Category: People
Dinner honors long-term and retiring staff
June 22, 2009
Ron Daniels, president of the university since March, made his debut as special guest of honor to present service awards at the annual Staff Recognition and Retirement Dinner.
Cheers: June 2009
June 22, 2009
Cheers is a monthly listing of honors and awards received by faculty, staff and students plus recent appointments and promotions.
Obituary: Philip Curtin, 87, expert on African, comparative world history
June 22, 2009
Tirelessly energetic, often controversial and invariably stimulating, Curtin played a catalytic role in scholarly debates over African and world history.
Obituary: Economist Horst Siebert, 71, of SAIS’ Bologna Center
June 8, 2009
Horst Siebert, who held the Heinz Nixdorf Chair in European Integration and Economic Policy at SAIS’ Bologna Center, died June 2 in the Kantonsspital Munsterlingen in Switzerland. He was 71.
VP Linda Robertson to join Federal Reserve System
June 8, 2009
Linda Robertson, vice president of government, community and public affairs for the university and vice president for government affairs and community relations at Johns Hopkins Medicine, will become assistant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
35 years of innovation at work
June 8, 2009
Jhpiego was founded in 1974 to improve health care access for women and their families. The organization works to empower front-line health workers by designing and implementing effective, low-cost, hands-on solutions to strengthen the delivery of health care services for this often underserved population.
The Manners Maven
October 22, 2007
Though Pier Massimo Forni may jokingly refer to himself as “a self-appointed manners maven,” he takes civility studies very seriously. Ten years ago this fall, Forni co-founded the Johns Hopkins Civility Project — now known as the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins — and heightened the awareness of our need to be kind to each […]
It is ‘Reds,’ like Johns, with an ‘s’
May 30, 1995
(From the JHU Gazette Archives. See original) Ever the geographer, Baltimore-born M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman believes there is a geographical component in the etymology of his distinctive nickname. “I’m Reds with an ‘s’ on it, and I’ve explained why quite inadequately since I was old enough to know that people were asking,” said the bullhorn-voiced […]