In Brief
Doctoral students graduate from JHU/PUMC Nursing Program
Through a joint program between the Johns Hopkins
University School of Nursing and the
Peking Union Medical College School of Nursing, five
doctoral students are the first Chinese nurses to
receive a nursing doctorate from a Chinese university. The
first graduates, Gao Feng Li, He Zhong,
Liang Tao, Liang Xiaokun and Li Yang, received their
degrees in Beijing on July 9.
The five new PhD nurses are either current faculty
members or hospital nurse executives at
PUMC.
The joint JHUSON-PUMC program, funded by the China
Medical Board of New York, was
established in 2004 with the goal of bringing to China and
its health care system an internationally
recognized, doctoral-level model for Chinese nursing
education.
Peabody's annual piano sale scheduled for this
week
The Peabody
Institute's annual piano sale opens to the general
public on Saturday, Aug. 23, but
Johns Hopkins faculty, staff, students and alumni will have
the opportunity to view the offerings at
private showings on Thursday, Aug. 21, and Friday, Aug.
22.
New Yamaha pianos have been on loan to Peabody for its
use as part of a special arrangement
with the Yamaha Corp. and with support from Menchey Music
in Baltimore. The program enables the
institute to provide quality instruments to students on a
continual basis; after the academic year, the
pianos are made available for purchase.
The selection includes baby grands, uprights,
consoles, Yamaha Clavinovas (digital pianos) and
Yamaha Disklaviers (interactive player pianos). All are
less than a year old, have been meticulously
maintained and come with full manufacturer warranties. A
selection of used Steinways will also be
available.
Special arrangements have been made for financing,
delivery and warranty service through
Menchey Music Service.
To make an appointment for an advance showing, call
866-742-6673.
The public sale is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday
at Peabody, with entry at 21 E. Mount
Vernon Place.
Three JHU students receive DAADs to study in
Germany
The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst, or DAAD),
an organization promoting higher education in Germany, has
announced that three Johns Hopkins
students will be funded for the 2008-2009 academic year.
Caroline Domenghino, a graduate student in the Department of German and
Romance Languages
and Literatures, has received a Graduate Study
Scholarship, and undergraduates Britni Crocker and
Xinlu Huang were accepted in the Research Internships in
Science and Engineering program, known as
RISE.
DAAD is the German national agency for the support of
international academic cooperation. It
offers programs and funding for students, faculty,
researchers and others in higher education
providing financial support to over 50,000 individuals per
year.
DAAD scholarships are highly competitive, and
recipients are selected by independent selection
committees on the basis of outstanding academic records and
convincing project proposals or
statements of purpose.
JHU School of Nursing offers new graduate forensic
certificate
A 12-credit two-semester graduate Certificate in
Advanced Forensic Nursing is the latest
addition to the
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing comprehensive program
of evidence-based forensic
education.
The certificate, offered in an executive-style format
that includes online and limited on-site
course work, prepares nurses to assume leadership roles in
forensic nursing practice, research, policy
development and education.
Applications are now being accepted for the fall CAFN
cohort. Interested applicants must be
baccalaureate-prepared nurses with a master's degree in
nursing, education or a health-related
discipline with training and clinical experience in a
forensic nursing-related field. GRE scores are not
required. Tuition is $2,500 per course.
For more information, contact the Office of Admissions
at 410-955-7548 or
jhuson@son.jhmi.edu or go to
www.son.jhmi.edu/forensics.
Pres. Brody 'Health Care '08' episodes on MPT this
month
Two new episodes in a series of discussions on health
care between President William R.
Brody
and political and civil leaders were scheduled this month
on Maryland Public Television. A discussion
with NIH director Elias Zerhouni, a former Johns Hopkins
faculty member and administrator, aired on
Aug. 15. This week, at 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 22, MPT will
air an episode with guest Harry Simmons,
president of the National Coalition.
Previous episodes featured Michael Bloomberg, mayor of
New York City; John Erickson, CEO of
Erickson Retirement Communities; Bill Novelli, CEO of AARP;
and Newt Gingrich, former speaker of
the U.S. House of Representatives. More information and a
link to the episodes are available at
web.jhu.edu/president/healthcare/healthcare_08.html.
Future guests will be Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the
U.S. House of Representatives; and Daniel
Vasella, chairman and CEO of Novartis.
Institute for Policy Studies launches new Web
site
The Institute for Policy Studies has launched a new
Web site, ips.jhu.edu,
that features
podcasts of seminars and events, testimonials from students
and a media center reporting news and
information.
Visitors to the site will be able to explore current
research projects; readily access papers,
articles and other publications of interest; and learn more
about IPS' graduate and undergraduate
offerings and its international fellows programs.
The new site also includes a separate portal where
students and alumni can post their profiles
and explore current job opportunities in the field.
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