Category: People
Homewood’s gardening guru
March 22, 2010
Mark Selivan loves to take time out of his day to smell the roses. To be fair, he gives equal opportunity to the tulips, daffodils, crocuses, magnolias and other colorful blooms that have popped up across the Homewood campus. No surprise that Selivan, the university’s grounds manager, revels in the onset of spring. The native […]
Deputy Mayor Andrew Frank to join Daniels team for Baltimore
March 10, 2010
Andrew Frank, deputy mayor of Baltimore for economic and neighborhood development, will join The Johns Hopkins University on May 7 to become special adviser to the president on economic development initiatives. Frank will assist President Ronald J. Daniels in projects strengthening ties with partners and organizations across the city and contributing to neighborhood revitalization. He […]
M. Gordon ‘Reds’ Wolman, 85, international expert in river science
March 1, 2010
(Read President Ronald J. Daniels’ message to the Johns Hopkins community regarding the passing of “Reds” Wolman) M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, an internationally respected expert in river science, water resources management and environmental education, and an important and beloved member of The Johns Hopkins University faculty for more than half a century, died at his […]
Dean Jessica P. Einhorn of SAIS
February 22, 2010
Jessica P. Einhorn made history the moment she assumed leadership of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in 2002. Einhorn, who earned a master’s degree in international affairs from SAIS in 1970, became the first graduate to return as dean. Upon her appointment, Einhorn said she viewed the role as that of […]
Carl E. Taylor, 93, founded academic discipline of international health
February 15, 2010
Carl E. Taylor, founder of the academic discipline of international health and a man of spiritual conviction who dedicated his life to the well-being of the world’s marginalized people, died Feb. 4 in Baltimore from prostate cancer. He was 93.
C. Lockard Conley, 94, pioneering hematologist
February 8, 2010
C. Lockard Conley, a pioneering Johns Hopkins hematologist and acclaimed teacher who conducted landmark inquiries into blood coagulation, blood platelets, hemorrhagic diseases, hemoglobins and sickle cell anemia while simultaneously inspiring generations of students and young researchers, died of Parkinson’s disease on Jan. 30 at his home in Catonsville, Md. He was 94. Conley, who also […]
Cardiologist tracks biomarkers for an elusive killer: IPH
February 1, 2010
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center cardiologist Allen Everett recently won more than $460,000 in stimulus grant funding to identify the biomarkers of idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, or IPH, a progressive and highly lethal condition in children and adults marked by persistently elevated pressure in the artery that carries blood from the heart to the lungs. Biomarkers—biological “byproducts” […]
Stressed nanomaterials display unexpected movement
February 1, 2010
Researchers have discovered that, under the right conditions, newly developed nanocrystalline materials exhibit surprising activity in the tiny spaces between the geometric clusters of atoms called nanocrystals, from which they are made. This finding, detailed recently in the journal Science, is important because these nanomaterials are becoming more ubiquitous in the fabrication of microdevices and […]
Dean Michael Klag of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
January 19, 2010
Michael J. Klag, a physician and internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of heart and kidney disease, took the helm of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2005.
Education Dean Fessler to retire; Hardiman named to interim post
January 19, 2010
After postponing, at the request of President Daniels, the planned retirement that he had announced in September 2008, Dean Ralph Fessler of the School of Education will leave his post this month.