Year: 2010
School of Nursing receives DNP program accreditation
July 19, 2010
The Board of Commissioners for the Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education has granted accreditation to the School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Program, extending through June 30, 2015. The accreditation is effective as of Oct. 19, 2009, which was the first day of the CCNE on-site evaluation of the school. The board determined that […]
2010 Hartwell grant applications sought
July 19, 2010
The Hartwell Foundation each year selects 10 research institutions to participate in its grant competition. It has extended an invitation this year to Johns Hopkins to nominate four faculty researchers to submit proposals for the Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award. For those interested in participating in the 2010 Hartwell competition, the submission deadline for preliminary […]
JHSPH affiliate Stephen Okiria killed in Ugandan bomb attack
July 19, 2010
Stephen Okiria, 43, was killed in one of the bomb attacks in Kampala, Uganda, on the night of July 11. As a finance manager for the Center for Communication Programs’ AFFORD-health marketing initiative, Okiria was participating at the time of the bombing in a product-promotion event with several colleagues from CCP and the Johns Hopkins […]
Carey Business School’s first global MBA class takes shape
July 6, 2010
When Johns Hopkins University launched a business school in 2007, the smart money reckoned on an entirely new kind of MBA program. The designers of the program then went to work and proved the wisdom of the smart money. In the Johns Hopkins traditions of service and international outreach, the program was created so that […]
An oasis for Nursing students
July 6, 2010
The opening of the School of Nursing’s Anne M. Pinkard Building in 1998 was a milestone in the school’s history, as it was the first structure dedicated solely to nursing education at Johns Hopkins. The goal was to put everyone under one roof. The result: The space filled immediately. Since then, the School of Nursing […]
Long-awaited Gilman Hall reunion begins
July 6, 2010
Other than a handful of representatives, humanities faculty and staff have not stepped inside Gilman Hall in more than two years. This week, people and building get reacquainted—undoubtedly with some jaw dropping along the way. Today, the big move-in begins, as the humanities departments relocate back to the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ flagship […]
New clues in north suggest wet era on early Mars was global
July 6, 2010
A phase in the early history of Mars with conditions favorable to life occurred globally rather than just in the south, new findings from the north suggest. Southern and northern Mars differ in many ways, so the extent to which they shared ancient environments has been open to question. In recent years, the European Space Agency’s […]
SPH researchers discover additional benefit of vitamin A
July 6, 2010
Vitamin A is critical to maternal health and child survival, yet in most developing countries vitamin A deficiency is a leading cause of blindness and increased child mortality. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has long been a leader in vitamin A research, and scientists at the school recently discovered a link between […]
Cold sore virus may contribute to abnormalities in schizophrenia
July 6, 2010
Exposure to the common virus that causes cold sores may be partially responsible for shrinking regions of the brain and the loss of concentration skills, memory, coordinated movement and dexterity widely seen in patients with schizophrenia, according to research led by Johns Hopkins scientists. “We’re finding that some portion of cognitive impairment usually blamed solely […]
Fruit fly cells flock together, follow the light
July 6, 2010
Scientists at Johns Hopkins report using a laser beam to activate a protein that makes a cluster of fruit fly cells act like a school of fish turning in social unison, following the lead of the one stimulated with light. The study of this unexpected cell movement, reported May 16 in Nature Cell Biology, holds […]