Issue: 2012 April 16
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 […]
A week to be green at JHU
April 16, 2012
The naked eye may not see it, but Johns Hopkins has turned several shades of green of late. Call it Earth-friendly higher education. Since 2005, the university has reduced its water consumption by 114,070 gallons annually, even while expanding in size in both population and number of buildings, and recently surpassed its goal of recycling […]
New JHH facility ushers in next era of health care
April 16, 2012
More than 1,000 people were on hand to take part in the dedication on April 12 of The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s new $1.1 billion, state-of-the-art facility. The ceremony marked completion of one of the nation’s largest hospital construction projects, which features the Sheikh Zayed Cardiovascular and Critical Care Tower and The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s […]
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 […]