Issue: 2011 September 19
Classifieds — September 19, 2011
September 19, 2011
APARTMENTS/HOUSES FOR RENT Bayview, rehabbed 3BR, 2BA house w/hdwd and ceramic flrs, contemporary kitchen/BAs, dedicated prkng, walk to campus. $1,450/mo. George, 410-529-9644. Bolton Hill, 4BR, 2BA house, hdwd flrs, spacious kitchen and BRs, walk to Hopkins shuttle. $2,100/mo + utils. 443-540-0713 or 1417johnstreet@gmail.com. Cross Keys Village, 3BR, 2.5BA TH, access to swimming pools and tennis […]
Johns Hopkins readies for Baltimore Book Festival
September 19, 2011
The George Peabody Library, the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Sheridan Libraries will jointly host 18 activities in the exhibit hall and stack room of the university’s historic Peabody Library during this weekend’s Baltimore Book Festival. The event will be held in Mount Vernon from noon to 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Sept. […]
Milestones — September 19, 2011
September 19, 2011
ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS 25 years of service Brugger, Robert, Johns Hopkins University Press 20 years of service Gill, Baldev, Montgomery County Campus Robinson, Susan, Jhpiego 10 years of service Alexander, Kathy, Johns Hopkins University Press Maszczenski, T., Johns Hopkins University Press Rennison, Robin, Johns Hopkins University Press 5 years of service […]
Notices — September 19, 2011
September 19, 2011
KSAS Dean’s Undergraduate Research Awards — Applications are now being accepted from KSAS undergraduates and faculty mentors for the newly created Dean’s Undergraduate Research Awards. The awards are designed to promote independent research projects among undergraduate students in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Funding, which ranges from $500 to $3,000, will enable undergraduates […]
‘U.S. News & World Report’ releases Best Colleges rankings
September 19, 2011
In the Best Colleges rankings released last week by U.S. News & World Report, Johns Hopkins takes the 13th spot for National Universities. Last year it was tied at that spot. In the rankings for best undergraduate engineering programs among schools whose highest degree is a PhD, Johns Hopkins ranked No. 1 in biomedical engineering, […]
James Connaughton, pediatric psychiatrist, beloved teacher, 80
September 19, 2011
James Patrick Connaughton, professor emeritus of psychiatry and pediatrics and a superbly talented clinician who treated and cared for some of East Baltimore’s most vulnerable children, died on Sept. 11 at his Woodbrook home. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. Connaughton, who was 80, had been treated for the disease at the Johns Hopkins […]
‘Synthetic’ chromosome permits ‘evolution’ of yeast
September 19, 2011
In the quest to understand genomes—how they’re built, how they’re organized and what makes them work—a team of Johns Hopkins researchers has engineered from scratch a computer-designed yeast chromosome and incorporated into its creation a new system that lets scientists intentionally rearrange the yeast’s genetic material. A report of their work appears Sept. 14 as […]
Digitizing a visual history of Baltimore
September 19, 2011
More DIY than R2D2, a student-invented robot will help preserve and archive 115 years of photographic black history in Baltimore, and could soon be made available to museums and archives around the country. Thomas Smith, creator of the robot named Gado, spent a good portion of his senior year at Johns Hopkins tinkering on the […]
Emergency alert system at Homewood to be tested Tuesday
September 19, 2011
Homewood Campus Safety and Security will conduct a test of the campus siren/public address system and the Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert text messaging system at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20. The test will be a full-scale simultaneous activation of both systems. The siren/PA system, which is activated by radio signal from the Homewood Communications […]
Fossil of newborn dinosaur discovered in Md.
September 19, 2011
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with help from an amateur fossil hunter in College Park, Md., have described the fossil of an armored dinosaur hatchling. It is the youngest nodosaur ever discovered, and a founder of a new genus and species that lived approximately 110 million years ago during the Early […]