Notices
Join Bigs in School
Johns Hopkins is hoping to begin a successful partnership
with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Maryland and the
nearby Margaret Brent Elementary School. Volunteers will
spend one hour every Tuesday during lunch to mentor an
elementary age student who is in need of an adult
friend.Volunteers play games, help with schoolwork, spend
time and, most important, have fun with a child. Employees
from all levels and areas of the university are encouraged
to pursue this volunteer opportunity.
For more information, contact Melissa Mort, site
program specialist at Big Brothers Big Sisters, at
443-286-8590 or
mmort@biglittle.org.
Elementary School Mentors Needed
Do you have a few hours a week to mentor a child? JHHS
Community Services is teaming with Collington Square
Elementary School in East Baltimore to recruit 40 Hopkins
faculty, employees and students to join its after-school
program and be a one-on-one mentor to children in grades
2-7.
The program is specifically for children who received
failing grades, or who have one or more parents who are
incarcerated. Mentors can volunteer any amount of time that
they can spare (at least once per week) and can choose
their own schedule, 3:30 to 6 p.m., Monday to Friday. To
volunteer or get more information, contact Carolyn Chance
at 410-614-2430 or
cchance8@jhmi.edu.
Statistics Research Funding Request for
Proposals
Acheson J. Duncan Fund for the Advancement of Research in
Statistics requests proposals for small grants to support
research projects in statistics, probability and stochastic
processes. The fund was created in 1997 by an endowment
established by professor emeritus Acheson Duncan at the
time of his death. Duncan was a pioneer in research and
application of quality control and industrial
statistics.
Faculty and students throughout Hopkins are eligible
to apply for funding for collaborative projects with a
member of the faculty in the
Applied Mathematics and
Statistics Department. Most grants will be less than
$5,000. Among the items eligible to be funded are travel to
research conferences and workshops, computer equipment and
software, matching funds for grant proposals, short-term
visits of collaborators to Hopkins, interdepartmental
seminars, partial support for research assistants and seed
money for new research.
Proposals should be brief, preferably no more than
three single-sided pages; provide itemized expense
estimates; and be signed by each investigator. Proposals
may be submitted at any time to committee chair John
Wierman, Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department, 302
Whitehead Hall.
Career Fair 2006
The Public Health Career Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. on Friday, March 3, in the Bloomberg School's
Feinstone Hall and Room W2008. The fair is open to all
undergraduate and graduate students looking for full-time,
internship, consultancy and fellowship positions in
corporate, government and nonprofit sectors. Among the 40
employers scheduled to attend are American Association for
the Advancement of Science, Booz Allen Hamilton, Family
Health International, National Cancer Institute, National
Institutes of Health (Social and Behavioral Research
Branch) and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.
The Bloomberg School's Career Services Office is
sponsoring the event. For more information, go to
www.jhsph.edu/student_affairs/career/
for_students/PH_Marketplace/index.html or call
410-955-3034.
Cancer Research Grants
The American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant
program provides seed money for the initiation of promising
new projects by independent junior investigators so they
may obtain preliminary results that will enable them to
compete successfully for national research grants. Grants
are for one year and cannot exceed $20,000 (direct costs
only).
Guidelines, details for proposal preparation and
submission, and the required ACS IRG application form are
available at
jhuresearch.jhu.edu/funding.htm and click on "JHU
coordinated programs."
Applications must be received no later than 5 p.m. on
March 1. Submit an original and 11 copies to Grace Bigelow,
Research Projects Administration, Suite W400, Wyman Park
Building.
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