Thursday, January 3, 2013
Dr. Maranda Trahan and her research team are working to help individuals with dementia to communicate.
A Johns Hopkins researcher has three days left in a crowdfunding campaign to benefit dementia research. Dr. Maranda Trahan, a board certified behavioral analyst, is working with a team of student researchers from Towson University and the University of Maryland Baltimore County to find a method for dementia patients to communicate basic wants and needs using picture cards, according to a news release. Trahan is aiming to raise $4,000 to fund more researchers for the project through Rockethub. As of Thursday morning, $2,565 were raised. The campaign ends on Sunday. According to the release, Trahan, a postdoctoral research fellow, has found promising success with the program, but the method has not yet been tested on dementia patients. She …
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Two women and hundreds of Hampton Elementary School students lead a campaign to build and develop libraries in Africa.
At Hampton Elementary School, paper hearts line the hallways. They symbolize donations from students and parents to an impoverished nation, as part of the Hearts For Hope campaign. (See video.) But to two local women and a village of African children, they mean so much more. The hearts represent books and monetary donations aimed at building a library at the Hope School in the African nation of Burundi for the pygmy forest people of the Batwa tribe. “But they are no longer wanderers,” said activist Jean Sack, a Johns Hopkins University research librarian. “They have kind of been resettled—no water, no electricity, but a school that started as a Sunday school.” Sack, a Fallston resident, founded the initiative Books For Burundi in 2011 …
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Johns Hopkins Magazine takes a lighthearted look at Adam Riess' path to winning the Nobel Prize for physics.
- LOCAL CONNECTIONS
- Adam Bednar
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Johns Hopkins Magazine takes a lighthearted look at Adam Riess’ path to winning a Nobel Prize for physics. The illustrated article explains his path to the award with lines such as “Among the wish list options early on in Riess’ career was ‘making first contact with E.T.’ He wisely chose to study the universe’s expansion instead.” In October Riess spoke with Patch about the Nobel win, which he shares with two others, for the 1998 discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. He accepted the award in Stockholm earlier this month.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
A playful 4-year-old unearthed Pattie McLane's father's lost college ring.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Tyler Waldman
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
All it took was one bad lacrosse pass to send Pattie McLane's father's antique ring flying. And all it took was one curious 4-year-old to get it back, more than 14 years after the fact. Peter Ozonoff likes to play in the dirt as much as any 4-year old, said his mother, Francie. He might turn up worms or sticks or bottlecaps. But last week, outside their Gaywood home, he dug up what he thought was a bottle cap. But it was something far more valuable. The gold Johns Hopkins University ring is marked with a graduation year—1948—and Greek letters (of the fraternity Delta Upsilon) emblazoned on an onyx. Inside the ring, initials were still visible, or at least visible enough. Despite spending so many years underground, it doesn't look much …
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