Year: 2010
Cheers — January, 2010
January 19, 2010
JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE Barbara Cook, medical director of Johns Hopkins’ TAP (The Access Partnership) program, which improves access to specialty care for uninsured East Baltimore patients; Desiree De La Torre, TAP’s project manager; Matt Emerson, TAP’s senior analyst; and Anne Langley, director of TAP, won the Service Quality Award from Permanente Journal for their poster […]
Milestones — January, 2010
January 19, 2010
ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS 25 years of service Boney, Treva, Facilities, CTY 20 years of service Inouye, Irene, West Coast Office, CTY BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Retiree Napolitano, Geraldine, 12 years, Rakai Project 25 years of service Krenn, Susan, Center for Communication Programs 15 years of service Gouel-Tannous, Therese, International Health Gray, Roberta, Epidemiology […]
Notices
January 19, 2010
The 2010 YouthWorks Summer Jobs Program — Teens interested in working in the YouthWorks Summer Jobs Program 2010 can participate in a paid summer internship designed to provide exposure to careers, mentoring and education while developing responsibility and experience. This year 250 high school and college students will have the opportunity to gain work experience […]
Calendar — January 19, 2010
January 19, 2010
COLLOQUIA Fri., Jan. 22, 1 p.m. The A.I. Mahan Colloquium—“Extremist Jihadi Social Networks,” with Jeffrey Bardin, ITSolutions. Sponsored by the Applied Physics Laboratory. Parsons Auditorium. APL DISCUSSION/TALKS Wed., Jan. 20, 5:30 p.m. “Israel, Turkey and Azerbaijan: Strategic Shifts,” a Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at SAIS panel discussion with author Alexander Murinson; Khazar Ibrahim, deputy chief of […]
United Way campaign tops its goal
January 11, 2010
Despite a still-recovering economy and a general downturn in corporate giving, employees and students of the university and Johns Hopkins Medicine pledged more than $2.1 million to the 2009 United Way of Central Maryland campaign, topping the overall goal by nearly $100,000.
Celebrating Carol Greider
January 11, 2010
Nearly 800 faculty, students and staff poured into Turner Concourse on Jan. 6 for a reception to honor Carol Greider, who recently returned from Stockholm, where she accepted the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Rich Roca to step down this year as director of APL
January 11, 2010
Rich Roca, director of the Applied Physics Laboratory since January 2000, announced last week that he will step down from his position this year.
Actor Lou Gossett Jr. to headline MLK Jr. Commemoration
January 11, 2010
Lou Gossett Jr., an award-winning television and big screen actor perhaps best known for his portrayal of a U.S. Marine Corps drill sergeant, will be the featured guest and keynote speaker for Johns Hopkins’ 28th annual Martin Luther King Jr. birthday remembrance, an event that takes place this week.
Legg Mason chair, CEO to give next Leaders & Legends talk
January 11, 2010
Mark R. Fetting, chairman and chief executive officer of Baltimore-based Legg Mason, one of the world’s leading global asset management firms, will be the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders & Legends lecture series on Wednesday, Jan. 13. The event will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East.
Noted condensed matter physicist to give public lecture
January 11, 2010
A public lecture by noted condensed matter physicist and renowned speaker Philip Phillips of the University of Illinois will be the centerpiece of a three-day workshop to be hosted this week at Homewood by Johns Hopkins’ Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy.