Category: Around Hopkins
Hot Jobs — April 16, 2012
April 16, 2012
Homewood Office of Human Resources Wyman Park Building, Suite W600 410-516-7196 The Department of Defense Information Analysis Center, operated by the Whiting School of Engineering, has an opening for a midlevel information technology support analyst for the Chemical Propulsion Information Analysis Center. For more information and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu. 51628 Senior Technical Support […]
Renowned patient advocate to give 19th Shallenberger Lecture
April 16, 2012
Myra Christopher, the Kathleen M. Foley Chair for Pain and Palliative Care at the Center for Practical Bioethics and a nationally renowned patient advocate, will deliver the 19th annual Shallenberger Lecture in Ethics at noon on Tuesday, April 17. The lecture will be held at The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Hurd Hall and is titled “Addressing […]
JHMI Shuttle stop relocated to Broadway and Monument
April 16, 2012
Because of ongoing construction projects and to ensure the safety of passengers, effective Monday, April 23, the JHMI stop for the Homewood-Peabody-JHMI Shuttle will relocate to Broadway at Monument Street. The shuttle route will change, and this will be the only stop on the East Baltimore campus for the foreseeable future. According to Ankur Ponda, […]
Last Peabody Symphony concert free for students
April 16, 2012
To boost student attendance at the Peabody Symphony Orchestra concert on April 21, the last of the season, free tickets are available for students from Johns Hopkins and other colleges and universities. Two graduate conducting majors, Stephen Mulligan and Blair Skinner, will conduct the concert, substituting for National Medal of Arts recipient James DePreist. The […]
SAIS to host conference on food supply, new technologies
April 16, 2012
A daylong conference titled Growing Food: New Places, New Technologies will be held at SAIS from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, as part of the school’s Year of Agriculture. The event will bring together experts from academia, government, international organizations and the private sector to discuss the challenge of feeding a growing […]
Two SoM faculty members set up educational endowment
April 16, 2012
Franklin Adkinson Jr., professor of medicine and director of the School of Medicine’s postdoctoral training in allergy and immunology, as well as of the Bloomberg School’s graduate training program in clinical investigation, and Robert Hamilton, professor of medicine and pathology, have established a $600,000 Adkinson-Hamilton Education Endowment in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. […]
Detectable pancreatic lesions common in those at high risk for hereditary pancreatic cancer
April 16, 2012
A team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins researchers has found that more than four in 10 people considered at high risk for hereditary pancreatic cancer have small pancreatic lesions long before they have any symptoms of the deadly disease. Moreover, the scientists report that the frequency of the abnormal precancerous lesions increases with age, and […]
Physics Fair forecast: Lots of bright lights, loud noises, rockets and more
April 16, 2012
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is hosting its ninth annual Physics Fair from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, coinciding with the Spring Fair celebration on the Homewood campus. Events will take place in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy. The fair will feature individual and team competitions for local […]
Attacca Quartet to play Evergreen April 21
April 16, 2012
Evergreen Museum & Library will conclude its 2011–12 Music at Evergreen concert series on Saturday, April 21, with a 3 p.m. performance by the Attacca String Quartet in the museum’s Bakst Theatre. Featured on the program will be Haydn’s String Quartet No. 67 in F major, Op. 77, No. 2, Hob.III:82 (Lobkowitz), Janacek’s String Quartet […]
Sequencing cancer mutations: There’s now an app for that
April 16, 2012
Using precise information about an individual’s genetic makeup is becoming increasingly routine for developing tailored treatments for breast, lung, colon and other cancers. But techniques used to identify meaningful gene mutations depend on analyzing sequences of both normal and mutant DNA in tumor samples, a process that can yield ambiguous results. Now, a team of […]