Day: May 2, 2011
Charles Street renovation ready to go
May 2, 2011
Baltimore City’s Department of Transportation has green-lighted a major reconstruction and beautification of the North Charles Street corridor near the university’s Homewood campus—a project more than 10 years in the planning stages. The three-year $25 million endeavor will serve many goals, primarily to enhance pedestrian safety, foster more rational traffic patterns, upgrade 100-year-old infrastructure under […]
The field surgeon
May 2, 2011
Early last month, Andrew Cosgarea stood in the rain hoping to be invisible. He prefers it that way. Dressed in a black Blue Jays rain jacket and tan Johns Hopkins baseball cap, he watched as the men’s lacrosse team took on the Great Danes of Albany on a chilly, rainy Friday night on Homewood Field. […]
Engineering for Professionals gives Md. STEM teachers free grad education
May 2, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University’s Engineering for Professionals, part of the Whiting School of Engineering, will provide free tuition beginning with the summer term to Maryland public and private high school teachers who want to further their professional development in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. “STEM teachers can have great influence on whether or not […]
New classroom technology to be demonstrated at MSE Library
May 2, 2011
Winners of the 2010–2011 Technology Fellows competition will demonstrate their technological innovations from 1 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, on Q-Level of Homewood’s Milton S. Eisenhower Library. All of the winning faculty-student teams will be available for a hands-on demonstration, with projects covering a wide range of disciplines from the Krieger and Whiting […]
Expert on unethical medical research to speak in East Baltimore
May 2, 2011
Medical historian Susan Reverby, a nationally recognized expert on the notorious Tuskegee syphilis study, will give a community talk on Monday, May 9, in the East Baltimore headquarters of the charity organization Humanim. The nonprofit is housed in the historic American Brewery building, at 1701 N. Gay St. The special event is part of the […]
WSE student inventions to be showcased on two design days
May 2, 2011
Two of the Whiting School’s most elaborate year-end showcases for student inventions are scheduled next week on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses. The events will spotlight long-term projects that have allowed students to apply their classroom skills to assignments similar to those they may encounter in the working world. The Department of Biomedical Engineering […]
Peabody Institute, Library open their doors for Flowermart
May 2, 2011
The Peabody Institute and the George Peabody Library will offer tours, talks and family activities during this year’s Flowermart festival. Celebrating its 100th anniversary, Baltimore’s “rite of spring” will fill Mount Vernon Place with garden-related vendors from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7. A do-it-yourself scavenger hunt will […]
Alice’s Wonderland Garden Party to benefit Evergreen Museum
May 2, 2011
The Evergreen Museum & Library Advisory Council’s inaugural Alice’s Wonderland Garden Party will welcome spring on Thursday, May 12, in the formal gardens of Johns Hopkins’ Evergreen Museum & Library. More than 200 guests are expected to travel down the rabbit hole from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at this new festive fundraiser for Evergreen Museum […]
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to speak at SAIS
May 2, 2011
Fuad Siniora, who served as prime minister of Lebanon from 2005 to 2009, will speak at SAIS at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4. Siniora, currently a member of Lebanon’s parliament and head of the Future Parliamentary Bloc, will discuss “The Arab Spring and the Future of the Middle East.” The event will be held […]
Commentary: Will minorities be left out of health care law provision?
May 2, 2011
Under provisions of the new health care law, hospitals and physician practices that form care-coordinating networks called accountable care organizations, or ACOs, could reap cost savings and other benefits. However, experts at Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania warn that such networks could potentially be designed to exclude minorities and widen disparities in health […]