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NASA space telescope project advances with three Hopkins team members
Name Johns Hopkins Media Relations Email Office phone 443-997-9009 Three members of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Physics and Astronomy are contributing to NASA's planned mission to send a new telescope to explore the history and evolution of the universe. NASA recently announced that it was proceeding to the next stage of the project called PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics, or PRIMA, which has a target launch date of 2033.
My passport may be stored, but my family's immigration story is not
During this time of unprecedented anger, sorrow and disbelief, those of us not being pulled out of cars, afraid to go to work or school or much worse may struggle to better understand and more fully relate to what’s going on. My passport is in my bank safety box. My summer tan has faded to “lily white.” I’m accused of having a “Minnesota accent” only when I visit my younger daughter, a public school teacher in Boston.
55 years ago Minnesota expanded voting rights for young citizens
A group of aging baby-boomers gathered recently to celebrate the 55th anniversary of Minnesota’s leadership in expanding political engagement by our state’s youngest citizens — an anniversary that’s highly relevant in today’s hostile political environment. The June 22 reunion marked action by the 1969 Minnesota Legislature to put a state constitutional amendment lowering the voting age to 19 on the 1970 ballot.
Macbook Pro and DisplayLink
In the most cliché way of starting this blog, let me say this: I’m not an Apple fanboy. Yes, I like their products. Yes, I have an iPhone and a Watch primarily because the ecosystem is so nice (Samsung does similar stuff), but their ecosystem just makes things simpler. That said, Apple does have its limitations. Their iPhones have been shipping without chargers for years now, the SIM card port is gone, I could go on.
Euclid space telescope data will shed light on evolution of dark universe
By / Published The Euclid space telescope successfully launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on July 1 and is now poised to collect data about millions of galaxies across one-third of the sky, part of a quest to better understand the so-called dark universe.
Samuel Durrance, enterprising astronomer and space researcher, dies at 79
By / Published Samuel Thornton Durrance, an astronomer who flew on two NASA space shuttle missions as a payload specialist, and who was a principal research scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University from 1980 to 1997, died on May 5. He was 79. Durrance came to JHU in 1980 as one of the first team members on the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, or HUT, project led by Professor Arthur Davidsen.
Cells walk microscopic tightrope in new study of cell behavior
Credit: Brian Camley By offering cells a microscopic "tightrope," Johns Hopkins University and Virginia Tech scientists have discovered a new and surprising form of cellular movement. Normally when cells crawling in an organism come into contact, they reverse and move randomly away from the other cell.
Cells walk microscopic tight rope in new study of cell behavior
By Jon Schroeder / Published March 23, 2021 By offering cells a microscopic "tightrope," Johns Hopkins University and Virginia Tech scientists have discovered a new and surprising form of cellular movement. Normally when cells crawling in an organism come into contact, they reverse and move randomly away from the other cell.
Two from Hopkins join national effort to advance quantum computing
By Jon Schroeder / Published Sept 9, 2020 Two Johns Hopkins University physicists will join a sweeping effort by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science to launch five new Quantum Information Science Research Centers to develop the next generation of quantum devices.
Renowned condensed matter physicist Mark Robbins dies at 64
By Jon Schroeder / Published Aug 18, 2020 Mark O. Robbins, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and renowned condensed matter and statistical physicist, died unexpectedly on Thursday, August 13, 2020. A cause of death has not been made public. He was 64. Robbins specialized in non-equilibrium processes like friction and adhesion, working to better understand the atomic origin of macroscopic phenomena such as earthquakes and avalanches.
Plant-Rich Diets @ProjectDrawdown #ClimateSolutions
Animal agriculture is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Favoring plant-based foods reduces demand, thereby reducing land clearing, fertilizer use, and greenhouse gas emissions. Reduce SourcesFood, Agriculture, and Land UseAddress Waste and Diets Support SinksLand SinksAddress Waste and Diets 78.33 to 103.11 Gigatons CO2 Equivalent Reduced/Sequestered 2020–2050 What You Can Do Host a “plant-based protein” potluck and invite participants to share their recipes.
Mount Union shoots it’s way into OAC Tournament Semi-Finals
Jon Schroeder Photo By: Emily Swisher Posted: Nov 05, 2019 BEXLEY, Ohio— No. 5 seed Mount Union tied No. 4 seed Capital 2-2 but the Purple Raiders advanced on penalty kicks 5-4 in the first round of OAC Tournament Tuesday at Bernlohr Stadium. The Purple Raiders (10-3-5) advance to the semifinals for a second straight season and will the face the same opponent from last year as Mount Union plays No. 1 seed John Carroll Thursday in University Heights at a time to be announced.
Dissent is Not Disloyalty
The first obligation of our Guild is to safeguard the interests of its most at risk members — to ensure that the sacrifices leadership asks us to take do not disadvantage the vulnerable or favor, however inadvertently, our more privileged union brethren. That is what my father, a 40-year union man and proud shop steward, who walked the picket lines against Ma Bell, taught me.
How to do a hard refresh in every browser – Elodin Design
This is a common task during the development process – it’s important to be able to know how to do a hard refresh. The good news? It’s very easy. The bad news? Every browser is a little bit different. What is a hard refresh? Basically, when you visit a website, your computer downloads a bunch of files that comprise the page, and temporarily saves those. These can be image files, css files, javascript files, etc.
Hopkins theorists propose a resolution to a growing crisis in cosmology
By Jon Schroeder / Published Nov 28, 2018 A group of Johns Hopkins cosmology theorists have offered a theory that the cause of the so-called "Hubble Tension" in cosmology may be resolved by the presence of some new exotic form of matter in the early universe.
Rapper, producer Consensus brings his particle physics flow to Johns Hopkins
By Jon Schroeder / Published Nov 14, 2018 As a songwriter, emcee, rapper, and producer, Antoine Gittens-Jackson, known professionally as Consensus, draws from the hip-hop, grime, and trap genres of music. As a scientist from South London with a degree in aeronautical engineering, he draws inspiration from particle physics, dark matter, and the Large Hadron Collider.
Men's Soccer: Raiders Take Down Marietta in OAC Tournament Action
ALLIANCE, Ohio--Mount Union's men's soccer team claimed victory over Marietta 2-1 in the quarterfinals of the Ohio Athletic Tournament Tuesday evening at Mount Union Stadium. Junior Jon Schroeder (Parma/Normandy) tallied a goal and an assist in the match while senior Joe Winiecki (Stow) tallied his fourth goal on the season. Mount Union improves to 13-3-1 with the victory while Marietta falls to 10-9 on the season. Schroeder netted his goal in the 20th minute to give Mount Union the 1-0 lead.
Men's Soccer: Winecki's Golden Goal Push #25 Raiders To 6-0
Joe Winiecki (Photo by Lenny Reich) ALLIANCE, Ohio-- No. 25 ranked Mount Union men's soccer team (6-0) defeated Geneva (Pa.) 1-0 in double overtime on Monday at Mount Union Stadium. Senior Joe Winiecki (Stow) tallied his first goal of the season as the Raider defense allowed six shots in the match. Geneva (Pa.) dropped to 2-4-1 with the defeat. Winiecki recorded his goal in the 106th minute off a rebound shot from junior Jon Schroeder (Parma/Normandy).
Space@Hopkins seed grants jump-start seven new research projects
Whether investigating the inner workings of the human body or probing the universe's mysterious cosmic gravitational waves, researchers from five divisions of Johns Hopkins will blaze new trails in space science through seed grants awarded by Space@Hopkins, the Johns Hopkins initiative to bring together researchers from across the university who focus on civilian space studies.
Evidence revealed for a new property of quantum matter
A theorized but never-before detected property of quantum matter has now been spotted in the lab, a team led by a Johns Hopkins scientist reports. The study findings, published online in the journal Science, show that a particular quantum material first synthesized 20 years ago, called k-(BEDT-TTF)2Hg(SCN)2 Br, behaves like a metal but is derived from organic compounds.
Evidence points to cooling property of dark matter, just as Johns Hopkins researchers predicted
A new measurement reported in Nature provides evidence for a new cooling property of dark matter posited by a collection of JHU professors, postdoctoral fellows, and students. The newly published paper, authored by a group of radio-astronomers at Arizona State University, describes the first measurement of the temperature of intergalactic hydrogen atoms from only 180 million years after the Big Bang. Surprisingly, that temperature reading is colder than expected in the standard cosmological model.
Astronaut Kate Rubins to visit JHU to discuss experiments conducted aboard the International Space Station
Astronaut Kate Rubins, the first person to ever sequence DNA in space, will touch down at Johns Hopkins University on Monday, April 24, to discuss experiments she conducted aboard the International Space Station and to share her experiences as an astronaut. Rubins performed her DNA sequencing in August of last year with samples prepared in a Johns Hopkins lab at the School of Medicine by Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Andrew Feinberg and postdoctoral fellow Lindsay Rizzardi, among others.
Congress should oppose Trump proposal to eliminate National and Community Service programs
AmeriCorps, VISTA and Senior Corps would be eliminated under the Trump administration's 2018 budget proposal, unveiled March 16. These and other national service programs are funded through the Corporation for National and Community Service.Jim KielsmeierMinnesota – long a leader in promoting volunteerism and community service tied to education – would be one of the biggest losers if the corporation were eliminated.
Congress should oppose Trump proposal to eliminate national service programs
AmeriCorps, VISTA and Senior Corps would be eliminated under the Trump administration's 2018 budget proposal, unveiled March 16. These and other national service programs are funded through the Corporation for National and Community Service.Jim KielsmeierMinnesota – long a leader in promoting volunteerism and community service tied to education – would be one of the biggest losers if the corporation were eliminated.
Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Charles Bennett wins 2015 Tomassoni Chisesi Prize
Charles L. Bennett, the Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Gilman Scholar in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, will receive the 2015 "Caterina Tomassoni and Felice Pietro Chisesi Prize" in June at the University of Roma "La Sapienz" in Italy.
Johns Hopkins professor wins IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal
Chia-Ling Chien, a condensed matter physicist at Johns Hopkins University, has received the prestigious 2015 IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal from the Commission on Magnetism within the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. "I am delighted to receive the award, which should be shared with my students and post-docs over the years," Chien said.
'Particle Fever' wins Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in Journalism
David E. Kaplan, a Johns Hopkins professor, theoretical particle physicist and documentary producer, received the 2015 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in Journalism for his contributions to the production of Particle Fever. Kaplan and the cast and crew involved with the production were given the award for producing the feature-length documentary about the identification of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, in 2012.
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