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For a Writing Sems major who isn't taking any writing classes this semester, last Thursday's poetry reading presented by Thoroughfare magazine was welcome time spent with part of Hopkins's creative community.
Just about every person, pre-med or not, has heard of the sarcastic, witty and unorthodox machinations of Dr. Gregory House. But many have argued that the once acclaimed show House M.D. is failing.
Four years ago, Canadian singer-songwriter Feist jangled her way into mainstream consciousness when her indie hit "1234" was featured in a commercial for the iPod nano and then quickly rose to prominence through a deluge of accolades, including five Junos, a Grammy nod, and an album that sold over 2.5 million copies.
This week, Hopkins published an OUTList – a list of LGBT students and faculty – on the University's website. This was a productive and positive step. As intellectual centers, universities should marshal social change and understanding. Hopkins has made its symbolic commitment to the LGBT community clear by creating the list.
A single dose of hallucinogen is capable of bringing about lasting personality changes, as shown in a recent study led by Roland R. Griffiths, psychiatry professor at the Hopkins School of Medicine.
The U.S Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a panel of independent experts dedicated to evaluating scientific studies on new treatments, recommended that healthy men should avoid regular PSA (prostate-specific antigen) testing, a common screening test for prostate cancer in men. The USPSTF concluded from scientific studies that PSA testing does not lower the death rate of prostate cancer, due to the post-surgical complications that lead to death of men with even benign tumors.
Medical professionals are not as unbiased as many people like to think. According to a recent study, people tend to underestimate pain intensity and are less sympathetic to a patient's pain when the patient is not well-liked. The study, published in the October 2011 issue of Pain, has alarming implications for patient care.
An international team of researchers used a variety of telescopes to observe the outflow of gases from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Markarian 509 galaxy. Their findings suggest that these outflowing gases originate many light years away from the black hole.
Malnutrition is a serious medical condition that kills millions of children every year and affects another 195 million. Médecins Sans Frontieres — Doctors Without Borders — launched a campaign in 2010 called Starved For Attention in an attempt to give those children a voice and a chance.
After spending two years trying to make solar energy a more viable energy source, researchers at the University of California at Merced have recently made a breakthrough. Roland Winston, a professor at UC Merced, and Heather Poiry, a graduate student, have led a team of 30 different students over the past two years to create a machine that can use solar energy to power an air-conditioning unit. Their design, called an External Compound Parabolic Concentrator, or XCPC, is innovative because it does not have to follow the sun in order to collect solar energy.
Researchers at the Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered a link between electrical stimulation and the ability to repair damaged brain matter. Focusing on an important type of brain cell called oligodendrocytes, they were able to build on previous research involving electrical stimulation and recovery of damaged brain tissue.
Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have engineered a mouse model for autism that has pointed to a new understanding of the disorder and possible ways to evaluate new treatments.
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman, for his discovery of quasicrystals—much of the research for which took place took place while Shechtman was on sabbatical at Hopkins from 1981 to 1983.
Community service at Hopkins has always been common within the student body. Occasionally, you'll hear about one or two events that warm your heart or bring back an important memory.
Despite going 1-3 at Claremont, CA Convergence over the weekend, the Hopkins water polo team could hardly call their west coast swing a poor showing considering they played four of the top-five ranked teams in the nation.
The Johns Hopkins Women's soccer team continued their incredibly hot play this weekend, defeating the Bears of Ursinus College by a score of 6-0.
The Hopkins field hockey team had a challenging week, facing two teams ranked in the top ten nationally. This came immediately on the heels of their 2-1 loss to third-ranked Franklin & Marshall last Wednesday, Oct. 5th.
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The Men's Soccer Team travelled to Ursinus this weekend to face off against the Bears.
Hopkins water polo travelled west this past weekend for the annual Claremont Convergence to compete against a group of the country's best Division III squads. Treading with top-ranked Pomona-Pitzer, fourth-ranked Cal Lutheran, fifth-ranked Redlands, and third-ranked Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, the Jays flew home with a 1-3 record.