Day: February 8, 2010
New real-time tracker for JHU internationals
February 8, 2010
Apple’s new iPad tablet computer might be the gadget of the moment, but Johns Hopkins has its own new piece of technology with the signature lowercase vowel—and those who serve the thousands of JHU internationals eagerly welcomed its arrival. The university has implemented a new Web-based system to manage the immigration applications and processes related […]
Connecting with Baltimore nonprofits
February 8, 2010
Heather Thompson opened her talk on the food pyramid with a healthy heaping of knowledge on grains. The part-time MPH student at the School of Public Health then veered off into the meat and beans territory, with stops at all the other groups, from vegetables to the “know your limits” fats and sugars. Thompson’s audience […]
T. Rowe Price chairman, CIO, to give Leaders & Legends talk
February 8, 2010
Brian C. Rogers, chairman and chief investment officer of T. Rowe Price Group, is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders & Legends lecture series from 7:30 to 9 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11, at the Legg Mason Tower, in Harbor East. Rogers, whose remarks are titled “Leading Through a Financial […]
Renowned poet Paul Muldoon to give Turnbull Memorial Lecture
February 8, 2010
Renowned poet Paul Muldoon will give the Percy Graeme Turnbull Memorial Lecture at Johns Hopkins at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 2, on the Homewood campus; the location will be announced soon. The event, originally slated for Feb. 9 in Mudd Hall Auditorium, was rescheduled because of weather. Muldoon, a native of Ireland, was described […]
Mosbacher to give Carey School’s Ginder Lecture
February 8, 2010
Rob Mosbacher Jr., former president and CEO of Overseas Private Investment Corp., is this year’s speaker at the Carey Business School’s Ginder Lecture, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 10, in the school’s Downtown Center. His talk is titled “Fighting Poverty With Entrepreneurial Capitalism—A New Strategy.” An independent agency of the U.S. government that […]
Former SBA executive to give Washington, D.C., lecture
February 8, 2010
Former deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration Jovita Carranza will speak on “The Innovator’s Challenge in an Age of Accountability” at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11, at Johns Hopkins’ Bernstein-Offit Building in Washington, D.C. The lecture is jointly sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and the Society of Minority Business […]
English Department launches poetry series
February 8, 2010
The English Department at Johns Hopkins will launch a new series of poetry readings on the Homewood campus with a reading by Lisa Robertson at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11, in Shriver Hall’s Clipper Room. The Poetry at Hopkins English series was created by Christopher Nealon, an associate professor and director of Graduate Studies, […]
108 jobs created by ARRA funding; all will be filled soon
February 8, 2010
One year ago this month, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a legislative initiative designed to stimulate domestic spending and create jobs by pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy. Millions of those dollars have landed at Johns Hopkins and are being put to use on groundbreaking research projects. […]
Four from JHU tapped for new mayor’s transition committees
February 8, 2010
Before being installed last week as Baltimore mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake selected four Johns Hopkins officials to serve on her transition committees. President Ronald J. Daniels and Philip Leaf, professor in the School of Public Health, were tapped for the Education and Youth Services Committee. Levi Watkins, professor in the School of Medicine, and Richard Bennett, […]
C. Lockard Conley, 94, pioneering hematologist
February 8, 2010
C. Lockard Conley, a pioneering Johns Hopkins hematologist and acclaimed teacher who conducted landmark inquiries into blood coagulation, blood platelets, hemorrhagic diseases, hemoglobins and sickle cell anemia while simultaneously inspiring generations of students and young researchers, died of Parkinson’s disease on Jan. 30 at his home in Catonsville, Md. He was 94. Conley, who also […]