Year: 2010
Maryland rolls out exhibit promoting energy reduction
October 11, 2010
An energy-saving interactive mobile information station designed by students at the Maryland Institute College of Art and promoted by the Maryland Energy Administration will pay a visit to the East Baltimore campus from Monday, Oct. 18, through Friday, Oct. 29, as part of a statewide eight-college tour. It will be located at the Broadway Research […]
School of Nursing celebrates Nurse Midwifery Week
October 11, 2010
Of the approximately 4 million babies born in the United States each year, more than 325,000 are attended by a midwife. The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing last week joined in the nationwide Nurse Midwifery Week by honoring students and faculty who have dedicated themselves to promoting safe and healthy childbirths. This year’s Midwifery […]
Notices — October 11, 2010
October 11, 2010
SOURCE Fall Food Drive — The annual Fall Food Drive is collecting nonperishable food items through Oct. 15 at locations around Homewood campus. Drop box locations are the Student Lounge (1st floor) and E1002 Student Affairs at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Armstrong Lobby at the School of Medicine, SoN lobby in the Anne […]
Classifieds — October 11, 2010
October 11, 2010
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Calendar — October 11, 2010
October 11, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., Oct. 12, 4 p.m. “The Value of Patience: Dwelling Among Urban Squatters,” an Anthropology colloquium with Valeria Procupez, KSAS. 400 Macaulay. HW Tues., Oct. 12, 4:15 p.m. “Beyond Strain Energy: Experiments and Models of Force-Dependent Reaction Kinetics,” a Chemistry colloquium with Roman Boulatov, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., Oct. 13, […]
Johns Hopkins first in R&D for 31st year
October 4, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University performed $1.85 billion in medical, science and engineering research in fiscal 2009, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total research and development spending for the 31st year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking. The university also once again ranked first on the NSF’s separate […]
Learning from ‘The Wire’
October 4, 2010
Though it’s located in Baltimore City, the verdant and well-manicured Homewood campus seems a world away from the gritty drug corners and public housing projects that form the backdrop for the groundbreaking, critically acclaimed five-season HBO drama The Wire. But inside a classroom in Hodson Hall, a group of undergraduates is immersing itself in that […]
Six-city tour: Here’s how JHU is Rising to the Challenge
October 4, 2010
In his 2009 inaugural address, university President Ronald J. Daniels outlined how Johns Hopkins must “galvanize its intellectual and moral strengths” for the betterment of the community and the world. In addition to educating future generations, the nation’s elite universities, he said, have a responsibility to devote their energies to the greatest problems of the […]
PACER receives $6 mill Homeland Security grant
October 4, 2010
The National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response, also known as PACER, at The Johns Hopkins University has received a $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to fund more than a dozen national security–related research, education, training and policy support projects over the next two years. The […]
Doctoral programs assessed by National Research Council
October 4, 2010
The National Research Council last week released a study of research doctoral programs at 212 higher education institutions, including The Johns Hopkins University. The NRC said that its study, the largest quantitative analysis of its kind ever conducted in the United States, is intended to offer a comprehensive comparison of doctoral programs across a wide […]