Day: December 7, 2009
Learning about Baltimore
December 7, 2009
This Intersession, Craig Hollander will teach a class titled Movers and Shakers: Baltimore by Biography. Hollander, a fourth-year doctoral student in history and a native Baltimorean, will hitch his lessons to famous city sons and daughters such as H.L. Mencken, Babe Ruth, Billie Holiday, Thurgood Marshall and Joshua Barney.
A homecoming for historic windows
December 7, 2009
As the massive renovation of Gilman Hall enters its final nine months, many of its historic glass treasures have returned with a pristine sparkle and luster.
First reported cases of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 treated at JHH
December 7, 2009
Flu experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have received confirmation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that two recently treated patients with 2009 H1N1 flu, both since discharged, had drug-resistant forms of the virus.
MSE Library implements changes during exam period
December 7, 2009
The Homewood campus’s Eisenhower Library experienced unprecedented demand for seating during the fall 2009 semester. To better accommodate Johns Hopkins students during reading period and exams, the library will be open to visitors only from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Friday, Dec. 4, through Friday, Dec. 18.
Weekly Peabody chamber music concerts planned for East Balto.
December 7, 2009
Beginning Jan. 20, a weekly series of chamber music concerts featuring Peabody students, alumni and faculty will be held during the spring semester at noon on Wednesdays in Turner Auditorium on the East Baltimore campus.
Share Our Strength founder to give Carey School lecture
December 7, 2009
Philanthropist and social change pioneer Bill Shore is the featured speaker for the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s annual H. Melvin Brown Lecture, to be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 9, in Mason Hall on the Homewood campus.
‘World as a Hologram’ is topic of 2009 Brickwedde Lecture
December 7, 2009
Leonard Susskind, the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University, will give the 2009 Ferdinand G. Brickwedde Lecture in Physics on Tuesday, Dec. 8.
Press book signing and Madeira tasting scheduled for Dec. 9
December 7, 2009
More than a dozen authors will be on hand from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 9, when the Johns Hopkins University Press and Homewood Museum host their annual Holiday Book Signing and Madeira Tasting.
Exploring schizophrenia at the molecular level
December 7, 2009
About 1 percent of the population is affected by schizophrenia, a severe form of mental illness that has proven difficult to study and treat, according to Russell Margolis, director of the Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Program.
Migraine raises risk of common stroke in women
December 7, 2009
Pooling results from 21 studies involving 622,381 men and women, researchers at Johns Hopkins have affirmed that migraine headaches are associated with more than twofold higher chances of the most common kind of stroke: those occurring when blood supply to the brain is suddenly cut off by the buildup of plaque or a blood clot.