Category: People
President Daniels to kick off this year’s Leaders + Legends series
September 12, 2011
Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels will be the inaugural speaker for the fourth year of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series, which begins at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 20, in the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. In his remarks, titled “Enduring Institutions, Evolving Cities: Johns Hopkins and […]
Physician/community advocate receives prestigious city award
September 7, 2010
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot announced last week that Barbara Cook, medical director of the Access Partnership, also known as TAP, at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, is the winner of the 2010 Dr. Sebastian Russo Memorial Award. The award was created by the city’s Health […]
Johns Hopkins astrophysicist is co-winner of million-dollar Shaw Prize
June 7, 2010
Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Charles Bennett and two colleagues have been awarded this year’s $1 million Shaw Prize in astronomy for groundbreaking research that has helped determine the precise age, composition and curvature of the universe. Bennett was cited for his accomplishments as principal investigator of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a spacecraft that in […]
Dean Yash Gupta of the Carey Business School
May 17, 2010
Yash P. Gupta laid out an audacious vision when he became the inaugural dean of the Carey Business School on Jan. 1, 2008. In short, he wanted Johns Hopkins to reinvent the model of business education. In doing so, he said, the new Carey Business School would become one of the most innovative and prominent […]
Johns Hopkins provost honored with international award
May 17, 2010
Lloyd Minor, an expert in balance and inner-ear disorders, and Johns Hopkins University’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, has been awarded the Prosper Ménière Society’s 2010 gold medal. The award is for Minor’s contributions to understanding the scientific basis of Ménière’s disease, named for the French scientist who pegged its hallmark symptoms […]
Dean Martha Hill of the School of Nursing
April 26, 2010
This is the fourth in a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Martha Hill, a Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1980, became dean of the School of Nursing in July 2002 after a one-year role as interim dean. A tireless and passionate champion […]
Susan Baker receives highest prize in public health
April 26, 2010
Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health announced last week that it will award the highest prize in public health—the Frank A. Calderone Prize—to Susan P. Baker, “the pioneering researcher and advocate whose extraordinary career spanning close to five decades has been instrumental in bringing the prevention of injuries to the forefront of public health […]
Dean Nick Jones of the Whiting School of Engineering
March 29, 2010
This is the third in a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Nicholas P. “Nick” Jones hails from the bridge-building tradition of engineers—and he’s proud of it. Yet as the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering, Jones has led […]
Beloved Hopkins pediatrician-educator Henry Seidel dies at 87
March 26, 2010
Henry M. Seidel, professor emeritus of pediatrics and a dean of students at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a master educator who shepherded generations of Hopkins medical students through their training, died at his home in Columbia, Md., on March 24. He was 87 and died of complications from lymphoma. Seidel joined the […]
Homewood memorial service set for M. Gordon ‘Reds’ Wolman
March 22, 2010
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, April 11, on the Homewood campus to celebrate the life of M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, an internationally respected expert in river science, water resources management and environmental education. Wolman, an important and beloved member of The Johns Hopkins University faculty for more than half a century, died […]