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A new tradition begins
Quads lighting kicks off larger effort to revive and
introduce JHU memories
With the flip of a switch (well, several to be exact),
a luminous occasion commenced on Monday evening, Nov. 28,
as hundreds gathered on the Homewood campus to take part in
the inaugural Lighting of the Quads, an event that its
organizers hope will become an annual tradition.
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New program aims at hybrid
researchers
A $1 million grant from the
Howard Hughes Medical
Institute will help create a new graduate training
program in Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine at Johns
Hopkins. The NBMed program will provide interdisciplinary
training in nanotechnology and biology to a new generation
of graduate students from three schools within Johns
Hopkins. The goal is to provide a broader range of
knowledge and skills to people embarking on careers in
biology and medicine.
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New drug target identified for Parkinson's
disease
Researchers at the university's
Institute for Cell Engineering have discovered a protein
that could be the best new target in the fight against
Parkinson's disease since the brain-damaging condition was
first tied to loss of the brain chemical dopamine.
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Thinking Out Loud: William R. Brody