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Faculty honors
Three from Hopkins named to National Academy of Sciences
Published April 30, 2019
Marc Kamionkowski, Robert Moffitt, and Cynthia Wolberger are among 125 honored for their excellence in science
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Mental health
Profound experiences linked to lasting benefits
Published April 26, 2019
Majority of people who have reported encountering 'God'—whether spontaneously or triggered by psychedelics—report lasting positive changes to psychological health
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Heart health
Most women with cardiovascular disease don't get enough exercise
Published April 23, 2019
Physical activity is a known prevention strategy for heart disease and can advance recovery from heart attack or stroke
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Sustainability
University makes a major commitment to solar power
Published April 22, 2019
Through agreement with Constellation, Hopkins will meet roughly two-thirds of its overall energy needs with solar power—the largest commitment to solar energy in Maryland
Winners of the 3-Minute Thesis Competition
Three-Minute Thesis
Getting to the heart of the matter
Published April 18, 2019
Competition challenges PhD students to ditch the jargon and explain their work for a general audience
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Undergraduate research
Team aims to make at-home dialysis safer
Published April 12, 2019
Biomedical engineering undergrads raise more than $25,000 in cash prizes from competitions, grant programs, and incubators for their design
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Study looks at how astronaut's body changed in space
Published April 11, 2019
JHU's Andrew Feinberg finds that after year-long NASA mission to the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly had no lingering, major epigenetic differences from his earthbound twin, Mark
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Incarcerated Women
Landmark study compiles data on pregnant women in prisons
Published April 11, 2019
Groundbreaking study calculates prevalence of pregnancy in prisons and tracks health outcomes of incarcerated mothers and their babies
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Brain science
Why MDMA may help treat PTSD
Published April 4, 2019
In mouse study, MDMA is shown to reactivate a learning period for social rewards, allowing test subjects to form positive associations where none existed before
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The Precursors Study
Charting a lifetime
Published March 25, 2019
For more than 70 years, a group of Hopkins Medicine School graduates have filled out an annual medical survey, contributing to one of the world's oldest longitudinal studies