Day: August 31, 2009
Registration open now for President’s Day of Service
August 31, 2009
Projects included in “Be the Change: The President’s Day of Service” are stream cleanups, sorting donated clothing, painting a high school library and cafeteria, cleaning vacant lots, helping in community gardens and harvesting produce for the hungry.
Homewood-JHMI shuttle schedule updated, effective today
August 31, 2009
The Homewood-JHMI Shuttle schedule has been updated, effective today, Aug. 31. The new schedule contains slight modifications, notes upcoming holidays and is available on the buses and online at www.parking.jhu.edu. Any questions, concerns or feedback can be sent to shuttles@jhu.edu.
Diversity Leadership Council announces conference plans
August 31, 2009
The sixth annual Diversity Leadership Council’s Diversity Conference will be held on Thursday, Nov. 5. The theme is “Leadership: Transforming Diversity Into Inclusion,” and the opening speaker will be Deborah Elam, chief diversity officer for General Electric Global. Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels will give the luncheon speech. Proposals for presentation topics are now […]
Injury Center receives five-year renewal from CDC
August 31, 2009
The Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is one of four injury control research centers nationwide selected for funding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. It was awarded $4.87 million over five years. Injury control research centers […]
‘U.S. News & World Report’ releases Best Colleges rankings
August 31, 2009
Johns Hopkins takes a step up this year, moving from the 15th to 14th spot in U.S. News & World Report’s latest tally of the country’s Best National Universities, part of its annual Best Colleges issue. Harvard and Princeton tied this year for the top ranking, followed by Yale at No. 3. In rankings for […]
Tales of Poe
August 31, 2009
The elegant exterior of Evergreen’s Gilded Age mansion will take on the gloomy characteristics common in Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic fiction at an outdoor screening on Friday, Sept. 4, of two tales from the original master of horror: The Tell-Tale Heart (1953), an Oscar-nominated animated short, and The Raven (1963), with Peter Lorre, Vincent Price […]
Milk safe, even encouraged for some kids after allergy treatment
August 31, 2009
Some children with a history of severe milk allergy can safely drink milk and consume other dairy products every day, according to research led by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and published in the Aug. 10 online edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Investigators followed up with a subset of children who […]
The Camera Club victory
August 31, 2009
When Johns Hopkins students decide something needs to be done, usually they find a way to do it, even if that might mean bribing a senior officer of the university. Consider the case of the Camera Club, a student-run group organized in the mid-1930s. The students enjoyed taking pictures, but they had no place for […]
APL, Homeland Security developing next public alert system
August 31, 2009
Engineers in APL’s Infocentric Operations Business Area are helping the Department of Homeland Security create a national next-generation emergency alert system that will work across multiple platforms, including television, cell phones and the Web. The current Emergency Alert System was created in the 1950s to warn Americans of nuclear attacks. The technology used to alert […]
Is there long-term brain damage after heart bypass surgery?
August 31, 2009
Brain scientists and cardiac surgeons at Johns Hopkins have evidence from 227 heart bypass surgery patients that the long-term memory losses and cognitive problems they experience are due to the underlying coronary artery disease itself and not to ill aftereffects from having used a heart-lung machine. Researchers say that their latest findings explain study results […]