Category: Divisions
To Haiti and back
January 22, 2010
More than a week after a devastating 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, the tiny Caribbean nation remains caught in a major medical crisis that only promises to worsen unless international aid groups and health professionals can meet the growing need for supplies and medical assistance for the countless injured and suffering there.
Dean Michael Klag of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
January 19, 2010
Michael J. Klag, a physician and internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of heart and kidney disease, took the helm of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2005.
Education Dean Fessler to retire; Hardiman named to interim post
January 19, 2010
After postponing, at the request of President Daniels, the planned retirement that he had announced in September 2008, Dean Ralph Fessler of the School of Education will leave his post this month.
Engineering for Professionals offers new degree in info assurance
January 19, 2010
A new master of science degree in information assurance is now available through Johns Hopkins’ Engineering for Professionals, the part-time graduate program of the Whiting School of Engineering.
Workers’ comp research gives insight into curbing health costs
January 19, 2010
Analyzing physicians’ practice patterns may hold valuable clues about how to curb the nation’s rising health care costs, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
A step closer to treating memory loss in age-related diseases
January 19, 2010
Michela Gallagher has spent more than two decades trying to solve the mysteries of the aging brain. What happens to our gray matter as we get older? How—and why—do those changes occur? And, perhaps most importantly, what strategies and approaches might help treat—or, eventually, even prevent—memory loss in age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s and other dementias?
Spine immobilization may do harm to both gunshot, stabbing victims
January 19, 2010
Patients are twice as likely to die if not taken to the hospital immediately
JHU mathematician shares Veblen Prize
January 19, 2010
William P. Minicozzi II, a Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, received the 2010 American Mathematical Society’s Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry on Jan. 14 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco.
Celebrating Carol Greider
January 11, 2010
Nearly 800 faculty, students and staff poured into Turner Concourse on Jan. 6 for a reception to honor Carol Greider, who recently returned from Stockholm, where she accepted the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Smoking cessation may increase diabetes risk
January 11, 2010
Cigarette smoking is a well-known risk factor for type 2 diabetes, but new research from Johns Hopkins suggests that quitting the habit may actually raise diabetes risk in the short term.