Year: 2010
Milestones — September 27, 2010
September 27, 2010
ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS 25 years of service Lancaster, Delores, Johns Hopkins University Press 20 years of service Nelson, Diane, Bioethics Institute 15 years of service Rowins, Charles, Center for Talented Youth 10 years of service Bluestone, Julia, JHPIEGO 5 years of service Bollinger, Juli, Bioethics Institute Klose, Loliza, Johns Hopkins University Press Montgomery, Susan, […]
Notices — September 27, 2010
September 27, 2010
JHU Financial Education Seminar Series — JHU has partnered with TIAA-CREF to host a complimentary Financial Education Seminar series designed for employees across the JHU campuses. The sessions will focus on how to use the university’s retirement plans to reach savings goals and manage long-term investments through a volatile market. The series is designed to […]
Classifieds — September 27, 2010
September 27, 2010
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Calendar – September 27, 2010
September 27, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., Sept. 28, 4 p.m. “The Geography of Freedom: Revolution and the South African City,” an Anthropology colloquium with Anne-Maria Makhulu, Duke University. 404 Macaulay. HW Tues., Sept. 28, 4:15 p.m. “Heterogeneous Photocatalysis in the Service of Materials Chemistry,” a Chemistry colloquium with Krishnan Rajeshwar, University of Texas, Arlington. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., Sept. […]
KSAS: New structure at the top
September 20, 2010
In an effort to streamline operations, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences has reconfigured her office, moving to a structure that will better serve departments and permit more “interdisciplinary synergies” between departments and across divisions. “Department chairs need to be able to take concerns and questions about all […]
Gunman shoots physician at JHH, then mother, self
September 20, 2010
The first Johns Hopkins Emergency Alert went out around 11:20 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 16: A physician had been shot on the eighth floor of The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Nelson Building, and the gunman had not been apprehended. With quick dispatch, Johns Hopkins security and Baltimore City Police were on the scene, some buildings had […]
The year of living healthfully
September 20, 2010
On a midmorning last week, a student walked out into the Rogers House courtyard and made a beeline for a cluster of pots. She inspected a leaf of one of the herb plants and glanced at the young, unripened tomatoes and green peppers in neighboring pots. Satisfied, she popped back inside the residence hall. The […]
Frederick Jelinek, 77, pioneer in speech and text understanding technology
September 20, 2010
Frederick Jelinek, a Johns Hopkins University faculty member whose research laid the foundation for modern speech recognition and text translation technology, died on Sept. 14 while working at the Homewood campus. He was 77. During 21 years at IBM Research and nearly two decades at Johns Hopkins, Jelinek pioneered the statistical methods that enable modern […]
Building rededicated as Hackerman Hall
September 20, 2010
Students, faculty members and friends gathered last week on the Homewood campus to celebrate the renaming of a high-tech research building to recognize the philanthropic support of the university by alumnus Willard Hackerman. The Computational Science and Engineering Building, which opened on the Decker Quad in 2008 as a headquarters for advanced interdisciplinary research crossing […]
Serving the East Baltimore community, one project at a time
September 20, 2010
This summer, a large contingent of Johns Hopkins staff and faculty rolled up their sleeves to help beautify four East Baltimore schools over a one-month period. At the Wolfe Street Academy, a public charter elementary school, participants painted seven classrooms, a cafeteria and a hallway. Volunteers at the East Baltimore Community School, also a charter, […]