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Foreign Affairs Symposium to highlight global citizenship
February 14, 2011
The annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium at Johns Hopkins returns on Wednesday, Feb. 16, when former Sen. Chuck Hagel will be the first of 10 prominent speakers to visit the Homewood campus during the spring semester. Hagel’s talk at 7 p.m. in 110 Hodson Hall begins the series of topical lectures and panel discussions under […]
A spirited adventure
February 7, 2011
Decked out in black with a Victorian top hat, Cliff Long waved his handy-dandy “ghost meter” at the iron fence in front of the Fell family grave marker on Shakespeare Street in Fells Point. First the device registered nothing, then it emitted a series of lights and clicks. Long, a guide with Baltimore Ghost Tours, […]
CEO of IBM kicks off yearlong lecture series at his alma mater
February 7, 2011
Sam Palmisano, the chairman and chief executive officer of IBM, and a 1973 graduate and former trustee of Johns Hopkins, returned to his alma mater last week to launch a yearlong lecture series celebrating his company’s 100th anniversary. In a speech in Homewood’s Gilman Hall, Palmisano, who grew up in Baltimore and attended Calvert Hall […]
Simulating worst-case scenarios
January 31, 2011
What promises to be one of the nation’s most advanced computer simulation and modeling centers is taking shape on the university’s Mount Washington campus. The Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences is being launched by Joshua M. Epstein. A former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Epstein […]
More global health opps for students
January 31, 2011
Last March, President Ronald J. Daniels announced an initiative to let more Johns Hopkins students pursue international public health experiences. To jump-start the initiative, the President’s Office helped fund the creation of Johns Hopkins global health awards, travel grants for students in all divisions and in all disciplines, nearly a quarter of them designated for […]
APL ‘weatherman’ mines data for use by Lab and others
January 24, 2011
Rich Giannola’s weather interest is more than a backyard hobby. An atmospheric scientist in the Global Engagement Department at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, he not only operates a manual weather station at home but has also maintained APL’s automated weather station and related website since both were established in 1996. The APL station, […]
Hawk’s tale
January 18, 2011
You thought our Blue Jays were tough. An adult female red-tailed hawk—who, along with her mate, has enjoyed a celebrity status on the Homewood campus—is poised to make a full recovery following a calamitous collision with a Milton S. Eisenhower Library window in mid-November. The winged creature has some Johns Hopkins animal enthusiasts to thank. […]
New study yields better turbine spacing for large wind farms
January 18, 2011
Large wind farms are being built around the world as a cleaner way to generate electricity, but operators are still searching for the most cost-effective and efficient way to arrange the massive turbines that turn moving air into power. To help steer wind farm owners in the right direction, Charles Meneveau, a Johns Hopkins fluid […]
NASA telescopes help identify most distant galaxy cluster
January 18, 2011
A team of astronomers has uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to the massive ones seen today. The developing cluster, named COSMOS-AzTEC3, was discovered and characterized by multiwavelength telescopes, including NASA’s Spitzer, Chandra and Hubble space […]
Carey School program trains entrepreneurs-to-be in region
January 10, 2011
When 25 budding entrepreneurs signed up last year to be part of the inaugural class of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s INNoVATE program at the university’s Montgomery County Campus, they all had big dreams but knew they needed some direction and education to reach their goals. The program, which is founded on the idea […]