Issue: 2012 February 6
Classifieds — February 6, 2012
February 6, 2012
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Calendar — February 6, 2012
February 6, 2012
COLLOQUIA Wed., Feb. 8, 5 p.m. “Reconstructing the Lute Concerti of Silvius Leopold Weiss,” a Peabody Musicology DMA colloquium with Richard Stone, Peabody. Cohen-Davison Family Theatre. Peabody Thurs., Feb. 9, 3:45 p.m. “Universals and Variation in Language and Thought,” a Cognitive Science colloquium with Terry Regier, University of California, Berkeley. 111 Krieger. HW DISCUSSION/ TALKS […]
Grants available for students to work on global health projects
February 6, 2012
Two types of research travel grants from the Center for Global Health are now available for students. Center for Global Health Established Field Placements provide students with funding and the means to work with global health mentors to attain international cross-cultural field experience. More than 90 placements are currently available, and the center is accepting […]
Peabody students to sing in two chamber operas at Theatre Project
February 6, 2012
It will be Morocco one week and Egypt the next at Baltimore’s Theatre Project, as Peabody Conservatory students take the stage to sing in two chamber operas: Dominick Argento’s surrealistic one-act of 1971, Postcard From Morocco, and George Frideric Handel’s Italian epic of some 250 years earlier, Giulio Cesare. Set just before World War I, […]
Curriculum: Adult nurse practitioner programs will now cover entire adult age spectrum
February 6, 2012
Students enrolled in adult primary and adult acute care nurse practitioner programs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing will soon focus on every aspect of adult care, from post-adolescent to older adult. The Adult Acute Care NP curriculum, renamed Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, is transitioning this semester to a format that integrates […]
APL takes steps to consolidate, build on current STEM efforts
February 6, 2012
In Dwight Carr’s office, several computer screens stretch out before him to reveal an intricate network diagram. It is not a diagram of a circuit design, which might be expected from an electrical engineer like Carr, but a detailed accounting of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) outreach currently taking place at the university’s Applied […]
JHU group to convene workshop on noncommunicable diseases
February 6, 2012
The United Nations recently placed the crisis of noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries at the top of its agenda for global health and development. In an effort to develop a program for meeting this challenge, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise, or IHEGHSBE, and […]
JHU Press, Pratt Library co-host screening of ‘The Amish’
February 6, 2012
The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Enoch Pratt Free Library will co-host a special pre-broadcast screening of The Amish, an upcoming PBS documentary that attempts to answer many questions Americans have about this insular religious community. The screening will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12, in Wheeler Auditorium of the library’s […]
Treasury Secretary Geithner to address 2012 SAIS grads
February 6, 2012
Timothy Geithner, secretary of the Treasury and a SAIS graduate, will address the 2012 graduating class at SAIS’s Commencement ceremony on May 24. Secretary of the Treasury since 2009, Geithner is the principal economic adviser to President Barack Obama and plays a critical role in policymaking by bringing an economic and financial policy perspective to […]
Former Hungarian ambassador to U.S. joins SAIS center
February 6, 2012
Andras Simonyi, former ambassador of Hungary to the United States and to NATO, has joined SAIS as managing director of the school’s Center for Transatlantic Relations. Simonyi will oversee a broad portfolio of activities, including seminars, policy study groups, media commentary, research projects and engagement with students and center fellows. “We are delighted to welcome […]