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Creating a bright future for women in STEM
April 20, 2022
Women of Whiting, a group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, will hold the annual Women in STEM Symposium on Saturday, April 30
Fueled by sustainability: A conversation with Sara Thoi
April 19, 2022
Chemist Sara Thoi discusses her research and what drives her to find new materials and systems for renewable energy in interview with Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute blog
Food insecurity doubled likelihood of missing medical care during first year of pandemic in U.S.
April 15, 2022
Survey conducted in December 2020 also found minorities and low-income individuals were at elevated risk of food insecurity
Health care in the crossfire
April 14, 2022
Experts call for accountability for war crimes and discuss what happens when health care infrastructure and workers become the targets of violence
Students organize Ukraine benefit concert
April 14, 2022
Four graduate students at the Peabody Conservatory organized an evening of music by Eastern European composers and will raise money to support Ukraine through the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health
Minkah Makalani ventures beyond what can be imagined
April 12, 2022
The new director of the interdisciplinary Johns Hopkins Center for Africana Studies has seen firsthand how collaboration between the academy and the community can yield ideas unfettered by preconceived notions and expectations
A pioneer at the podium
April 8, 2022
A new documentary directed by JHU Professor of Media Studies Bernadette Wegenstein explores the many firsts of conductor Marin Alsop
Johns Hopkins researchers identify potential window for treating ALS
April 8, 2022
A cell type called astrocytes may contribute to motor neuron death during ALS progression, offering a treatment target for the degenerative disease
AI predicts if and when someone will experience cardiac arrest
April 7, 2022
An algorithm built to assess scar patterns in patient heart tissue can predict potentially life-threatening arrhythmias more accurately than doctors can
Johns Hopkins and Amazon collaborate to explore transformative power of AI
April 7, 2022
The new JHU + Amazon Initiative for Interactive AI will advance machine learning, computer vision, natural language understanding, and speech processing while increasing access to these technologies