Day: March 15, 2010
Shriver Hall Concert Series announces 2010–2011 season
March 15, 2010
Shriver Hall Concert Series has announced the lineup for its 45th subscription season, which begins on Oct. 17 with a performance by the Emerson String Quartet, recipient of nine Grammy Awards. The season will include eight Sunday subscription concerts by solo recitalists and chamber ensembles and three free Discovery Series concerts on Saturdays at the […]
Lincoln Gordon memorial service set for March 27
March 15, 2010
Lincoln Gordon, who served as president of The Johns Hopkins University from July 1967 to March 1971 and brought co-education to the Homewood campus, will be remembered at a memorial service at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 27, at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C. Gordon previously served as a diplomat under Presidents Kennedy and […]
Notices — March 15, 2010
March 15, 2010
Vote for Favorite Films — JHU Summer and Intersession Programs is again sponsoring a series of free outdoor movies and entertainment on the Homewood campus. It’s scheduled for five Friday nights on the Keyser Quadrangle, and the Johns Hopkins community is invited to help choose the films. Fourteen choices ranging from old favorites (Princess Bride, […]
Calendar — March 15, 2010
March 15, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., March 16, 4:15 p.m. “Using Occam’s Razor in a Bar Fight: Drawing Simple Conclusions From Complex Measurements,” a Chemistry colloquium with Matthew Meyer, University of California, Merced. 233 Remsen. HW Fri., March 19, 2 p.m. “Agent-Based Modeling of Pandemics,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Joshua Epstein, Brookings Institution. Parsons Auditorium. APL CONFERENCE […]
Making a case for Archaeology
March 15, 2010
Helmut Guenschel, a veritable Picasso of museum display cases, clearly delights in discussing his signature patented design: concealed door hinges that provide a compression seal and are capable of holding 1,000-pound glass panels. On a recent trip to Guenschel’s plant in Middle River, Md., the German-born engineer showed off a demonstration model, a giant door–sized […]