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COMMUNITY

This is how you hackathon

Published May 1, 2019

Mini-MedHacks brings city students to the East Baltimore campus for a day of problem-solving, design, and creativity

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

Astrophysics

Mystery of how fast our universe is expanding grows

Published April 25, 2019

As scientists refine Hubble measurements, the disparity between the calculated and expected rate of universe expansion widens

Undergraduate research

BME students win $10K prize for young inventors

Published April 24, 2019

Team Ithemba, named after the Zulu word meaning 'hope,' earn Lemelson-MIT award for their low-cost breast cancer screening tool

Student scholar

Senior named Hertz Graduate Fellow

Published April 19, 2019

Two graduate research fellowships will fund 100% of her studies while she pursues a PhD in biophysics at Harvard beginning this fall

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

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

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