Category: People
Celebrating Carol Greider
January 11, 2010
Nearly 800 faculty, students and staff poured into Turner Concourse on Jan. 6 for a reception to honor Carol Greider, who recently returned from Stockholm, where she accepted the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
JHU President Lincoln Gordon, 96, brought co-education to Homewood
January 4, 2010
Lincoln Gordon, who served as president of The Johns Hopkins University for four tumultuous years, died in his sleep on Dec. 19 at an assisted-living community in Mitchellville, Md. He was 96.
JHU prof to head American Academy in Rome
January 4, 2010
The American Academy in Rome recently named as its director Christopher Celenza, a professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures and director of the Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe, both in Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
James McGill, head of finance and administration, to retire
December 14, 2009
James T. McGill, senior vice president for finance and administration, will retire June 30 after more than 12 years of managing the financial, physical and human infrastructure of The Johns Hopkins University.
Our newest Nobelist: Carol Greider
October 12, 2009
Carol Greider honored for her groundbreaking work on telomeres
A&S Dean Adam Falk named president of Williams College
October 5, 2009
Adam Falk, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins, has been elected the 17th president of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. He will assume the post on April 1. The college’s trustees made the announcement Sept. 28.
An end-of-summer ritual
September 7, 2009
The prospect of stormy weather could not deter attendees of the 2009 Johns Hopkins Picnic from coming out for a fun afternoon with great food, a DJ, dancing and kids’ games.
Historian moves among the movers and shakers of oldtime Baltimore
July 20, 2009
Wayne Schaumburg brakes for historic cemeteries. Well, the bumper sticker on his car says he does, and after spending a few moments with the lifetime Baltimore resident, you realize it’s probably not just a one-line
Johns Hopkins scientist named outstanding woman vet
July 20, 2009
A Johns Hopkins veterinarian whose vocation is HIV research and avocation is the care of dog “athletes” has been named the 2009 Outstanding Woman Veterinarian of the Year by the Association for Women Veterinarians Foundation.
Johns Hopkins faculty remember “One giant leap for mankind”
July 16, 2009
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, we asked Johns Hopkins faculty members to reflect on their memories of Armstrong’s “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”