Day: November 15, 2010
Q&A with School of Medicine’s Ed Miller
November 15, 2010
This is part of a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Edward D. Miller, the 13th dean of the School of Medicine and inaugural CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has symmetrically entered the 13th year of his tenure. The university’s currently longest-serving dean […]
Students want to give back more
November 15, 2010
Johns Hopkins students give back, and want to give some more, according to a survey conducted earlier this year on the Homewood campus. Nearly 72 percent of students surveyed said that they participate in some form of community service. Nearly the same number wanted their involvement in the community to increase. The Center for Social […]
Tim Weihs tapped as Leadership Education Center director
November 15, 2010
For Tim Weihs, whose new job is to help Johns Hopkins students make the jump from labs and lecture halls to business meetings and boardrooms, the journey is a familiar one. Weihs, a professor of materials science and engineering, has spent much of the past decade steering a high-temperature, quick-bonding foil out of his own […]
QVC head Michael George is next ‘Leaders + Legends’ speaker
November 15, 2010
Michael “Mike” George, president of QVC Inc., is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series on Friday, Nov. 19. The event will take place from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. His talk is titled “Strategies for Winning in the Digital […]
Historic American Indian photos on display at Evergreen
November 15, 2010
Opening this week at Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library is the exhibition “Edward S. Curtis: Photogravures from The North American Indian,” which will run through March 27. The museum will host an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 17, with curatorial remarks at 7 p.m. The opening is free, […]
School of Public Health researcher recognized with Presidential Early Career Award
November 15, 2010
Catherine Bradshaw, a developmental psychologist and youth violence prevention researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. This year’s […]
Young Baltimoreans offered free screening for heart disease risks
November 15, 2010
Some 30 Johns Hopkins cardiologists, nurses, technical staff and administrative volunteers have for the first time partnered with Baltimore City Public Schools to screen for early signs of heart disease in as many as 2,000 high school–bound Baltimore-area students. The students, all bound for grade 9 in 2011, and their parents were among thousands of […]
Season begins with tragic love story (what else?)
November 15, 2010
Peabody Opera Theatre will present a new, fully staged production of Jules Massenet’s Manon, named for the fictional young woman whose tragic love story inspired no fewer than three operas (the others by Auber and Puccini), as the first part of its French Season of Opera. Sung in French with English supertitles, Manon will be […]
‘Media 3.0’ is focus of talk by ‘Times’ reporter David Carr
November 15, 2010
David Carr of The New York Times will give a talk at Homewood this week titled “Putting a New Frame on Content: Media 3.0 in an Age of iPads, Mashed-Up Hybrids and an Audience that Generates Content.” Carr is an award-winning media and culture reporter. Before joining The New York Times, he was a contributing […]
Women take note: High cholesterol in middle age not a risk factor for Alzheimer’s, other dementias
November 15, 2010
High cholesterol levels in middle age do not appear to increase women’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia later in life, new Johns Hopkins–led research finds, despite a body of scientific evidence long suggesting a link between the two. What the study, published online Nov. 10 in the journal Neurology, does […]