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The universe, and all its beauty
Student-curated exhibit at Walters Art Museum shows off
Hubble images
In 2006, astronomers released a spectacular full-color
panorama of the Orion nebula, a
turbulent star-forming region located 1,500 light-years
away in the constellation of Orion the Hunter.
The seamless mosaic, containing a billion pixels, shows an
area of wispy blue-, pink- and peach-colored
dust and gas clouds and thousands of stars, some faint,
others bright blue dots with needlelike rays.
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Sheridan Libraries to digitize France's 'Roman de la Rose'
manuscripts
Grants of $779,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation will allow The Johns Hopkins
University and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France to
provide scholars with virtual access to more
than half the known versions of Le Roman de la Rose,
a medieval poem on the art of love that was the
most-read work of French literature for hundreds of
years.
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Sleep duration may play important role in childhood obesity
risk
Less sleep can increase a child's risk of being
overweight or obese, according to a study by
researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health. Their analysis of epidemiological
studies found that with each additional hour of sleep, the
risk of a child's being overweight or obese
dropped by 9 percent. The results are published in the
February edition of Obesity, the journal of the
Obesity Society.
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Departments
Nursing, Medicine, SPH join in opposing violence against
women