In Brief
Archaeologists again bring Egyptian excavation to the
Web
Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her crew are once again
sharing their work with the world through an online diary,
a digital window into day-to-day life on an archaeological
dig. Visitors to "Hopkins in Egypt Today" at
www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html will find photos
of Bryan and her students working on JHU's 11th annual
excavation at the Mut Temple Precinct in Luxor, where they
continue to explore the Egyptian New Kingdom (1567 to 1085
BCE).
According to Bryan, modern-day Luxor is rich in finds
from the New Kingdom, known as the "golden age" of Egyptian
temple building. This is the sixth year Bryan and her team
will be excavating the area behind the temple's sacred
lake, where previous finds have included granaries and
bakeries.
The goal of the Web site is to educate visitors by
showing them the elements of archaeological work in
progress. Photographer Jay VanRensselaer captures images of
the team as they sift through trenches, uncovering
mud-brick walls, pottery shards, animal bones and other
remains. The Web site typically garners more than 50,000
hits every winter when the dig is active.
Students head to Biloxi to assist in post-Katrina
cleanup
Fifteen Johns Hopkins undergraduates, joined by two
from Loyola College in Maryland and one from the University
of Delaware, were scheduled to depart yesterday from
Baltimore to spend part of their winter break in Biloxi,
Miss., helping victims of Hurricane Katrina rebuild their
homes. The team will be hosted there by the First
Presbyterian Church of Biloxi, which is conducting a
hurricane relief effort. JHU seniors Zirui Song of Lacey,
Wash., and Thomas McBride of Wilmington, Del., organized
the goodwill trip, which will have the students wielding
sledge hammers and crowbars to clear debris before home
repairs and new construction can begin. Both Song and
McBride are majoring in public health studies and are
members of Alpha Epsilon Delta, the premedical honor
society and volunteer organization at Johns Hopkins.
To cover their travel expenses, the students raised
$2,600, with contributions from the Center for Social
Concern at Johns Hopkins, Northrop Grumman Corp. and
alumni.
Energy assistance available for Baltimore City families in
need
As natural gas and oil prices increase and the weather
turns colder, Johns Hopkins is working with local
government and utilities to inform vulnerable Baltimore
families about financial help available to them.
BGE and Baltimore Housing's Office of Home Energy
Programs are teaming up again for a Baltimore City Energy
Expo, which will provide funds for utility or oil bills to
income-eligible families. The event will be held from 11
a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18, at Union Baptist
Church, 1219 Druid Hill Ave. Households not already
certified for the Maryland Energy Assistance Program can
apply, provided they have the required documentation. For
more information, go to
www.baltimorehousing.org/index/cs_ohep.asp.
Children's mental health group to move to university's
MCC
JHU's Montgomery
County Campus is welcoming its newest health research
tenant, the National Federation of Families for Children's
Mental Health. Effective Jan. 30, the organization will
become the third tenant leasing space in Building III.
The National Federation of Families, currently located
in Alexandria, Va., leads a nationwide network of
family-run organizations supporting children with mental
health needs and their families. Sandra Spencer, the
group's executive director, said, "The Johns Hopkins
Montgomery County Campus is ideal for our new headquarters
because it brings us closer to JHU's cutting-edge work on
workforce development and mental health transformation,
which directly impacts the individuals we serve."
Philip J. Leaf, a professor at the School of Public
Health and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for the
Prevention of Youth Violence, said, "The move of the
Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health to the
Montgomery Campus constitutes an enormous infusion of
resources and expertise both to the Hopkins family and to
our state of Maryland. The collaborations with the
Federation made possible by their proximity also will
result in an increased ability to access their national
network of family-run organizations, to learn about
innovations occurring around the country and to facilitate
the dissemination of information from researchers and
practitioners at [JHU]."
Johns Hopkins program trains nurses for humanitarian
relief
Nursing in Global Humanitarian Relief, an intensive
Johns Hopkins
Nursing program designed to provide the skills and
knowledge necessary for nurses to respond to both local and
global humanitarian emergencies, is being held this week in
Baltimore. The program is sponsored by the School of
Nursing, the School of Public Health's Center for Refugee
and Disaster Response and the Institute for Johns Hopkins
Nursing.
Upon completion of the course, participants will be
equipped to understand the principles of organization and
administration of humanitarian relief services; anticipate
the major causes of morbidity and mortality in an
emergency; conduct a rapid needs assessment and determine
initial steps for response; plan, implement and evaluate
priority health and nutrition interventions in an
emergency; review ethical and legal principles of
humanitarian relief; and discuss the unique contributions
of nursing in humanitarian emergencies.
'SAISPHERE' magazine looks at world's energy
future
As the world's energy future confronts the
international community with strategic, economic,
diplomatic, political, technological, environmental and
security questions, the editors of SAIS' annual magazine,
SAISPHERE, chose as its 2005 theme "New Horizons: Exploring
Our Energy Future."
In the just-published issue, members of the faculty
and alumni community consider the challenges and discuss
how they are likely to play out in the new century.
An online version of the issue is available at
www.sais-jhu.edu/pubaffairs/publications/saisphere/
winter05/index.html.
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