economics, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Technology
Media Advisory: Johns Hopkins FastForward Accelerator Grand Opening Set
The Johns Hopkins University is set to unveil FastForward, a groundbreaking business accelerator that promises to spark cutting-edge technology companies and then keep them in the city to bolster the local economy. The university’s Whiting School of Engineering launched FastForward to help turn the best ideas born on campus into moneymaking ventures. Four fledgling companies have already moved into the building.
June 20, 2013 Tags: FastForward, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News
Exposure to Light at Night May Cause Depression, Learning Issues, JHU Biologist Says
For most of history, humans rose with the sun and slept when it set. Enter Thomas Edison, and with a flick of a switch, night became day, enabling us to work, play and post cat and kid photos on Facebook into the wee hours. However, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins biologist Samer Hattar, this typical 21st- century scenario comes at a serious cost: When people routinely burn the midnight oil, they risk suffering depression and learning issues, and not only because of lack of sleep. The culprit could also be exposure to bright light at night from lamps, computers and even iPads.
November 14, 2012 Tags: Advance Online Publication, AOP, cortisol, depression, exposure to light at night, ipRGCs, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, limbic system, Nature, Prozac, Samer Hattar, Seasonal Affective Disorder, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Psychology, Public Health, University-Related
JHU Physicist Inaugural Winner of 2012 Prize of the Asian Union of Magnetics Societies
Chia-Ling Chien, the Jacob L. Hain Professor of Physics and the Director of the Material Research Science and Engineering Center at The Johns Hopkins University, is a winner of the first-ever Asian Union of Magnetic Societies Award, recognizing his “seminal contribution to magnetic materials, nanostructures, magnetoelectronic phenomena and devices.”
October 31, 2012 Tags: AAAS, American Physical Society, Asian Union of Magnetic Societies, Carnegie-Mellon University, Chia-Ling Chien, China, Daniel Reich, Fudan University, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, IEEE, Lanzhou University, magnetic materials, magnetoelectric phenomena, Material Research Science and Engineering Center, Nanjing University, nanostructures, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
Royal Society Research Professor to Give Annual Benton Lecture at Johns Hopkins
October 17, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa De Nike (443)-287-9960 (office) (443) 845-3148 (cell) Lde@jhu.edu Andrew Watson, a Royal Society research professor who studies the carbon cycle and its connection climate change, will give the George S. Benton Endowed Lecture in Meteorology and Fluid Dynamics at The Johns Hopkins University at 4 p.m. […]
October 17, 2012 Tags: Andrew Watson, carbon cycle, climate change, George S. Benton Endowed Lecture in Meteorology and Fluid Dynamics, global resources, Homewood campus, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, The Johns Hopkins University, United Kingdom
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Chemist Wins Packard Fellowship
Johns Hopkins University chemist Tyrel McQueen has been awarded a 2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering. The fellowship is one of 16 awarded each year nationwide, and bestows unrestricted funds of $875,000 (over a five-year period) to unusually creative young faculty members in science and engineering.
October 15, 2012 Tags: chemistry, David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, Gerald Meyer, Katherine Newman, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Tyrel McQueen
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Receives $7.4 Million Grant to Boost STEM Education in Baltimore City
Supported by a five-year $7.4 million National Science Foundation grant, experts at The Johns Hopkins University are partnering with teachers and administrators in Baltimore City Public Schools on a program to enhance teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering and math in city elementary schools by making STEM a community affair. The program, called STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools – SABES for short — not only will benefit more than 1,600 students in grades three through five in nine city elementary schools, but could also become a national model for science, technology, engineering and math education.
September 25, 2012 Tags: Baltimore City Public School System, City Schools, Engineering, Greater Homewood, Highlandtown/Greektown, Johns Hopkins-Baltimore City Public Schools partnership, Katya Denisova, Lower Park Heights, Maryland Science Center, mathematics, Michael Falk, National Aquarium in Baltimore, National Science Foundation, Ronald J. Daniels, SABES, Science, STEM education, Technology, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Education/K-12, Engineering, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Social Sciences, Technology, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Biologist Joel Schildbach Selected as PULSE Leadership Fellow
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
Johns Hopkins’ Bennett and WMAP Team Awarded the 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize
The Gruber Foundation announced today that the 2012 Cosmology Prize will be awarded to Johns Hopkins University professor Charles L. Bennett and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission science team that he led. Bennett and the WMAP team are being recognized by the foundation for their transformative study of an ancient light dating back to the infant universe. So precise and accurate are the WMAP results that they form the foundation of the Standard Cosmological Model.
June 20, 2012 Tags: 2012 Cosmology Prize, Adam Riess, Big Bang, Charles L. Bennett, Chuck Bennett, Draper Prize, Gruber Foundation, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, origins of the universe, the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, WMAP
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
Media Advisory: Observe the Transit of Venus at Johns Hopkins University Astrophysics Event
The Maryland Space Grant Observatory and Johns Hopkins University are inviting star gazers of every experience level to an event that not only will allow them to view the transit, but also to learn more about it, beginning at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5 at the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, 3799 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, 21218.
June 4, 2012 Tags: Adam Riess, astrophysics, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, cosmology, Maryland Space Grant Consortium, Peter McCullough, Space Telescope Science Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, Venus transit
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
Reducing Brain Activity Improves Memory After Cognitive Decline, Johns Hopkins Team Finds
A study led by Michela Gallagher of The Johns Hopkins University and published in the May 10 issue of the journal Neuron suggests a potential new therapeutic approach for improving memory and interrupting disease progression in patients with a form of cognitive impairment that often leads to full-blown Alzheimer’s disease.
May 10, 2012 Tags: aging, Alzheimer's disease, aMCI, Amy Shelton, Arnold Bakker, Carolyn Speck, cognitive impairment, Craig Stark, epilepsy, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, Greg Krauss, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Lauren Jones, Lennart Mucke, Marilyn Albert, memory loss, Michael Yassa, Michela Gallagher, Susan Bassett, The Johns Hopkins University, UCSF, University of California at Irvine
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Psychology, Public Health, University-Related
Exhibit and Website Highlight the Vital Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins
An exhibit designed to recognize and publicize the crucial role that black students, faculty and staff have played in the rich history of The Johns Hopkins University has opened on the Homewood campus in Charles Village and will circulate among the various Johns Hopkins campuses through fall. Called “The Indispensable Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins,” the freestanding display and set of window decals pay tribute to 50 people, past and present, whose professional and personal achievements have brought honor to the institution.
May 7, 2012 Tags: Benjamin Carson, BFSA, Debbie Savage, Homewood campus, Juneteenth, Minnie Hargow, Percy A. Pierre, Ronald L. Daniels, The Indispensable Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins, The Johns Hopkins University, the Johns Hopkins University Black Faculty and Staff Association, Vivien Thomas
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
Team Led By JHU Astrophysicist Catches Black Hole Red-Handed in Stellar Homicide
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. Astronomers have spotted these stellar homicides before, but this is the first time they can identify the victim. Using a slew of ground- and space-based telescopes, a team of astronomers led by Suvi Gezari of The Johns Hopkins University has identified the victim as a star rich in helium gas. The star resides in a galaxy 2.7 billion light-years away. Her team’s results will appear in the May 3 online edition of the journal Nature.
May 2, 2012 Tags: Armin Rest, Galaxy Evolution Explorer, GALEX, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Milky Way galaxy, MMT Observatory, Nature, Pan-STARRS1, Space Telescope Science Institute, Supermassive black holes, Suvi Gezari, The Johns Hopkins University, ultraviolet light
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Technology, University-Related
Johns Hopkins First in R&D Expenditures for 32nd Year
The Johns Hopkins University performed $2 billion in medical, science and engineering research in fiscal 2010, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total research and development spending for the 32nd year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking. The university also once again ranked first on the NSF’s separate list of federally funded research and development, spending $1.73 billion in FY2010 on research supported by NSF, NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.
March 30, 2012 Tags: Applied Physics Laboratory, Lloyd B. Minor, National Science Foundation, R&D, research and development, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Institutional News, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Mathematicians Honored With Simons Fellowships
Two Johns Hopkins University mathematicians each have been awarded the very competitive Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, which provides scholars with the opportunity to spend a semester away from classroom and administrative duties in order to pursue their research interests. Christopher Sogge and Joel Spruck, both professors in the Department of Mathematics in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, are among just 50 mathematicians in North America to receive this highly competitive, honorific fellowship.
March 5, 2012 Tags: Christopher Sogge, Department of Mathematics, Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian, geometric analysis and harmonic analysis, Joel Spruck, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, mathematics, Riemannian geometry, Simons Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, William Minicozzi
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Natural Sciences, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University Offers New Minor in Space Science and Engineering
Students dreaming of careers searching for life on other planets or monitoring global climate change remotely from satellites will be interested in a new interdisciplinary minor being offered at The Johns Hopkins University. Accessed through the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering, the new space science and engineering minor is designed to prepare students to enter careers in the aerospace industry or professional laboratories, or to enter graduate programs.
February 28, 2012 Tags: aerospace, aerospace industry, APL, Applied Physics Laboratory, Charles L. Bennett, H. Warren Moos, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Homewood Academic Council, Jessica Noviello, Joseph Katz, Krieger School of Arts and Science, satellites, space science and engineering minor, Space Telescope Science Institute, Stephen Murray, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Student-Related News, University-Related
Sheridan Libraries Announce Completion of Afro American Newspaper Digital Archive Project
The Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources (CER) announced today the launch of an online database (http://morgue.afro.com/AfroArchon/) describing the archival materials held by the Afro American Newspaper. The three-year project, administered jointly by CER and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Africana Studies, was funded with a $476,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
February 21, 2012 Tags: Afro American Newspaper, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Center for Africana Studies, Franklin Knight, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Moira Hinderer, Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Winston Tabb
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Social Sciences, Technology, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Biophysicist Wins Humboldt Research Award
George D. Rose, a biophysicist at The Johns Hopkins University, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.
February 21, 2012 Tags: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, biophysics, George Rose, Institute for Advanced Study in the Technical University in Munich, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, protein folding, The Johns Hopkins University, Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Thomas Kiefhaber
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Astrophysicist Wins Sloan Fellowship
Astrophysicist Brice Ménard of The Johns Hopkins has won a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship to further support his research on extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology.
February 15, 2012 Tags: Brice Ménard, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, cosmology, Daniel Reich, dark matter, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institut d'Astrophysiqu de Paris, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, intergalactic space, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Max Planck Institute, N. J., Paul L. Joskow, Sloan Research Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, Tokyo University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
JHU Scientist Wins NSF Int’l Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and in the case of an image created by astrophysicist Miguel Angel Aragon of The Johns Hopkins University, the adage holds true. His vibrant computer illustration, which won the National Science Foundation’s 2011 Science and Engineering’s Visualization Challenge in the “Informational Posters and Graphics” category, brings to vivid life many dynamic aspects of the universe, spanning 240 million light years.
February 2, 2012 Tags: AAAS, Adler Planetarium, dark matter Science, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Julieta Aguilera, Mark Subbarao, Miguel Angel Aragon, National Science Foundation, The Cosmic Web, The Johns Hopkins University, The National Science Foundation;s 2011 Science and Engineering's Visualization Challenge, the universe
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, Technology
Team of Scientists Announce Birth of a Baby Crystal
Working together, experimental and computational scientists at The Johns Hopkins University and McNeese State University in Louisiana have determined that for lead sulfide, the smallest nano-crystal (cluster) with the same structural (coordination) properties as the bulk occurs when 32 units of lead sulfide, PbS, molecules assemble together. Their results were published in the Journal of Chemical Physics and The Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
February 2, 2012 Tags: baby crystals, crystal structure, Department of Chemistry, Department of Energy, Howard Fairbrother, Journal of Chemical Physics, Kit Bowen, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, lead sulfide, McNeese State University, nanoscale structures, PBS, photo-voltaics, STM, The Johns Hopkins University, Virtual Journal of Science & Technology
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, University-Related
New Show Invites Visitors to “Please Touch” and Hold
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
Time for a Change? Johns Hopkins Scholars Say Calendar Needs Serious Overhaul
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