Day: September 27, 2010
A 2010 view of an interconnected world
September 27, 2010
Author Wes Moore will lead off the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium with a talk on Wednesday, Sept. 29, in Shriver Hall Auditorium on the Homewood campus. A reception in the Clipper Room will follow the event. The lecture is the first of seven events making up this year’s symposium, The Global Network: America’s Changing […]
Helping hands from Hopkins
September 27, 2010
A large convoy of Johns Hopkins affiliates will venture out on foot and bus from the Homewood campus on Saturday to collectively give back to Baltimore. Nearly 900 students, staff and faculty are registered to participate in the second President’s Day of Service, a one-day event featuring more than 40 service projects across the city. In […]
VP Biden holds stimulus roundtable with university presidents
September 27, 2010
Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels was one of six university heads who met at the White House with Vice President Joe Biden on Sept. 21 at a roundtable that Biden convened to draw attention to the $18 billion in stimulus money that is going to university research. In remarks made at the open portion of […]
New global environmental major is a hit with applicants
September 27, 2010
The new global environmental change and sustainability major, introduced on the Homewood campus in fall 2009, has become a hot draw to prospective students. Nearly 140 applicants this past year indicated an interest in the major and, of those enrolled, 33 selected it as their primary or secondary likely area of study. Homewood undergraduates do […]
Homewood-Peabody-JHMI Shuttle schedule updated, effective Sept. 30
September 27, 2010
To better serve riders and connect Johns Hopkins locations, a few changes will be implemented with the Homewood-Peabody-JHMI Shuttle schedule that goes into effect on Thursday, Sept. 30. The schedule can be found online at www.parking.jhu.edu. Among the changes: • Late-night departures have been added on Thursday and Friday. From JHMI, the last departure is […]
Sickle cell screening for athletes comes with pitfalls
September 27, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center top pediatrician is urging a “rethink” of a new sickle cell screening program, calling it an enlightened but somewhat rushed step toward improving the health of young people who carry the sickle cell mutation. Beginning this fall, all Division I college athletes will undergo mandatory screening for the sickle cell […]
Blood pressure–lowering diet may also reduce risk of heart disease
September 27, 2010
A new study suggests yet another reason for Americans to abandon their current fatty diets in favor of one rich in fruits and vegetables and low in saturated fat. Choosing these healthier options appears to significantly reduce the long-term risk of heart disease in patients with mildly elevated blood pressure, particularly African-Americans. Long known to reduce […]
Scientists find genes related to body mass
September 27, 2010
Johns Hopkins scientists who specialize in unconventional hunts for genetic information outside nuclear DNA sequences have bagged a weighty quarry: 13 genes linked to human body mass. The experiments screened the so-called epigenome for key information that cells remember other than the DNA code itself, and that may have serious implications for preventing and treating […]
Mobile obstetrics project improves mothers’ health in Burma
September 27, 2010
A community-based maternal health delivery strategy known as the MOM Project—for “mobile obstetric medics”—dramatically increased access to maternal health care services for internally displaced women in eastern Burma, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Among the findings, the study showed a tenfold increase in the proportion […]
Mandelbaum book looks at America as ‘Frugal Superpower’
September 27, 2010
Michael Mandelbaum, the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy and director of the American Foreign Policy Program at SAIS, is the author of a new book, The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era, published in August by Public Affairs. In The Frugal Superpower, Mandelbaum sees a looming, fundamental shift in […]