Category: People
For the Record: Cheers
June 25, 2012
BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER Clifton “Bing” Bingham III, an associate professor of medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, has received a two-year $500,000 grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. A rheumatologist, Bingham is developing an interactive questionnaire that will help incorporate the unique, personal perspectives of individual rheumatoid arthritis patients into their […]
JHU’s Bennett and WMAP team awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize
June 25, 2012
The Gruber Foundation announced June 20 that the 2012 Cosmology Prize will be awarded to Johns Hopkins University Professor Charles L. Bennett and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe space mission science team that he led. Bennett and the WMAP team are being recognized by the foundation for their transformative study of an ancient light dating […]
SAIS says farewell to Dean Jessica Einhorn
June 25, 2012
Members of the SAIS community heaped praise, well-wishes and gifts on departing Dean Jessica Einhorn earlier this month at an event held on the school’s main campus in Washington, D.C. Those gathered at the intimate gathering also learned which Downton Abbey character Einhorn most closely matched, and how the dean will spend a portion of […]
For the Record: Milestones
June 25, 2012
The following staff members are retiring or celebrating an anniversary with the university in June 2012. The information is compiled by the Office of Work, Life and Engagement, 443-997-7000. ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS 20 years of service Armstead, Stacey, Sr., Johns Hopkins University Press Lacoste, Maryjane, Jhpiego 10 years of service Carroll, Michael, Johns […]
For the Record: Iglesias installed as Edward J. Schaefer Professor in Electrical Engineering
June 25, 2012
Pablo A. Iglesias, director of the Johns Hopkins Cellular Signaling Control Laboratory, has been named the Edward J. Schaefer Professor in Electrical Engineering, in the fifth and final Whiting School of Engineering endowed professorship installation of the academic year. Peter N. Devreotes, professor and director of the Department of Cell Biology at the School of […]
Johns Hopkins celebrates its staff
June 25, 2012
The season of celebration is under way. Staff recognition events are being held this month for employees retiring, reaching 20-plus years of service and celebrating five-, 10- and 15-year anniversaries. Various members of JHU’s leadership, including President Ron Daniels and Provost Lloyd Minor, have shown their appreciation for the collective years of service by attending […]
CryoPop takes first in national contest
June 11, 2012
A Johns Hopkins team took first prize in the 2012 BMEidea competition, sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. The winning design, CryoPop, is a low-cost medical device that uses dry ice for the treatment of cervical precancerous lesions. Today cervical cancer kills an estimated 250,000 women, with 85 percent of the disease burden […]
JHU Press: Telling stories of the ‘forgotten war’
June 11, 2012
The War of 1812 has long suffered an inferiority complex. Unluckily wedged between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, the conflict often gets overlooked and thus earned the nicknames the “forgotten war” and the “Rodney Dangerfield of armed engagements.” For most Americans, knowledge of the war is limited to the victories of the USS […]
JHM honors departing Dean Miller
June 11, 2012
The university and Johns Hopkins Medicine will honor a transformative leader today and look toward the future at a daylong conference titled Moving Academic Medicine Forward, held in honor of Edward D. Miller, the longtime dean of the medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Miller will step down from his post on June […]
A new dean for Carey Business School
June 11, 2012
Bernard T. “Bernie” Ferrari, an accomplished corporate strategist and management consultant to Fortune 50 companies, has been named the next dean of The Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School. Ferrari, whose appointment is effective July 1, is the second dean to lead the Carey Business School since it was established in 2007. He succeeds Yash […]