Public health helpline
A substantial degree of anxiety hit Maryland's residents
last fall when dead birds infected with West Nile virus
began appearing around the state. Although mosquitoes are
the disease's carrier, the birds were a sign that the virus
was in the area.
To respond to the situation, the state
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene decided to set up a
West Nile virus hotline to allow citizens to report
suspicious bird deaths. Leslie Edwards, acting chief of
DHMH's Division of Outbreak Investigation, reached for a
hotline herself: Here was a job for SORT, the Student
Outbreak Response Team from Hopkins' Bloomberg School of
Public Health.
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JHU Partnership makes graphics software
available for free
A new partnership between the university and the
Chicago-based Open Channel Foundation now allows design
engineers and computer programmers to download for free a
graphics program that significantly speeds up the way a
computer displays a three-dimensional model as the model
changes position.
The program, devised by Subodh Kumar,
assistant professor of computer science in the Whiting
School of Engineering, also gives the user greater control
over the level of detail that appears on screen. The
software is called sLIB, short for "surface library." By
posting the source code on the Open Channel Web site, which
is www.openchannelfoundation.org.
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Welch's Nancy Roderer will serve as
interim dean of libraries
Nancy Roderer has been appointed interim director of the
Sheridan Libraries and interim dean of university libraries,
beginning Sept. 1.
Roderer, currently director of the Johns
Hopkins Welch Medical Library, will retain that role and
serve in the interim positions until a successor is
appointed for James G. Neal, who has accepted the position
of vice president for information services and university
librarian at Columbia University.
"Nancy brings an impressive breadth of
experience to this important role," said Provost Steven
Knapp. "Her continuing role as director of the Welch Medical
Library will give her a valuable overview of library systems
across the institutions. We are grateful for her willingness
to step forward at this crucial transitional moment."
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