Study Suggests Parents Stricter with Older Kids
If you think your parents let your younger siblings get away with a lot, you're probably right. A new study from researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere concludes that parents do...
View ArticleDifferent Processes Govern Sight, Light Detection
If you think your parents let your younger siblings get away with a lot, you're probably right. A new study from researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere concludes that parents do...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Gregg L. Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Jane I. Guyer, Ph.D., a professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of...
View ArticleAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Astrophysicist Riess
Johns Hopkins University professor Adam Riess is among the 212 fellows elected to the 228th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy made its announcement April 28.
View ArticleNational Inventors Hall of Fame Honors JHU's Giacconi
Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi will receive the National Inventors Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, May 3, in Akron, Ohio. The award is given annually to...
View ArticleSmolensky Appointed International Pascal Research Chair
Paul Smolensky, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Cognitive Science at The Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed to an International Blaise Pascal Research Chair by the Ecole Normale Superieure, a...
View ArticleWorldWide Telescope Brings Space Exploration to Earth
Thanks in part to a Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist, the final frontier got a bit closer today with the launch of a new application that allows people to easily explore the night sky from their...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Professor Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Christopher Celenza, a professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at The Johns Hopkins University, is among 190 artists, scholars and scientists who have been named...
View ArticleTeam Hopes to Use New Technology to Search for ET's
A Johns Hopkins astronomer is a member of a team briefing fellow scientists about plans to use new technology to take advantage of recent, promising ideas on where to search for possible...
View ArticleNew Superconductors Present New Mysteries, Possibilities
Johns Hopkins University researchers and colleagues in China have unlocked some of the secrets of newly discovered iron-based high-temperature superconductors, research that could result in the design...
View ArticleWrestling with Rudeness: Advice for Addressing Incivility
Johns Hopkins University's resident civility maven P.M. Forni takes the guesswork out of defusing more than a hundred different everyday hackle-raising scenarios in his new book, The Civility...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Graduate Student Killed in Iraq
Political scientist Nicole Suveges was civilian Army contractor Nicole Suveges, a Johns Hopkins University graduate student in political science who was working in Iraq while doing research for her...
View ArticleEven Toddlers Get It: Data "Chunks" Are Easier to Remember
Which is easier to remember: 4432879960 or 443-297-9960? The latter, of course. Adults seem to know automatically, in fact, that long strings of numbers are more easily recalled when divided into...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Sources for 2008 Presidential Election Stories
For stories about the 2008 presidential campaign, consider the following sources from The Johns Hopkins University. Listed with each source is a brief description of his or her area of expertise or...
View ArticleSwitching It Up: How Memory Deals with a Change in Plans
Adjusting our behavior to such changing circumstances enables us to achieve our goals. But how, exactly, do our brains switch so elegantly and quickly from one well-entrenched plan to a newer one in...
View ArticleCharities Target Millennial Generation Workforce
America's nonprofit organizations are focusing on their missions to attract and retain the next generation of employees, according to a new report released today by the Johns Hopkins University...
View ArticleAs Easy as 1, 2, 3: Number Sense Correlates with Test Scores
Knowing how precisely a high school freshman can estimate the number of objects in a group gives you a good idea how well he has done in math as far back as kindergarten, researchers at The Johns...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Alumna Receives "Genius" Grant
Acclaimed novelist Chimamanda Adichie, an alumna of The Johns Hopkins University, is one of 25 scholars, scientists and artists this year to win a MacArthur Fellowship, a $500,000 "no strings attached"...
View ArticleTwo Johns Hopkins Professors Receive "Genius" Grants
Two Johns Hopkins University professors -- a physician who champions scientifically rigorous, common-sense approaches to improving patient safety and an astrophysicist who was a leader in the discovery...
View ArticleJHU'S Karlin Earns Two American Chemical Society Awards
Kenneth D. Karlin, Ira Remsen Professor of Chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the American Chemical Society's 2009 F. Albert Cotton Award...
View ArticleJHU Chemist Devises Self Assembling "Organic Wires"
A team of chemists at The Johns Hopkins University has created water-soluble electronic materials that spontaneously assemble themselves into "wires" 10,000 times smaller than a human hair.
View ArticleHow We See Objects in Depth: The Brain's Code for 3-D Structure
A team of Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists has discovered patterns of brain activity that may underlie our remarkable ability to see and understand the three-dimensional structure of objects.
View ArticleProfessional Development Key to Improving Math Achievement
Teachers have a greater impact than new textbooks or computers when it comes to raising math scores, according to a comprehensive research review by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's...
View ArticleJHU-led Team Wins Supercomputing Storage Challenge
A computer facility that could eventually handle enough data to fill 1 billion diskettes has won the Storage Challenge at SC08, the 8th annual International Conference for High Performance Computing,...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Alum Rishi Mediratta Wins Marshall Scholarship
Rishi Mediratta, a Johns Hopkins University alumnus from Portage, Mich., has been selected by the British government as a Marshall Scholar, one of 40 chosen nationwide.
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Senior Kurt Herzer Wins Marshall Scholarship
Kurt R. Herzer, a Johns Hopkins University senior from Melville, N.Y., who has dedicated his studies to improving the quality and safety of healthcare systems around the world, has been selected by the...
View ArticleMagma Discovered in Situ for First Time
A crew drilling on the Big Island of Hawaii has discovered magma, the molten rock material -- never before found in its natural habitat underground -- that is the central ingredient in the evolution of...
View ArticleFive JHU Researchers Named 2008 AAAS Fellows
Five Johns Hopkins University researchers have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by their peers.
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Conference to Mark NAACP Centennial
The Center for Africana Studies at the Johns Hopkins University will be marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with a history...
View ArticleBig Ideas for Barack Obama
All eyes are on President-elect Barack Obama during the countdown to Inauguration Day. Reporters seeking an African-American viewpoint for stories about this historic political moment should consider...
View ArticleEgypt Today Web Site Follows Archaeologists' Return to the Bottom of Mut...
Follow along online as Johns Hopkins University Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her team of students, artists, conservators and photographers return to their investigation of Mut Temple this month, once...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Astrophysicist Wins Comstock Prize in Physics
Charles L. Bennett, a professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, has been chosen by the National Academy of Sciences as the winner of the...
View ArticleGlobal Warming May Delay Recovery of Stratospheric Ozone
Increasing greenhouse gases could delay, or even postpone indefinitely the recovery of stratospheric ozone in some regions of the Earth, a Johns Hopkins earth scientist suggests. This change might take...
View ArticleNew Recipe for Dwarf Galaxies: Start with Leftover Gas
There is more than one way to make a dwarf galaxy, and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has found a new recipe. It has, for the first time, identified dwarf galaxies forming out of nothing more than...
View ArticleUndergraduate Tuition to Rise 3.8 Percent Next Year
Tuition for full-time undergraduates at The Johns Hopkins University will increase 3.8 percent next fall, the smallest percentage growth in 35 years for the university's two largest undergraduate schools.
View ArticleTwelve States Rise above the Nationwide Dropout Crisis
A dozen states significantly improved their high school graduation rates between 2002 and 2006, while the rest of the nation lagged behind, according to a report by researchers at the new Everyone...
View ArticleJHU Researcher Discovers That Brain Cells Have "Memory"
Writing in a recent issue of the journal Neuron, JH researchers demonstrate that nerve cells in a special region of the brain's visual cortex are able to "grab onto" figure-ground information from...
View ArticleCool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming Chemicals
Life on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around other stars? Led by a Johns Hopkins University researcher, a new study from NASA's...
View ArticleTwo Johns Hopkins Educational Researchers Honored
Johns Hopkins University research scientists Joyce Epstein and James McPartland are among 44 scholars who were recently named American Educational Research Association Fellows.
View ArticleSix Johns Hopkins Faculty Named Guggenheim Fellows
Six faculty members in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University are among the 180 artists, scholars and scientists who have been named 2009 Guggenheim Fellows by...
View ArticleNonprofits Seek Increased Support for Advocacy
Supporting a cause is central to the mission of most nonprofit organizations in the United States, but a lack of resources often forces lobbying and advocacy to the backburner, according to a...
View ArticlePresident, Three Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows
President Ronald J. Daniels and three Johns Hopkins University faculty members are among the 210 fellows elected to the 229th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
View ArticleParents: Slow Down and Get Off the Marriage-Go-Round
After a divorce or break-up, parents need to be very cautious about bringing new love interests into their homes, according to Andrew Cherlin, a professor in the Department of Sociology at Johns...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Astrophysicist Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Adam Riess was among 72 scientists elected today to membership in the National Academy of Sciences at the organization's 146th annual meeting, held in Washington, D.C.
View ArticleNews Source on Supreme Court, David Souter
If you're looking for an expert to put the career and legacy of David Souter into perspective -- as well as someone who can talk about what happens next and how the high court will likely change --...
View ArticleRefined Hubble Constant Narrows Possible Explanations For Dark Energy
Whatever dark energy is, explanations for it have less wiggle room following a Hubble Space Telescope observation that has refined the measurement of the universe's present expansion rate to a...
View ArticleExtraordinary Perception Deficit Sheds Light on How We See
To the casual observer, the student seemed absolutely normal. Though she often made mistakes in spelling and math, those were usually ascribed to carelessness. After all, the girl -- known here as "AH"...
View ArticleJack Greene Honored by National Humanities Center
Jack P. Greene, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University, has been selected as one of 33 fellows at the National Humanities...
View ArticleNews Sources on Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor from Both a Hispanic and...
Reporters who are looking for expert perspectives on Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, should consider Johns Hopkins University Adam...
View ArticleBagger Elected to National Space Biomedical Research Institute Board
Jonathan A. Bagger has been elected to the Board of Directors for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI).
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