In Brief
School of Ed to host summit on 'Learning, Arts and the
Brain'
The Johns Hopkins School of Education will host a
summit and roundtable discussion called
Learning, Arts and the Brain on Wednesday, May 6, at the
American Visionary Art Museum.
Leading researchers, educators, advocates and
policy-makers will discuss the latest findings on
arts and cognition, explore how involvement in the arts
might enhance learning outcomes and cognitive
and social development in children, and explore future
research priorities and opportunities.
The summit is sponsored by the JHU Council on PK-12
Education and the School of Education's
Neuro-Education Initiative, a program supported by the
Johns Hopkins University Brain Science
Institute.
Speakers include Jerome Kagan, professor of psychology
at Harvard; Guy McKhann, professor
of neurology at Johns Hopkins and founding director of the
university's Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain
Institute; and William Safire, New York Times columnist and
chairman of the Dana Foundation. For
details, go to
education.jhu.edu/labsummit.
Extra $3,000 could be added to Live Near Your Work
grants
The Johns Hopkins Live Near Your Work Program, in
partnership with Live Baltimore, will
present a home-buying fair from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
Saturday, May 9. Johns Hopkins employees can
learn about the program and how they can qualify for up to
$17,000 in grants toward the purchase of
a home in designated areas of Baltimore City.
The event will offer homeownership education sessions
and exhibitor tables. Both guided and
self-paced tours will be available to introduce
participants to a variety of neighborhoods and housing
styles. Eligible participants will also have the
opportunity to receive from the city a $3,000 home-
buying award to be applied toward down payment and closing
costs.
For location and registration, go to:
www.livebaltimore.com/events/BuyingIntoBaltimore/
index.cfm or contact the LNYW Program coordinator at
443-997-4893 or
LNYW@jhu.edu.
On which TV show will a JHU student appear this
week?
Tune into the Jeopardy! College Championship on
Tuesday, May 5, and you can root for JHU's
Scott Menke. Menke traveled to Los Angeles earlier this
month to tape at least one episode of the
show; he could be on additional episodes depending on how
he fared, but for now, the results are a
secret.
Menke is a senior from Flemington, N.J., majoring in
applied mathematics
and minoring in the
Whiting School's W.P. Carey Program in
Entrepreneurship & Management.
Suburban Hospital Healthcare System to join
JHHS
In a move to build on long-standing ties and to
address growing regional interest in more
efficient, integrated regional health care services for
patients, officials of Suburban Hospital
Healthcare System and the Johns Hopkins Health System have
formally agreed to integrate SHHS
into JHHS. The proposed transaction will not involve
financial exchanges. It is anticipated that SHHS
will join JHHS in early fall 2009.
If the transaction is implemented as planned, the
Montgomery County-based SHHS will become
a wholly owned subsidiary corporation of JHHS and a member
of Johns Hopkins Medicine but will
retain both its name and commitment to its community.
Leadership and day-to-day operations at
Suburban are not expected to change.
Suburban Hospital and JHM have enjoyed an alliance
dating back to 1996. In 2006, the two
institutions and the National Institutes of Health
collaborated to develop the NIH Heart Center at
Suburban Hospital.
NanoBio Symposium poster submission deadline
extended
The poster submission deadline for the third annual
Johns Hopkins NanoBio Symposium,
Nanoscience for Neuroscience and Neurosurgery, has been
extended to Monday, May 11.
The symposium, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Institute for
NanoBioTechnology, will be held
Monday, May 18, at the School of Medicine. Talks from 9
a.m. to noon in the Mountcastle Auditorium,
Preclinical Teaching Building, will be followed by a poster
session from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Turner
Concourse.
Eight Johns Hopkins faculty members are slated to
speak, with topics including an overview of
the Brain Science Institute, the use of nanosurfaces to
direct the growth of blood vessel cells,
nanoparticles in imaging and drug delivery, and
nanoparticles in the brain. For more information and to
register, go to:
inbt.jhu.edu/symposium.
Good grades for JH in national RecycleMania
competition
During RecycleMania — a recent 10-week
competition for colleges and universities across the
country — Johns Hopkins improved its recycling rate
from 28 percent to 31 percent and ranked first
among Maryland schools in three categories.
Richard Abraham, Homewood's manager of recycling and
solid waste, credits the success to "an
overwhelming show of support" from staff, faculty and
students at the School of Medicine, School of
Public Health, SAIS and the Homewood divisions.
To see the results, go to:
www.recyclemaniacs.org/results09.aspx Johns Hopkins
competed in the Benchmark Division.
Former JHH neonatologist to discuss new book about
ICU
Nationally renowned neonatologist and pediatrician
Christine Gleason will discuss and sign copies
of her new book, Almost Home: Stories of Hope and the
Human Spirit in the Neonatal ICU, at 7 p.m.
on Tuesday, May 5, at Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins.
A graduate of Brown and the University of Rochester
Medical School, Gleason began her career
at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she became chief of
Neonatology. Since 1997 she has been
chief of Neonatology and professor of pediatrics at the
University of Washington and Seattle
Children's Hospital.
In Almost Home, Gleason writes about 17
patients and shares her own story as an unsure
resident who doesn't even know how to access the preemies
in their incubators, her failed marriage to
a fellow resident and then a long courtship with the man
who becomes her husband and the father of
their children.
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