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A day to remember
January 3, 2011
This year’s graveside remembrance of the university’s founder took an unexpected turn: The faithful arrived for the gathering at Green Mount Cemetery as they had each Christmas Eve day since 1998, the 125th anniversary of Johns Hopkins’ death, only to find the gates to the property inexplicably locked. With no way to gain access to […]
Benjamin, Sherrod to headline MLK Jr. Commemoration
January 3, 2011
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin and Shirley Sherrod, the former U.S. Department of Agriculture official forced to resign last summer following a racially shaded controversy, will be the featured guests and keynote speakers for Johns Hopkins’ 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. birthday remembrance, an event that takes place this week. The theme is “Strength […]
New dinosaur species named for Johns Hopkins postdoc
January 3, 2011
A new species of dinosaur discovered near Green River, Utah, has been named for a Johns Hopkins University postdoctoral fellow and her twin sister whose geology work while they were graduate students helped define the new species. Named Geminiraptor suarezarum for Marina Suarez, the Blaustein Postdoctoral Scholar in Johns Hopkins’ Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth […]
For summer: Community service internships for undergrads
December 13, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University today unveils a program that will pay for service-minded undergraduates to stay in Baltimore over the summer to work as interns at local nonprofit and government agencies at no cost to those agencies. Launched with a $1.25 million gift from an anonymous donor, the new Johns Hopkins Community Impact Internships program […]
Coming soon: A thank you to remember
December 13, 2010
Stephanie Delman took the Shriver Hall stage somewhat sheepishly, but eager-eyed and ready to please. A lone camera with a green halo-like ring trained on the senior Writing Seminars major, who stood there in an animal-print shirt, black pants and tall brown boots. Behind her hung a large gray cloth, a “green screen” primed for […]
How is Baltimore’s housing holding up in the Great Recession?
December 13, 2010
Despite increases in unemployment, Baltimore is holding its own during the Great Recession, with only modestly declining median income and home prices to show for themselves at the end of the tumultuous first decade of the 2000s. That’s the preliminary report from 50 first-year graduate students in the university’s Master of Public Policy program who […]
Q&A with School of Education’s David Andrews
December 6, 2010
This is the last in a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. To see the entire series, go to gazette.jhu.edu and click on “Q&A with the Deans and Directors” under the Departments heading. When David Andrews became dean of the School of Education […]
HUT, 20 years later
November 29, 2010
Twenty years ago this week, the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope was launched into space aboard NASA’s space shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., as part of the 12-day Astro-1 astronomy mission. The telescope was conceived, designed and built by Johns Hopkins University astronomers and engineers to perform astronomical observations in the […]
Sleep in or head out? Here’s the snowdown
November 29, 2010
Hit the snooze button or dig the snow boots out of the closet? That’s what Johns Hopkins students, faculty and staff want to know when their clock radios awaken them early on winter mornings with news of an overnight storm. Johns Hopkins rarely closes for snowstorms, even when local school systems and other colleges do. […]
APL-led atmospheric mission extended for fourth time
November 29, 2010
Nine years after beginning its unprecedented look at the gateway between Earth and space and collecting more data on the upper atmosphere than any other satellite, NASA’s Timed (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) mission has been extended yet again to continue to study the influences of the sun and humans on our upper atmosphere. […]