Day: October 11, 2010
This is your brain on art
October 11, 2010
The classic Led Zeppelin track Stairway to Heaven, FM dial well-worn as it is, still elicits the desire to turn up the volume, particularly just before guitarist Jimmy Page’s signature solo. The listener lets Page’s effortless plucking wash over him, eyes instinctively close to concentrate on the notes. The sudden urge to air drum or […]
Egyptian art arrives from Eton College
October 11, 2010
A renowned collection of Egyptian decorative art from Eton College in Windsor, England, has arrived at The Johns Hopkins University for long-term research and display in the university’s Archaeological Museum. Glazed blue ceramic vessels, ritual amulets and a gilded mummy mask are among the approximately 1,900 pieces of small-scale artifacts on loan for 15 years from […]
Wanted: Minorities to study reproductive health
October 11, 2010
Scientists from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and Morgan State University have received a $3.2 million National Institutes of Health grant designed to promote racial, ethnic and socioeconomic diversity in reproductive science research. The grant to five investigators—Sally Radovick and Andrew Wolfe of Johns Hopkins, and Gloria Hoffman, Michael Koban and Wei Wei Le of Morgan […]
Bloomberg School of Public Health receives $38.6 mill for orthopedic trauma research
October 11, 2010
The Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been awarded $38.6 million by the Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program of the U.S. Department of Defense to expand its Major Extremity Trauma Research Consortium. METRC, which was established in September 2009 with a Defense Department award of […]
Kellogg adds support to New Frontiers of Philanthropy Project
October 11, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies has announced that the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has joined a broad coalition of foundations, venture philanthropists and public agencies in supporting the center’s New Frontiers of Philanthropy Project. The Kellogg Foundation’s $150,000 gift will significantly advance this project’s objective to open a new era in financing solutions […]
Free concert opens season for Hopkins Symphony Orchestra
October 11, 2010
The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra opens its 2010–2011 season with two musical depictions of Scotland by composers who weren’t Scottish. HSO music director Jed Gaylin conducts Felix Mendelssohn’s at turns snappy and mystical “Scottish” Symphony and excerpts from Gaetano Donizetti’s melodramatic opera Lucia di Lammermoor in a collaboration with Opera Vivente. The free concert is offered […]
Urban policy competition seeks solutions for Baltimore
October 11, 2010
Baltimore-area students with an interest in solving urban problems have an opportunity to test their ideas, be recognized by city decision-makers and win up to $5,000 by entering the 2011 Abell Award in Urban Policy competition. Co-sponsored by the Abell Foundation and the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, the award is given annually […]
CIGNA CEO David Cordani to speak in Carey School series
October 11, 2010
David M. Cordani, president and chief executive officer of CIGNA Corp., will be the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series to be held from 8 to 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 14, at the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. Cordani was appointed to his current position […]
Christopher Saudek, 68, implantable insulin pump pioneer
October 11, 2010
Christopher Dyer Saudek, founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Diabetes Center, a pioneer in the development of implantable insulin pumps and a tireless physician who was ever available to his patients, died Oct. 6 after a battle with metastatic melanoma. He was 68. A member of the Johns Hopkins faculty for 30 years, […]
Lea Ybarra to step down at the Center for Talented Youth
October 11, 2010
After nearly 14 years as executive director of Johns Hopkins’ Center for Talented Youth, Lea Ybarra has announced she will step down from her post next spring. “Under Lea’s leadership, CTY has played an important role in identifying and developing the academic talent of young students across the country and around the world,” said Lloyd […]