Category: Around Hopkins
Evergreen Museum presents Tai Hwa Goh exhibition
April 2, 2012
Tai Hwa Goh, the 10th artist in residence at the university’s Evergreen Museum & Library, has created a three-dimensional, site-specific installation, Lullaby in Evergreen, that’s now on view as part of guided museum tours. “Evergreen’s House Guests artist-in-residence program was created to continue Alice Warder Garrett’s legacy of supporting artists during the first half of […]
Peabody at Homewood concert series kicks off April 10
April 2, 2012
Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Museum announces the 12th edition of its Peabody at Homewood spring concert series, which showcases some of the top young talents from the university’s Peabody Institute. The performances are presented amid the splendid Federal-era architecture and furnishings of Homewood. This season, the concerts will be held at 5 p.m. on five consecutive […]
Cardiologists’ study named a breakthrough of 2011
April 2, 2012
David Kass, a professor of cardiology in the School of Medicine, and his lab have been recognized in the annual Signaling Breakthroughs of 2011, published by the journal Science Signaling, for their groundbreaking 2011 study published in Science Translational Medicine. The Johns Hopkins researchers’ study revealed how a pacemaker therapy for heart failure, known as […]
Notices — April 2, 2012
April 2, 2012
The Earth Week Clothing Freecycle will be held from noon to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, on Levering Quad. Clean clothes are wanted, in bags (no need to fold), and they should be dropped off by 4 p.m. on Monday, April 16, in 313 Ames. Any clothing that remains after the giveaway will be […]
Classifieds — April 2, 2012
April 2, 2012
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Calendar — April 2, 2012
April 2, 2012
COLLOQUIA Mon., April 2, 4 p.m. “Marsilio Ficino’s Medicine: Between Tradition and Innovation,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Teodoro Katinis, KSAS. 388 Gilman. HW Tues., April 3, 4 p.m. “Regionalties,” an Anthropology colloquium with Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas, Austin. 404 Macaulay. HW Tues., April 3, 4:15 p.m. “Development of Re […]
Vali Nasr named dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS
March 27, 2012
Vali R. Nasr, a leading scholar, foreign policy adviser to Democratic and Republican administrations, and commentator on international relations, has been appointed dean of The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Nasr, 51, will join SAIS on July 1. He will be its eighth dean, succeeding Jessica P. Einhorn, who […]
Historic Farm Day to revisit roots of Homewood Museum
March 26, 2012
Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Museum comes alive from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 1, with Historic Farm Day. The half-day of interactive activities and demonstrations is presented in conjunction with the museum’s current focus exhibition, Federal Foodies: From Farm to Table in Early Baltimore, on view through April 29. Historic Farm Day celebrates […]
Cheers — March 26, 2012
March 26, 2012
BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER Bruce Leff, professor and medical director of the Program for All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly, has been named chair of the American College of Physicians’ Council of Subspecialty Societies. Leff, also named to the ACP’s board of regents, will work on establishing the ACP as a leading voice for internal medicine practitioners. […]
Johns Hopkins physicist honored with Simons Fellowship
March 26, 2012
A Johns Hopkins University theoretical physicist has been awarded a Simons Fellowship, which provides the opportunity for a scholar to spend a year away from classroom and administrative duties in order to pursue research interests. Mark Robbins, a professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and […]