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Students design early-labor detector to prevent premature births
August 2, 2010
The birth of a baby is usually a joyous event, but when a child is born too early, worrisome complications can occur, including serious health problems for the baby and steep medical bills for the family. To address this, Johns Hopkins graduate students and their faculty adviser have invented a system to pick up very […]
Home again in Gilman Hall
July 19, 2010
If these Gilman walls could talk, they would have said, “Welcome home.” After more than two years away, the School of Arts and Sciences’ humanities faculty moved back into the extensively renovated Gilman Hall earlier this month. The building was re-populated from the top down, starting with the Department of German and Romance Languages and […]
Caroline Laguerre-Brown named vice provost for institutional equity
July 19, 2010
Caroline Laguerre-Brown, who for the past four years has worked to strengthen fairness, inclusion and diversity guidelines, programs and initiatives at The Johns Hopkins University, has been named vice provost for institutional equity. Laguerre-Brown, formerly associate vice provost for institutional equity, succeeds Ray Gillian, who retired last month. Her appointment was effective July 1. Provost […]
Hartwell grant supports innovative early-vision scanner
July 19, 2010
Of all the disorders of vision, amblyopia—sometimes referred to as “lazy eye”—may be one of the most frustrating for clinicians and public health officials. It is both relatively common, affecting as many as 380,000 children in the United States alone, and relatively easy to address if treatment is initiated before age 3. But few children […]
‘Hubble repairman’ now a Johns Hopkins research professor
July 19, 2010
NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld has walked in space eight times and logged more than 800 hours floating in that deep, dark void over the course of five space flights, including three to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Now, he is about to explore a new frontier: The Johns Hopkins University. On July 1, the man […]
Carey Business School’s first global MBA class takes shape
July 6, 2010
When Johns Hopkins University launched a business school in 2007, the smart money reckoned on an entirely new kind of MBA program. The designers of the program then went to work and proved the wisdom of the smart money. In the Johns Hopkins traditions of service and international outreach, the program was created so that […]
An oasis for Nursing students
July 6, 2010
The opening of the School of Nursing’s Anne M. Pinkard Building in 1998 was a milestone in the school’s history, as it was the first structure dedicated solely to nursing education at Johns Hopkins. The goal was to put everyone under one roof. The result: The space filled immediately. Since then, the School of Nursing […]
Long-awaited Gilman Hall reunion begins
July 6, 2010
Other than a handful of representatives, humanities faculty and staff have not stepped inside Gilman Hall in more than two years. This week, people and building get reacquainted—undoubtedly with some jaw dropping along the way. Today, the big move-in begins, as the humanities departments relocate back to the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ flagship […]
At-risk kids, youth scholar named dean of School of Education
June 21, 2010
David W. Andrews, a distinguished scholar who has dedicated his career to improving academic and behavioral outcomes for at-risk children and youth, has been named dean of The Johns Hopkins University School of Education.
Daniel Ennis named senior vp for finance and administration
June 21, 2010
Getting different parts of a great university working together across disciplines takes more than good ideas, good talent and goodwill. It also takes creativity, money and someone who knows how to use them both. Daniel Ennis, Johns Hopkins’ next senior vice president for finance and administration, has learned that lesson well in his current job […]