In Brief
Secretary Rumsfeld to give major talk on Iraq today at
SAIS
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will be at SAIS
today, Dec. 5, to deliver a major address, "The Future of
Iraq." His talk, which begins at 9:30 a.m., is open only to
the SAIS community and the media. Audio will be available
on the SAIS Web site
www.sais-jhu.edu later in the day.
U.S. senators to hold a town meeting at School of Nursing
on student loans
On Thursday, Dec. 8, U.S. senators Barbara Mikulski
(D-Md.), Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) and Harry Reid (D-Nev),
minority leader of the Senate, will hold a town hall
meeting at the
School of
Nursing.
Called "Higher Education — America Can Do
Better," the discussion will feature the senators and four
nursing students exploring the need for federal student
loans and the impact that cuts on those loans would make on
their educational goals.
The meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. in 202 School of
Nursing and will be simulcast in the Alumni Auditorium,
Room 140.
Writing Sems chairs McGarry and Smith to give reading Dec.
8
Jean McGarry, outgoing chair of the Writing Seminars, and Dave Smith,
incoming chair, join forces this week for a reading of
their work. McGarry has published six books of fiction,
most recently Dream Date. Smith is the author of 20
books of poetry, fiction and criticism, most recently,
Little Boats, Unsalvaged: Poems 1992-2004.
The reading, sponsored by the Writing Seminars, is at
5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 8, in Mudd Hall Auditorium,
Homewood campus.
Carnegie Institution dedicates building on Homewood
campus
Carnegie Institution of Washington last week dedicated
its new $31.2 million research laboratory on Johns Hopkins'
Homewood campus. Named in honor of Carnegie Institution
president emerita and National Medal of Science winner
Maxine F. Singer, the building houses Carnegie's Department
of Embryology.
Singer, who came to Carnegie from the National
Institutes of Health, served as the institution's eighth
president.
Carnegie's connection to Johns Hopkins began with the
university's first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, who after
his retirement was recruited to head the newly created
Carnegie Institution in 1902. In 1914, Carnegie's
Department of Embryology was founded in affiliation with
the Anatomy Department of Johns Hopkins' School of
Medicine. Soon after World War II, the affiliation was
broadened to include the university's
Department of
Biology.
Today, Johns Hopkins Biology graduate students conduct
research in Carnegie labs, Hopkins and Carnegie faculty
collaborate, and Carnegie scientists teach courses at the
university.
School of Nursing colloquium to explore home-based
interventions
Home-based intervention, an increasingly popular
public health strategy for accessing traditionally "hard to
reach" or otherwise vulnerable populations, is the focus of
a School of Nursing program to be held from 1 to 4 p.m. on
Friday, Dec. 9, in Room 10. Four keynote speakers will be
followed by a panel of experts from the Johns Hopkins
schools of
Nursing,
Public Health and
Medicine.
The colloquium is sponsored by the School of Nursing's
Center for Collaborative Research, the School of Public
Health's Center for the Prevention of Violence and the
Baltimore DC Research Center on Child Health Disparities.
To register, contact Laura Neuberger at 410-502-1181 or
lneuber1@son.jhmi.edu.
Heartfest 2006 will honor Astin, McKusick and Cowan
couple
Heartfest, an annual benefit for the Johns Hopkins
Preventive Cardiology Center, will in 2006 recognize four
individuals.
The celebrity honoree is visiting professor John
Astin, an actor, writer, producer and director, who is best
known for his TV role as Gomez in The Addams Family
and for his stage portrayal of Edgar Allan Poe. Victor
McKusick, University Professor of Medical Genetics widely
recognized as the father of medical genetics, is the
medical honoree. Community honorees are longtime Johns
Hopkins benefactors Joe and Ozzie Cowan. Joe Cowan was a
Hall of Fame lacrosse player at JHU and is a member of the
Maryland Athletics Hall of Fame and the National Lacrosse
Hall of Fame.
The event, which features heart-healthy dining, a wine
tasting and music by Stevie V and the Heart Attackers, will
be held from 7:30 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, Jan. 28, at
Martin's West. Tickets are $100. For information, call
410-560-2230.
SoM group looks at city's lack of minority males in
medicine
The Johns Hopkins chapter of the Student National
Medical Association is sponsoring the annual Regional
Medical Education Conference for SNMA Region VI, which
centers on the absenteeism of minority males in medicine.
As a part of the conference, the chapter is hosting a teen
summit to address the problem as it exists in Baltimore
City--specifically the high school dropout rate for
minority males.
The summit, titled "Dropped Out: Baltimore's Missed
Education--Examining the Needs, Problems and Solutions as
Voiced by Baltimore Teens, Educators and Community
Leaders," will be held from 2:30 to 4 p.m. on Saturday,
Dec. 10, in the School of Nursing Alumni Auditorium. It
will be an open mic discussion, followed by a keynote talk
by pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson.
For more information, contact Paulette Grey at
410-464-8342 or
pgrey1@jhmi.edu or Errol Fields at 443-629-6250.
Registration for noncredit intersession courses is now open
Registration is now open for Intersession 2006
Personal Enrichment noncredit courses, which are designed
for staff, faculty, students and the public. Among the
offerings are classes in dance, music, massage, wine
appreciation, and beer history and appreciation, as well as
bus trips to Washington, D.C., and New York City.
Brochures are available at the Levering Hall desk,
Homewood campus, or online at
www.jhu.edu/intersession. Registration takes place in
the Student Development and Programming Office, 100
Levering, through Dec. 29. For more information, call
410-516-8209.
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