Year: 2010
Considering college in their own backyard
April 19, 2010
Twenty-three seniors in Baltimore’s public high schools have been offered admission to Johns Hopkins’ schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering for the upcoming academic year. As city residents, 21 qualified for the Baltimore Scholars program, which provides full-tuition scholarships to Baltimoreans who graduate from the city’s public schools and are admitted into the university’s […]
Obituary: Cardiologist and Trustee Nicholas J. Fortuin
April 19, 2010
Nicholas J. Fortuin, one of Johns Hopkins Medicine’s most dedicated and admired clinical cardiologists, teachers and institutional leaders, died unexpectedly on April 11 near Owings Mills, Md., while biking, his favorite sport and pastime. The cause of death was not known, but it is likely he suffered a heart attack, colleagues say. He was 69. […]
Peabody plans Nicholas Maw memorial concert on Tuesday
April 19, 2010
A memorial concert honoring Nicholas Maw, the distinguished composer and former member of the Peabody Conservatory’s Composition faculty, will be held at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20, in Peabody’s Leith Symington Griswold Hall. Solo and chamber works by Maw and by three of his former students, Judah Adashi, Richard Lake and Jeffrey Lindon, will be […]
Spring Fair comes to Homewood April 23 to 25
April 19, 2010
The 39th annual Spring Fair arrives on the Homewood campus this week for three food- and fun-filled days. The student-run event, which opens at noon on Friday, April 23, features an extensive food court; vendors of crafts and other items, including jewelry, clothing, pottery, glassware, paintings, drawings, collectibles and literature; a children’s section with carnival […]
Cartoonist Kim Deitch visits Homewood
April 19, 2010
The Homewood Art Workshops wraps up its 35th anniversary celebration with a slide talk by legendary cartoonist Kim Deitch on Monday, April 26. Deitch’s talk, “The Search for Smilin’ Ed and Other Tales,” will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Room 101 of the Mattin Center’s F. Ross Jones Building on the Homewood campus. Along with […]
School of Ed hosts event on ‘Closing the Achievement Gap’
April 19, 2010
The Johns Hopkins School of Education will host a discussion on “Closing the Achievement Gap” at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday, April 27, in Gilchrist Hall on the Montgomery County Campus. Panelists will examine ways to improve educational opportunities for all students by identifying programs and strategies for raising achievement and closing gaps between white and […]
Composer for films, video games to screen clips at Homewood
April 19, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Film & Media Studies Program will welcome award-winning film and video game composer Byeong Woo Lee at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, April 23, for a screening and Q&A, followed by a reception. The event will take place in 110 Hodson Hall on the Homewood campus. Lee is a guitarist, composer, writer, arranger […]
Bloomberg School awarded LEED gold for green building project
April 19, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has received LEED gold certification for a commercial interior project from the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings. This is the first LEED certification for […]
‘U.S. News & World Report’ releases grad school rankings
April 19, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has retained a top-tier ranking among the nation’s best medical schools, as reported in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2011 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools. The overall School of Medicine ranking this year was No. 3, while the school’s biomedical engineering specialty retained its long-standing No. […]
Social vs. dependent drinking: Is the difference in the brain?
April 19, 2010
Why some people can enjoy a glass of wine with dinner or a few beers at a ballgame with no ill effects and others escalate their drinking and become dependent remains one of medicine’s baffling mysteries and a major public health concern. Using a $1 million stimulus-funded grant from the National Institutes of Health, a […]