Day: November 1, 2010
Fred Jelinek memorial service set for Friday at Homewood
November 1, 2010
The Center for Language and Speech Processing and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are holding a service to remember and celebrate the life of Fred Jelinek on Friday, Nov. 5. Jelinek, the Julian Sinclair Smith Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, died on […]
Meatless Monday campaign comes to Homewood Nov. 1
November 1, 2010
Starting today, every dining hall on the Homewood campus will offer vegetarian menu specials as part of the Meatless Monday campaign. The national Meatless Monday campaign was launched in 2003 in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. The effort’s primary focus is […]
Campus Kitchen gets freezer from Housing, Dining Services
November 1, 2010
The Campus Kitchen at JHU, a student-run organization dedicated to using surplus food to provide nutritious meals for hungry men, women and children in the Baltimore area, now has more freezer space, thanks to Homewood’s Department of Housing and Dining Services. The new freezer will allow the organization to store more food and for greater […]
Tan Lin is second guest poet in series at Homewood
November 1, 2010
The Department of English will continue its Poetry at Hopkins English series with a reading by New York–based poet Tan Lin at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 8, in Gilman’s Marjorie Fisher Hall (room 50) on the Homewood campus. Lin is the author of Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe, Blipsoak 01 and Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary […]
Speed skater Apolo Ohno to sign books at Barnes & Noble
November 1, 2010
Speed skater Apolo Ohno, the most decorated American Winter Olympics athlete of all time, will be at Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins at 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 8, to sign copies of his just-published life story, Zero Regrets. Ohno became the youngest U.S. national champion at the age of 14 but a year later […]
JHU Press,Woman’s Club of Roland Park host holiday book sale
November 1, 2010
The JHU Press and the Woman’s Club of Roland Park will host a book fair showcasing the Press’s local authors and popular books about Maryland and the Chesapeake region at 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12. The event will be held at the Woman’s Club’s historic building at 4500 Roland Ave., and some proceeds from […]
Notices — November 1, 2010
November 1, 2010
MLK Jr. Community Service Award Nominations — Organizers of the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Celebration are calling for nominations of faculty, staff, graduate students and retirees for the 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service. Recipients who demonstrate the spirit of volunteerism, citizenship and activism that characterized King’s life will be […]
Classifieds — November 1, 2010
November 1, 2010
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Calendar — November 1, 2010
November 1, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., Nov. 2, 4:15 p.m. “Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Fundamentals and Applications to Biosensing and Solar Energy Conversion,” a Chemistry colloquium with Kirk Schanze, University of Florida. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., Nov. 3, 3:30 p.m. “Super-Earths and Life,” an STSci colloquium with David Latham, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW Wed., Nov. 3, […]