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Johns Hopkins University's first-generation, limited-income (FLI) community joined hundreds of universities across the country on Nov. 8 in recognizing National First-Generation College Student Day. To celebrate, Hopkins students, graduates, staff, faculty, and friends came together on Keyser Quad at the Homewood campus for an afternoon of art ...
New study suggests that too much TV really can rot your brain
Literally. Drawing on data spanning 20 years, he led a study published in the September issue of Brain Imaging and Behavior suggesting that greater amounts of TV viewing can lead to reduced amounts of cranial gray matter—home to the neurons that perform the bulk of our mental processing. "Prevailing scientific thought says preserving our ...
Does homework still have value? A Johns Hopkins education
Jan 17, 2024 · But after decades of researching how to improve schools, the professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Education remains certain that homework is essential—as long as the teachers have done their homework, too. The National Network of Partnership Schools, which she founded in 1995 to advise schools and districts on ways to improve comprehensive programs of family engagement, has developed ...
What is social distancing and how can it slow the spread of COVID …
Mar 13, 2020 · With COVID-19, the goal of social distancing right now is to slow down the outbreak in order to reduce the chance of infection among high-risk populations and to reduce the burden on health care systems and workers. Experts describe this as "flattening the curve," which generally refers to the potential success of social distancing measures to ...
This new interactive map lets you scroll through the universe
Nov 17, 2022 · A new map of the universe displays for the first time the span of the entire known cosmos with pinpoint accuracy and sweeping beauty. Created by Johns Hopkins University astronomers with data mined over two decades by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the map allows the public to experience data previously only accessible to scientists.. The interactive map, which depicts the actual position and ...
Johns Hopkins study suggests medical errors are third-leading …
Their figure, published May 3 in The BMJ, surpasses the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's third leading cause of death—respiratory disease, which kills close to 150,000 people per year. The Johns Hopkins team says the CDC's way of collecting national health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on the death ...
A simple spray could keep COVID-19 away | Hub - The Hub
Jan 12, 2023 · A simple spray could keep COVID-19 away. Johns Hopkins engineers have developed a method to prevent harmful viruses from entering the lungs, blocking the spread of COVID-19 and influenza with a nasal spray. What if preventing respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19 and influenza were as easy as a quick spritz of nasal spray every morning ...
Johns Hopkins Hospital ranked No. 4 nationally by 'U.S. News'
Jul 27, 2021 · The Johns Hopkins Hospital is ranked No. 4 in the nation out of more than 4,500 hospitals reviewed for U.S. News & World Report 's 2021–22 Best Hospitals list, which was released today. The publication also ranked 12 specialties at Johns Hopkins among the top 10 in the nation, including two—Psychiatry and Rheumatology—ranked No. 1.
Teen mental health has long been in peril. Since COVID-19, it
Despite growing awareness that children and teenagers can get depressed, substantial gaps remain in diagnosis and treatment. Even in states with the best access to mental health care, one in three young people goes without treatment, says Tamar Mendelson, director of the Center for Adolescent Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.In Texas, the worst state for treatment access, nearly ...
A new look for your myJH portal | Hub - The Hub
Hub staff report. / Oct 1, 2020. The myJH portal has been reimagined from the ground up and now gives users an all-new experience when accessing crucial Johns Hopkins tools and information. And the portal's responsive design allows users to have a consistent experience across a multitude of device types. All users will migrate to this new ...