Honor roles for top faculty
Alumni Association salutes those who excel in the art of
instruction

Gigi the Clone helps teach pathophysiology to future
nurses. YouTube videos pop up in a public
health course. Students in another class hear songs with
biostatistics lyrics. And biomedical
engineering students compare their professor's
instructional talks (about the history, mechanisms and
applications of ion channels, no less) to a summer
blockbuster film.
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Farewell to the class of 2009
For thousands of Johns Hopkins students, a journey
ends this week as another begins. On
Thursday morning, President Ronald Daniels will offer his
first universitywide commencement address and confer
degrees and certificates on a record-high 6,776
JHU scholars.
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Old diabetes drug teaches experts new
tricks
Research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center reveals
that the drug most commonly used in type 2 diabetics who
don't need insulin works on a
much more basic level than once thought, treating
persistently elevated blood sugar — the hallmark of
type 2 diabetes — by regulating the genes that
control its production.
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