Category: Around Hopkins
Inaugural Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award winner announced
October 10, 2011
The Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute has announced that Newborn Holistic Ministries is the winner of the inaugural Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award, which was created to recognize and support Baltimore community organizations that are collaborating with The Johns Hopkins University to improve the health and well-being of Baltimore City and its residents. The award was […]
Guidelines set for PhD student, JHU relationship
October 10, 2011
To bolster the already strong ties between the university and its PhD students, the newly instituted Doctor of Philosophy Board at Johns Hopkins has produced a statement of rights and responsibilities for all university PhD students. The statement, released today, lays out a series of common expectations for students, their faculty advisers and the JHU […]
Notices — October 10, 2011
October 10, 2011
Funding for Prostate Cancer Research — Funding is available to support multidisciplinary research in prostate cancer through the Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund. Awards of a maximum of $75,000 per year for up to two years are available to fund career development and developmental research programs (pilot projects). New ideas are encouraged. The […]
JHU’s newest Nobel laureate
October 4, 2011
In a day chock-full of metaphors used to explain universe-sized science, Adam Riess employed a simple image to convey to his 7-year-old daughter the life-altering award he had just won. What does winning the Nobel Prize for physics mean? It’s like getting a “great big gold sticker” on your school folder, he told her. Make […]
Three from Johns Hopkins to receive Presidential Early Career Awards
October 3, 2011
Johns Hopkins faculty members who study robotics, biostatistics and international health are among 94 researchers selected this year to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The awards, announced last week by President Barack Obama, are the U.S. government’s highest honor for scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent […]
‘UFO Hunters’ host Birnes to talk at Barnes & Noble
October 3, 2011
The host of the History Channel’s UFO Hunters, William J. Birnes, will be at Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins this week to discuss and sign copies of his new book, The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America. In this sequel to The Haunting of America, Birnes and co-author Joel Martin update the story of how paranormal events […]
Hundreds of helping hands
October 3, 2011
The collective power of one university was on full display for the 2011 President’s Day of Service. Nearly 1,000 students, faculty, staff and alumni turned out on Sept. 24 to lend a hand to local nonprofit organizations and community centers in Baltimore and beyond. Participants took part in more than 40 projects. They planted gardens, […]
Calendar — October 3, 2011
October 3, 2011
COLLOQUIA Tues., Oct. 4, 4 p.m. “A Poiesis of Cessation and Continuity: Yolmo Buddhist Engagements With Life, Death and Mourning,” an Anthropology colloquium with Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College. 404 Macaulay. HW Tues., Oct. 4, 4:15 p.m. “Through the Looking-Glass, and What the Quantum Chemist Found There,” a Chemistry colloquium with T. Daniel Crawford, Virginia […]
James E. West to be honored in two-day symposium
October 3, 2011
A symposium in honor of James Edward West will be held this weekend on the Homewood campus in celebration of his 80th birthday and his contributions to science and to diversity. West, a world-renowned African-American inventor and engineer, is a research professor of electrical and computer engineering and of mechanical engineering in Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School […]
Former Hungarian P.M. Bajnai joins SAIS as distinguished fellow
October 3, 2011
Gordon Bajnai, former prime minister of Hungary, has joined the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies as a distinguished fellow. Based at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, Bajnai, who was prime minister from 2009 to 2010, will periodically give lectures to SAIS students. He also will contribute to the […]