Day: December 6, 2010
Q&A with School of Education’s David Andrews
December 6, 2010
This is the last in a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. To see the entire series, go to gazette.jhu.edu and click on “Q&A with the Deans and Directors” under the Departments heading. When David Andrews became dean of the School of Education […]
Carey School set to offer Executive MBA
December 6, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School will launch an Executive MBA program for senior-level professionals and fast-track managers looking to develop the skills necessary to succeed in today’s global business environment. Set to begin in May 2011, the 18-month program combines online distance learning with a series of 10 residencies to be held in Baltimore […]
Lights spark season of celebration
December 6, 2010
An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the names of the winners of the gingerbread house contest. We regret the error. After listening to performances by a cappella groups, students sipped hot chocolate on a brisk, windy (and slightly damp) Wednesday evening and watched as President Ron Daniels, Provost Lloyd Minor and Sarah Steinberg, […]
W.P. Andrew Lee to head new Department of Plastic Surgery
December 6, 2010
W.P. Andrew Lee, a Pennsylvania hand surgeon heralded for his successful hand transplants and breakthrough research on overcoming rejection in composite tissue grafting, has been named chair of the newly formed Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Creation of the new department will facilitate its access to […]
Media executive is next Leaders + Legends speaker
December 6, 2010
Sir David Bell, executive director of The Economist and former chairman of the Financial Times, is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series on Thursday, Dec. 9. The event takes place from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. The topic of […]
U.S. sees significant decline in number of ‘dropout factories’
December 6, 2010
A report released last week by America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises and Johns Hopkins’ Everyone Graduates Center provides some of the first positive signs that America is making progress in reducing a nationwide crisis in the number of students who drop out of high school. The number of high schools where 40 percent or more […]
Delayed treatment for HIV patients a costly decision
December 6, 2010
HIV-infected patients whose treatment is delayed not only become sicker than those treated earlier but also require tens of thousands of dollars more in care over the first several years of their treatment. “We know that it’s important clinically to get people into care early because they will stay healthier and do better over the […]
Set of specific interventions can improve hospital safety ‘culture’
December 6, 2010
A prescribed set of hospitalwide patient-safety programs can lead to rapid improvements in the “culture of safety” even in a large, complex academic medical center, according to a new study by safety experts at Johns Hopkins. “It doesn’t take decades or tons of money to get from a culture that says ‘mistakes are inevitable’ to […]
Mysterious cells may play role in ALS, Johns Hopkins researchers find
December 6, 2010
By tracking the fate of a group of immature cells that persist in the adult brain and spinal cord, Johns Hopkins researchers discovered in mice that these cells undergo dramatic changes in ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. A study reported Nov. 17 online in Neuron shows that these cells, called NG2+, grow and […]
Building a better mousetrap car
December 6, 2010
The freshman mechanical engineering students who competed last week in what was called a “Special Delivery” contest faced some very special challenges. The 18 three-member teams had to build devices powered by only two mousetraps and six rubber bands, supplied by their teacher, that could deliver a credit card–size “payload” past obstacles and across a […]