Category: Previously Featured
Engineering students seek to solve real-world challenges
May 10, 2010
During two engineering design showcases held last week on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses, many Whiting School students demonstrated that they were aiming for the stars. Sometimes, literally: One team built mechanical legs to help a future spacecraft land gently on the moon. Other teams targeted the moon figuratively by designing devices that may […]
Charting ocean currents with a cutting-edge supercomputer
May 10, 2010
This is part of an occasional series on Johns Hopkins research funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If you have a study you would like to be considered for inclusion, contact Lisa De Nike at lde@jhu.edu. Using a $736,000 grant administered through the federal stimulus act, a Johns Hopkins earth scientist […]
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences names new dean
May 3, 2010
Katherine Newman has had so many connections to Johns Hopkins for so long that actually taking a job here might seem almost anticlimactic. Anticlimactic, that is, if she wasn’t so excited about that job. “Good morning, colleagues,” the newly elected James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences said at her […]
Time out with: Beth Stewart, research coordinator, soprano and entrepreneur
May 3, 2010
When the Baltimore Opera Co. dissolved last year, some might have wondered when Charm City would next hear an aria from Carmen, Madame Butterfly, La bohème or another such classic. Turns out, the answer was very soon, thanks to one enterprising Johns Hopkins employee. Beth Stewart, a research coordinator for the School of Medicine’s Pediatric […]
JHU students win $20,000 grand prize in Wharton competition
May 3, 2010
A Johns Hopkins student team that developed a system to make spinal surgery more successful in patients with osteoporosis has won the $20,000 Michelson Grand Prize in the 2010 Wharton Business Plan Competition at the University of Pennsylvania. Since it was launched in 1998, this major competition has drawn more than 150 student teams annually. […]
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 […]
A hard-hat summer for Homewood
April 26, 2010
A summer of progress, capital project–style, lies ahead for the Homewood campus and nearby university facilities. When the academic term ends, hard hats, trailers and temporary fences will become familiar sights as literally dozens of construction projects, building renovations, upgrades and retrofits are on tap. Some will begin; others will wind down. Notably, the extensive three-year […]
Sculpture at Evergreen opens its summer run
April 26, 2010
Ten thought-provoking installations of temporary outdoor site-specific artwork have been created for the 26-acre grounds of Evergreen Museum & Library as part of the exhibition Sculpture at Evergreen 6: Simultaneous Presence, opening with a public reception from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 2. Developed by individuals and teams of artists and architects from […]
Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards
April 19, 2010
In research, the journey from point A to point B sometimes leads the individual to C, D or E. The trip, however, typically begins with a question. Here are a few: Does sustained listening to an MP3 player via earphones have a negative impact on hearing? What mathematical secrets can be gleaned from a Bulgarian […]
A personal, targeted gift for Peabody
April 19, 2010
A former Peabody student has prepared a $2 million scholarship bequest to the Conservatory that aims to open musical doors for those impeded by intolerance. Tristan Rhodes, who spent less than three years studying piano and conducting at the Peabody Institute during the late 1960s, said recently that although he did not face antagonistic repercussions […]