Category: Around Hopkins
Classifieds — January 23, 2012
January 23, 2012
APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT Brewers Hill, rehabbed 2BR, 2.5BA TH, gourmet kitchen, fin’d bsmt, deck, no pets, avail Feb 1. $1,850/mo. 410-303-1214 or hudsonstreetrental@hotmail.com. Canton/Fells Point (603 S Patterson Park Ave), 2BR, 2.5BA renov’d RH, 1,500 sq ft, CAC, hdwd flrs, expos’d brick, extra rms, laundry, rooftop deck, walk to park. $1,650/mo. fionalydon@hotmail.com. Ednor Gardens, 3BR, […]
Notices — January 23, 2012
January 23, 2012
Peabody Preparatory Cuban Salsa Classes — This 10-week Adult and Continuing Education session has openings for couples and individuals who want to learn Cuban-style salsa. Classes will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. on Mondays at Peabody’s downtown campus. Tuition is $50, with a special rate for Hopkins and Peabody Conservatory students. For more […]
SAIS hosts release of EIA’s ‘Annual Energy Outlook 2012’
January 23, 2012
The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies will host the release of the Annual Energy Outlook 2012, published by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration, at 9:30 a.m. today, Jan. 23, in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. Howard Gruenspecht, EIA’s acting administrator, will present the agency’s projections of U.S. energy supply, demand […]
Milestones — January 23, 2012
January 23, 2012
ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS 5 years of service Brignole, Kathryn, Jhpiego Charurat, Elaine, Jhpiego Cockrell, Randolph, Center for Talented Youth Collins, Howard, Center for Talented Youth Lambert, Valerie, Center for Talented Youth Linett, Sean, AV Support Martin, Daniel, Johns Hopkins University Press Tanjung, Marwan, Jhpiego BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 45 years of service […]
Cheers — January 23, 2012
January 23, 2012
ACADEMIC CENTERS AND AFFILATES Leah Ramsay has joined the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics as a science writer to manage communications and news media relations. She comes to Johns Hopkins from Washington, D.C., where she most recently handled media and public relations for the advocacy organization DC Vote. Previously she worked in documentary production […]
Scientists show how BRCA1 gene mutations harm breast cells
January 23, 2012
Working with human breast cells, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have shown how the inactivation of a single copy of the breast cancer gene BRCA1 leaves breast cells vulnerable to cancer by reducing their ability to repair DNA damage, causing genetic instability. An inherited mutation in BRCA1 is the leading risk factor […]
Economist Faust named special adviser to Federal Reserve Board
January 23, 2012
The Federal Reserve Board has appointed Johns Hopkins University faculty member Jon Faust as special adviser in the Office of Board Members, effective Jan. 17. Faust is the Louis J. Maccini Professor of Economics in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the director of the Center for Financial Economics at Johns Hopkins. His […]
Head of Four Seasons to give Leaders + Legends lecture
January 23, 2012
Kathleen Taylor, president and chief executive officer of the Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts, is the featured speaker for the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series on Wednesday, Jan. 25. The event will take place at 7:30 a.m. in the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. Taylor, who joined Four Seasons […]
Black elderly more likely than whites to die after intestinal surgery
January 23, 2012
Black senior citizens who need surgery for the intestinal disorder diverticulitis are significantly more likely to die in the hospital than their equally ill white counterparts, even when each racial group carries the same health insurance, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. While all patients in the study required surgery, black patients were 26 percent more […]
Traditional autopsies—not high-tech ‘virtopsies’—still gold standard
January 23, 2012
TV crime shows such as Bones and CSI are quick to explain each death by showing detailed scans and video images of victims’ insides. Traditional autopsies, if shown at all, are, at best, in supporting roles to the high-tech equipment, and usually gloss over the sometimes physically grueling tasks of sawing through skin and bone. […]