A few hours after announcing his resignation Monday morning, Johns Hopkins University President Dr. William R. Brody said he hadn't considered what words of wisdom he would pass on to his successor.
A molecular biologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will share in a $600 million grant given by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Duojia Pan, an associate professor of molecular biology and genetics, will get about $500,000 a year for five years to study how organs control their...
The Johns Hopkins University is offering at least $5 million in matching funds over five years to departments that hire and retain top scholars who are women or from underrepresented minority groups. Provost Kristina Johnson said women account for only 38 percent of full-time faculty and less than 20 percent...
The new Carey Business School at the Johns Hopkins University will help raise the profile of the university's business offerings and increase its ability to raise funds for those programs.
SAN DIEGO -- Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SQNM), a leading provider of genetic analysis solutions, today announced the purchase of Sequenom's MassARRAY([R]) system by the DNA Diagnostic Lab of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine and the Translational Technology Core of the Institute for Translational Clinical Research at Johns Hopkins University School...
The Johns Hopkins University will hold a Minority Contractor Fair this Friday to make sure minority businesses get the opportunity to participate in an upcoming $725 million construction project.
A Johns Hopkins University financial-aid director identified by investigators for taking payments from a student-loan provider has resigned. Ellen Frishberg submitted her resignation on May 18, effective immediately, the university said in a statement Monday. Frishberg, who oversaw financial aid for the university's schools of arts and sciences and engineering,...
Donald Steinwachs, a 34-year veteran of the Johns Hopkins University faculty and a longtime department chair and participant in university-wide initiatives, will serve as the interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, President William R. Brody announced. Steinwachs has begun already to work with outgoing Provost Steven Knapp...
The Johns Hopkins University has been awarded a $476,000 grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to collaborate with the Baltimore- based Afro-American Newspapers to open the 115-year-old newspaper company's historic archives to access by scholars and others. The project will involve the university's Center for Africana Studies in the...
A team of Johns Hopkins University scientists reported in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that humans can be protected against the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation -- the most abundant cancer-causing agent in our environment -- by topical application of an extract of...
The Johns Hopkins University, which receives more federal grant money than any other U.S. school,plans to boost scholarships for undergraduates in the coming year to help them meet rising costs, Bloomberg News reported. University officials said charges for tuition, room and board will total $44,522 in 2006-07, a 7.2 percent...
Officials of the Johns Hopkins University said after two years of demolition and construction, the university is just a few days away from opening the doors to Charles Commons, a highly anticipated residential, dining and retail complex in Charles Village. A Herculean effort is underway to transform the 313,000-square-foot site...
As it has for more than a decade, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine maintained its place as the second-best medical school in U.S. News and World Report's annual ranking of the nation's 125 accredited medical schools. And as usual, Harvard tops the magazine's list, which is available online...
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel appointed Jerry A. Krill assistant director for programs. In that capacity will oversee APL's more than 400 programs.