Year: 2010
Homewood emergency alert system to be tested Tuesday
September 13, 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, Sept. 14. The test will be a full-scale simultaneous activation of both systems. The siren/PA system, which is activated by radio signal from the Homewood Communication […]
Arts Innovation Grants available for Homewood faculty, students
September 13, 2010
Proposals for Arts Innovation Grants for intersession and the spring and fall 2011 semesters are now being accepted from Homewood faculty and staff. The initiative is designed to help faculty develop for-credit interdisciplinary courses in the arts—across departments, divisions or institutions—for Homewood undergraduates, and to help undergraduates create new co-curricular activities in the arts or […]
Notices — September 13, 2010
September 13, 2010
Professional Clothing Drive — The Office of Work, Life and Engagement invites the Hopkins community to donate new and gently used professional men and women’s clothing and handbags to formerly homeless, disabled and underprivileged individuals just entering or re-entering the workforce. Donations will be collected through Sept. 21 in support of the employment programs and […]
Classifieds — September 13, 2010
September 13, 2010
APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT Baltimore City (Old Pimlico Rd), furn’d 2BR, 2BA condo in secure community, nr light rail/Summit Park ES, free prkng, swimming, tennis. $950/mo incl utils. Tinghuai, 443-846-8750 or tinghwu@gmail.com. Baltimore City, updated 1BR condo in secure gated community, assigned prkng, swimming, tennis, nr hospital and university; option to own ($135,000). $1,200/mo incl utils. […]
Calendar — September 13, 2010
September 13, 2010
BLOOD DRIVE Tues., Sept. 14, and Wed., Sept. 15, 7:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Sickle Cell Awareness Month blood drive at Homewood. Schedule a donation online at http://hopkinsworklife.org/community/ blood_drive.html or call 443-997-6060. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW COLLOQUIA Tues., Sept. 14, 4 p.m. “The BioNecroPolitics of Omnilife: Aftermaths of War in Guatemala,” an Anthropology colloquium with […]
A blue-ribbon day for Gilman Hall
September 7, 2010
Hundreds of faculty, staff, students and friends of the university gathered on the Keyser Quad on Aug. 30, the first day of the fall semester, to witness the grand reopening of Gilman Hall, the Homewood campus’s flagship building that underwent three years of top-to-bottom renovations. Guests were welcomed by President Ronald J. Daniels and Katherine […]
NCI grant launches nanotech cancer center
September 7, 2010
Faculty members associated with the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology have received a $13.6 million five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to establish a Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence. The new Johns Hopkins center brings together a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers and physicians to develop nanotechnology-based diagnostic platforms and therapeutic strategies for comprehensive […]
Provost’s Lecture Series fall lineup announced
September 7, 2010
China expert and noted author David Lampton will kick off the fall schedule of the new Provost’s Lecture Series, launched this spring to spread the wealth of academic excellence at Johns Hopkins among its campuses. The 2010–2011 academic year will be the first full year for the series, which this fall will feature speakers representing […]
Goal: Giving feeling to a damaged hand or prosthetic limb
September 7, 2010
This is part of an occasional series on Johns Hopkins research funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If you have a study you would like to be considered for inclusion, contact Lisa De Nike at lde@jhu.edu. Back in 1980 when The Empire Strikes Back hit the big screen, it seemed like […]
Five BME doctoral candidates named 2011 Siebel Scholars
September 7, 2010
One graduate student is helping to create high-tech prosthetic hands that can be maneuvered by an amputee’s thoughts. Another is trying to convert ordinary skin cells into more useful stem cells. Still another is working to find signs of cancer in a single DNA molecule in a drop of blood. Yet another is making nanoparticles […]