Category: Divisions
Civil engineer assesses damage to Chile’s hospitals
April 5, 2010
Judith Mitrani-Reiser, an assistant research professor of civil engineering in Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering, recently spent a week in Chile looking at how well buildings and infrastructure had withstood the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the nation on Feb. 27. Mitrani-Reiser studies safety and economic issues associated with structures, how structural risks can […]
Businessman Rob Mosbacher Jr. to present Ginder Lecture
April 5, 2010
Rob Mosbacher Jr., former president and CEO of Overseas Private Investment Corp., is this year’s speaker for the Carey Business School’s Ginder Lecture, to be held at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 7, in Mason Hall on the Homewood campus. His talk is titled “Fighting Poverty With Entrepreneurial Capitalism: A New Strategy.” Originally planned for […]
Public Health offers three new graduate degree programs
April 5, 2010
Beginning in fall 2010, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will begin offering three new master’s degree programs: the master of health science in social factors in health, the master of health science in health economics, and the combined bachelor of arts and master of health science in health policy. The programs are […]
Carey School plans Pre-Clinical Translational Research Workshop
April 5, 2010
The Carey Business School is planning a daylong workshop on methods for making translational research projects attractive to potential investors. The Pre-Clinical Translational Research Workshop, scheduled for Thursday, April 29, at the university’s Downtown Center, is designed for professionals involved in public or private research in the academic, pharmaceutical and biotech fields. Carey officials say […]
Biz affiliation could increase risk of transmission of avian flu
April 5, 2010
A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examines the potential influence that the business connections between broiler-chicken growers may have on the transmission of avian influenza, H5N1. According to the study, the risk of between-farm transmission is significantly greater among farms within the same company group than it is […]
Study: Some groups with brain tumors less likely to get referrals
April 5, 2010
African-American, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged patients with brain tumors are significantly less likely to be referred to high-volume hospitals that specialize in neurosurgery than other patients of similar age, the same gender and with similar co-morbidities, according to new research by Johns Hopkins doctors. The finding, published in the March Archives of Surgery, suggests a […]
Three students recognized for contributions to the arts
April 5, 2010
Joanna K. Pearson, a poet and fourth-year student at the School of Medicine, has been awarded Johns Hopkins’ Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts for 2010. Pearson’s $1,500 prize will be presented at a special luncheon in May. Krieger School of Arts and Sciences seniors Eric Levitz, a playwright, and Brandon Lee Stuart, a performance artist […]
Dean Nick Jones of the Whiting School of Engineering
March 29, 2010
This is the third in a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Nicholas P. “Nick” Jones hails from the bridge-building tradition of engineers—and he’s proud of it. Yet as the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering, Jones has led […]
Carey School debuts three-week program for nonbiz undergrads
March 29, 2010
The Carey Business School is offering an intensive three-week program this June for undergraduate nonbusiness students who want to broaden their knowledge and their career prospects by learning the skills and problem-solving techniques of the business world. The noncredit program, titled ABACUS (for Accelerated Business Awareness Certificate for Undergraduate Students), begins June 7 at the […]
Students show how they’d like to study in Learning Commons
March 29, 2010
The Sheridan Libraries have announced the winners of the yrBLCspace design competition—an opportunity for students to provide their vision of an ideal group study room in the Homewood campus’s future Brody Learning Commons. The contest, sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries, was open to all students using any medium, from cocktail napkin to Google […]