Category: Around Hopkins
SAIS to host conference on the new African democracy
April 30, 2012
SAIS will hold a two-day conference, The New African Democracy: Information Technology and Political Participation, on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 1 and 2. Hosted by the school’s African Studies Program, the conference will explore how information and communications technologies are helping to advance political participation and social movements in Africa. Ebrahim Rasool, South African ambassador […]
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab names 2011 best inventions
April 30, 2012
An ultra-compact motor controller used to revolutionize movement in a state-of-the-art prosthetic arm and an innovative algorithm for improving the performance of undersea sensors are the winners of APL’s Invention of the Year and Government Purpose Innovation awards for 2011. This year’s winners were selected from 259 inventions that were disclosed at APL in the […]
NASA picks JHU–led investigation upgrade for flying observatory
April 30, 2012
A proposal led by a Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist has been selected by NASA as part of a science instrument upgrade to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, known as SOFIA. The instrument, the High-resolution Airborne Wideband Camera, will provide sensitive, versatile and powerful imaging capability to the SOFIA user community. The Johns Hopkins–led investigation is […]
Peabody collaborates with Concert Artists, Lyric for May 5 performance
April 29, 2012
Concerts Artists of Baltimore, the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and the Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric will unveil their inaugural collaboration on Saturday, May 5, when the three Baltimore institutions present Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. The 8 p.m. concert will be conducted by Edward Polochick, […]
Peabody composer Puts wins Pulitzer Prize for ‘Silent Night’
April 23, 2012
The opera Silent Night begins in an opera house, where a duet is being sung in German by a man and a woman in 18th-century costume. But this isn’t a work by Mozart; it’s a passage written by Kevin Puts in the style of Mozart, soon to be stopped short by an announcement that Germany […]
Calendar — April 23, 2012
April 23, 2012
COLLOQUIA Tues., April 24, 4 p.m. “The Dwelling Science: An Anthropology of the Otherwise,” an Anthropology colloquium with Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University. 404 Macaulay. HW Tues., April 24, 4:15 p.m. “Multilayer Light Harvesting Arrays for Molecular-Based Solar Cells,” a Chemistry colloquium with Peter Dinolfo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., April 25, 3:30 p.m. […]
JHU profs named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 23, 2012
A yeast geneticist and an economist at The Johns Hopkins University are among 220 “thinkers and doers” in the 2012 class of new fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced last week. With the election of Jef Boeke, a professor of molecular biology and genetics in the School of Medicine, and […]
Community service matchmaking
April 23, 2012
Michelle Rozo, a third-year doctoral student in biology in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, says that she chose Johns Hopkins in part because of its MInDS (Mentoring to Inspire Diversity in Science) program, an outreach effort that, among other activities, encourages K-12 and undergraduate students to pursue a career in science. Rozo says […]
Student teams to compete for JH Business Plan prize money
April 23, 2012
The nationally recognized Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition, hosted by the Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Leadership Education, provides an opportunity for students to take a novel idea or innovative technology and develop a business plan based around it. Starting with a concept, students build an understanding of their target market, analyze potential […]
Undersec of state to discuss Open Government Partnership
April 23, 2012
Maria Otero, undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy and human rights, will speak at SAIS at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, about “The Open Government Partnership: A Progress Report.” Otero, a SAIS graduate, has taken a leading role at the State Department in launching and steering the OGP, a new multilateral initiative that […]