Category: Around Hopkins
Evergreen Museum & Library hosts a garden party
May 7, 2012
The second Alice’s Wonderland Garden Party, sponsored by the Evergreen Museum & Library Advisory Council, will welcome spring from the formal gardens of Johns Hopkins’ Evergreen Museum & Library from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 10. Approximately 200 guests are expected to attend this festive fundraiser for the former Gilded Age estate of […]
SAIS gift, one of school’s largest ever, will support Foreign Policy Institute
May 7, 2012
SAIS has received one of the largest gifts in the school’s history: a residential property valued at $5.9 million from an anonymous donor. This property will be sold by the Johns Hopkins University Real Estate Office to create a permanent base of support for the Foreign Policy Institute. The FPI is the research arm of […]
Jhpiego-CBID partnership unveils global health innovations
May 7, 2012
Jhpiego and Johns Hopkins student engineers will today unveil BabyBeats and FeverPoint, two extremely affordable, innovative devices designed to help front-line health workers prevent maternal and newborn deaths in communities throughout the developing world. The projects, designed by Jhpiego-mentored students at the Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, or CBID, are […]
Black hole caught red-handed in stellar homicide
May 7, 2012
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. Supermassive black holes, weighing millions to billions times more than the sun, lurk in the centers of most galaxies. These hefty monsters lie quietly until an unsuspecting victim, such as a star, wanders close enough […]
Thanks for the memory: Old material yields room for more data
May 7, 2012
A team led by Johns Hopkins engineers has discovered some previously unknown properties of a common memory material, paving the way for development of new forms of memory drives, movie discs and computer systems that retain data more quickly, last longer and allow far more capacity than current data storage media. The work was reported April […]
Human Language Tech Center of Excellence names director
May 7, 2012
Richard Cox, a world-renowned spoken language researcher, has been appointed director of the Johns Hopkins University–based Human Language Technology Center of Excellence. The HLTCOE was founded in January 2007 to research all aspects of speech and language technologies. It focuses on advanced technology for automatically analyzing a wide range of speech, text and document data […]
Facebookers to share organ donor status with friends, family
May 7, 2012
When Harvard University friends Sheryl Sandberg and Andrew M. Cameron met up at their 20th college reunion last spring, they got to talking. Sandberg knew that Cameron, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins, was passionate about solving the perennial problem of transplantation: the critical shortage of donated organs in the United States. And Cameron knew […]
At BME’s 50th, Trayanova named inaugural Sachs Professor
May 7, 2012
The Johns Hopkins University Department of Biomedical Engineering, consistently ranked as the nation’s leading program in this discipline, celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 4 with a daylong symposium that included the installation of Natalia Trayanova as the inaugural Murray B. Sachs Professor. “This occasion not only recognizes Murray and Natalia, two accomplished members of […]
Honoring the role of blacks at Johns Hopkins
May 7, 2012
Kelly Miller was born in South Carolina in 1863, the year the tide of the Civil War turned with the Battle of Gettysburg. Miller, the son of a free man and a slave woman, would head north when he turned 17 to chase his dreams of being a math scholar and honor his “band of […]
Homewood Art Workshops celebrates students and Leake
May 7, 2012
Homewood Art Workshops’ annual Studio Show—which showcases the best student work of the academic year—will have a special twist this week. Along with the exhibition and the presentation of the 2012 Eugene Leake Award for Outstanding Achievement, the event will celebrate the restoration and re-installation of a “lost” Leake painting. “May Rocks and Trees” (1984) […]