Category: Around Hopkins
Students assemble care packages for nurses in Iraq, Afghanistan
May 14, 2012
In the spirit of National Nurses’ Week, students at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing worked together to acknowledge the important contributions to care being made by nurses serving with the U.S. armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Continuing a “tradition” begun in 2011, the school’s chapter of the National Student Nurses’ Association assembled care […]
Carey to hold info session on ‘global immersion’ course
May 14, 2012
The Carey Business School will hold an online information session at noon on Thursday, May 17, for a “global immersion” course the school will offer next fall and winter in Baltimore and Quito, Ecuador. Open to Johns Hopkins graduate students interested in learning how business competitiveness is developed on an international scale, the two-credit course […]
Summer changes announced for two shuttle routes
May 14, 2012
With the spring semester coming to an end, summer schedule changes have been announced for two shuttle routes. The Homewood–Mount Washington Shuttle will run on its regular schedule during the summer, except on Commencement Day (Thursday, May 24), Memorial Day (Monday, May 28) and Independence Day (Wednesday, July 4), when it will not run at […]
‘Help Build a Better Workplace’
May 14, 2012
The Johns Hopkins Institutions will next month conduct a massive employee engagement survey themed “Help Build a Better Workplace,” which will be administered from June 1 through June 21 by the Gallup Organization. All university staff, except those at the Applied Physics Laboratory, will be asked to participate. While the health system, including the School […]
Maryland Hall is sporting new threads.
May 7, 2012
The original Engineering building on the Homewood campus is now adorned with banners marking the centennial of Johns Hopkins Engineering. In 1912, the Maryland State Legislature appropriated $600,000 “to establish a school or department of applied science and advanced technology” at Johns Hopkins, and at a cost of $285,500 (or $.21 per square foot), Maryland […]
Calendar — May 7, 2012
May 7, 2012
COLLOQUIA Fri., May 11, 2 p.m. “Remote Sensing and Climate Change,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Robert Cahalan, NASA Goddard. Parsons Auditorium. APL CONFERENCES Wed., May 9, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Europe After the Euro Crisis, a SAIS European Studies Program conference with various speakers. (All of the speakers’ comments will be […]
Classifieds — May 7, 2012
May 7, 2012
APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT Catonsville, medical office in multi-physician bldg, approx 1,000 sq ft, 2nd flr view of forest, opposite Charlestown Retirement Center. $1,675/mo + utils. 410-321-8889. Charles Village, updated 3BR, 1.5BA RH, W/D, storage in bsmt, hdwd flrs, lots of light, ample prkng on- and off-street, lg garden, pets considered, 2 blks to JHU campus/shuttle, […]
JHU researchers elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 7, 2012
Paul Englund, a professor emeritus of biological chemistry, and Rachel Green and Se-Jin Lee, both professors of molecular biology and genetics, were among 82 scientists inducted April 28 into the National Academy of Sciences for their distinguished research achievements. The induction ceremony took place at the group’s 149th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. An election […]
New clues to how brain cancer cells migrate and invade
May 7, 2012
Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that a protein that transports sodium, potassium and chloride may hold clues to how glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest type of brain cancer, moves and invades nearby healthy brain tissue. The findings, reported in May in the journal PLoS Biology, also suggest that an inexpensive FDA-approved drug already on […]
Tablet computers: A new tool to stop domestic violence?
May 7, 2012
Are pregnant women more likely to admit they’re victims of domestic violence to a computer than to a querying human? And if they are, could a tablet computer be a better route to encouraging abused women to get help in a safer, more expeditious manner? Those are among the questions being asked in a new […]