Online Edition October 2001

	Terrorist Attacks Call School to Action After the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed thousands in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the School responded immediately by imparting its knowledge and expertise and sharing in the nation's grief. Full Story
	Faculty Innovation Fund Winners The Faculty Innovation Fund promotes scientific projects that are "too" innovative, too far ahead of the curve, to snag the attention of funders. The winning projects for 2001 are described. Full Story
	Barr Fellowship Going Strong In June, Katherine ("Katie") Swanson, MPH, a second-year PhD student in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, as well as the 2001 recipient of the A. Ralph and Sylvia E. Barr Fellowship in Vector Biology, has spent a great many hours this summer in the woods, dragging a 3' by 4' piece of white cloth along the ground. Full Story
	Claretha Harrington Asks for What She Wants In 1998, the same year she was getting ready to mark her 30-year milestone at the School, Claretha Cox Harrington, supervisor of Customer Service, Custodial Services, turned 60. Her friends naturally threw a gala for her. There was just one snag. Full Story
"Health Care for All" Campaign Kicks Off On September 7, representatives from the Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative, which has formulated a preliminary plan for providing health care for all persons in the state, held their kickoff press conference at the School. Faculty have worked to apply scientific and policy analysis principles to the challenge of providing all Marylanders with health insurance. Full Story Alumni Eligible for Life-Long Public Health Education If you're an alumnus(a) of the School, two not-for-credit opportunities for professional development are now available. Full Story   Tech Talk by Ross McKenzie, MSEd, director, Information Systems Key chains, squeezy stars, T-shirts, folders, all sporting a logo for something called My.jhsph, have been popping up around the School. What is going on in Information Systems (IS)? And what is this portal thing? Full Story   Calendar of Events For an up-to-the-moment calendar of events, visit the new online Calendar for The Johns Hopkins University at http://webapps.jhu.edu/eventslist. It allows users to sort events for the entire University by date, campus, and subject matter. Hopkins Public Health Headlines At the School | Tech Talk | Interesting Web Sites Awards and Honors © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University