Day: January 3, 2011
WSE receives largest gift, for new building
January 3, 2011
Liberty Media Corp. chairman and Johns Hopkins alumnus John C. Malone has given the university’s Whiting School of Engineering $30 million for a building where researchers will collaborate with colleagues from other Johns Hopkins divisions to learn to tailor therapies for individual patients and devise systems-based approaches to some of society’s biggest problems. The gift, […]
A day to remember
January 3, 2011
This year’s graveside remembrance of the university’s founder took an unexpected turn: The faithful arrived for the gathering at Green Mount Cemetery as they had each Christmas Eve day since 1998, the 125th anniversary of Johns Hopkins’ death, only to find the gates to the property inexplicably locked. With no way to gain access to […]
JH faculty highly value involvement of nearby urban community for improving research, survey finds
January 3, 2011
A survey conducted by Johns Hopkins faculty members found strong support among their peers for working more closely with the minority inner-city community that surrounds the institution. Overall, 91 percent of faculty responders said closer ties make research more relevant to those it ultimately serves, and 87 percent said it improves the quality of research. “This […]
Benjamin, Sherrod to headline MLK Jr. Commemoration
January 3, 2011
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin and Shirley Sherrod, the former U.S. Department of Agriculture official forced to resign last summer following a racially shaded controversy, will be the featured guests and keynote speakers for Johns Hopkins’ 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. birthday remembrance, an event that takes place this week. The theme is “Strength […]
Early decision acceptances go out to 518 students
January 3, 2011
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has sent out early decision acceptance letters and e-mails to 518 students, choosing the first members of the class of 2015 from the largest early decision applicant pool in the university’s history. The record number of applications, 1,330, was up more than 15 percent from last year, and Johns Hopkins’ […]
New dinosaur species named for Johns Hopkins postdoc
January 3, 2011
A new species of dinosaur discovered near Green River, Utah, has been named for a Johns Hopkins University postdoctoral fellow and her twin sister whose geology work while they were graduate students helped define the new species. Named Geminiraptor suarezarum for Marina Suarez, the Blaustein Postdoctoral Scholar in Johns Hopkins’ Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth […]
Charles O’Melia, 76, expert in water, wastewater treatment
January 3, 2011
Charles R. O’Melia, one of the world’s leading water treatment researchers, who also mentored more than 100 environmental engineering graduate students during almost three decades at The Johns Hopkins University, died Dec. 16, at age 76. Mary O’Melia, his wife of 54 years, said that her husband was diagnosed with brain cancer shortly after Thanksgiving […]
John P. Doering, 73, professor of chemistry for four decades
January 3, 2011
John P. Doering, a longtime faculty member in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Chemistry, died at home in Baltimore County on Dec. 13 from cardiac arrest. He was 73. Doering graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins in 1958 and joined the faculty in 1964 after earning his doctorate at the […]
Reminder about university textbook policy
January 3, 2011
With a new semester set to commence, Johns Hopkins officials are reminding faculty, staff and students of the recently enacted universitywide textbook affordability policy in compliance with new state and federal laws. The intent is to lower the cost of textbooks by ensuring that people have appropriate options and pertinent and timely information when selecting […]
Governor’s grant continues and expands forensic nurse training
January 3, 2011
Renewed funding of a grant from the Maryland Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention will allow nurses from around the region to attend sexual assault forensic nurse examiner training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. This is the fifth year in which faculty member Daniel Sheridan has received the grant to conduct […]