Category: Featured
Here comes the Class of 2015
August 29, 2011
In a synchronized swirl of activity, members of the Class of 2015 checked into the Homewood campus last week to begin their college adventure. Cars, trucks and vans, all stuffed with cargo, lined up in caravan fashion on Wednesday and Thursday as the freshmen moved into Johns Hopkins residence halls. It was a tale of […]
Summer in the city
August 15, 2011
Kenneth Felsenstein got his hands dirty this summer, and loved every minute of it. Felsenstein, a public health major, interned at Blue Water Baltimore, a restoration, education and advocacy nonprofit that aims for cleaner water in the city’s rivers, streams and harbor. The organization, founded last fall, merged five separate agencies: the Jones Falls Watershed Association, […]
Blue Jay Shuttle goes fixed route
August 15, 2011
A significantly revised and enhanced shuttle service at Homewood is ready for liftoff. Effective Aug. 24, the Blue Jay Shuttle service will operate on a new fixed-route evening schedule in an area proximate to the Homewood campus. Under the new system, the fleet of vans will depart from Mason Hall—seen as the shuttle’s transportation hub—starting at […]
You can count on this: Math ability is inborn
August 15, 2011
We accept that some people are born with a talent for music or art or athletics. But what about mathematics? Do some of us just arrive in the world with better math skills than do others? It seems we do, at least according to the results of a study by a team of Johns Hopkins […]
Social acumen equals spatial skill, JHU psychologist finds
August 1, 2011
People who are socially skilled—who are adept at metaphorically putting themselves in someone else’s shoes—are also more proficient when it comes to spatial skills, according to a new study led by a Johns Hopkins University psychologist. The study, published online July 27 in Journal of Experimental Psychology, found that the more socially accomplished people are, […]
Indie filmmaker’s cell-phone photos land him in the Baltimore Museum of Art
August 1, 2011
In a large box-shaped gallery inside the Baltimore Museum of Art, independent filmmaker Matthew Porterfield paces before an audience of admirers, fielding questions about his latest creative work, winner of Baltimore’s $25,000 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. In recent years, Porterfield, who teaches in the Krieger School’s Film and Media Studies program, has collected […]
Finding a fishy solution
August 1, 2011
There’s something fishy going on at Baltimore’s Cylburn Arboretum, and the results could be delicious—and sustainable. Earlier this summer, David Love, a microbiologist and project director with the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, began work on a demonstration aquaponics farm housed in a greenhouse at Cylburn, […]
Hartwell grant supports research to prevent preterm births
July 18, 2011
More than a half million babies are born every year in the United States before reaching 37 weeks in the womb. For those who survive preterm birth—the leading cause of death for newborns—it often means months, years or even a lifetime full of complications for both the babies and their families. If doctors could predict […]
A summer of savory jazz and barbecue
July 18, 2011
A crowd of hungry patrons savored Kansas City–inspired barbecue and jazz outside Levering Hall on July 8, just before the skies opened up with a short-lived, drenching rain. This summer’s Friday Jazz BBQ series at Homewood, which kicked off June 3, comes courtesy of Housing and Dining Services. Weather permitting, the grill will be fired up […]
A century of medical illustration
July 18, 2011
Max Brodel was a child prodigy of several sorts. Born in 1870 in Leipzig, Germany, Brodel took to the piano just after he learned to walk. At age 12, he could play Beethoven both beautifully and effortlessly, suggesting a future in music. His true gifts, however, shone on paper and canvas. During the summers of […]