Year: 2010
Center for a Livable Future announces 17 predoc fellowships
September 20, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has awarded predoctoral fellowships to 17 Johns Hopkins University students for the 2010–2011 academic year. The awards provide support for outstanding students who are committed to the discovery and/or application of knowledge related to CLF’s two main program areas, Farming for the Future and Eating for the […]
Cheers — September 20, 2010
September 20, 2010
APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY Brent Bumford, an experimental machinist in Technical Services, received the 2010 Distinguished Alumnus award from Harford Technical High School in Bel Air, Md. Bumford, a 1998 graduate of the school, was recognized for his “success and longevity in the field of machining and manufacturing.” Bruce Newhall, program area chief scientist in the […]
Classifieds — September 20, 2010
September 20, 2010
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Calendar — September 20, 2010
September 20, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., Sept. 21, 4 p.m. “Laws, Markets and Regulatory Culture: A Historian in Vain Pursuit of Social Theory,” an Anthropology colloquium with Harry Marks, SoM. 404 Macaulay. HW Tues., Sept. 21, 4:15 p.m. “The Many Faces of the Coordination Chemistry of Nitric Oxide and Its Significance for the Biosynthesis, Sensing and Detoxification of Nitric […]
Frederick Jelinek’s legacy in language and speech processing technology
September 20, 2010
Shortly after the recent death of Johns Hopkins University faculty member Frederick Jelinek, one of his colleagues, Jason Eisner, spoke about Jelinek’s critical contributions to the field of language and speech processing technology. Eisner is an associate professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins. Q. To begin with, what do you mean by “speech recognition”? […]
A new home for IPS in Public Health
September 13, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, a longtime freestanding organization of the university, has a new academic home: the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The move, effective immediately, is intended to maximize IPS’s potential as a resource for the university. Current plans are for the institute […]
Serving up dinner and discourse
September 13, 2010
Guess who’s coming to dinner? If you’re Katherine Newman, the answer is 800 undergraduates. That’s the number of students the new James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences expects to welcome to her home throughout the 2010–2011 academic year, thanks to two informal dinner-and-discussion programs pairing distinguished Krieger School faculty and […]
Cloud computing method improves gene analysis
September 13, 2010
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed software that greatly improves the speed at which scientists can analyze RNA sequencing data. Known as Myrna, the new software—which is available for free download at http://bowtie-bio.sf.net/myrna—uses “cloud computing,” an Internet-based method of sharing computer resources. RNA sequencing is used to compare differences […]
BET founder Robert L. Johnson to give Leaders + Legends talk
September 13, 2010
Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of the RLJ Cos. and Black Entertainment Television, is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series on Thursday, Sept. 16. The event will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. Johnson’s remarks are […]
Law prof presents ‘A Skeptical View of Constitution Worship’
September 13, 2010
Harvard Law School professor Michael J. Klarman will discuss civil rights and civil liberties at The Johns Hopkins University’s 2010 Constitutional Forum, a discussion of important legal issues held in conjunction with the annual observance of Constitution Day. During his talk, “A Skeptical View of Constitution Worship,” Klarman will discuss how our civil rights and […]