Category: Around Hopkins
Lacrosse season opens at home with Feb. 17 Towson game
December 19, 2011
Lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala last week announced the Blue Jays’ 2012 schedule, which includes eight home games, the Konica Minolta Inside Lacrosse Face-Off, Big City Classics and a return by Army to Homewood Field for JHU’s annual Homecoming game. The Jays will prep for the challenging schedule with scrimmages against Penn State and Cornell in […]
Join in a Christmas Eve tradition
December 19, 2011
An outdoor meeting. On Dec. 24. In a graveyard. Are they crazy? A hardy (and undoubtedly well-insulated) group of Johns Hopkins staff, faculty, alumni and supporters will gather in Baltimore’s Green Mount Cemetery at 10 a.m. on Christmas Eve. They’ll be there to honor the man who made it all possible: Mr. Johns Hopkins. Hopkins, […]
Scientists develop model for TB-related blindness
December 19, 2011
Working with guinea pigs, tuberculosis experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have closely mimicked how active but untreated cases of the underlying lung infection lead to permanent eye damage and blindness in people. Lead study investigator Petros Karakousis, a Johns Hopkins infectious disease specialist, says that the new animal model should hasten development of a […]
Studying the city’s demographic transformation
December 19, 2011
While Baltimore continues to dwindle in population size, many neighborhoods with high ethnic and racial change are growing, triggered in part by a significant increase in the number of Hispanic and Asian residents, according to a study by 62 students in the Institute for Policy Studies’ Master of Public Policy program. For the annual Baltimore […]
Confronting gender-based violence
December 19, 2011
Nancy Glass has spent the better part of two decades addressing intimate partner violence and violence against women. Glass, an associate professor of community public health nursing in the School of Nursing, has seen firsthand the devastating impacts of this growing global health crisis. An estimated one out of three women worldwide will be physically […]
By withholding trust in negotiations, parties ‘pay a price’
December 12, 2011
Studies have long documented that people from different cultures negotiate in different ways, though it is unclear why this happens. But a new research paper argues that different levels of trust account for these divergent bargaining strategies, with negotiators from less-trusting cultures engaging in counterproductive behaviors that lead to poor outcomes. Recently published in the […]
Notices — December 12, 2011
December 12, 2011
Funding for Musculoskeletal Research Projects — The Johns Hopkins Center for Musculoskeletal Research announces the availability of funding for pilot and feasibility projects. The CMR funds are available to encourage innovative research in pathogenic mechanisms, basic science and therapeutic approaches related to muscle and bone research. Three grants of $30,000 (direct costs only) for a […]
Degrees of failure: Many high school graduates are unprepared
December 12, 2011
A significant number of American teenagers graduate from high school unprepared to take their next big steps toward adulthood, according to a study by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona’s Center for the Study of Higher Education. More than 40 percent of high-schoolers do not follow a college preparatory track or […]
Trauma patients more likely to die at hospitals serving minorities
December 12, 2011
Seriously injured patients cared for at hospitals serving larger numbers of minorities are significantly more likely to die than those treated at hospitals serving mostly whites, regardless of the race of the patient, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. The racial makeup of the general patient population in a trauma care facility may be a major […]
Calendar — December 12, 2011
December 12, 2011
COLLOQUIA Wed., Dec. 14, 3:30 p.m. “Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Coalescence,” an STSci colloquium with Tamara Bogdanovic, University of Maryland. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW Wed., Dec. 14, 4:30 p.m. “New Methods and Results—Old Problem: AraC,” a Biology colloquium with Robert Schleif, KSAS. Mudd Hall Auditorium. HW DISCUSSION/ TALKS Wed., Dec. 14, 2 p.m. […]