Category: Around Hopkins
JHU Press staff, Charles Village students produce literary journal
April 23, 2012
Since the fall of 2011, volunteers from the staff of the Johns Hopkins University Press have been working with seventh- and eighth-grade students at the Village Learning Place, a community center near the Press’ offices in Charles Village, to plan, write, edit, design and publish a literary journal. The first edition of the journal, proudly […]
Free online tool estimates youth exposure to radio school ads
April 23, 2012
A new online tool from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health determines the extent of exposure to radio alcohol advertisements among young people ages 12 to 20 in 75 different media markets. This free and user-friendly tool, available at camy.org/radiotool, is the first service to provide […]
Carey School plans workshop on Safe Space Sticker Program
April 23, 2012
The Committee for Diversity and Inclusion of the Carey Business School has planned a presentation for Thursday, April 26, on the Safe Space Sticker Program, which uses visible markers to indicate that a campus community is supportive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons and their allies. Members of the GLBTA Resource Center of American […]
WMAP mission scores ‘world’s most cited’ in science pubs
April 23, 2012
All three of the most highly cited scientific papers in the world published in 2011 were from an astrophysics space mission project led by a Johns Hopkins scientist, according to Thomson Reuters’ ScienceWatch. The papers cite results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a NASA spacecraft launched in 2001 that has revolutionized our knowledge of […]
Digging into research
April 23, 2012
Natalie Bray spent part of last summer poking around in woods just south of Annapolis. On one excursion, the Johns Hopkins junior came across a red and black North American millipede (Narceus americanus), a “monster” some five inches long with row upon row of tiny red legs. She couldn’t wait to grab it. “I really […]
Classifieds — April 23, 2012
April 23, 2012
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Bioethicists urge less regulation for some human subjects research
April 23, 2012
In an opinion article published in the April 18 theme edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association focusing on comparative effectiveness research, a team of Johns Hopkins University bioethicists argues forcefully for streamlining federal restrictions on at least some low-risk clinical comparative effectiveness research instead of easing them, as is now proposed, solely […]
Notices — April 23, 2012
April 23, 2012
Johns Hopkins Baby Shower — Expectant and new parents are invited to the Johns Hopkins Baby Shower, from 3 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, May 1, on the East Baltimore campus. Johns Hopkins offers a variety of services to support JHU faculty and staff and JHH/JHHSC employees during the life transition of having a baby. Among […]
East Baltimore Housing and Neighborhood Fair planned
April 23, 2012
The long-planned revitalization of 88 acres north of the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore campus is taking shape, with new restaurants, a national pharmacy, the opening of the “929” apartment building, restoration of historic buildings and the construction of a $40 million public school and early childhood center on tap for 2012 and 2013. Johns Hopkins […]
Symptoms that mimic epilepsy linked to stress, poor coping skills
April 23, 2012
Based on their clinical experience and observations, a team of Johns Hopkins physicians and psychologists say that more than one-third of the patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s inpatient epilepsy monitoring unit for treatment of intractable seizures have been discovered to have stress-triggered symptoms rather than a true seizure disorder. These patients—returning war veterans, […]