Day: August 2, 2010
Nonprofits in city get greening tips
August 2, 2010
Local organizations that assist those in need are getting some collegial Earth-friendly support this summer. The Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore City recently embarked on an effort to green area nonprofits while at the same time educating students on sustainability measures and the vital role that these socially focused organizations play in the community. The […]
Q&A with Peabody’s Jeffrey Sharkey
August 2, 2010
When Jeffrey Sharkey became director of Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute, he remarked that it should aim to be one of the top two or three music schools in the country and an institution of international importance. Sharkey said that many of the “ingredients” were there to make that happen. He noted the school’s breadth, which […]
APL breaks ground for spacecraft integration facility
August 2, 2010
Officials from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, along with government and construction industry representatives, broke ground July 16 for a new spacecraft assembly and testing facility on the APL campus in Laurel, Md. Designated as Building 30, the $30 million facility is scheduled to open by fall 2012. The 47,500-square-foot structure will include […]
All Children’s Hospital in Florida to integrate with JH Medicine
August 2, 2010
Johns Hopkins Medicine and All Children’s Hospital & Health System of St. Petersburg, Fla., have signed a letter of intent to integrate. After due diligence is completed sometime later this year, ACH will join the Johns Hopkins Health System as a fully integrated member of JHM. JHHS and its affiliates, including The Johns Hopkins Hospital, […]
$2.5 million NIH Pioneer Award goes to JHU pharmacologist Liu
August 2, 2010
A Johns Hopkins scientist who proposes to design and create an all-new series of novel drugs is one of 17 winners of a special grant known as a Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health. The award, to Jun O. Liu, a professor of pharmacology and molecular sciences and oncology in the Johns Hopkins […]
University mourns killing of research technologist Stephen Pitcairn, 23
August 2, 2010
Stephen B. Pitcairn, a respected Johns Hopkins research technologist and an aspiring physician, was laid to rest last week in his native Florida, days after he was killed in what police said was an apparent robbery. Pitcairn, who was 23, was walking home from Penn Station around 11 p.m. on Sunday, July 25, when a […]
Hopkins Nursing collaborates to immunize Baltimore kids
August 2, 2010
In a campaign that began July 22 in Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is partnering with the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization to raise awareness for the immunization of children around the world. Through a new program called “Breakthrough for Child Survival in […]
‘Magnetricity’ discoverer to give lecture at Homewood
August 2, 2010
Steven Bramwell, the University College London physicist who discovered the concept of “magnetricity,” will give a lecture on Thursday, Aug. 5, on the Homewood campus. It will take place at 5 p.m. in Schafler Auditorium in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy. The lecture is part of an international conference, Highly Frustrated Magnetism 2010, […]
SoN-trained ‘youth mentors’ provide support for new moms
August 2, 2010
New and expecting mothers in Baltimore City have a new resource to help them make the transition to motherhood. On June 28, 13 “youth mentors” were trained in the Text4Baby program by Elizabeth “Betty” Jordan and Ellen Ray of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing as part of the B’more for Healthy Babies initiative. […]
CPR without mouth-to-mouth may be better for cardiac victims
August 2, 2010
A leading expert in cardiopulmonary resuscitation says that two new studies from U.S. and European researchers support the case for dropping mouth-to-mouth, or rescue, breathing by bystanders and using “hands-only” chest compressions during the life-saving practice better known as CPR. The findings, the expert says, concur with the latest science advisory statement from the American Heart […]