Category: In Brief
James B. West of WSE receives Benjamin Franklin Medal
May 10, 2010
James B. West, a researcher in the Whiting School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medical Award in Electrical Engineering. The prestigious award was one of 11 presented this year by the Franklin Institute to honor accomplishments in science, technology and business. Since 1824, the Philadelphia-based institute, founded […]
Academy of Clinical Excellence hosts patient care symposium
May 10, 2010
Last year, Johns Hopkins introduced a new initiative—the first of its kind—to recognize clinically excellent academic physicians who have achieved a level of mastery in communication and interpersonal skills, professionalism and humanism, and negotiation of the health care system. Called the Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence, it is based at Bayview Medical Center. The academy […]
Swim Across America events to raise funds for Kimmel Center
May 3, 2010
Swim Across America, a national nonprofit dedicated to raising money and awareness for cancer research, prevention and treatment through swimming-related events, will hold its first swims in the Baltimore area, on Sunday, Sept. 19, with an open-water swim starting from the Waltjen Shedlick Farm in Gibson Island harbor and a pool swim at the Meadowbrook […]
New classroom technology to be showcased at MSEL
April 26, 2010
Winners of the 2010 Technology Fellows competition will demonstrate their technological innovations from 1 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 4, on Q-Level of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Homewood. All 11 of the winning faculty-student teams will be on hand to demonstrate how they used their grants to enhance undergraduate instruction. Projects cover […]
Workshop planned on attracting investors to research projects
April 26, 2010
The Carey Business School will hold a daylong workshop on methods for making research projects attractive to potential investors. Scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 29, at the university’s Downtown Center, the Pre-Clinical Translational Research Workshop is designed for professionals involved in public or private research in the academic, pharmaceutical and […]
JH-U-Turn launched to collect unwanted clothing, other items
April 26, 2010
Through the end of May, the university’s Student/Community Liaison Office is asking students, faculty and staff to donate unwanted clothing, furniture, books, electronics and other household items for a sale benefiting the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund, part of the United Way campaign. The sale, called JH-U-Turn, will be held at 8 a.m. on Saturday, June […]
Peabody plans Nicholas Maw memorial concert on Tuesday
April 19, 2010
A memorial concert honoring Nicholas Maw, the distinguished composer and former member of the Peabody Conservatory’s Composition faculty, will be held at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20, in Peabody’s Leith Symington Griswold Hall. Solo and chamber works by Maw and by three of his former students, Judah Adashi, Richard Lake and Jeffrey Lindon, will be […]
School of Ed hosts event on ‘Closing the Achievement Gap’
April 19, 2010
The Johns Hopkins School of Education will host a discussion on “Closing the Achievement Gap” at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday, April 27, in Gilchrist Hall on the Montgomery County Campus. Panelists will examine ways to improve educational opportunities for all students by identifying programs and strategies for raising achievement and closing gaps between white and […]
Composer for films, video games to screen clips at Homewood
April 19, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Film & Media Studies Program will welcome award-winning film and video game composer Byeong Woo Lee at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 23, for a screening and Q&A, followed by a reception. The event will take place in 110 Hodson Hall on the Homewood campus. Lee is a guitarist, composer, writer, arranger […]
‘U.S. News & World Report’ releases grad school rankings
April 19, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has retained a top-tier ranking among the nation’s best medical schools, as reported in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2011 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools. The overall School of Medicine ranking this year was No. 3, while the school’s biomedical engineering specialty retained its long-standing No. […]