Category: In Brief
Daylong college admissions workshop set for July 9
July 6, 2010
Faculty, staff and alumni and their college-bound family members can learn more about navigating the admissions process at the Admissions Advisory Workshop to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, July 9, in Homewood’s Mason Hall. Co-sponsored by the offices of Alumni Relations and Undergraduate Admissions, the workshop will provide an insider’s […]
Senate confirms Winston Tabb appointment to library board
July 6, 2010
The U.S. Senate has confirmed the appointment of Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins, to the National Museum and Library Services board. Tabb was nominated by President Barack Obama in January and was one of five individuals confirmed in June to serve as an adviser to the Institute of […]
International Reporting Project to send journalists to Liberia
July 6, 2010
The destination of the SAIS International Reporting Project’s next Gatekeepers Editors Trip will be Liberia. Gatekeepers are senior journalists who determine editorial content at any type of media organization. The trip to Liberia, scheduled for Nov. 7 to 18 for up to 12 U.S. journalists, will focus on issues such as health, environment, economic recovery […]
New grants focus Nursing faculty on nearby communities
July 6, 2010
Faculty in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing’s Department of Community Public Health will address health disparities in their own backyard through funding provided in two new grants from the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. Elizabeth “Betty” Jordan, an assistant professor, and Patty Wilson, an instructor, received $10,000 each for their respective endeavors. Jordan’s project, […]
SoN joins Md. Alliance to Transform the Health Professions
June 21, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing has joined the Maryland Alliance to Transform the Health Professions to help address Maryland’s growing health care needs. The organization, composed of more than a dozen academic health institutions and historically black colleges and universities in Maryland, is working with the state’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene […]
Jhpiego gives international award to Ghanaian midwife
June 21, 2010
In the developing world, midwives are frontline health care providers, giving life-saving information to pregnant women, counseling HIV-positive women on how to protect their unborn children from infections, preparing women to give birth and plan their families, helping deliver babies and connecting the greater community to health care. On June 6, in recognition of the […]
Chesney-penned play now an on-demand Press paperback
June 21, 2010
Alan M. Chesney, former dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, didn’t spend all his time delving into strictly scientific and administrative matters. He wrote not only a three-volume history of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine but also penned a play. His 1939 one-act work, The Flowering of an Idea, presents […]
JH surgeon among ‘Nifty 50’ to speak at D.C. schools
June 21, 2010
In an effort to ignite a passion for science and engineering in middle and high school students, the USA Science & Engineering Festival has tapped 50 professionals—among them, high-tech entrepreneurs, financiers, policymakers, actors, journalists, educators, explorers, video game developers, spies, alien hunters, astronauts and surgeons—to speak at Washington, D.C.–area schools during its October festival. Alfredo […]
A note to readers about style changes in ‘The Gazette’
June 21, 2010
Goodbye Web site, hello website. This month, the Associated Press released the 10th edition of its stylebook—the longtime standard-bearer for journalists and other writers—and with this issue, The Gazette will follow the new guidelines for social media and adopt other changes contained in the reference book. Among those that might be noticeable to readers are […]
Parking permit rate changes set at Homewood and Eastern
June 7, 2010
New permit parking rates go into effect on July 1 for parking lots and garages on the Homewood and Eastern campuses. All surface lots are $55 per month. Faculty hangtag parking and general garage parking are $86 per month. Reserved parking spaces at the West Gate, San Martin and South garages will be $115 per […]