Category: Featured
Pomp and ceremonies close year
May 23, 2011
The 2010–2011 academic year culminates this week with a big “green” bash and a flurry of ceremonies to celebrate JHU’s new pack of alumni. In an effort to promote a more unified Johns Hopkins family, the university last year fused the universitywide commencement ceremony with the Homewood undergraduate diploma ceremony for one grand graduation observance. […]
Class acts
May 23, 2011
What makes a great teacher, you ask? Is it one who entertains while imparting knowledge, or one who gives it to you straight? One who holds your hand while you’re learning, or one who let’s you figure it out on your own? It all depends—on you, the subject and, of course, the teacher. What the […]
What one grad taught—and learned from—some Baltimore boys
May 23, 2011
Karen Hong came to the William Donald Schaefer House for Boys in Baltimore’s Reservoir Hill neighborhood as a freshman four years ago, believing she had something to teach the 14- to 18-year-olds receiving residential drug and alcohol treatment at the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services facility. But it didn’t take her long to discover that […]
Pre-K students come to play—and learn—at JHU
May 23, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University School of Education, Whiting School of Engineering and Peabody Institute joined together on Thursday to host more than 40 students from Samuel Morse Elementary School in West Baltimore as Baltimore City Public Schools launched its new citywide initiative called Pre-K at Play. The program’s goal is for pre-K students to get […]
Pens with potential win global health prize
May 16, 2011
Could simple tests using chemical-filled pens and costing less than a penny per test save the lives of thousands of pregnant women and newborns in impoverished areas? A low-cost Antenatal Screening Kit that aims to accomplish this goal won the grand prize last week for a team of Johns Hopkins graduate students who entered an […]
Summer in the city: A big draw for students
May 16, 2011
The university’s Center for Social Concern unveiled a new student program last fall, not sure what reaction it would get. Here was the pitch: Spend the better part of the summer in Baltimore interning at a nonprofit community-based organization or city social service agency. The program had 25 slots. More than 200 students applied. “The […]
Marking a milestone
May 16, 2011
Members of the Johns Hopkins community celebrated a milestone in the construction of the Homewood campus’s Brody Learning Commons on Monday, May 9. The topping out ceremony, which included placing a beam that had been signed by students, faculty and staff into the building’s structure, marked the completion of the first phase of the project. […]
Engineering students wheel out their capstone projects
May 16, 2011
During two engineering design showcases last week, Whiting School students demonstrated that they had learned to think big—and, in some cases, think small. At events on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses, biomedical and mechanical engineering students described the many months they had spent brainstorming, designing and testing their prototypes. They also displayed and demonstrated […]
A congressional visit
May 16, 2011
Members of Maryland’s congressional delegation and senior Johns Hopkins leadership visited the East Baltimore Development Inc.’s New East Side redevelopment project last week to assess progress on the $1.8 billion 88-acre neighborhood revitalization effort just north of the Johns Hopkins medical campus. On hand were Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin and Reps. Elijah Cummings, […]
Cementing a home for bioethics
May 9, 2011
Three months after moving into its new home, the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is already seeing the benefits of bringing its faculty and staff under one roof. Institute Director Ruth Faden and Director of Administration Julia Chill beam with pride as they show off the wholly renovated interior of the former police station—originally […]