Category: Around Hopkins
For the Record: Milestones
June 25, 2012
The following staff members are retiring or celebrating an anniversary with the university in June 2012. The information is compiled by the Office of Work, Life and Engagement, 443-997-7000. ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS 20 years of service Armstead, Stacey, Sr., Johns Hopkins University Press Lacoste, Maryjane, Jhpiego 10 years of service Carroll, Michael, Johns […]
For the Record: Iglesias installed as Edward J. Schaefer Professor in Electrical Engineering
June 25, 2012
Pablo A. Iglesias, director of the Johns Hopkins Cellular Signaling Control Laboratory, has been named the Edward J. Schaefer Professor in Electrical Engineering, in the fifth and final Whiting School of Engineering endowed professorship installation of the academic year. Peter N. Devreotes, professor and director of the Department of Cell Biology at the School of […]
Classifieds
June 25, 2012
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Be prepared: July marks start of Charles Street reconstruction
June 25, 2012
Charles Street reconstruction is finally about to begin. Baltimore City has awarded a construction contract, and work is expected to begin in July on rebuilding the roadway from 25th Street north past the university’s Homewood campus to University Parkway. In a letter sent last week to faculty, staff and students, Greg Smith and Michael Sullivan […]
Johns Hopkins celebrates its staff
June 25, 2012
The season of celebration is under way. Staff recognition events are being held this month for employees retiring, reaching 20-plus years of service and celebrating five-, 10- and 15-year anniversaries. Various members of JHU’s leadership, including President Ron Daniels and Provost Lloyd Minor, have shown their appreciation for the collective years of service by attending […]
Two weeks remain for taking employment engagement survey
June 11, 2012
The three-week Johns Hopkins Gallup Survey was launched on June 1, and by the end of the first week, nearly half the university staff being surveyed had responded to the questionnaire, which will measure employee engagement. According to figures reported by Gallup to Johns Hopkins, the Libraries staff had the highest participation rate, at 67.65 […]
CryoPop takes first in national contest
June 11, 2012
A Johns Hopkins team took first prize in the 2012 BMEidea competition, sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. The winning design, CryoPop, is a low-cost medical device that uses dry ice for the treatment of cervical precancerous lesions. Today cervical cancer kills an estimated 250,000 women, with 85 percent of the disease burden […]
Class of 2016 nets highest yield at Homewood
June 11, 2012
In the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at The Johns Hopkins University, the story is much the same this spring as it has been for the past two years: Once again, the incoming freshman class has given the Homewood schools their highest-ever yield from an increasingly large pool of applicants. As of June 1, 37.5 percent […]
JHU Press: Telling stories of the ‘forgotten war’
June 11, 2012
The War of 1812 has long suffered an inferiority complex. Unluckily wedged between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, the conflict often gets overlooked and thus earned the nicknames the “forgotten war” and the “Rodney Dangerfield of armed engagements.” For most Americans, knowledge of the war is limited to the victories of the USS […]
Egyptian-dig photo diary returns to the Web this month
June 11, 2012
An unofficial summer-school course in archaeology is just a hyperlink away at Hopkins in Egypt Today (jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html), a website showing a dig in progress throughout June. Armchair scholars won’t earn any college credits following this blog about an ongoing excavation at the Temple of Mut precinct in Luxor, written by renowned Johns Hopkins Egyptologist Betsy […]