Month: February 2010
Human growth hormone: Not a life extender after all?
February 8, 2010
People profoundly deficient in human growth hormone due to a genetic mutation appear to live just as long as people who make normal amounts of the hormone, a new study shows. The findings suggest that HGH may not be the “fountain of youth” that some researchers have suggested. “Without HGH, these people still live long, […]
Republican leaders’ spouses make two Peabody stops
February 8, 2010
During President Obama’s meeting in Baltimore with Republican congressional leaders on Jan. 29, a delegation of Republican spouses took an “architectural highlights” tour of the city. Led by author and photographer Bill McAllen, whose book Spirit of Place: Baltimore’s Favorite Spaces was published a year ago, the group toured the George Peabody Library and visited […]
Homewood campus set to test emergency alert systems
February 8, 2010
Homewood Campus Safety and Security will conduct a test of the campus siren/public address system and the Johns Hopkins Emergency Alerts text messaging system at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9. The tests will be a full-scale simultaneous activation of both systems. The siren/PA system, which is activated by radio signal from the Homewood Communications […]
Notices — Feb. 8, 2010
February 8, 2010
2010 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards — All Johns Hopkins freshmen, sophomores and juniors are invited to apply for the 2010 Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards. The PURA program, now entering its 18th year, affords undergraduates opportunities to conduct original research under the guidance of faculty sponsors at Johns Hopkins. PURA recipients can receive academic credit or […]
Calendar — Feb. 8, 2010
February 8, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., Feb. 9, 4:15 p.m. “Methods for the Chemical Synthesis of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes,” a Chemistry colloquium with Lawrence Scott, Boston College. 233 Remsen. HW Thurs., Feb. 11, 3 p.m. “ ‘Power on all, even on God himself’: Divine Intention and Magical Potential in Agrippa von Nettesheim’s De occulta philosophia libri tres,” a […]
Crutches for Haiti
February 8, 2010
BY THE TIME pediatric residents had finished their weeklong drive to collect crutches for earthquake victims in Haiti, more than 3,000 pairs were crammed into their holding spots in the David M. Rubenstein Child Health Building at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and a volunteer’s garage. The organizers—who had hoped to pull in a few […]
LEEDing the way to a greener JHU
February 1, 2010
In Johns Hopkins’ quest to go green and significantly reduce its environmental footprint, the university has passed a major milestone. The School of Medicine recently received a LEED commercial interior silver certification for its renovated Department of Facilities Management offices and Clinical Information Systems Education Center—both located on the basement floor of the 2024 E. […]
Foreign Affairs Symposium kicks off Tuesday
February 1, 2010
With a lineup of big-name speakers and a new, interactive Web site, the annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium is returning to the Homewood campus this week, with a talk by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in Shriver Hall Auditorium. Kristof’s visit […]
Johns Hopkins disaster team’s first group deploys to Haiti
February 1, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response has deployed its first group of Johns Hopkins physicians, nurses and other experts to Haiti to help that nation’s injured and suffering. A second group will leave on Thursday. The medical experts serve on the Johns Hopkins Go Team, which has approximately 185 members who […]
Jhpiego helps reopen, restock maternity ward in Haiti
February 1, 2010
A health care team from Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins affiliate focused globally on maternal and child health, is on the ground in Haiti, working to restore safe and quality health care services for pregnant women, new mothers and their babies. Since three health care workers from the organization’s Baltimore office joined their Haitian colleagues in Port-au-Prince […]