Category: In Brief
Faculty, Staff, Retiree Programs moves to Eastern campus
October 5, 2009
Faculty, Staff and Retiree Programs today formally joins the Office of Work, Life and Engagement with its move to Johns Hopkins at Eastern. This change was initiated to better reflect the HR mission “to support the university’s effort in attracting, developing, retaining and engaging a high-performing work force in support of excellence in the university’s mission.”
Student nurses seek funds for Hurricane Katrina relief work
October 5, 2009
For the past two years, the Student Nurses Relief Corps has volunteered to help communities affected by Hurricane Katrina. The SNRC is again hoping to send 12 nursing students, next spring, to New Orleans’ lower ninth ward and other recovering areas to rebuild homes and provide clinical services to local communities.
Head of World Bank to speak at SAIS on economic crisis
September 28, 2009
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick will assess the political and economic impact of the global economic crisis, and its implications for development and globalization, in a speech at SAIS at 11 a.m. today, Sept. 28.
Historic multiple kidney swap ops featured on ‘Dr. Oz Show’
September 28, 2009
Robert A. Montgomery, director of the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, and 11 Johns Hopkins patients who were part of the first eight-way, multihospital, domino kidney transplant this summer, were featured last week on the new Dr. Oz Show.
Social Innovation Fund is topic of Social Policy Seminar
September 28, 2009
Robert T. Grimm Jr., director of Research and Policy Development at the Corporation for National and Community Service, will be the speaker at the Social Policy Seminar Series scheduled for 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1, in 526 Wyman Park Building, Homewood campus. His topic is “Scaling Great Ideas That Work: The Social Innovation Fund.”
Web site on Johns Hopkins stem cell research is launched
September 28, 2009
In conjunction with last week’s 2009 World Stem Cell Summit, co-hosted by Johns Hopkins and held in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Medicine launched an interactive Web site on which its researchers and clinicians collectively describe their explorations into stem cell biology and engineering.
Women’s Board’s Best Dressed Sale returns to Evergreen
September 28, 2009
The Johns Hopkins Best Dressed Sale and Boutique, a fund-raiser of the Women’s Board of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, returns this weekend to the Carriage House at Evergreen Museum & Library.
Senior fellow at SAIS to head U.S. human rights delegation
September 21, 2009
Michael Haltzel, senior fellow at SAIS’ Center for Transatlantic Relations, has been named head of the U.S. delegation to the annual two-week human rights conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to be held Sept. 28 to Oct. 9 in Warsaw, Poland. Officially known as the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, the conference brings together national delegations from the 56 countries of the OSCE, making it Europe’s largest human rights gathering. It also includes participation by nongovernmental organizati
Executives to mentor Doctor of Nursing Practice students
September 21, 2009
Under the mentorship of high-level business executives, three students from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program are learning to combine the best practices of business management, nursing leadership and executive effectiveness.
‘Pursuit of Happyness’ author to speak about latest book
September 21, 2009
Chris Gardner, whose memoir The Pursuit of Happyness became a New York Times and Washington Post No. 1 best-seller and inspired the Will Smith movie of the same name, will discuss his latest book, Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, at an event sponsored by Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins.