Opening for business opens doors
Johns Hopkins considers itself a world leader in knowledge creation. In the past two years, the university has done a good deal of business creation, too.
Hats off to our best Blue Jays
The accomplishments of Johns Hopkins’ student-athletes never looked so good.
Recent visitors to Homewood’s Newton H. White Athletic Center would undoubtedly have noticed the attractive new displays in the building’s lobby that commemorate the 114 members of Johns Hopkins’ Athletic Hall of Fame and the university’s 35 NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipients.
Hollywood at Homewood
Film and Media Studies students and theater minors delighted in the opportunity last week to pick the brain of director David Fincher and other principal members of the upcoming major motion picture The Social Network. For two days, Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus served as a shooting location for the Columbia Pictures film, which chronicles the founding of Facebook.
JHU family celebrates student’s life
Family, friends and hundreds of members of the Johns Hopkins University community filled the gymnasium of Homewood’s Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center on Tuesday afternoon to memorialize and celebrate the life of Miriam Frankl, a vivacious, confident and bright young woman who clearly captivated many.
Johns Hopkins Medicine and the health care debate
While concepts for health care reform volley back and forth in Washington, D.C., and around the nation, Johns Hopkins has quietly but meaningfully injected itself into the debate.
Boys at the barre: Peabody adds new young dancers
Producing Peabody Dance’s end-of-season student performances requires creative planning when it comes to filling boys’ roles, says Carol Bartlett, artistic director of Peabody Dance.
Instrumental arrangement
When Daniel Trahey joined Peabody’s Music Teacher Mentoring Program in 2004, the Conservatory graduate and professional tuba player assumed he’d focus on pedagogy. Trahey thought he would show Baltimore City’s public school music teachers proper woodwind finger techniques, teach them how to play the bassoon or find ways to make the school’s band tighter or choir more in tune.
Leaders of the pack
When the Johns Hopkins women’s cross-country team earned top spot in the Division III national poll earlier this month, head coach Bobby Van Allen greeted the news with a touch of subdued enthusiasm.
Reaching out in time of need
The university’s 2009 United Way of Central Maryland campaign, which kicks off on Wednesday, will stress efficiency and maximize the dollars donated like never before, according to campaign leadership.
Raise the Roof - Gilman Hall
Crews — with the indispensable assistance of a 200-foot, 350-ton crane — last week completed the steel grid frame for the 60-by-60-foot glass skylight that will top Gilman Hall’s new atrium space. Designed, fabricated and installed by Novum Structures, the skylight will feature 154 square glass panels and span the entire courtyard without intermediate support. The arched structure, a precisely engineered combination of compression members and tension cables, will be less than 10 inches thick. The glass panels and cables will be installed in the coming weeks to shut out the elements and allow work to continue in the atrium below. Gilman, the oldest academic building on the Homewood campus, is scheduled to reopen for the fall 2010 semester.
H1N1 flu cases on the rise
The flu bug has struck the Johns Hopkins student population this fall, with 214 presumed cases of H1N1 reported on all academic campuses as of Friday, Oct. 2
Now on tap: The ‘fizzics’ of beer
Physicist’s JHU Press book delves into science of popular beverage
Great Scott: Fitzgerald’s Baltimore
Even the great ones get writer’s block. F. Scott Fitzgerald described such a circumstance—and how he nudged himself out of it with a bus trip, a leisurely stroll and a trip to his local barbershop—in an article titled “Afternoon of an Author,” published in Esquire in 1936.
Research universities launch online news compendium
Futurity spotlights latest discoveries in science, health, other disciplines
A haven for young minds
For 30 years, CTY has been the go-to place for gifted pre-college kids
