Category: Around Hopkins
Notices — March 26, 2012
March 26, 2012
Hopkins Night at Camden Yards — Group seating for Johns Hopkins faculty, staff, retirees, alumni, and their families and friends is available when the Orioles take on the Tampa Bay Rays in an evening game at Camden Yards on Saturday, May 12. Tickets are $13. Everyone who purchases a ticket by April 10 will be […]
Public Health’s Dr. Podcast
March 26, 2012
Thomas Burke considers himself a talk radio devotee. He’s a particularly big fan of NPR’s Car Talk, the popular weekly show in which Tom and Ray Magliozzi (also know as Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers) playfully unravel transmission malfunctions, brake squeaks, air conditioning failures and all manner of auto-related troubles for their devoted audience. […]
‘Technology, Cognition and Learning Summit’ announced
March 26, 2012
The Johns Hopkins University Neuro-Education Initiative and Center for Technology in Education will present the Technology, Cognition and Learning Summit on Thursday, May 3. The event, to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Homewood’s Glass Pavilion, will include panel discussions by leading researchers, including Johns Hopkins neuroscientists Steven Yantis and Martha Bridge […]
Rising clarinet star to make Baltimore debut at Evergreen
March 26, 2012
Nineteen-year-old rising clarinet star Narek Arutyunian will make his Baltimore debut with pianist Mariko Furukawa at Evergreen Museum & Library on Saturday, March 31, performing music by Poulenc, Francaix, Horovitz, Lovreglio, Denisov and Schoenfield. Armenian-born Arutyunian graduated from the Moscow State University and currently works with Charles Neidich at The Juilliard School in New York. […]
‘U.S. News’ releases rankings of Best Graduate Schools
March 26, 2012
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has returned to the No. 2 spot on U.S. News & World Report’s list of the nation’s top medical schools, second only to perennial No. 1, Harvard. Johns Hopkins was ranked No. 2 for 13 years—from 1991 to 2004—when it was bumped to No. 3 by Washington University in […]
Milestones — March 26, 2012
March 26, 2012
ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS Retiree Fell, Charlotte, 12 years of service, Johns Hopkins University Press 25 years of service Massey, Sheila, Center for Talented Youth 15 years of service Bossemeyer, Debora, Jhpiego Curtis, Valerie, Center for Talented Youth Dingle, Teresa, Center for Talented Youth 10 years of service Davis, Valerie, Johns Hopkins […]
APL’s Messenger provides new look at Mercury’s landscape
March 26, 2012
Messenger completed its one-year primary mission on March 17. Since moving into orbit about Mercury a little over one year ago, the spacecraft—built and operated by Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory, which also manages the mission for NASA—has captured nearly 100,000 images and returned data that have revealed new information about the planet, including its […]
James Franco, John Irwin discuss Hart Crane
March 26, 2012
Actor James Franco attended a screening and discussion of his film The Broken Tower about the life and work of the poet Hart Crane on March 9 at Homewood’s Shriver Hall. The 90-minute film was introduced by the actor and was followed by a panel discussion featuring Franco; John Irwin, Decker Professor in the Humanities […]
Classifieds — March 26, 2012
March 26, 2012
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to speak at SAIS
March 26, 2012
Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel, will speak at SAIS at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27. Olmert’s talk is titled “Recent Developments in Israel and the Middle East.” The event, hosted by the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, will be held in Rome Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP online at www.eventbrite.com/event/3148720909/mcivte.