Issue: 2011 August 29
Calendar — August 29, 2011
August 29, 2011
COLLOQUIA Thurs., Sept. 1, 4 p.m. “Well-Being in a World of Want: Some Reflections on Recent Fieldwork in Sierra Leone,” an Anthropology colloquium with Michael Jackson, Harvard Divinity School. 400 Macaulay. HW INFORMATION SESSIONS Mon., Sept. 1, 12:15 p.m. Joint HIV Counseling and Testing Program/Health Leads information session for faculty, staff and students. Sponsored by […]
Classifieds — August 29, 2011
August 29, 2011
APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT Bayview, 2BR, 2BA house, den, clean concrete backyd w/storage, walk to Bayview campus, grocery stores or sm shopping center, nr 95/895. 301-661-5627. Butcher’s Hill, 2BR or 1BR + den apt, 1 full BA, recently renov’d, open kitchen, microwave/stove/oven, dw, W/D in unit, sec sys, storage, on-street prkng, 4 blks south of JHMI; […]
$30 mill creates center for personalized cancer care
August 29, 2011
A $30 million gift from the Commonwealth Foundation for Cancer Research has enabled the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center to establish a Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine. The gift from the Richmond, Va.–based foundation will be used to support research and the development of new technologies that pinpoint the novel genetic characteristics of each patient’s cancer. […]
Universities band together to join Orphan Works Project
August 29, 2011
Leaders at Cornell, Duke, Emory and Johns Hopkins universities jointly announced last week that they would begin making the full text of thousands of “orphan works” in their library collections digitally accessible to students, faculty and researchers at their own institutions. Orphan works are out-of-print books that are still subject to copyright but whose copyright […]
Bug busters: JHU to host daylong symposium on infection imaging
August 29, 2011
Doctors can peer inside the human body to look for tumors, detect a blockage in an artery or see a crack in a bone, but common afflictions like bacterial and viral infections are far more difficult to track, and even the most sophisticated imaging devices can offer only a less than definitive answer. “Although CT […]
Challenge grant issued for Pitcairn Scholarship Fund
August 29, 2011
Stephen Pitcairn, the Johns Hopkins research technologist who was robbed and killed in July 2010 as he walked home from Penn Station, would have turned 25 on July 27, 2011, and in recognition of this milestone, a $10,000 challenge grant has been offered to the Stephen Pitcairn Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Johns Hopkins University […]
Freshmen’s used test prep books heading to city high schools
August 29, 2011
Along with their computers, clothes and toiletries, many of the freshmen arriving at Homewood last week brought along with them something they didn’t need: the SAT and AP test prep books they’d used as high schoolers. Thanks to a call put out by junior Alexandra Larsen, those books will soon be going to students at […]
‘The Gazette’ returns to weekly publishing schedule
August 29, 2011
With this issue, the first of the 2011–2012 academic year, The Gazette returns to its weekly publishing schedule. The next edition will appear on Tuesday, Sept. 6, because of the Monday holiday. Calendar and classified submissions are due at noon on Monday a week before the publication date.
Gateway Sciences grant applications wanted
August 29, 2011
The Provost’s Office wants your ideas for how to improve the gateway science courses. The purpose of the RFP process is to garner bold, creative, culture-changing ideas for transforming these courses based on sound precedents and accompanied by rigorous assessment plans. Projects may focus on existing courses, develop new courses or programs, enhance or advance […]
Air cleaners ease asthma in kids living with smokers
August 29, 2011
A Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study of Baltimore City children who have asthma and live with smokers shows that indoor air cleaners can greatly reduce household air pollution and lower the rates of daytime asthma symptoms to those achieved with certain anti-inflammatory asthma drugs. Although the air cleaners improved the overall air quality in homes, they […]