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Bloomberg distinguished professorships

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Coronavirus
Serum stopgap could slow COVID-19 spread
Published March 13, 2020
Infusions of antibody-laden blood have been used with reported success in prior outbreaks, including the SARS epidemic and the 1918 flu pandemic
Arturo Casadevall
Coronavirus
Could a serum prevent COVID-19?
Published March 3, 2020
Infectious disease expert Arturo Casadevall looks to a forgotten case study for ways to prevent the spread of coronavirus / The Wall Street Journal
Russell Taylor (left) and Yannis Kevrekidis
Two from Hopkins named to NAE
Published Feb 7, 2020
Interdisciplinary scientists Russell Taylor and Yannis Kevrekidis join National Academy of Engineering
Stumps and debris in a felled forest
Q+A
Why climate change solutions remain elusive
Published Sept 25, 2019
Paul Ferraro says climate scientists must rethink how they disseminate their research findings in order to change human behavior
A singer performs at the inaugural Billie Holiday Jazz Festival
ARTS
Project combines art, history, scholarly research, and community outreach
Published Sept 20, 2019
Lawrence Jackson's Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts aims to document the history of African American life in Baltimore and foster intellectual ties between the university and the community
Hanna Pickard
Philosophy
Hanna Pickard, an expert in moral psychology, named 45th BDP
Published July 10, 2019
Her research centers on the nature of mental disorders and how society ought to respond to maladaptive behaviors like crime and addiction
Ian Phillips
New BDP explores intersection of philosophy, brain science
Published July 8, 2019
Ian Phillips, the university's 44th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, examines questions of the nature of perception, as well as the scientific study of consciousness and temporal experience
Matthew Kahn
Urban economist Matthew Kahn named BDP
Published June 25, 2019
He'll teach economics courses at Krieger and Carey and will lead the 21st Century Cities Initiative
Feinberg and Rizzardi aboard the Vomit Comet
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
Daeyeol Lee
Interdisciplinary scholar
Neuroscientist Daeyeol Lee named BDP
Published March 19, 2019
Yale expert known for his research on the neural basis for decision-making will head lab at the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute