Issue: 2011 December 19
JHU student takes top spot in nationwide ‘green’ challenge
December 19, 2011
Raychel Santo, a sophomore double majoring in public health studies and global environmental change and sustainability, has won the national Project Green Challenge competition, a 30-day lifestyle initiative run by Teens Turning Green, a student-led initiative. She competed for the award in San Franciso with 12 other finalists, who included the Johns Hopkins sister team […]
Medical Student Research Day planned for Jan. 6 in AMEB
December 19, 2011
The fourth annual Medical Student Research Day is set for Friday, Jan. 6, in the Armstrong Medical Education Building, with Jeremy Sugarman, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, giving the keynote address. More than 120 students are expected to present their findings to classmates and faculty at the event, which begins […]
Lacrosse season opens at home with Feb. 17 Towson game
December 19, 2011
Lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala last week announced the Blue Jays’ 2012 schedule, which includes eight home games, the Konica Minolta Inside Lacrosse Face-Off, Big City Classics and a return by Army to Homewood Field for JHU’s annual Homecoming game. The Jays will prep for the challenging schedule with scrimmages against Penn State and Cornell in […]
Join in a Christmas Eve tradition
December 19, 2011
An outdoor meeting. On Dec. 24. In a graveyard. Are they crazy? A hardy (and undoubtedly well-insulated) group of Johns Hopkins staff, faculty, alumni and supporters will gather in Baltimore’s Green Mount Cemetery at 10 a.m. on Christmas Eve. They’ll be there to honor the man who made it all possible: Mr. Johns Hopkins. Hopkins, […]
Scientists develop model for TB-related blindness
December 19, 2011
Working with guinea pigs, tuberculosis experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have closely mimicked how active but untreated cases of the underlying lung infection lead to permanent eye damage and blindness in people. Lead study investigator Petros Karakousis, a Johns Hopkins infectious disease specialist, says that the new animal model should hasten development of a […]
Studying the city’s demographic transformation
December 19, 2011
While Baltimore continues to dwindle in population size, many neighborhoods with high ethnic and racial change are growing, triggered in part by a significant increase in the number of Hispanic and Asian residents, according to a study by 62 students in the Institute for Policy Studies’ Master of Public Policy program. For the annual Baltimore […]
Confronting gender-based violence
December 19, 2011
Nancy Glass has spent the better part of two decades addressing intimate partner violence and violence against women. Glass, an associate professor of community public health nursing in the School of Nursing, has seen firsthand the devastating impacts of this growing global health crisis. An estimated one out of three women worldwide will be physically […]