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Session 2: Quantum Sensing
Imagine a world where you can monitor the movement of magma within the Earth’s crust, peer around the corner without moving, and detect initial signs of degenerative disease. Welcome to the quantum world! This course will introduce you to the weird and wondrous quantum world and quantum sensing, ...
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Session 1: Quantum Sensing
Imagine a world where you can monitor the movement of magma within the Earth’s crust, peer around the corner without moving, and detect initial signs of degenerative disease. Welcome to the quantum world! This course will introduce you to the weird and wondrous quantum world and quantum sensing, ...
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The Research Climate in COVID-19
Join Denis Wirtz, Vice Provost for Research and the Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor of Engineering Science at the Whiting School of Engineering, as he discusses the implications of COVID-19 on the research community at Johns Hopkins and those specific to his work at the Johns Hopkins Physical S...
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The Politics of Food
Food is central to our daily lives, yet few of us consider the political implications of what we eat. How does our personal connection to, and daily consumption of, food shape how we think about these issues? What does food and agriculture tell us about the political process and the power of spec...
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Swinging around the Sun with the Parker Solar Probe: Mission and Milestone
Join Dr. Nour Raouafi as he shares the journey of the Parker Solar Probe and how the data collected impacts us on Earth. The Parker Solar Probe will get as close as 3.8 million miles from the solar surface, that almost 4% of the Sun-Earth distance (i.e., 93 million miles) and on Jan. 21, the spac...
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Sustainability Leadership Council - Annual Symposium -2021
The SLC is pleased to announce the participation of Dr. Carolyn Finney as the keynote speaker for 2nd Annual SLC Symposium. Dr. Finney is a storyteller, author, and cultural geographer whose work is grounded in awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determ...
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Shock and Awe: Impacts in Space, Science, and Society
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An asteroid threatens Earth. An earthquake swallows a city. A blast rips through a street. Shocks surround us - whether light-years away in space or around the corner in a car crash.
Together, we engage in a visual exploration of the story of shocks in materials and in systems. We study impact c...
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Session 1: Shock and Awe: Impacts in Space, Science, and Society
Join KT Ramesh, founding director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), on a visual exploration of the story of shocks in materials and in systems. We study impact craters, earthquakes, nuclear events, and the life and death of asteroids. Finally, we explore creative extensions into ...
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Session 2: Shock and Awe: Impacts in Space, Science, and Society
Join KT Ramesh, founding director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), on a visual exploration of the story of shocks in materials and in systems. We study impact craters, earthquakes, nuclear events, and the life and death of asteroids. Finally, we explore creative extensions into ...
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Session 4: Shock and Awe: Impacts in Space, Science, and Society
Join KT Ramesh, founding director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), on a visual exploration of the story of shocks in materials and in systems. We study impact craters, earthquakes, nuclear events, and the life and death of asteroids. Finally, we explore creative extensions into ...
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Session 3: Shock and Awe: Impacts in Space, Science, and Society
Join KT Ramesh, founding director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), on a visual exploration of the story of shocks in materials and in systems. We study impact craters, earthquakes, nuclear events, and the life and death of asteroids. Finally, we explore creative extensions into ...
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Quantum Sensing for Everyone
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Imagine a world where you can monitor the movement of magma within the Earth’s crust, peer around the corner without moving, and detect initial signs of degenerative disease. Welcome to the quantum world! This course will introduce you to the weird and wondrous quantum world and quantum sensing, ...
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President's Frontier Award Lecture
The President's Frontier Award was established with a $2.5 million donation from trustee Louis J. Forster. Forster helped design the award to support exceptional scholars among the Johns Hopkins faculty who are on the cusp of transforming their fields. The award recognizes one person each year wi...
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I Never Knew I’d Help Save Lives: An mRNA Biologist’s Journey
Today, Jeff Coller, PhD, studies the building blocks of life. As a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of RNA Biology and Therapeutics and a Scientific Co-Founder at Tevard Biosciences, his work focuses on messenger RNA, a molecule that transmits information from DNA to other parts of the cell. Wit...
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Globalization & Climate Change in the Age of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of global supply chains, as countries around the world have shut their borders and economies have screeched to a halt. Few industries are more globalized than the clean energy sectors that we urgently need to combat climate change, and few rely ...
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Eating in the Anthropocene
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“You are what you eat” is a phrase familiar to many but what do you really know about food systems and diets? This course examines the complex interactions between food systems, diets, and the environment, and the political, social, and ethical issues to achieve both human and planetary health. W...
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Earth Day at 50
Andrew Revkin of Columbia University gives the keynote speech for the Johns Hopkins Sustainability Leadership Council's Earth Day conference. Ben Zaitchik of the Johns Hopkins Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences moderates. The charge of the Johns Hopkins SLC is to provide...
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COVID-19 and Climate Change
Luis Quintero, Assistant Professor at the Carey Business School, explores how the COVID19 and climate change crises are similar in many ways, how they are directly connected, and how the pandemic can change the prospects of our abilities to become more sustainable and avoid address the threat of ...
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Clean Energy Now?: The Future of European Energy After Ukraine
While the conversation about shifting away from fossil fuels to mitigate climate change is not new, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought new attention to the need to accelerate the roll out of clean energy technologies. Russia - the world’s third largest oil producer after the US and Saudi...
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Business of Saving the Planet: A Call to Environmental Leadership
Leadership is the art of motivating and shepherding groups of people to act toward achieving a common goal. In a business setting, this can mean directing workers and colleagues with a strategy to meet the company's needs. Right now, developing environmental leaders within the private and public ...
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Blinded Me with Science: STEM and the Shaping of Political Leadership
Hopkins at Home and Hopkins Votes invites you to engage in a conversation with Denis Wirtz, Vice Provost for Research and Director of the Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center. Dr. Wirtz will expound on why science and science-based decision making are critical in the development of pol...
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Biomedical Challenges of a Trip to Mars
Several agencies are planning to send humans to Mars in the next 10-20 years. Although humans have been venturing into space for almost 60 years, a Mars mission presents new and unprecedented challenges. Join Mark Shelhamer ScD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at the Johns Hopkins School of...
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Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities
In their new book, Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities, authors Matthew E. Kahn, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business and Director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative (21CC) at Johns Hopkins, and Mac McComas, senior program manager at 21CC, explore the recen...
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The Open Source Software Revolution
Open source software has become a key driver of economic activity, community engagement, and societal impact. Consider that many of the tools used to analyze and trace Covid-19 are open source. The open source programs office (OSPO) has become a widely used construct in the private sector for man...