Category: Around Hopkins
Registration closes on Friday for DLC Diversity Conference
October 17, 2011
Registration will close on Friday, Oct. 21, for the Diversity Leadership Council’s eighth annual Johns Hopkins Diversity Conference, which will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 9, on the Homewood campus. The event opens with registration at 7 a.m. and will officially begin with a plenary session at 8:30 a.m. in Shriver Hall Auditorium, followed by […]
American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducts 231st class
October 17, 2011
Katherine S. Newman, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and a professor of sociology; and Gabrielle M. Spiegel, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of History at Johns Hopkins were among 179 of the nation’s most influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors and institutional leaders who were inducted into the American Academy […]
Zelda Fitzgerald, Louise Wheatley exhibitions open at Evergreen
October 17, 2011
Evergreen Museum & Library will celebrate the opening of two special exhibitions this week at a reception at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 18. The nearly 40-year career retrospective Intimate Earth: The Art of Louise Wheatley features a rotating display of 70 works by contemporary Maryland textile artist and weaver Louise Wheatley. Of astonishing intimacy […]
Piero Weiss, 83, pianist and musicologist at Peabody
October 17, 2011
Musicologist and pianist Piero Weiss, a member of the Peabody Conservatory faculty since 1985, died of pneumonia on Oct. 2 at the age of 83. He was still teaching during the current semester. “Dr. Weiss improved a generation and a half of Peabody students,” wrote Paul Mathews, associate dean for academic affairs, in his blog […]
‘Eureka!’ opens at the George Peabody Library
October 17, 2011
Since the acquisition last fall of the Dr. Elliott and Eileen Hinkes Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science by Johns Hopkins’ Sheridan Libraries, scientists and bibliophiles alike have been eagerly anticipating the chance for a closer look at this magnificent collection. With the opening of Eureka! on Sunday, Oct. 23, at the […]
JHU OUTList goes live on National Coming Out Day
October 12, 2011
Johns Hopkins invites its LGBT community to log in to “come out.” On National Coming Out Day, The Johns Hopkins University launched the OUTList, a user-driven online list of university faculty, staff, students, fellows and alumni who voluntarily identify themselves as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. To celebrate the launch, the […]
Hide-and-seek: Altered HIV can’t evade immune system
October 10, 2011
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have modified HIV in a way that makes it no longer able to suppress the immune system. Their work, they say in a report published online Sept. 19 in the journal Blood, could remove a major hurdle in HIV vaccine development and lead to new treatments. “Something about the HIV virus […]
Calendar — October 10, 2011
October 10, 2011
COLLOQUIA Wed., Oct. 12, 3:30 p.m. “Type Ia Supernovae: What Are They?” an STSci colloquium with Mario Livio, STSci. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW Wed., Oct. 12, 5 to 7 p.m. “‘Lo Here I Burn’: Musical Figurations and Fantasies of Male Desire in Early Modern England,” a Peabody DMA Musicology colloquium with Linda Austern, Northwestern […]
Talks in Provost’s Lecture Series videotaped and available online
October 10, 2011
Anyone unable to attend this year’s Provost’s Lecture Series, which begins this week, will still be able to see and hear the talks. All the installments will be videotaped and available within a week on the Office of the Provost’s website. Provost Lloyd B. Minor created the lecture series in 2010 to spread the wealth […]
MRI safe for people with implanted cardiac devices
October 10, 2011
Magnetic resonance imaging, an important diagnostic test, has traditionally been off-limits to more than 2 million people in the United States who have an implanted pacemaker to regulate heart rhythms, or an implanted defibrillator to prevent sudden cardiac death. Now, in a study published in the Oct. 4 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, cardiologists […]