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President Brody to retire
Will step down Dec. 31 after 12-plus years at the helm of
Johns Hopkins
William R. Brody, who has led The Johns Hopkins
University to a deepened commitment to
undergraduate education, diversity, the community and
research that advances human society, and who
has directed a transformative renewal of its facilities,
will retire as president on Dec. 31, he informed
the board of trustees today.
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'Research city' to rise on 600
acres
Johns Hopkins wants to help pave the way for a "research
city" in Montgomery County, Md., that would rival
top-flight facilities in Palo Alto, Calif., Cambridge,
Mass., and around the globe. The university has outlined
its intention in what is known as Vision 2030, a plan to
create a 600-acre world-class science community in the
Shady Grove area, which is located along the Interstate 270
corridor.
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Pacemaker tune-up works wonders on dog
hearts
Using pacemakers to electrically retune a heart
damaged by long bouts of a wobbling heartbeat,
where one heart muscle wall is beating sooner than the
other, leads to fast improvements in the tissue
levels of more than a dozen proteins key to the organ's
health, scientists at Johns Hopkins report in
experiments in dogs.
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Departments
Neighborhood Fund Allocation Committee selected,
grant applications being sought