Day: September 20, 2010
KSAS: New structure at the top
September 20, 2010
In an effort to streamline operations, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences has reconfigured her office, moving to a structure that will better serve departments and permit more “interdisciplinary synergies” between departments and across divisions. “Department chairs need to be able to take concerns and questions about all […]
Gunman shoots physician at JHH, then mother, self
September 20, 2010
The first Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert went out around 11:20 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 16: A physician had been shot on the eighth floor of The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Nelson Building, and the gunman had not been apprehended. With quick dispatch, Johns Hopkins security and Baltimore City Police were on the scene, some buildings had […]
The year of living healthfully
September 20, 2010
On a midmorning last week, a student walked out into the Rogers House courtyard and made a beeline for a cluster of pots. She inspected a leaf of one of the herb plants and glanced at the young, unripened tomatoes and green peppers in neighboring pots. Satisfied, she popped back inside the residence hall. The […]
Frederick Jelinek, 77, pioneer in speech and text understanding technology
September 20, 2010
Frederick Jelinek, a Johns Hopkins University faculty member whose research laid the foundation for modern speech recognition and text translation technology, died on Sept. 14 while working at the Homewood campus. He was 77. During 21 years at IBM Research and nearly two decades at Johns Hopkins, Jelinek pioneered the statistical methods that enable modern […]
Building rededicated as Hackerman Hall
September 20, 2010
Students, faculty members and friends gathered last week on the Homewood campus to celebrate the renaming of a high-tech research building to recognize the philanthropic support of the university by alumnus Willard Hackerman. The Computational Science and Engineering Building, which opened on the Decker Quad in 2008 as a headquarters for advanced interdisciplinary research crossing […]
Serving the East Baltimore community, one project at a time
September 20, 2010
This summer, a large contingent of Johns Hopkins staff and faculty rolled up their sleeves to help beautify four East Baltimore schools over a one-month period. At the Wolfe Street Academy, a public charter elementary school, participants painted seven classrooms, a cafeteria and a hallway. Volunteers at the East Baltimore Community School, also a charter, […]
On the street where we live
September 20, 2010
On Saturday, Sept. 11, the university hosted its sixth annual community block party, known as Convergence, for its Charles Village neighbors. Expanding from a modest start in 2004 with only 12 people in attendance, the event this year drew an estimated 1,000 JHU affiliates and neighbors of the Homewood campus, who came together on the […]
SAIS community mourns death of student after auto accident
September 20, 2010
A memorial service was held on Friday at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C., to honor Julia Bachleitner, 26, a SAIS student who died Tuesday from injuries suffered in an accident on Sept. 8 in the city’s Adams Morgan neighborhood. Following the service, a reception was held in SAIS’s Nitze Building. Bachleitner, a native of Austria, […]
Peabody celebrates birthday of Arthur Friedheim Library
September 20, 2010
To celebrate the 20th “birthday” of Peabody’s Arthur Friedheim Library, the public is invited to an open house at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25, during the Baltimore Book Festival on Mount Vernon Place. Remarks by Peabody Institute Director Jeffrey Sharkey and new head librarian Jennifer Ottervik will be followed by birthday cake. The state-of-the-art […]
JHU Press and Project MUSE launch e-book initiative
September 20, 2010
Project MUSE, the acclaimed online collection of scholarly journals managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, has announced a new initiative to incorporate scholarly book content into its research platform and offerings to libraries. Beginning next year, e-book collections will be available alongside MUSE journal collections, with an integrated discovery environment that allows for browsing […]