December 2013 Contents
News Roundup
- Strong first year for community initiative
- Rising to the Challenge campaign halfway to $4.5 billion goal
- Astronomer awarded $9.5 million to create 'virtual telescope'
- Social Innovation Lab selects winning proposals
- Big-data experts to collaborate with health scientists
- Helping Mid-Atlantic combat hurricanes, heat waves
- Johns Hopkins students win college inventors competition
- APL to lead NASA solar system exploration team
- JHU commits to purchasing local, sustainable food
- NYC finds success cutting school absenteeism
- APL launches new generation of small satellites
- Maryland colleges come together to tackle excessive drinking
- SAIS offers new degree focused on economics, finance
- Early dementia detection
- School of Nursing to train NPs in psychiatric care