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Provost Ray Jayawardhana is charting new academic frontiers
Oct 29, 2024 · Jayawardhana started his position as Johns Hopkins University's provost a little over a year ago. An accomplished academic leader, renowned and widely published scientist, and award-winning author, he served previously as dean of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences where he led Cornell's largest and most academically diverse college, focused on strategic priorities in faculty ...
Reimagining alternatives to animal testing | Hub - The Hub
A round 348 B.C., Aristotle took a two-year trip to the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos to study animals in a lagoon. Along with observing the creatures in their natural habitat and surmising, among other things, that dolphins were not fish, he dissected smaller animals to try and understand their internal workings.
Winter 2024 | Johns Hopkins Magazine | Hub
Next to opioid use disorder, anorexia is the most deadly mental health illness. In all, 5% of patients will die within the first four years of diagnosis as a result of heart failure, organ shutdown, low blood sugar, or suicide.
Fall 2024 | Johns Hopkins Magazine | Hub
Artificial intelligence and organoid advances hold new promise for reducing the number of laboratory animals used in studies. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Seven key takeaways from Trump's presidential election victory
Nov 11, 2024 · Donald Trump winning a second White House term didn't come as a surprise to Johns Hopkins historian Leah Wright Rigueur, who homed in on the election's social-historical context: "The increasing polarization over the last four years, [combined] with an incumbent president stepping down in the middle of his campaign and a Black, southeast Asian woman becoming the nominee for president and only ...
Common arm positions can substantially overestimate blood …
Oct 9, 2024 · A study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers concludes that commonly used ways of positioning the patient's arm during blood pressure (BP) screenings can substantially overestimate test results and may lead to a misdiagnosis of hypertension.. In a report on the study, which was published Oct. 7 in JAMA Internal Medicine, investigators examined the effects of three different arm positions ...
First-year engineers aim for the Great Hall skies | Hub - The Hub
Dec 9, 2024 · The Great Hall in Levering became an aviation battleground one afternoon last week for the 2024 MechE Freshmen Design Challenge, where 22 teams of first-year mechanical engineering students faced a seemingly simple but deceptively difficult challenge: send a small vehicle down a ramp to launch a tiny glider into the air and across the room.
16 Johns Hopkins faculty members named Provost's Fellows for …
Dec 16, 2024 · Sixteen faculty members from across the university have been selected, out of 135 applicants, for the inaugural cohort for the Provost's Fellows for Public Engagement.The fellows will take part in a yearlong program designed to build their public engagement skills across a range of media platforms and audiences.
Civil and Systems Engineering Seminar Series: Ján Drgoňa | Hub
Description. Ján Drgoňa, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins, will give a talk titled "Scientific Machine Learning for Modeling and Control of Energy Systems" for the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering.. Abstract: This talk presents a scientific machine learning perspective (SciML) on …