Issue: 2012 April 16
Burma’s minister of health gives talk at the Bloomberg School
April 16, 2012
The monumental task of fixing the health system of Burma (Myanmar) falls to the minister of health, Pe Thet Khin, who shared some of the challenges ahead with a Bloomberg School audience on April 10. Pe Thet Khin and other health officials from the country came to the school as part of a weeklong visit […]
Poet Ron Padgett to give 15th Ringel Memorial Reading
April 16, 2012
The Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading celebrates its 15th season on Sunday, April 22, when eminent poet Ron Padgett will read from his work at 5 p.m. in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium. The event is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. The self-described son of an Oklahoma bootlegger, Padgett started […]
U.S. postmaster general to give Leaders + Legends Lecture
April 16, 2012
Patrick R. Donahoe, postmaster general and CEO of the United States Postal Service, will be the featured speaker for the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series on Wednesday, April 18. The event will take place at 7:30 a.m. in the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. Donahoe, whose remarks are titled […]
Building a legacy
April 16, 2012
In 1875, the newly formed Johns Hopkins Hospital board of trustees selected John Shaw Billings to spearhead construction of the hospital that would bear the name of the prominent Baltimore merchant and banker who had left a $7 million bequest that would also fund the creation of The Johns Hopkins University. Billings, a former Union […]