Day: September 21, 2009
2008 Annual Security Report now available
September 21, 2009
The Johns Hopkins University 2008 Annual Security Report of crime statistics and security policies is now available on the university’s web site at www.jhu.edu/security.
Study: Wrong dose of heart meds too frequent in children
September 21, 2009
Infants experience errors most often, but all kids are vulnerable
New from JHU Press
September 21, 2009
In Praise of Deadlock: How Partisan Struggle Makes Better Laws By W. Lee Rawls The acrimonious debate over health care reform has made some commentators long for more bipartisanship. W. Lee Rawls might disagree. As a practitioner who served for 14 years as chief of staff to two U.S. senators, Bill Frist and Pete Domenici, […]
Senior fellow at SAIS to head U.S. human rights delegation
September 21, 2009
Michael Haltzel, senior fellow at SAIS’ Center for Transatlantic Relations, has been named head of the U.S. delegation to the annual two-week human rights conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to be held Sept. 28 to Oct. 9 in Warsaw, Poland. Officially known as the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, the conference brings together national delegations from the 56 countries of the OSCE, making it Europe’s largest human rights gathering. It also includes participation by nongovernmental organizati
Executives to mentor Doctor of Nursing Practice students
September 21, 2009
Under the mentorship of high-level business executives, three students from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program are learning to combine the best practices of business management, nursing leadership and executive effectiveness.
‘Pursuit of Happyness’ author to speak about latest book
September 21, 2009
Chris Gardner, whose memoir The Pursuit of Happyness became a New York Times and Washington Post No. 1 best-seller and inspired the Will Smith movie of the same name, will discuss his latest book, Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, at an event sponsored by Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins.
Peabody conductor Gustav Meier to discuss, sign new book
September 21, 2009
The Score, the Orchestra and the Conductor, written by Gustav Meier, director of Peabody’s Graduate Conducting Program, was published last month by Oxford University Press. The 512-page volume has 200 line illustrations and 500 music examples. Along with the text, the book includes a cross-indexed glossary of orchestral instruments in four languages, an illustrated description of string harmonics and a comprehensive listing of voice categories showing their overlaps, dynamic ranges and repertory.
Five Johns Hopkins graduate students named Siebel Scholars
September 21, 2009
The California-based Siebel Foundation has selected five Johns Hopkins students from the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine as recipients of its annual Siebel Scholars awards, which provide $35,000 to each student to be used for the final year of graduate studies.
School of Nursing podcasts now on iTunes U
September 21, 2009
Podcasts featuring faculty research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing now are reaching new audiences through iTunes U.
Calendar — Sept. 21, 2009
September 21, 2009
COLLOQUIA Tues., Sept. 22, 4 p.m. “‘Naming’ Conversion: Being Muslim in Old Delhi,” an Anthropology colloquium with Deepak Mehta, Delhi School of Economics. Co-sponsored by Women, Gender and Sexuality. 400 Macaulay. HW Thurs., Sept. 24, 3 p.m. “A Record of Historical Fact: Transsexuality, Retrospective Diagnosis and the Ethics of History; or Joking in the Archive […]