Day: March 28, 2011
New teaching track for health professionals
March 28, 2011
For health professionals, the classroom is a familiar place; most undertake six to 11 years of post-secondary education on the path to becoming doctors, nurses, research scientists or public health practitioners. They know blood structure, disease variables and human anatomy, from the skeletal to the nervous system. But can they effectively teach these subjects to the […]
New venture to put 30,000 scholarly books online
March 28, 2011
Project MUSE, the highly successful online journals collection managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, recently announced a partnership with the University Press e-book Consortium to create an extensive online collection of scholarly book content. The result of this merger, to be called the University Press Content Consortium, will launch Jan. 1, 2012, and initially […]
Serving up good will
March 28, 2011
Ten Johns Hopkins undergraduates cooked and served dinner for area residents on Wednesday at the Church of the Guardian Angel, located in the Remington neighborhood near the Homewood campus, as part of the university’s third annual Alternative Spring Break program. The undergraduates were filling in for the regular student volunteers (away on break) at Campus […]
Spacecraft data confirm orbit of Messenger around Mercury
March 28, 2011
Data from its first three days in orbit about Mercury confirmed the initial assessment of the spacecraft team that Messenger is in its intended orbit and operating nominally. “The team is relieved that things have gone so well, but they remain busy as they continue to configure the spacecraft for orbital operations and monitor its […]
New interface launched for searching JHU libraries collection
March 28, 2011
Students and faculty returning from spring break will notice something different when they get back into the swing of their research. Catalyst, a new search interface, was launched on March 18. The tool, several years in the making, is an open source project and was developed at Johns Hopkins by programmers and librarians from across […]
New tuition fees set; undergrad aid to increase
March 28, 2011
Tuition for full-time undergraduates at The Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus will increase 3.9 percent this fall, the third consecutive increase below 4 percent. The increase, amounting to $1,600, will bring tuition to $42,280 for the nearly 5,000 full-time undergraduates in the university’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering. The […]
Hopkins-wide research project addresses climate change
March 28, 2011
The Applied Physics Laboratory is leading an ambitious Johns Hopkins–wide program to study and address the potential impacts of climate change on human activity. Called the Global Assimilation of Information for Action, or GAIA, the APL-funded initiative draws expertise from within the Lab and several university divisions to provide tools and information that decision-makers can […]
Ignition Grants create sparks at Applied Physics Lab
March 28, 2011
For David L. Porter, an oceanographer at Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory, his idea for the iBuoy came from an ad for a tablet computer. For robotics scientist Chris Brown, his inspiration for a miniature robot was based on the needs of special operations troops. And for Vina Nguyen, Kalman Hazins and Christina Pikas, it […]
Arts Innovation Grants fund new courses, other initiatives
March 28, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University has awarded approximately $20,000 in grants to students and faculty to stimulate new courses in the arts and other arts-related efforts on the Homewood campus, said Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums. The Arts Innovation Program, initiated in 2006, offers funding to faculty to create new courses in […]
Robert Black of SPH recognized for contributions to child health
March 28, 2011
Robert Edward Black, an international expert in the prevention of childhood mortality and illness, is the recipient of the 2011 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award. The annual award from the Gairdner Foundation recognizes individuals responsible for a scientific advancement that has made, or has the potential to make, significant impact on health in the developing […]