Category: In Brief
Ellicott Dredges joins Jhpiego malaria program in Nigeria
August 16, 2010
Baltimore manufacturer Ellicott Dredges has begun a partnership with Jhpiego in support of its Malaria in Pregnancy Program in Nigeria. The 125-year-old company, which operates in 80 countries, has made a $100,000-plus multiyear commitment to buy anti-malaria medicines, insecticide-treated bed nets and other supplies to protect women and children in Akwa Ibom state in the […]
Homewood campus responds to peak electricity demand
August 16, 2010
On one sweltering day this summer, employees in nonresearch buildings at Homewood were without air conditioning and were asked to turn off as many lights and electronics as possible—all for a good cause. The campus is participating in the Demand Load Response Program that allows PJM, whose electric grid serves 13 states and Washington, D.C., […]
Riordan Roett of SAIS publishes book on ‘The New Brazil’
August 16, 2010
Riordan Roett, director of the Western Hemisphere Studies and Latin American Studies programs at SAIS, has released The New Brazil, recently published by Brookings Institution Press. In the book, Roett tells the story of South America’s largest country as it has evolved from a remote Portuguese colony into a regional leader, a respected representative for […]
Hopkins Nursing collaborates to immunize Baltimore kids
August 2, 2010
In a campaign that began July 22 in Baltimore, the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is partnering with the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization to raise awareness for the immunization of children around the world. Through a new program called “Breakthrough for Child Survival in […]
‘Magnetricity’ discoverer to give lecture at Homewood
August 2, 2010
Steven Bramwell, the University College London physicist who discovered the concept of “magnetricity,” will give a lecture on Thursday, Aug. 5, on the Homewood campus. It will take place at 5 p.m. in Schafler Auditorium in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy. The lecture is part of an international conference, Highly Frustrated Magnetism 2010, […]
Talent Development National Conference set for Baltimore
July 19, 2010
More than 150 educators from across the country will attend the Talent Development National Conference July 26 and 27 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The biennial conference showcases the work of the Talent Development Middle Grades and Talent Development High Schools whole-school reform models. Robert Balfanz, Johns Hopkins University research scientist […]
20 years in a row: JHH again tops ‘U.S. News’ rankings
July 19, 2010
For the 20th year in a row, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has taken the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of American hospitals, placing first in five medical specialties and in the top five in 10 others. Calling the two-decade record “astonishing,” the leadership of Johns Hopkins Medicine said the credit […]
School of Ed now hosts New Horizons website for educators
July 19, 2010
The School of Education is now hosting a website that provides educators with access to the latest research on effective teaching and learning practices. Since its inception in 1980, the mission of the New Horizons for Learning site has been to identify, communicate and help implement more effective ways of learning for classroom teachers. Johns […]
School of Ed now hosts New Horizons website for educators
July 19, 2010
The School of Education is now hosting a website that provides educators with access to the latest research on effective teaching and learning practices. Since its inception in 1980, the mission of the New Horizons for Learning site has been to identify, communicate and help implement more effective ways of learning for classroom teachers. Johns […]
School of Nursing receives DNP program accreditation
July 19, 2010
The Board of Commissioners for the Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education has granted accreditation to the School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice Program, extending through June 30, 2015. The accreditation is effective as of Oct. 19, 2009, which was the first day of the CCNE on-site evaluation of the school. The board determined that […]