Day: September 28, 2009
School-family-community success stories profiled
September 28, 2009
The National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins has published Promising Partnership Practices 2009, a collection of more than 110 best practices chosen from schools, districts and organizations across the country. The activities are used to improve reading, math, science, attendance and multicultural understanding, and to create a family-friendly school environment. Among them are math and reading nights, science and social studies projects, back-to-school events, and health and safety programs.
Flu update: Vaccines, university sick-leave policies
September 28, 2009
This year’s flu season arrives in two guises: the seasonal and H1N1 varieties. In an e-mail last week regarding their status at Johns Hopkins, Charlene Hayes, vice president for human resources, reminded faculty and staff that the university has already begun vaccinating employees against seasonal flu. “Public health officials say it is still important to get this protection, since seasonal flu likely will surface more frequently as the weather turns cold,” she said.
High school diploma alone isn’t the solution for livelihoods
September 28, 2009
Recent graduates from Philadelphia’s public high schools had higher employment rates and higher annual earnings than their classmates who dropped out, but many of them still did not have incomes above the federal poverty line, according to a new study from the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins. The report suggests that although it is […]
Mild exercise in ICU reduces bad effects of prolonged bed rest
September 28, 2009
Critical care experts at Johns Hopkins are reporting initial success in boosting recovery and combating muscle wasting among critically ill, mostly bed-bound patients using any one of a trio of mild physical therapy exercises during their stays in the intensive care unit.
Scientists find pace-setter for repair in badly damaged lungs
September 28, 2009
After more than 50 experiments in mice, medical scientists at Johns Hopkins have mapped out the basic steps taken by a particular set of white blood cells in setting the pace of recovery after serious lung injury.
Arts Innovation Grants available for Homewood faculty and students
September 28, 2009
The initiative is designed to help faculty develop for-credit interdisciplinary courses in the arts—across departments, divisions or institutions—for Homewood undergraduates, and to help undergraduates create new co-curricular activities in the arts or significantly increase the impact of existing ones within both the university and greater Baltimore communities.
Head of World Bank to speak at SAIS on economic crisis
September 28, 2009
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick will assess the political and economic impact of the global economic crisis, and its implications for development and globalization, in a speech at SAIS at 11 a.m. today, Sept. 28.
Historic multiple kidney swap ops featured on ‘Dr. Oz Show’
September 28, 2009
Robert A. Montgomery, director of the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, and 11 Johns Hopkins patients who were part of the first eight-way, multihospital, domino kidney transplant this summer, were featured last week on the new Dr. Oz Show.
Social Innovation Fund is topic of Social Policy Seminar
September 28, 2009
Robert T. Grimm Jr., director of Research and Policy Development at the Corporation for National and Community Service, will be the speaker at the Social Policy Seminar Series scheduled for 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1, in 526 Wyman Park Building, Homewood campus. His topic is “Scaling Great Ideas That Work: The Social Innovation Fund.”
Web site on Johns Hopkins stem cell research is launched
September 28, 2009
In conjunction with last week’s 2009 World Stem Cell Summit, co-hosted by Johns Hopkins and held in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Medicine launched an interactive Web site on which its researchers and clinicians collectively describe their explorations into stem cell biology and engineering.