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The graduate program in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University offers students the opportunity to earn a PhD while working at the cutting edge of research on the mind and brain. The primary goal of the program is the training of researchers who, through careers in academia, industry, and other arenas work to deepen our understanding of mental processes.

The PhD program in Psychological and Brain Sciences is not a clinical training or a counseling program; rather, our faculty and trainees work to understand fundamental processes involved in perception, memory, decision-making, learning, reasoning, and related abilities. In our five-year, full-time program, graduate students also fulfill the requirements for and earn an MA. We do not admit students into a terminal Master’s program, and our program is not available for online study.

All PhD students in good academic standing and making satisfactory progress can expect to be supported for five years.  As part of their graduate training, all PhD students typically complete four semesters of Teaching Assistantship.

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We seek students who have demonstrated a commitment to psychological science. Most successful applicants have completed undergraduate degrees in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Biology, Behavioral Neuroscience, or Neuroscience, but other related majors can also provide the needed background.

We strongly encourage candidates from traditionally marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.

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All components of the PhD application, including VTSI supplemental components, must be completed by December 1, 2024 . All supplementary application material including letters of recommendation also must be received by December 1.

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• the ability to express ideas clearly, a curious and creative intellect, and mathematical and computational ability
• often, but not always: prior research experience

It is this wide scope of admissions considerations that helps build a community within Psychological and Brain Sciences that values intellectual and personal diversity. As a result of this comprehensive approach to the admissions process, guidelines like such as GRE scores or GPA (i.e., cut-offs) are not available.

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The graphs display results for 1218 adults aged 18 years or older. Data from panel A are from wave 3 of the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Civic Life and Public Health Survey, fielded November 11 to November 30, 2020. Adult survey participants were defined as having housing insecurity if they reported: (1) being currently behind on rent or mortgage or (2) having no or low confidence in their ability to pay the next rent or mortgage payment vs having moderate or high confidence. Analysis was unadjusted and weighted to be nationally representative. In panel B, psychological distress was measured using the Kessler 6 Psychological Distress Scale, with scores of 5 or higher indicating moderate or severe psychological distress. The error bars denote 95% CIs. Analyses were weighted to be nationally representative.

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Linton SL , Leifheit KM , McGinty EE , Barry CL , Pollack CE. Association Between Housing Insecurity, Psychological Distress, and Self-rated Health Among US Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(9):e2127772. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.27772

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Association Between Housing Insecurity, Psychological Distress, and Self-rated Health Among US Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• 1 Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
• 2 Department of Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles
• 3 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
• 4 Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland
• Correction Error in Figure JAMA Network Open

Economic hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated concerns about the threat of evictions and foreclosures. 1 , 2 While prior research has documented an association between housing insecurity and health, 3 the magnitude of this relationship has not been examined during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the association between housing insecurity and health in a nationally representative sample during the pandemic is critical to inform efforts to support people harmed by the economic downturn.

This survey study was deemed nonhuman participants research by the institutional review board at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and informed consent was waived. This study followed the American Association for Public Opinion Research ( AAPOR ) reporting guideline and the Survey Reporting Guideline ( SURGE ).

Data were from wave 3 of the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Civic Life and Public Health Survey , conducted online November 11 to November 30, 2020, using the National Opinion Research Center’s probability-based AmeriSpeak panel. With a panel recruitment rate of 34%, 4 AmeriSpeak is representative of the US civilian, noninstitutional adult population and covers 97% of households. A total of 1468 US adults participated in wave 1 (April 2020), which had a response rate of 70.4%. Among wave 1 respondents, 1337 responded to wave 2 (July 2020), and 1222 responded to wave 3 with completion rates of 91% and 92%, respectively.

Housing insecurity was defined as being currently behind on rent or mortgage or having no or low confidence in their ability to pay the next rent or mortgage payment vs having moderate or high confidence. Outcomes included psychological distress symptoms measured using Kessler 6 Psychological Distress Scale 5 and dichotomized as moderate or severe vs lower psychological distress based on a score of 5 or more and self-rated health dichotomized as fair or poor vs good, very good, or excellent.

Covariates based on prior research 2 , 3 , 6 included gender, race and ethnicity, age, household income in 2019, employment status, housing tenure, household structure, and urbanicity (eMethods in the Supplement ). We separately estimated predicted probabilities of each outcome by status of housing insecurity, controlling for covariates. Analytic sample excluded 4 participants missing outcome data. Analyses were weighted to be nationally representative. Stata version 15 (StataCorp) was used for data analysis. Predicted probabilities were estimated from logistic regression models. Tests were 2-tailed and statistical significance was set at P  < .05. Statistical analysis was performed between February to March 2021.

This survey study included 1218 participants (623 [51%] female; 560 [46%] aged 30 to 54 years; 549 [45%] aged 55 years or older; 161 [13%] self-identified as being Hispanic; 157 [13%] self-identified as being non-Hispanic Black; 841 [69%] self-identified as being non-Hispanic White). Overall, 128 participants (12%) reported housing insecurity in November 2020. Among participants experiencing housing insecurity, 42 participants (34%) reported being behind on housing payments, 55 participants (38%) reported having little to no confidence in their ability to make the next housing payment, and 31 participants (28%) reported both ( Figure ). Housing insecurity vs housing security was disproportionately higher among participants who rented their homes (78 [64%] vs 281 [27%]; P  <.001); non-Hispanic Black race (44 [37%] vs 113 [8%]), were aged 30 to 54 years (88 [64%] vs 472 [38%]), earned less than $35 000 in 2019 (64 [52%] vs 268 [27%]), lived with children (58 [47%] vs 279 [29%]), or resided in metropolitan counties (116 [92%] vs 914 [84%]) ( Table ).

Forty-six percent (95% CI, 43%-50%) of participants reported severe to moderate psychological distress; 18% (95% CI, 15%-21%) reported fair to poor health. Compared with participants with housing security, participants experiencing housing insecurity reported higher distress (69 [57%] vs 467 [45%]) and lower self-rated health (33 [30%] vs 157 [16%]). After covariate adjustment, the association between housing insecurity and lower self-rated health was statistically significant. The association between housing insecurity and higher distress was no longer statistically significant. Fifty-seven percent (95% CI, 44%-69%) of participants experiencing housing insecurity reported moderate or severe distress relative to 45% (95% CI, 41%-49%) of participants with housing security ( P  = .09), and 26% (95% CI, 15%-37%) of participants experiencing housing insecurity reported fair or poor health, relative to 15% (95% CI, 12%-18%) of participants with housing security ( P  = .03) ( Figure ).

In this nationally representative sample of US adults, housing insecurity was associated with higher psychological distress and lower self-rated health during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey was conducted after the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide eviction moratorium, which may have attenuated these associations. Interventions that reduce housing insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic will promote the health of the US population, and those interventions that consider equity in their implementation may mitigate entrenched health disparities resulting from structural racism and exacerbated by the pandemic. Results may be vulnerable to sampling biases, including the underrepresentation of adults experiencing homelessness. The cross-sectional design of this study precludes identifying causality; the survey did not assess prepandemic housing needs.

Accepted for Publication: July 30, 2021.

Published: September 30, 2021. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.27772

Correction: This article was corrected on November 4, 2021, to fix the colors of the bars in Panel B of the Figure.

Open Access: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY License . © 2021 Linton SL et al. JAMA Network Open .

Corresponding Author: Sabriya L. Linton, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N Broadway, Room 882, Baltimore, MD 21205 ( [email protected] ).

Author Contributions : Drs Linton and Leifheit had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

Concept and design: All authors.

Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: All authors.

Drafting of the manuscript: Linton, Barry.

Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors.

Statistical analysis: Linton, Leifheit, Barry.

Obtained funding: Linton, McGinty, Pollack.

Administrative, technical, or material support: Linton, Leifheit, McGinty, Pollack.

Supervision: Linton, McGinty, Pollack.

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Pollack reported owning stock in Gilead Pharmaceuticals and being an unpaid member of Enterprise Community Partners’ Health Advisory Council. Dr Pollack reported receiving personal fees as a consultant to the Open Communities Alliance and working on a temporary assignment with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Dr McGinty reported receiving grants from Johns Hopkins University Alliance for a Healthier World 2020 COVID-19 Launchpad during the conduct of the study and receiving grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Arnold Ventures outside the submitted work. Dr Leifheit reported giving expert testimony to legislative bodies regarding the public health impacts of eviction. Drs Pollack, Leifheit, and Linton reported signing on as amici to amici curiae briefs supporting the CDC’s national moratorium on eviction. No other disclosures were reported.

Funding/Support: Funding for survey data collection came from Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Alliance for a Healthier World, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr Leifheit was supported by grant T32HS000046 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Role of the Funder/Sponsor: The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

Disclaimer: The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development or other government agencies.

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Six Hopkins researchers named AAAS Fellows

They join an esteemed group of scientists, engineers, and innovators who have been recognized for their achievements across disciplines.

Image caption: Clockwise from left: Takanari Inoue, Patricia Janak, Rejji Kuruvilla, Cynthia L. Sears, Akira Sawa, and Robert Moffitt

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Six Johns Hopkins researchers are among 502 distinguished scholars recognized this year as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the world's largest general scientific society. Since 1874, fellows have been elected by the AAAS Council for their achievements in their respective fields and contributions to science at large.

The AAAS fellows from Johns Hopkins are:

Takanari Inoue

Takanari Inoue joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty in 2008 and is a professor in the Department of Cell Biology and director of the Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB) Graduate Program . His lab has developed a kind of actuator, converting energy to motion, at the molecular level with the high temporal and spatial precision to move and probe actions in live cells, such as chemotaxis, phagocytosis, and degranulation, as well as the function of cilia, microtubules, and stress granules. Inoue also leads the Center for Cell Dynamics within the Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences.

Patricia Janak

Patricia Janak joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty in 2014 as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Associative Learning and Addiction with joint appointments in the Krieger School and School of Medicine. Janak investigates the biological basis of behavior and associative learning, with a particular focus on addiction. She examines the role environmental stimuli take in regulating emotional responses and impacting decision-making, aiming to better understand how drug- and alcohol-associated stimuli contribute to relapse. Janak's research is focused on the behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms underlying adaptive and maladaptive associative learning. She combines formal learning theories and models of behavior with cutting-edge neuroscience tools to interrogate how learning changes the way neural circuits operate in the brain. Janak studies these changes both in normal learning scenarios and in pathological learning, such as drug addiction or post-traumatic stress disorder. Her current research goals are to understand the amygdala's role in behavior triggered by cues associated with both positive and negative outcomes, the function dopamine serves in reward-related behavior, and the behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying drug relapse.

Rejji Kuruvilla

Rejji Kuruvilla is a professor of biology and vice dean for natural sciences at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences , and she holds a joint appointment in the Department of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine. She received her bachelor's degree from Calcutta University in India, her PhD from the University of Houston, and did her postdoctoral work at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the development and functions of the sympathetic nervous system. She has co-authored numerous papers that have been published in journals including Nature , The Journal of Neuroscience , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Developmental Cell , and Neuron .

Robert A. Moffitt

Robert A. Moffitt is a professor in the Department of Economics in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and holds a joint appointment at the Bloomberg School of Public Health . His research interests are in the areas of labor economics and applied microeconomics, focusing specifically on low-income populations in the U.S. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and his accolades include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health. Previously, he served as chief editor of the American Economic Review , co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics , chief editor of the Journal of Human Resources , and as chair of the National Academy of Sciences Panel to Evaluate Welfare Reform. Currently, he serves as editor of Tax Policy and the Economy , a publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Akira Sawa is director of the Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Center ; professor of psychiatry, neuroscience, biomedical engineering, genetic medicine, and pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and professor of mental health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He started his Johns Hopkins career as an independent faculty investigator in 2002. Since 2012, he has served as the director and endowed chair of the Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Center. The center focuses on patient care, research, education, and public outreach for psychotic disorders and severe mental disorders. In 2020, he was elected as a fellow to the Association of American Physicians. Based on Sawa's training in both clinical psychiatry and basic molecular neuroscience, he leads multidisciplinary translational projects to address mechanistic questions for major mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, and Alzheimer's disease, with a particular emphasis on early detection and early intervention of these conditions.

Cynthia Sears

Cynthia L. Sears is a professor of medicine, oncology, and molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She leads the Microbiome Program of the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, the director of the Germfree Murine Core, and co-director of the Microbiome Forum at Johns Hopkins. Through translational and bench research stemming from her training as an infectious disease specialist and physician-scientist, she discovered a central immune mechanism by which enteric bacteria and the microbiome promote colon carcinogenesis and modulate cancer immunotherapy responses. This mechanism has proven important in multiple examples of inflammation-induced carcinogenesis and thus provides opportunities to contribute to cancer immunoprevention and interception spanning many tumor types. She has long been an active member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), serving as president of IDSA in 2019. She is currently editor-in-chief of The Journal of Infectious Diseases , the flagship journal of the IDSA.

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No. 5 Maryland And No. 3 Johns Hopkins To Meet In 120th Edition Of "The Rivalry" On Saturday

• This will be the 120th meeting between the Terps and the Blue Jays. Maryland is 50-68-1 against Johns Hopkins all-time. The Blue Jays list this as the 127th game between the two rivals. Hopkins counts seven more games in the series (1895-23) before men's lacrosse was an official varsity sport at the University of Maryland.  Since 1924 Maryland and Johns Hopkins have met on the lacrosse field every year (except for 1944 & 1945 due to World War II and 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
• Last season, the two teams met twice, first in the regular season finale in College Park and then in the Big Ten Tournament Semifinal at Homewood Field. The two teams split those games.
• In the 2023 Big Ten Semifinals, third-seeded Maryland bested second-seeded Johns Hopkins, 14-9, in Baltimore behind a hat trick from former Blue Jay Owen Murphy and a career-high four points from Zach Whittier . Ten Terps had points in the game and eight scored goals. Hopkins scored the first three goals of the game but Maryland rebounded with six of the next seven and never looked back after that. Luke Wierman won 13 faceoffs in the game and became just the second Terp to ever eclipse 600 career wins. True freshman Brian Ruppel made 11 saves. Maryland allowed just six goals over the final 54:41 of game action.
• In the 2023 regular season finale, 6,594 fans gathered to watch the greatest rivalry in college lacrosse. The game was tied at every score from 0 to 10 and featured eight lead changes with Johns Hopkins prevailing 12-11. Freshman Braden Erksa had a career-high five points on a career-high tying four goals and an assist. Hopkins captured a share of the Big Ten Championship with the win and was led by Russell Melendez who scored two goals including the game-winner with 3:51 left to play.
• The last regular regular season meeting at Homewood Field came in 2022 and saw the Terps score the most goals in series history with a 22-7 victory. The 15-goal margin was also a series record. Logan Wisnauskas continued his dominance of Hopkins with an eight-point outing on five goals and three assists. Keegan Khan and Owen Murphy each scored four times and added an assist. Luke Wierman controlled the game at the faceoff X, winning 17-of-27 with nine groundballs and a goal. Logan McNaney allowed just four goals in three quarters of action in cage and made 11 saves.

• With his 12th of 17 face-off wins against Richmond on Feb. 3, Luke Wierman   became Maryland's all-time program leader in face-off wins. He broke Andy Claxton's record of 648 that had stood for over three decades. Against Rutgers, Wierman added 11 more faceoff wins and now has 781 all-time. 
• Wierman is also climbing up the career groundballs list. With seven groundballs against Michigan, he officially became the second Terp all-time with 400+ groundballs in his career. Thanks to five groundballs vs. Rutgers on Saturday, he now stands at 421 for his career and only trails Andy Claxton and his 451 all-time.
• Wierman set yet another program record against Princeton on Feb. 24, 2024 as he won a remarkable 20 of 23 faceoffs for 87%, marking the highest faceoff win percentage in program history for those who won a minimum of 20 faceoffs. 

• When Logan McNaney started in cage at Richmond on Saturday, Feb. 3, it marked his first game action in just under a year. After suffering a season-ending ACL injury against Loyola last season, McNaney missed the remainder of the 2023 season. Against the Spiders, McNaney played all 65:05 minutes and made 13 saves, including two in overtime.  
• Behind a nine-save performance at Penn State, McNaney officially became just the fourth Terp ever to eclipse 500 career saves.
• Against Rutgers, he made a season-high 15 saves and allowed just six goals, bringing him to 527 career saves. 

• Daniel Maltz  scored the game's first goal between the Terps and Fighting Irish and officially cemented himself as the 18th Terp in program history to score at least 100 points. 
• Additionally, starting with C. Rennie Smith, who totaled 128 career points from 1955-58, a total of 61 Maryland men's lacrosse student-athletes have reached the 100-point milestone for their careers. Maltz is the latest Terp on the 100-career-points list after his four points vs. Notre Dame on March 3, 2023.
• Maltz currently sits 29th all-time with 145 career points and 13th all-time with 110 career goals. Against Michigan on March 23, Maltz led the Terps with four points on three goals and an assist. 
• Maltz also notched an extra-man goal against the Wolverines, putting him in a three-way tie for fifth all-time in EMO goals with 16 in his career. Joe Walters stands No. 1 in that category with 20 extra-man goals to his name.
• Most recently, Maltz scored two goals within eight seconds in the fourth quarter at Penn State. 

• Ajax Zappitello is climbing the career caused turnovers list. With 66 CT's, he's now in sole possession of No. 11.
• Zappitello is one of just 16 Terps to eclipse 50 caused turnovers. 
• He caused at least one turnover in each of the first 10 games this season, and has multiple in eight games.

• In three of the first six games this season, the Terps have found themselves in overtime---coming out victorious in all three.
• Owen Murphy got the job done in Maryland's season opener at Richmond, connecting from deep in 2OT. SSDM George Stamos was the unlikely hero at Syracuse, notching the game-winner off a successful Maryland clear. Daniel Maltz notched the winner against Brown, coming off a feed from Braden Erksa . 
• Maryland went 2-1 in overtime games last season, with overtime wins at No.1 Virginia and at No. 19 Ohio State.
• The Terps are 15-8 in overtime games under John Tillman and have won five straight dating back to last season.

• Since John Tillman took over the program in 2011, Maryland has won 158 of the 180 games in which it has scored 10 or more goals for a .878 winning percentage.
• Additionally, Maryland is 124-11 since Tillman took over the program in 2011 when it allows nine goals or less for a .919 winning percentage. The Terps have won a remarkable 51 games in a row when holding foes to less than 10 goals.
• Most recently, against Rutgers, the Terps accomplished both of those feats--scoring 11 goals and limiting Rutgers to just six (including only two in the second half). The win gave the Terps their third straight win in conference play. 

• Maryland has an all-time record of 890-287-4 (.755), dating back to the first varsity team in 1924 (a team was not fielded in 1944 and 1945 due to World War II). Maryland has finished with a .500 or better record in all 98 seasons. The program reached the 800-win milestone with a 12-6 victory on April 12, 2017, at Albany.
• The Terps boast four NCAA Championships, 28 Final Four appearances and 522 All-Americans. 
• With a 14-9 win at No. 5 Johns Hopkins on May 4, 2023 in the Big Ten Tournament Semifinal, the Terps extended their streak of double-digit win seasons to 20, the longest active streak in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse. The streak also coincides with the Terps making 20 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, also the longest such streak in the country in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse.
• Since joining the Big Ten in 2015, Maryland is 39-8 (.830) in conference play. 

Players Mentioned

#10 Braden Erksa

#37 Daniel Maltz

#30 Logan McNaney

#55 Owen Murphy

#19 Brian Ruppel

#54 George Stamos

#13 Zach Whittier

#52 Luke Wierman

#1 Ajax Zappitello

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Victor Mukhin

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Title : Active carbons as nanoporous materials for solving of environmental problems

However, up to now, the main carriers of catalytic additives have been mineral sorbents: silica gels, alumogels. This is obviously due to the fact that they consist of pure homogeneous components SiO2 and Al2O3, respectively. It is generally known that impurities, especially the ash elements, are catalytic poisons that reduce the effectiveness of the catalyst. Therefore, carbon sorbents with 5-15% by weight of ash elements in their composition are not used in the above mentioned technologies. However, in such an important field as a gas-mask technique, carbon sorbents (active carbons) are carriers of catalytic additives, providing effective protection of a person against any types of potent poisonous substances (PPS). In ESPE “JSC "Neorganika" there has been developed the technology of unique ashless spherical carbon carrier-catalysts by the method of liquid forming of furfural copolymers with subsequent gas-vapor activation, brand PAC. Active carbons PAC have 100% qualitative characteristics of the three main properties of carbon sorbents: strength - 100%, the proportion of sorbing pores in the pore space – 100%, purity - 100% (ash content is close to zero). A particularly outstanding feature of active PAC carbons is their uniquely high mechanical compressive strength of 740 ± 40 MPa, which is 3-7 times larger than that of  such materials as granite, quartzite, electric coal, and is comparable to the value for cast iron - 400-1000 MPa. This allows the PAC to operate under severe conditions in moving and fluidized beds.  Obviously, it is time to actively develop catalysts based on PAC sorbents for oil refining, petrochemicals, gas processing and various technologies of organic synthesis.

Victor M. Mukhin was born in 1946 in the town of Orsk, Russia. In 1970 he graduated the Technological Institute in Leningrad. Victor M. Mukhin was directed to work to the scientific-industrial organization "Neorganika" (Elektrostal, Moscow region) where he is working during 47 years, at present as the head of the laboratory of carbon sorbents.     Victor M. Mukhin defended a Ph. D. thesis and a doctoral thesis at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (in 1979 and 1997 accordingly). Professor of Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Scientific interests: production, investigation and application of active carbons, technological and ecological carbon-adsorptive processes, environmental protection, production of ecologically clean food.   

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Expanding Methadone Access in Correctional Facilities

On March 28, 2024, the Johns Hopkins Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy hosted a forum about recent rules and guidance issued by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) on the use of methadone in correctional facilities and the concurrent roll-out of federal initiatives increasing access to treatment. We're proud to present the program in full here, including panel discussions with policymakers and practitioners at the federal, state and local levels.

Featured speakers included:  

Rahul Gupta, MD, MPH, FACP, MBA  

Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)  

Brendan Saloner, PhD  

Bloomberg Professor of American Health

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health  

Yngvild Olsen, MD, MPH  

Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)  

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)  

Matthew Strait, MA  

Deputy Assistant Administrator

Office of Diversion Control Regulatory (DCR)  

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)  

Sara Whaley, MPH, MSW, MA  

Senior Practice Associate  

Catherine Smith, DO  

Director of Addiction Medicine  

Washington State Department of Corrections  

Ryan Thornell, PhD  

Arizona Department of Corrections Rehabilitation and Reentry

For more information about how access to methadone treatment can be implemented in carceral settings, check out these links:

• FAQ on Expanding Methadone Use in Carceral Settings Using the Hospital/Clinic Designation
• Q&A with Kelly Ramsay, MD, MPH, MA, FACP, DFASAM on implementation strategies

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