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Sustainability
Rebooting our warming cities
Published Summer 2023
A Hopkins-led team says better climate modeling and data can help Baltimore weather a hotter, stormier future / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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VOICES
Roland Griffiths is at peace
Published Summer 2023
The pioneering psychedelics researcher reflects on scientific curiosity, gratitude, and coming to terms with a terminal illness. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Idea
A jellyfish-inspired sensor
Published Summer 2023
Using a design inspired by one of the ocean's best sailors, a team of scientists at the Applied Physics Lab is developing a low-cost sensor for ocean observations / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Innovative care
Hopkins AITC announces awardees of second funding round
Published June 16, 2023
Grant recipients–hailing from academia, industry, and clinical practice—will receive funding to develop new devices and other aging-related innovations
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Neuroscience
Psychedelic drugs reopen 'critical periods' for social learning
Published June 14, 2023
Johns Hopkins scientists say the findings in mice offer a new explanation for how psychedelic drugs work
Quebec Canada Wildfire Smoke Consumes New Jersey and New York City June 7 2023
Environmental health
Wildfires likely to grow more common on East Coast, experts predict
Published June 12, 2023 Video
Hopkins scholars discuss the harmful effects of smoke from the Canadian wildfires and how residents can protect themselves and prepare for next time
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Neuroscience
Machine learning helps scientists see synapse changes
Published June 7, 2023
Visualizing connections in the brain could yield insights into how our brains change with learning, aging, injury, and disease
Kelsie Wentz
Postdoc honors
Chemistry postdoc named Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow
Published June 6, 2023
Kelsie Wentz will start a two-year project to develop hybrid inorganic-organic conjugated polymers with unique semiconducting properties
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In Memoriam
Donald Price, a pioneer in clinical and experimental neuropathology, dies at 87
Published May 31, 2023
Price, the founding director of the Division of Neuropathology at Johns Hopkins Medicine is remembered for his mentorship and influential research
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Artificial intelligence
This ChatGPT-inspired large language model speaks fluent finance
Published May 31, 2023
Mark Dredze, associate professor of computer science, discusses BloombergGPT, the first large language model built specifically for the finance industry