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(10/21/09 5:00am)
Evolution works in mysterious ways, in methods analogous to cookie optimization. First, there were sugar, flour, eggs and butter. Fortunate thermodynamic processes involving high-speed mixing caused these elements to spontaneously assemble at high temperatures into the prehistoric cookie.
(09/19/09 5:00am)
For those of us who dream, at the low points in our lives, of shrinking backwards in time to a prenatal single-cell state: there might be hope.
(04/15/09 5:00am)
At the point in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when Arthur Dent finds out what infinity looks like, Douglas Adams was moved to write that "infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless."
(03/25/09 5:00am)
Proteins are the small, underappreciated and occasionally orange Oompa-loompas of all biological systems. These nano-sized linear chains of amino acids "fold" up in complex, globular shapes by way of poorly understood mechanisms to perform almost every biological job imaginable, sometimes individually and sometimes in groups or complexes.
(03/04/09 5:00am)
How do young cells decide what they want to be when they grow up? The biological process of cellular differentiation is a critical moment in the development of a tissue, during which less specialized cells become more specialized and undergo changes in size and shape, as well as in membrane charge and metabolic activity.
(12/03/08 5:00am)
It's distressing enough for anyone to learn that he has a brain tumor without the additional information that available treatment is long, cumbersome and prone to inaccuracy.
(09/24/08 5:00am)
Large-scale growth of blood vessels, what biologists call angiogenesis, is usually a bad sign. The unstructured growth and differentiation of new blood vessels often signifies the presence of a tumor, which requires a tremendous blood supply to bring it nutrients and oxygen.
(12/02/07 5:00am)
The Gilman tunnel is not exactly the ideal location for a bakery, scarf factory and artists' meeting spot to coexist.
(10/22/07 5:00am)
Award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer Rory Kennedy challenged the Hopkins community to have a heightened awareness of social issues including domestic violence, the AIDS epidemic and the Iraq war last night at the MSE Symposium.
(10/03/07 5:00am)
Although recent spending trends have indicated that the HopkinsOne program has been operating at a level significantly over budget, University officials have insisted that they are taking steps to ensure that the multi-million dollar program does not go over budget.
(09/13/07 5:00am)
After extensive renovations this summer, residents of the Charles and Blackstone Apartments have been permitted to move back into the buildings, but many residents are dissatisfied with how the renovations were dealt with from start to finish.
(03/22/07 5:00am)
Prompted by recent events at Hopkins, the Maryland Senate unanimously passed a bill on March 16 that requires businesses to notify state residents without delay when their personal information has been compromised.
(03/18/07 5:00am)
The Young Trustees Board has selected senior Sarah David as this year's Young Trustee. Members of the committee reached their decision on March 5 and will make the announcement on Friday.
(02/21/07 5:00am)
University President William Brody recently announced the appointment of a 13-member committee to search for the first dean of the new Carey Business School.
(02/08/07 5:00am)
Not all students are celebrating the recent openings of the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and the School of Education. For some, the move means a forced transfer into a different degree program than the one in which they are currently involved, according to Assistant Dean of External Affairs Chris Godack.
(02/02/07 5:00am)
After complications from vascular surgery, former president of the Kennedy Krieger Institute Hugo W. Moser, 82, passed away on Jan. 20.
(11/16/06 5:00am)
For International Education Week, from Nov. 10 to 18, President William Brody is traveling to Asia with 11 other American university presidents in order to meet with regional student, university, government and business leaders and "carry the message that the U.S. welcomes and values international students who want to study in the U.S.," according to the United States Department of Education (USDOE).
(11/09/06 5:00am)
Ambulances, fire department vehicles and stretchers are an undesirable sight at any university, but last Friday night, they served as tools of the trade for the Hopkins Emergency Response Unit (HERU).
(10/12/06 5:00am)
The University made more profitable investments in the 2005-2006 fiscal year than in past years, receiving an 11.5 percent return on its endowment in June 2005. However, Hopkins' endowment still remains much smaller than that of its peer institutions.
(09/28/06 5:00am)
According to a recent study by the Chronicle of Higher Education, more college students today are finding themselves with unfavorable debt-to-income ratios upon graduation, with interest rates on their loans fluctuating according to market conditions.