Getting down to business
Yash Gupta, dean of Carey School, lays out vision for first
year

Yash Gupta says he doesn't play basketball, but he
understands teamwork and chemistry. Sitting in his office
in Homewood's Shaffer Hall on day one of his tenure as
inaugural dean of the new Carey Business School, Gupta
rhetorically asks why it is that a team wins one day and
loses the next against the same opponent?
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United Way effort brings in $2
million
Spurred on by a new way of giving, employees and students
from the university and Johns
Hopkins Medicine pledged more than $2 million to the 2007
United
Way of Central Maryland
campaign, which by most measures was a resounding
success.
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JHU gets $10 million to lead trachoma
research
The Johns Hopkins University has received a $10
million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation to lead a consortium that will study ways to
improve the treatment of trachoma and to
accelerate progress toward the goal of eliminating the
disease. Trachoma is the leading infectious
cause of blindness worldwide and affects hundreds of
millions of people, primarily in poor and rural
regions. The award is one of the largest single grants ever
given to support trachoma research.
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