Category: Events
Hopkins Symphony Orchestra plays with fire and water
February 22, 2010
The theme of “fire and water” ties together three Hopkins Symphony Orchestra events—two of them free—taking place from Thursday, Feb. 25, through Sunday, Feb. 28, on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus. At noon on Thursday, pianist, improviser and composer Lee Pui Ming offers Soundings, an informal free workshop on improvisation, with audience involvement. The hour […]
It’s birthday time for Johns Hopkins University
February 22, 2010
Johns Hopkins turns 134 years old on Monday. Funny, it doesn’t look a day over 90.
Calendar — Feb. 22, 2010
February 22, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., Feb. 23, 4:15 p.m. “Natural and Synthetic Biosynthetic Pathways,” a Chemistry colloquium with Brian Bachmann, Vanderbilt University. 233 Remsen. HW Thurs., Feb. 25, 2 p.m. “Chemistry and Its Role in National Security and the STEM Challenge,” an Applied Physics Laboratory Black History Month colloquium with Joseph Francisco, American Chemical Society. Parsons Auditorium. APL […]
Students to raise funds through Saturday for Haiti activities
February 19, 2010
To raise money for Haiti earthquake relief efforts, Johns Hopkins student organizations have organized a daylong series of events involving music, dancing, food and athletics on Saturday, Feb. 20, on the Homewood campus. The overall theme is Saturday for Haiti.
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing kicks off a three-day celebration of diversity on Monday, Feb. 22.
February 15, 2010
The annual celebration, honoring Diversity Week, is co-sponsored by the JHU SoN Cultural Competency and Diversity Committee, the school’s Returned Peace Corps Fellows, the Johns Hopkins Nursing Alumni Association and JHU Nursing Students United for Advocacy and Action. The special events and exhibits scheduled for the week focus on ethnic, cultural and spiritual diversity. Monday, […]
‘HeLa’ book author to share story of immortal cancer cells
February 15, 2010
The cancer cell line that biomedical researchers refer to as “HeLa” is so named because it was derived from the cervical cancer of a woman whose first and last names began with those letters. And although Henrietta Lacks died of her disease nearly 60 years ago, the memory of this impoverished African-American woman lives on […]
T. Rowe Price chairman, CIO, to give Leaders & Legends talk
February 8, 2010
Brian C. Rogers, chairman and chief investment officer of T. Rowe Price Group, is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders & Legends lecture series from 7:30 to 9 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11, at the Legg Mason Tower, in Harbor East. Rogers, whose remarks are titled “Leading Through a Financial […]
Renowned poet Paul Muldoon to give Turnbull Memorial Lecture
February 8, 2010
Renowned poet Paul Muldoon will give the Percy Graeme Turnbull Memorial Lecture at Johns Hopkins at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 2, on the Homewood campus; the location will be announced soon. The event, originally slated for Feb. 9 in Mudd Hall Auditorium, was rescheduled because of weather. Muldoon, a native of Ireland, was described […]
Calendar — Feb. 8, 2010
February 8, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., Feb. 9, 4:15 p.m. “Methods for the Chemical Synthesis of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes,” a Chemistry colloquium with Lawrence Scott, Boston College. 233 Remsen. HW Thurs., Feb. 11, 3 p.m. “ ‘Power on all, even on God himself’: Divine Intention and Magical Potential in Agrippa von Nettesheim’s De occulta philosophia libri tres,” a […]
Foreign Affairs Symposium kicks off Tuesday
February 1, 2010
With a lineup of big-name speakers and a new, interactive Web site, the annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium is returning to the Homewood campus this week, with a talk by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in Shriver Hall Auditorium. Kristof’s visit […]