Category: Events
China’s Peiyang Chorus on U.S. college tour
March 22, 2010
China’s renowned Peiyang Chorus of Tianjin University will perform at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 23, in Johns Hopkins’ Shriver Hall Auditorium as part of an East Coast tour at the invitation of seven U.S. universities to promote cultural exchange between academic institutions in China and the United States. Other campuses on the tour are […]
Harvard’s Martin Nowak headlines Templeton Research Lectures
March 15, 2010
Martin A. Nowak, a professor of biology and mathematics at Harvard University, will lead off a weeklong series of daily events at Johns Hopkins with a talk titled “The Evolution of Cooperation” at 4 p.m. on Monday, March 22, in Homewood’s Mason Hall Auditorium. Nowak will give four of the five 2009–2010 Templeton Research Lectures […]
Shriver Hall Concert Series announces 2010–2011 season
March 15, 2010
Shriver Hall Concert Series has announced the lineup for its 45th subscription season, which begins on Oct. 17 with a performance by the Emerson String Quartet, recipient of nine Grammy Awards. The season will include eight Sunday subscription concerts by solo recitalists and chamber ensembles and three free Discovery Series concerts on Saturdays at the […]
Calendar — March 15, 2010
March 15, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., March 16, 4:15 p.m. “Using Occam’s Razor in a Bar Fight: Drawing Simple Conclusions From Complex Measurements,” a Chemistry colloquium with Matthew Meyer, University of California, Merced. 233 Remsen. HW Fri., March 19, 2 p.m. “Agent-Based Modeling of Pandemics,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Joshua Epstein, Brookings Institution. Parsons Auditorium. APL CONFERENCE […]
High Table: A new tradition is served
March 8, 2010
Welcome, year ones. In true Hogwarts fashion—with a modern touch and some Johns Hopkins flare—the university hosted its inaugural High Table dinner for the freshman class on Tuesday evening. Students, faculty and university administrators gathered in Homewood’s AMR Multipurpose Room for what was billed as the pre-prandial hour, then moved on to Fresh Food Cafe […]
‘The House Beautiful’ lecture series returns to Evergreen Museum
March 8, 2010
A trio of illustrated talks by notable experts and authors in the fields of architecture, artistic design and decorative arts comes to Johns Hopkins’ Evergreen Museum & Library over a series of Wednesdays beginning March 24. The House Beautiful returns for a third season to the intimate, whimsical setting of the museum’s Bakst Theatre, with lectures […]
Calendar — March 8, 2010
March 8, 2010
BLOOD DRIVES Tues., March 9, and Wed., March 10, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. JHU Blood Drive. For more information, call 410-614-0913 or e-mail johnshopkinsblooddrive@jhmi.edu. Turner Concourse. EB COLLOQUIA Tues., March 9, 4 p.m. “Creativity and the Continuity of Tradition Among Theravada Buddhists in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia,” an Anthropology colloquium with Charles Hallisey, […]
Johns Hopkins, city schools launch service partnership
March 2, 2010
Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels and Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés A. Alonso today announced a new program offering full-time benefits-eligible university staff up to two days per year of paid leave to pursue service opportunities in the Baltimore City public schools. Unveiled at Barclay Elementary/Middle School, the Johns Hopkins Takes Time for […]
Commencement: One JHU, one big finish for academic year
March 1, 2010
The more the merrier, or so could be the motto for Commencement 2010. Taking a cue from President Ronald J. Daniels’ emphasis on “one Johns Hopkins,” the university will break from tradition and fuse the universitywide commencement ceremony with the undergraduate diploma ceremony for one grand graduation observance. The result will be a single ceremony […]
Calendar — March 1, 2010
February 27, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., March 2, 4:15 p.m. “The Old and the New in the Chemistry of Radical-Trapping Antioxidants,” a Chemistry colloquium with Derek Pratt, Queen’s University, Canada. 233 Remsen. HW Thurs., March 4, 3 p.m. “Mind-Body Medicine Before Freud: John G. Gehring, the ‘Wizard of the Androscoggin’,” a History of Science and Technology colloquium with Benjamin […]