Saturday - November 23, 2024
*Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Maryland Newsletter for Tuesday November 05, 2024 ( 3 items )  

Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs: Stopping Dog Bites Helps Stop Rabies
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs issued the following news: * * * A CCP-led campaign used art and science to help people in Sierra Leone reduce their risk of rabies, by minimizing interactions with potentially dangerous dogs. * * * By Stephanie Desmon In many countries where rabies is endemic, vaccines to prevent the disease in humans and dogs are unaffordable or unavailable. New research from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communic  more

Johns Hopkins Medicine: Fossil of Huge Terror Bird Offers New Information About Wildlife in South America 12 Million Years Ago
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release: Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird--which they say could be the largest known member of its kind--providing new information about animal life in northern South America millions of years ago. The evidence lies in the leg bone of the terror bird described in new paper published Nov. 4 in Pape  more

UMGC Bookshelf: New Title Lays Out Path to a Career in Cybersecurity
ADELPHI, Maryland, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Maryland Global Campus issued the following news: With both beginners and aspiring cybersecurity professionals in mind, a University of Maryland Global Campus (UMCG) faculty member and an alumnus joined forces to produce The Hack Is Back: Techniques to Beat Hackers at Their Own Games. The book examines how hackers and nation-states gain access to confidential information on some of the most protected systems and networks in the world. It   more