Issue: 2012 February 20
Home-schoolers’ field trip
February 20, 2012
Fifty home-schooled students grades pre-K to seven—all part of the LEAP Co-op in Montgomery County—got a hands-on science lesson on Feb. 6, thanks to representatives from the JHU Center for Biotechnology Education. After a brief primer on lab safety from Audrey Moshfeghian, CBE senior lab coordinator at Johns Hopkins’ Montgomery County Campus, the pre-K through […]
Chlorhexidine umbilical cord care can save newborn lives
February 20, 2012
Cleansing a newborn’s umbilical cord with chlorhexidine can reduce his risk of infection and death during the first weeks of life by as much as 20 percent, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study, conducted in rural Bangladesh in partnership with ICDDR,B and Bangladeshi […]
Classifieds — February 20, 2012
February 20, 2012
APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT Brewers Hill, 2BR, 2.5BA rehab, gourmet kitchen, fin’d bsmt, deck, no pets. $1,850/mo. 410-303-1214 or hudsonstreetrental@hotmail.com. Charles Village, lg 1BR apt in the Marylander, avail until March 10, spacious, semi-furn’d, 2-min walk to JHU shuttle stop, ideal for a student. $450/3 wks incl utils. sumerabhojani@hotmail.com. Deep Creek Lake/Wisp, cozy 2BR cabin w/full […]
Calendar — February 20, 2012
February 20, 2012
COLLOQUIA Tues., Feb. 21, 4 p.m. “Bembe and the Outside: Exteriority and Creole Becoming in a Central Cuban Praise Feast,” an Anthropology colloquium with Todd Ochoa, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 404 Macaulay. HW Tues., Feb. 21, 4:15 p.m. “Transition Metal Complexes as Functional Mimics of Metalloenzymes That Process O2 or NO,” a Chemistry […]
Notices — February 20, 2012
February 20, 2012
Public Health Career Fair -— The 28th Annual Public Health Career Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, March 2, in the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Feinstone Hall and Gallery. Sponsored by the Career Services Office, the fair is an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to meet with […]
Milestones — February 20, 2012
February 20, 2012
ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS 35 years of service Smith, Patricia, Johns Hopkins University Press 15 years of service Amir, Elaine, Montgomery County Campus Brodsky, Simeon, Center for Talented Youth White, Galen, III, Center for Talented Youth 10 years of service Kim, Young, Jhpiego Peroutka, Paul, Johns Hopkins University Press 5 years of […]
New technique dissolves blood clots in brain, lowers stroke risk
February 20, 2012
Johns Hopkins neurologists report success with a new means of getting rid of potentially lethal blood clots in the brain safely, without cutting through easily damaged brain tissue or removing large pieces of skull. The minimally invasive treatment, they report, increased by 10 to 15 percent the number of patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, who could […]
Using risk-adjustment strategies to navigate road to health care reform
February 20, 2012
A paper authored by Jonathan Weiner and colleagues from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, appearing in the Feb. 8 issue of Health Affairs, describes why health reform could lead to favorable or adverse risk selection across health plans. The article reviews provisions within the Affordable Care Act legislation and discusses key risk-adjustment implementation […]
‘Taking Root in the City’
February 20, 2012
The university’s Homewood Museum, in partnership with the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will present a conversation on urban agriculture and local sustainability at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 26, in Room 101 of the Mattin Center’s F. Ross Jones Building on the Homewood campus. The […]
Johns Hopkins senior Hannah Joo wins Churchill Scholarship
February 20, 2012
Hannah Joo, a Johns Hopkins University senior from Redmond, Wash., has been selected as a Churchill Scholar by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States. The Churchill Scholarship is awarded to 14 students nationwide who have demonstrated a capacity to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the sciences, engineering or mathematics by completing […]