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Creativity Competition Creates New Ideas to Cure Cancer

January 20, 2012

Last Friday, the historic Hurd Hall at Johns Hopkins was filled to capacity with students, faculty and staff waiting to hear five scientists – all in the early part of their careers – describe their novel ideas on how to cure metastatic cancer.  It was part of a competition on creative thinking named for John […]

admin ⋅ cancer research, metastatic cancer, Research, Science, vw ⋅

Science is Cool!

February 8, 2011

Whether it’s making a sticky, rubbery substance like Flubber, turning a clear solution blue, or figuring out how a normal cell turns into a cancer cell, it’s all science. Those of us at the Kimmel Cancer Center think science is cool, and we’re hoping, with the right introduction, young students will begin to think so […]

Valerie Matthews-Mehl ⋅ Issues & Perspectives, Uncategorized Children and science, Community, education, Johns Hopkins, Kimmel Cancer Center, Science, Science and math, teaching ⋅

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