Issue: 2011 July 5
JH-U-Turn nets $7,700 for UWay, Neighborhood Fund
July 5, 2011
It was another good year for JH-U-Turn. In its second outing, the “yard sale” of gently used electronics, books, furniture and clothing donated by moving-out students, along with faculty and staff, netted $7,700. The event, which took place June 11 in the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center on the Homewood campus, was organized by Carrie […]
Center for Africana Studies hosts institute with NEH grant
July 5, 2011
The Center for Africana Studies is once again hosting its five-week summer institute, “Slaves, Soldiers, Rebels: Black Resistance in the Tropical Atlantic, 1760–1888,” on the Homewood campus. Twenty-five faculty members from colleges and universities across the country arrived in Baltimore in late June for the start of the summer institute, which continues through July 29. […]
JHM International elects Kersey chairman of board
July 5, 2011
Johns Hopkins Medicine International, the international arm of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has elected Christopher W. Kersey to become its new chairman of the board. Kersey is managing member of Camden Partners, a Baltimore-based private equity firm. He has been serving on the boards of trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Hospital since […]
You are what you tweet: Tracking public health trends by Twitter
July 5, 2011
Twitter allows millions of social media fans to comment in 140 characters or fewer on just about anything: an actor’s outlandish behavior, an earthquake’s tragic toll or the great taste of a grilled cheese sandwich. But by sifting through this busy flood of banter, is it possible to track important public health trends? Two […]
Tomaselli becomes president of American Heart Association
July 5, 2011
Gordon F. Tomaselli, professor and director of the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, became president of the American Heart Association, the nation’s leading voluntary health organization focused on cardiovascular disease and stroke, on July 1. Tomaselli is the seventh Johns Hopkins faculty member to serve as president of the […]
Landau named vice provost for faculty affairs
July 5, 2011
Barbara Landau, the Dick and Lydia Todd Professor and chair of the Department of Cognitive Science in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed vice provost for faculty affairs. She succeeds Michela Gallagher, former chair of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Krieger School, who stepped down as vice provost for academic […]
Johns Hopkins assists Mount Vernon revamp
July 5, 2011
Newly planted flowers and shrubs pop and bloom around Baltimore’s Washington Monument and nearby green space, thanks in part to a seed grant from the Johns Hopkins University’s President’s Office and Peabody Institute. Johns Hopkins is also lending its support to help jump-start a push to fully make over the rest of the Mount Vernon […]