Year: 2010
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, […]
Q&A with Katherine Newman of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
October 25, 2010
This is part of a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Even before she rolled up her sleeves as dean, Katherine S. Newman began thinking about a long-range vision for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences that would focus on the quality […]
A space switch on land
October 25, 2010
With help from a $1.3 million federal stimulus grant from the National Science Foundation, Johns Hopkins researchers are about to build a powerful energy-efficient computing center in a house-sized room that once served as the mission control center for a NASA astrophysics satellite. The transformation of room 156 of the Bloomberg Center for Physics and […]
Getting the green message out
October 25, 2010
Students, staff and faculty lined up in front of Homewood’s Levering Hall last Wednesday to play a game of guess the water: bottled or filtered tap. Many guessed wrong or had trouble discerning the differences, an uncertainty that only bolstered the Students for Environmental Action group’s point that bottled water—no matter how stylish the package […]
Owen Phillips, world-renowned JH oceanographer, dies at 79
October 25, 2010
Owen Martin Phillips, a Johns Hopkins University faculty member emeritus and renowned oceanographer, died on Oct. 13 at his Chestertown, Md., home. He was 79. Phillips was world-famous for devising a methodology for predicting and describing the shape of ocean waves and, in particular, giant waves—10-story upheavals of the sea surface—knowledge of which is essential […]