Category: Around Hopkins
Physics Fair forecast: Lots of bright lights, loud noises, rockets and more
April 16, 2012
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is hosting its ninth annual Physics Fair from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, coinciding with the Spring Fair celebration on the Homewood campus. Events will take place in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy. The fair will feature individual and team competitions for local […]
Attacca Quartet to play Evergreen April 21
April 16, 2012
Evergreen Museum & Library will conclude its 2011–12 Music at Evergreen concert series on Saturday, April 21, with a 3 p.m. performance by the Attacca String Quartet in the museum’s Bakst Theatre. Featured on the program will be Haydn’s String Quartet No. 67 in F major, Op. 77, No. 2, Hob.III:82 (Lobkowitz), Janacek’s String Quartet […]
Sequencing cancer mutations: There’s now an app for that
April 16, 2012
Using precise information about an individual’s genetic makeup is becoming increasingly routine for developing tailored treatments for breast, lung, colon and other cancers. But techniques used to identify meaningful gene mutations depend on analyzing sequences of both normal and mutant DNA in tumor samples, a process that can yield ambiguous results. Now, a team of […]
Building a legacy
April 16, 2012
In 1875, the newly formed Johns Hopkins Hospital board of trustees selected John Shaw Billings to spearhead construction of the hospital that would bear the name of the prominent Baltimore merchant and banker who had left a $7 million bequest that would also fund the creation of The Johns Hopkins University. Billings, a former Union […]
A week to be green at JHU
April 16, 2012
The naked eye may not see it, but Johns Hopkins has turned several shades of green of late. Call it Earth-friendly higher education. Since 2005, the university has reduced its water consumption by 114,070 gallons annually, even while expanding in size in both population and number of buildings, and recently surpassed its goal of recycling […]
New JHH facility ushers in next era of health care
April 16, 2012
More than 1,000 people were on hand to take part in the dedication on April 12 of The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s new $1.1 billion, state-of-the-art facility. The ceremony marked completion of one of the nation’s largest hospital construction projects, which features the Sheikh Zayed Cardiovascular and Critical Care Tower and The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s […]
Burma’s minister of health gives talk at the Bloomberg School
April 16, 2012
The monumental task of fixing the health system of Burma (Myanmar) falls to the minister of health, Pe Thet Khin, who shared some of the challenges ahead with a Bloomberg School audience on April 10. Pe Thet Khin and other health officials from the country came to the school as part of a weeklong visit […]
Poet Ron Padgett to give 15th Ringel Memorial Reading
April 16, 2012
The Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading celebrates its 15th season on Sunday, April 22, when eminent poet Ron Padgett will read from his work at 5 p.m. in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium. The event is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. The self-described son of an Oklahoma bootlegger, Padgett started […]
U.S. postmaster general to give Leaders + Legends Lecture
April 16, 2012
Patrick R. Donahoe, postmaster general and CEO of the United States Postal Service, will be the featured speaker for the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series on Wednesday, April 18. The event will take place at 7:30 a.m. in the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. Donahoe, whose remarks are titled […]
Animator J.J. Sedelmaier to visit Homewood
April 9, 2012
Noted animator J.J. Sedelmaier will talk about his work in an illustrated lecture, “J.J. Sedelmaier Productions: Hiding in Plain Sight,” on Monday, April 16, on the Homewood campus. In addition to more than 500 TV commercials and animation and design pieces, Sedelmaier is responsible for SNL’s Saturday TV Funhouse series with Robert Smigel (“The Ambiguously […]