Category: Community
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing offers new scholarships for disadvantaged, underrepresented
August 3, 2009
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is now offering six new scholarships for students from disadvantaged backgrounds or underrepresented groups in nursing who enroll in the accelerated baccalaureate program. Funded through a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the goal of the New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program is to both increase student enrollment […]
Summer jobs welcome 250 local youth; students exposed to various career paths
July 20, 2009
Approximately 250 young Baltimoreans are in their fourth week of employment on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses through Johns Hopkins Institutions’ partnership with the city’s YouthWorks Summer Jobs Campaign.
JHH tops ‘U.S. News’ Honor Roll for 19th year in a row
July 20, 2009
The Johns Hopkins Hospital has once again—for the 19th consecutive time—earned the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of more than 4,800 American hospitals, placing first in three medical specialties and in the top 16 in 13 others.
Faculty, staff donations needed at July 14 Homewood blood drive
July 6, 2009
Blood donations from faculty and staff are particularly needed at the Homewood campus drive on Tuesday, July 14, in the Glass Pavilion, which is run by the office of Faculty, Staff and Retiree Programs.
CSOS grant to support work with Baltimore high schoolers
July 6, 2009
Johns Hopkins’ Center for Social Organization of Schools was recently awarded a $286,816 grant from AT&T to support the Baltimore Talent Development High School.
Poe’s ‘Tell-Tale Tour’ stops at Homewood
June 22, 2009
Edgar Allan Poe wrote his first horror stories in Baltimore in the early 1830s. What was Baltimore like back then? Find out by taking “The Edgar Allan Poe Tell-Tale Tour” of Baltimore.
Winners!
June 8, 2009
175 students from 42 Baltimore City Public Schools participated in a recent citywide chess tournament at Homewood’s Glass Pavilion. We show you the winners.
Statue returns to Johns Hopkins @ Eastern
June 8, 2009
The JHU community rededicated the Lizette Wood Reese Memorial–also known as the Good Shepherd Statue– June 1 on the Johns Hopkins at Eastern campus. City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke was there to help. The statue honors an 1873 graduate of Eastern High School.