Year: 2010
New brain research institute chooses home in bioscience park
June 21, 2010
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development, a neuroscience research institute dedicated to developing novel treatments, diagnostic tests and insights into disorders arising from abnormalities in brain development, has announced that it will establish a permanent research facility at the Science + Technology Park at Johns Hopkins, next to the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore medical campus. […]
JH surgeon among ‘Nifty 50’ to speak at D.C. schools
June 21, 2010
In an effort to ignite a passion for science and engineering in middle and high school students, the USA Science & Engineering Festival has tapped 50 professionals—among them, high-tech entrepreneurs, financiers, policymakers, actors, journalists, educators, explorers, video game developers, spies, alien hunters, astronauts and surgeons—to speak at Washington, D.C.–area schools during its October festival. Alfredo […]
Live Near Your Work house tours planned for Bayview neighborhood
June 21, 2010
The Live Near Your Work program and Southeast Community Development Corp. will hold an open house and home tour in the Bayview neighborhood, the community nestled between the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center campus and Joseph Lee Park, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 1. Richard Bennett, president of the medical center, and […]
Field trip brings fifth-graders to science teachers’ labs at JHU
June 21, 2010
Since October, two DoGEE faculty members have visited City Springs Elementary School in East Baltimore on a monthly basis, leading hourlong science sessions in which they unravel basic science principles, such as water tension and electricity, through simple and lively experiments and demonstrations. On June 8, 60 of the fifth-grade students visited Homewood campus labs […]
A note to readers about style changes in ‘The Gazette’
June 21, 2010
Goodbye Web site, hello website. This month, the Associated Press released the 10th edition of its stylebook—the longtime standard-bearer for journalists and other writers—and with this issue, The Gazette will follow the new guidelines for social media and adopt other changes contained in the reference book. Among those that might be noticeable to readers are […]
A Summer Evening at Evergreen
June 21, 2010
A curators’ tour of Sculpture at Evergreen 6: Simultaneous Presence with five of the participating artists, the exhibition opening of From Mexico to Maine: Photographs by Duncan Whitaker and a performance by the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival will mark the 10th annual A Summer Evening at Evergreen, on Tuesday, June 29, at the university’s Evergreen Museum […]
Gilman Hall renovation wraps up
June 7, 2010
The back of Gilman Hall, a previously pleasant but otherwise unremarkable exterior, has become a spot worth walking out of your way to see. Exterior brick has been re-pointed, stone and marble cleaned and power washed, and wood window frames repainted. Keystones pop like new, and the Hutzler Reading Room’s tall and elaborate stained-glass windows […]
6,323 degrees in the sun
June 7, 2010
Before commencement day’s end, the Class of 2010 would hear many wise words of counsel on how to find a better way to do things, to seek the truth and to positively impact humanity. The day’s first, and perhaps most practical, lesson was more straightforward. Hydrate.
On a steamy Baltimore day that started in the 80s and crept into the 90s, President Ronald J. Daniels conferred degrees on 6,323 graduates at Johns Hopkins’ 134th universitywide commencement ceremony, held on May 27.
Johns Hopkins astrophysicist is co-winner of million-dollar Shaw Prize
June 7, 2010
Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Charles Bennett and two colleagues have been awarded this year’s $1 million Shaw Prize in astronomy for groundbreaking research that has helped determine the precise age, composition and curvature of the universe. Bennett was cited for his accomplishments as principal investigator of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a spacecraft that in […]
Six granted honorary degrees, Society of Scholars inductees recognized
June 7, 2010
Between 1880 and 2009, 436 honorary degrees have been awarded by Johns Hopkins University. On Thursday, six new members were added to this illustrious group that features leaders in various fields of study, practice and service. During the universitywide commencement ceremony, honorary degrees were conferred on Michael M.E. Johns, chancellor of Emory University and former […]