Day: June 8, 2009

Winners!

June 8, 2009

175 students from 42 Baltimore City Public Schools participated in a recent citywide chess tournament at Homewood’s Glass Pavilion. We show you the winners.

Remember to be recognized

June 8, 2009

Official kudos and service awards will be distributed to Johns Hopkins University staff members who are celebrating milestone anniversaries of five, 10 and 15 years at afternoon recognition receptions that run throughout June. The events are coordinated by the Office of Faculty, Staff and Retiree Programs.

At SPH, city male students discuss effects of ‘fatherlessness’

June 8, 2009

A recent School of Public Health event brought together 125 male students from Baltimore City schools with leaders in the African-American community to screen the new documentary Men II Boys and participate in a community discussion on how to become fathers to the fatherless.

JHM to develop advanced health care services for government agencies

June 8, 2009

Johns Hopkins HealthCare, the managed care arm of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has signed an agreement with the Winkenwerder Co. for strategic consulting services, a move designed to build on and expand Johns Hopkins’ long-standing relationships with government health agencies.

VP Linda Robertson to join Federal Reserve System

June 8, 2009

Linda Robertson, vice president of government, community and public affairs for the university and vice president for government affairs and community relations at Johns Hopkins Medicine, will become assistant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Hopkins scientists picked for cancer dream teams

June 8, 2009

A TV industry- and celebrity-driven cancer research project has chosen scientists at Johns Hopkins for two of five multi-institutional “dream teams” financed by Stand Up to Cancer grants totaling more than $6 million.

Crowning glories

June 8, 2009

The original Greek Olympians wore them, as did Roman conquerors, the orator Cicero and the poet Dante. And we derive the word laureate from them, the wreaths of laurel leaves that signify wisdom, victory and success. Six graduates of SAIS’ Bologna Center joined the long tradition on May 29, when they, too, were crowned with […]

35 years of innovation at work

June 8, 2009

Jhpiego was founded in 1974 to improve health care access for women and their families. The organization works to empower front-line health workers by designing and implementing effective, low-cost, hands-on solutions to strengthen the delivery of health care services for this often underserved population.

World’s Deepest Diving Vehicle Explores Mariana Trench

June 8, 2009

A JHU professor and his students played key roles in deploying the world’s deepest diving vehicle to explore the remote depths of the Mariana Trench.

Statue returns to Johns Hopkins @ Eastern

June 8, 2009

The JHU community rededicated the Lizette Wood Reese Memorial–also known as the Good Shepherd Statue– June 1 on the Johns Hopkins at Eastern campus. City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke was there to help. The statue honors an 1873 graduate of Eastern High School.

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