Category: Around Hopkins
Radiation Belt Storm Probes arrive at Kennedy Space Center
May 7, 2012
NASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes safely arrived on May 1 at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., where they are scheduled for an August launch to begin their mission to study the extremes of space weather. Just after 10:30 p.m. on April 30, the spacecraft had departed Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory, where they were […]
Interpreting history and landscape
May 7, 2012
In the 19th century and early in the next, the lush grounds of Evergreen House featured seven elaborate glass conservatories with names such as Mushroom House, Melon House and Orchid House. The mistress of the mansion, Alice Whitridge Garrett, likely would have strolled into one of these houses on a spring day to care for […]
JHU awarded $15 million for AIDS research center
May 7, 2012
The Johns Hopkins University has been awarded $15 million over the next five years from the National Institutes of Health to establish the Center for AIDS Research. CFAR will support more than 180 HIV investigators from the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, School of Nursing and other schools. A major priority […]
Carey School to change program focus
May 7, 2012
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School has reorganized to focus its degree programs on the study of business issues related to health care and the life sciences, interim Dean Phillip Phan has announced. “We’re making this move not just because we are Johns Hopkins, with the best medical institutions in the world, but also because […]
Hot Jobs — April 30, 2012
April 30, 2012
Homewood Office of Human Resources Wyman Park Building, Suite W600 410-516-7196 IT@JH has a number of immediate openings for positions located on the Mount Washington campus. For more information and to apply, go to jobs.jhu.edu. 49220 ERP Business Analyst 49223 ERP Business Analyst 51375 ERP Business Analyst 51060 Senior Systems Engineer 51384 Senior Systems Engineer […]
Pre-K at Play Day
April 30, 2012
Four Johns Hopkins schools participated in Baltimore City’s second annual Pre-K at Play day. Thirty-five 4-year-old students from Samuel F.B. Morse Elementary School in southwest Baltimore participated April 26 in a variety of activities with volunteers from the Peabody Institute, Whiting School of Engineering and schools of Education and Nursing. The activities included music and […]
Johns Hopkins Baja SAE team
April 30, 2012
The Johns Hopkins Baja SAE team returned to the Homewood campus April 24, tired, muddy and thrilled with its showing in the intercollegiate competition in Auburn, Ala. The day before, the engineering undergraduates, led by senior Matt Blake, placed ninth overall (out of 102 teams) and third in the Design Report and Maneuverability categories—the best […]
Classifieds — April 30, 2012
April 30, 2012
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Highlandtown, Patterson Park walking tour set for May 3
April 30, 2012
The Johns Hopkins Live Near Your Work Program, in partnership with the Southeast Community Development Corp., is heading out this week to Highlandtown and Patterson Park, two neighborhoods near the East Baltimore campus. From 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 3, employees can visit homes, meet residents and get a personal look at the […]
‘Stoop’ storytellers share personal tales of life at Johns Hopkins
April 30, 2012
The Stoop Storytelling Series returns to the East Baltimore campus on Friday, May 4, when seven storytellers will get seven minutes each to share true, personal tales about close calls, humbling experiences, great victories and crushing defeats—in short, anything that shines a light on what life is like at the renowned medical institution. Among the […]