Outreach at Hopkins Neuroscience
The students in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine are involved in a variety of outreach initiatives and programs.
Through these programs, our students foster relationships within Johns Hopkins, Baltimore and the broader community. This webpage provides a centralized site where interested prospective and current students and postdoctoral fellows can find information about some of the ongoing outreach efforts and the ways students and postdoctoral fellows become involved with their communities outside the laboratory. The variety of organizations allow students and postdoctoral fellows to become involved with organizations that fit their interests and their schedules.
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Project Bridge
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Project Bridge is an umbrella organization whose main mission is to encourage public interest and engagement in science. Project Bridge was established at Johns Hopkins in 2013 by Daniel Pham (JHU Neuroscience, 2017), Naoko Kozuki (Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2015) and Molly Needelman (MICA/JHU Carey Business School, 2014). In March 2017, Project Bridge founded a chapter at the University of Colorado, Denver. Project Bridge is currently seeking additional partnerships with other institutions to help them begin their own chapters.
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Baltimore Brain Series
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The Baltimore Brain Series (BBS) is a multi-institutional talk series coordinated between the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the University of Maryland-Baltimore, and Johns Hopkins University, in which outstanding postdoctoral fellows and graduate students are competitively selected to present their ongoing research in neuroscience at one of the partnering institutions.
We aim to provide a collegial setting for extraordinary early career researchers to showcase their work and receive constructive feedback, as well as to foster inter-institutional collaborations within the Greater Baltimore Area neuroscience community. Participation not only allows for practice and honing of presentation skills, but it also opens up career opportunities. For example, a post-doctoral fellow who gave a talk with BBS was invited back to the institution for a faculty interview and chalk talk.
https://sites.google.com/view/baltimorebrainseries/
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Biomedical Scholars Association
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The Biomedical Scholars Association (BSA) is a tri-institutional student organization that supports underrepresented minority (URM) students at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, School of Public Health, and School of Nursing. The BSA helps the Hopkins community strive towards diverse and inclusive excellence as well as demonstrates to the larger scientific community the existence and importance of URM success. The BSA engages graduate students and develops a network of support among its members through our four key programming events: professional development, community service, social activities and recruitment of URM students to Hopkins.
bsajhmi.org
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Johns Hopkins Science Policy Group
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Since 2016, the Johns Hopkins Science Policy Group (JHSPG) has led the effort to advocate for evidence-based policies that advance science and safeguard public health. JHSPG is comprised of members of the Johns Hopkins University research and medical communities, which includes graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, healthcare professionals, and faculty at the School of Medicine, School of Public Health, and School of Nursing. JHSPG develops science policy coverage and commentary that promotes civic engagement and policy literacy in scientists, creates training modules, tool-kits and science communications resources for our research advocates, coordinates advocacy events around the STEM legislative agenda at both the local and federal level, engages with science policy, advocacy, and communication professionals via an invited speaker series, and provides career development opportunities for trainees interested in science policy and advocacy.
jhscipolgroup.org
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Baltimore Underground Science Space
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Baltimore Underground Science Space (BUGSS) is a non-profit public laboratory offering classes, seminars, and lab access so that anyone can safely and affordably investigate the living world. BUGSS consists of a community of amateurs, professionals, citizen scientists, activists, and artists exploring biotechnology through scientific and artistic investigations that hope to serve as a space for open dialogue, and “learning through doing.” BUGSS hopes to facilitate more nuanced dialogue and exploration of the incredible potential of new technologies as well as their limitations and related ethical issues.
bugssonline.org
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Biomedical Odyssey blog
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The Biomedical Odyssey blog is an award-winning blog dedicated to showcasing the perspectives of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine trainees that is written and edited by Hopkins medical students, graduate students, residents, postdocs and fellows. Biomedical Odyssey contributors share stories about daily life in the classroom, experiences with residency, research they are working on, tips for future medical students and researchers, and the best parts about living in Baltimore and being part of the Johns Hopkins family.
biomedicalodyssey.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org
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Reading Partners
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Since 2012, Reading Partners has worked with Baltimore community members to create a driving force in uniting the community to improve students’ academic achievement. Reading Partners places community volunteers in low-income schools to help kids build strong literacy skills, gain confidence and discover a new passion for reading.
No formal teaching experience is required! Reading Partners provides each volunteer with a highly effective, easy-to-follow curriculum, in-person training, on-site support, and, best of all, the opportunity to make a difference in a child’s life!
readingpartners.org/location/baltimore
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Science in the Sticks
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Science in the Sticks (SitS) aims to enrich public high school education in rural Maryland high schools through real, hands-on exposure to the scientific method, experimental design, and scientific discussion while exposing students to successful scientists of different backgrounds and experiences. Developed in early 2019 by postdoctoral fellows Eastman Lewis and Kacey Rajkovich, currently SitS has been implemented in biology classrooms at Winters Mills High School in Westminster, MD. Volunteer scientist from JHU and the University of Maryland, Baltimore inspire 10th-grade biology students to think critically and logically, apply the scientific method, identify their own strengths and weaknesses, and collaborate while doing real experiments. In addition to facilitating lab activities and discussions, volunteers facilitate the end-of-semester Lab Olympics and Mouse Genotyping Lab. Furthermore, volunteers have opportunities to give chalk talks about their research, to develop classroom lectures about scientific concepts and to help with the preparation of classroom lab exercises.
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MERIT Health Leadership Academy
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The MERIT Health Leadership Academy is a nonprofit academic and career mentorship program supporting Baltimore City high school students who aspire to careers in health care. MERIT scholars take advanced academic classes on Saturdays; work in hospitals, labs, and community organizations during paid internships; and receive long-term college and career mentorship.
As rising juniors, MERIT scholars participate in clinical internships, giving them the opportunity to experience health care in the real world. MERIT scholars shadow up to 20 different health care providers in a variety of settings including intensive care, pediatrics, outpatient clinics, surgery, and more.
As rising seniors, scholars conduct independent research based on their interests under the guidance of a mentor. Scholars participate directly in the research process, engaging in projects that drive scientific discovery and medical advancement.
meritbaltimore.org
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Biotechnical Institute of Maryland and The Maryland Tech Connection
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The Biotechnical Institute (BTI) was founded to fill a need for specialty training of entry-level biotechnicians for employment in Maryland’s rapidly expanding biotechnology industry. BTI provides tuition-free, basic laboratory training to ambitious, unemployed and under-employed Maryland residents.
The Maryland Tech Connection (MTC) is an innovative industry-driven initiative with a coalition of 59 companies focused on workforce, educational and economic development. MTC also partners with other non-profit organizations working to grow the IT, Cybersecurity and Bioscience industries throughout the state and to encourage more Maryland residents to secure and retain middle and high skilled positions in those sectors.
biotechmd.org
mdtechconnection.org
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