Category: Previously Featured
Mp3 says: Walk like a zombie
March 14, 2011
Dozens of Johns Hopkins students took part in a high-tech game of Simon Says last Saturday on the Homewood campus. Dubbed the Mp3 Experience, the game had the participants download to their Mp3 players identical—and purposefully silly—instructions that they had to follow. At an assigned time, the students walked out of their residence halls and […]
Lens on JHU and Baltimore
March 7, 2011
In the most recent episode of Learn More, See More, B’More, hosts Lucie Fink and Noah Guiberson race up Woodberry Kitchen’s steps to the upper level of the popular Hampden-area restaurant. Once seated, the cheerful pair ponder the eclectic menu a moment before Fink pipes up. “Have you decided what you want yet?” she asks. […]
CNN star to send off JHU grads
March 7, 2011
Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN’s flagship international affairs program and one of the most influential political commentators of his day, will be the featured speaker at this year’s university commencement ceremony, to be held on Thursday, May 26, on Homewood Field. The Indian-American journalist hosts CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and also serves as editor […]
Starring Role
March 7, 2011
Sixteen years ago, on March 2, 1995, the Astro-2 space shuttle mission—carrying not only the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope but also Johns Hopkins payload specialist Sam Durrance and mission specialist John Grunsfeld on his first flight—launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a two-week dedicated astronomy mission. Last Friday, some 35 members of that […]
Two-week French film festival opens on March 2 with ‘Paris’
February 28, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, marks the beginning of the second Tournees Festival of Contemporary French Cinema presented by the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. The free two-week festival, to be held on the Homewood campus, will begin with a screening of Paris, an ensemble film that follows a cast […]
A new home for lacrosse
February 21, 2011
For more than 100 years, Homewood Field has been the Yankee Stadium of college lacrosse: a comfortable nest for homestanding Blue Jays, a house of horrors for visiting teams. But eventually, even Yankee Stadium needs an upgrade. “We don’t stand on tradition alone,” university President Ronald J. Daniels said in announcing that a new facility, […]
Astrophysicist Riess wins the 2011 Einstein Medal
February 21, 2011
Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at The Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute, on Friday was awarded the Einstein Medal 2011 by the Albert Einstein Society of Bern, Switzerland. The society’s board of trustees recognized Riess for leadership in the High-z Supernova Search Team’s 1998 discovery that the expansion rate of the universe […]
Settling in for a ‘fireside chat’
February 21, 2011
President Ron Daniels sat down for a “fireside chat” with Homewood undergraduates last week as part of Charles Commons Connections, a program launched in 2006 to foster community at Johns Hopkins. The event was held at the Charles Commons residence hall’s Salon C, located behind the Nolan’s on 33rd restaurant. Daniels, dressed in jeans and […]
E2SHI: New acronym, big ambitions
February 14, 2011
Drawing on faculty expertise in environmental science and engineering, public health and other areas, The Johns Hopkins University has launched its Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Health Institute to promote research and education in topics ranging from green energy practices to climate change and related health issues. “This kind of research right now is distributed all […]
Something in Commons
February 14, 2011
Mike Yassa knows brain science, but caramel apples leave him in sticky knots. Yassa, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, wrestled with the treat at the Charles Commons Connections welcome back event on Feb. 1, his first official appearance as the Homewood residence hall’s new faculty in residence. “My caramel […]