Joanis comes to Hopkins from Bucknell,where he has overseen HR for eight years and played alead role in helping the university navigate the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. 查看详细>>

Johns Hopkins University‘s newly established Tenure Advisory Committee—a universitywide body that will advise President Ronald J.Daniels on the strength of tenure cases forwarded to him for consideration and will bring the university in line with how its peers address the tenure process—held its first meeting earlier this month.Daniels charged the 14-member TAC with fostering consistently high academic standards across the schools.Chaired by Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Sunil Kumar,the TAC will begin advising Daniels on all cases submitted to him for final approval by the board of trustees in February 2021."One of the most important academic decisions that we make as auniversity are the appointments and promotions of our faculty colleagues,"Daniels said."I know my part in the tenure process will benefit tremendously from the cross-divisional and diverse faculty perspectives represented on this committee."The TAC was created based on the recommendation of the Faculty Advisory Committee on Tenure,or FACT,which formed in April 2019 to assess the value of creating auniversity-level tenure committee and to make recommendations for its composition and procedures.FACT issued its final report in favor of forming the TAC in December 2019 after nine months of extensive research,consultation,deliberation,and revision. 查看详细>>

Johns Hopkins President Ronald J.Daniels shared the following message with the university community today about the significant financial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for JHU.Dear Members of the Johns Hopkins Community:In recent weeks,I have written to share updates with our community and to express my profound gratitude for your extraordinary response to COVID-19.I continue to be awestruck by our university‘s remarkable resourcefulness and resilience,its decency and aspiration,its humanity and excellence.As we look across the vast expanse of Johns Hopkins—in health care,research,education,and service—it is clear that our mission advances despite the very trying circumstances in which we are operating.Johns Hopkins has truly risen to this moment.This is rightfully apoint of shared pride for all of us.Yet our university is not immune to the very serious negative effects of COVID-19.Today,I write to speak frankly with you about the substantial financial challenges our university is confronting and the measures we are undertaking to meet them,including actions that will directly and significantly affect our employees.The context for this discussion is among the most daunting of our lifetime,given the devastating toll that COVID-19 is exacting on our nation and its citizens.As of this week,more than 40,000 people have died of the disease in the United States and many thousands more have been rendered gravely ill,some with long-term health effects.Over the past month alone,more than 22 million people across the country filed for unemployment compensation,including more than 300,000 people in Maryland.Government and industry leaders now predict levels of economic loss not seen since the Great Depression of almost acentury ago,and caution us to prepare for years of extended recovery. 查看详细>>

Johns Hopkins University today announced the launch of anew interdisciplinary center to take on the complex,urgent issue of school safety and health by developing and creating access to evidence-based solutions and resources.The Center for Safe and Healthy Schools will work to address pressing issues such as suicide,trauma,bullying,and gun violence by equipping school leaders,their communities,and policymakers with the knowledge and tools they need to make informed decisions.The launch of the center was announced this morning by Christopher C.Morphew,dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education,at the annual Education Writers Association conference in Baltimore.The center will be led by the School of Education. 查看详细>>

If you built the largest,most powerful computer currently feasible,it would have about the same number of transistors as there are synapses in the brain of a3-year-old child.It would also be slightly larger than atennis court,and consume 106 times the power needed by the preschooler‘s brain.All of which means that it might be time to look in anew direction for the next generation of computers,and the power and efficiency of the brain as acomputing device suggests that it‘s worth exploring biology as an inspiration,says Rebecca Schulman,an assistant professor in Johns Hopkins University‘s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.The National Science Foundation,which has afunding stream directed toward innovative biology-based information technologies,agrees with her,and awarded Schulman and three colleagues$1.5 million to design acomputing system based on living cells."Our thought was that people have started programming cells,and now it is possible to create whole new genomes.What if we start over and engineer cultured cells like yeast,where the goal is to make them computing units?"asks Schulman,who will serve as principal investigator.The grant,made in partnership with the Semiconductor Research Corporation,is designed to facilitate ultra-low-energy computing,storage,and signal processing systems built on developments in the fields of biology,chemistry,and engineering.Schulman‘s team will explore the creation of anew generation of dense,inexpensive,and highly energy-efficient computers made of large,three-dimensional yeast cell colonies grown from simple raw materials.Additional researchers are Joshua Vogelstein from the Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering,Eric Klavins from the University of Washington,and Andrew Ellington from the University of Texas at Austin.Previous related efforts have focused on using neurons for computing,but programming neurons is difficult and researchers have yet to successfully direct their information processing.Easy-to-grow cells like yeast solve the issue of programmability but present other challenges:they are prone to error and they divide and die,making it difficult to build areliable computing architecture. 查看详细>>