Day: January 4, 2010
Seven from JHU named AAAS fellows
January 4, 2010
Seven Johns Hopkins researchers from four of the university’s schools have been elected by their peers as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Johns Hopkins to buy former Zurich Insurance property
January 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins has entered into a contract to acquire the former Zurich Insurance Co. property in north Baltimore and will use it to consolidate financial, data processing and administrative functions currently spread out in a number of area locations.
Record numbers apply early decision to Johns Hopkins
January 4, 2010
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions recently sent out early decision acceptance letters and e-mails to 494 students, choosing the first members of the class of 2013 from the largest early decision applicant pool in the university’s history.
JHU President Lincoln Gordon, 96, brought co-education to Homewood
January 4, 2010
Lincoln Gordon, who served as president of The Johns Hopkins University for four tumultuous years, died in his sleep on Dec. 19 at an assisted-living community in Mitchellville, Md. He was 96.
JHU prof to head American Academy in Rome
January 4, 2010
The American Academy in Rome recently named as its director Christopher Celenza, a professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures and director of the Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe, both in Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
Carey Business School plans tech commercialization program
January 4, 2010
Starting in February, the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School will be offering at the university’s Montgomery County Campus a new technology commercialization program titled Innovate!
Gwen Boyd of APL to receive nomination by Obama
January 4, 2010
The White House has announced that President Barack Obama intends to nominate Gwen Boyd of Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory to the board of trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
BME holds first Undergraduate Research Day
January 4, 2010
The first Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research Day was conducted last semester on the Homewood campus to showcase and judge student research projects. Sixteen biomedical engineering undergraduates submitted abstracts and posters focusing on research they had conducted during the past year.
Unlocking the key to premature aging in children
January 4, 2010
Susan Michaelis conducts her research in a traditional laboratory, with beakers and flasks and microscopes strong enough to allow her to view and manipulate the infinitesimally small nuclei of cells.
JHU’s use of ARRA funding showcased in new Web site
January 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins University recently unveiled a new Web site to showcase how research funding made available in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is being put to work on our campuses. The site, http://web.jhu.edu/economic_stimulus/index.html, includes a listing of all ARRA-funded grants received by university faculty as well as information on the economic impact […]