Category: Featured
APL sets its sights on Titan’s seas
May 9, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is managing a project to explore the organic seas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of three proposals selected by NASA last week as candidates for the agency’s next Discovery Program mission. The Titan Mare Explorer, or TiME, would perform the first direct inspection of an ocean environment beyond […]
Artificial grammar learning reveals inborn language sense
May 9, 2011
Parents know the unparalleled joy and wonder of hearing a beloved child’s first words turn quickly into whole sentences and then babbling paragraphs. But how human children acquire language—which is so complex and has so many variations—remains largely a mystery. Fifty years ago, linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky proposed an answer: Humans are able to […]
A fresh look for JHU Press’ historic building
May 9, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University Press recently completed an extensive two-year renovation of its historic main building, an 1897 former church in Charles Village where the Press has been located since 1993. The project, by Read & Company Architects of Baltimore, reconfigured offices, redesigned the front and back entrance lobbies, and created new meeting space on […]
Charles Street renovation ready to go
May 2, 2011
Baltimore City’s Department of Transportation has green-lighted a major reconstruction and beautification of the North Charles Street corridor near the university’s Homewood campus—a project more than 10 years in the planning stages. The three-year $25 million endeavor will serve many goals, primarily to enhance pedestrian safety, foster more rational traffic patterns, upgrade 100-year-old infrastructure under […]
The field surgeon
May 2, 2011
Early last month, Andrew Cosgarea stood in the rain hoping to be invisible. He prefers it that way. Dressed in a black Blue Jays rain jacket and tan Johns Hopkins baseball cap, he watched as the men’s lacrosse team took on the Great Danes of Albany on a chilly, rainy Friday night on Homewood Field. […]
Shaping the future
May 2, 2011
Sonja Brookins Santelises, chief academic officer for Baltimore City Schools, speaking at the Johns Hopkins School of Education’s ‘Shaping the Future’ series last Monday. Santelises discussed how new teaching standards and assessments recently adopted by the Maryland State Board of Education would affect classroom teachers in Baltimore City. The event was the third in the […]
Bates president named new head of Center for Talented Youth
April 25, 2011
Elaine Tuttle Hansen, president of Bates College and an accomplished scholar, educator and leader, has been named executive director of The Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. Hansen will step down from the presidency of the Maine college in July after nine years and start her new position Aug. 1. She will succeed Lea […]
At journey’s end
April 25, 2011
Before Karen Hong left for college, she and her parents didn’t discuss sex—at all. Hong, in fact, recalls the many awkward moments in the presence of her parents when television or movie characters just kissed on screen. Bedroom scenes? Off-limits. However, Hong’s interest in sexual health issues as a public health studies major at Johns […]
Getting the word out
April 25, 2011
In Jessica Anya Blau’s well-received debut novel, a 14-year-old girl named Jamie must navigate the choppy waters of adolescence amid a backdrop of sex, cigarettes, surfers, tanning and free-spirited parents who unabashedly sit poolside au naturel. In the book, set in Santa Barbara during the summer of 1976, Jamie rebels against her parents’ inflated open-mindedness […]
Gregory M. Britton appointed editorial director at JHU Press
April 25, 2011
Gregory M. Britton, who has led the publishing program at the Getty Museum and related institutions since 2008, has been appointed editorial director at the Johns Hopkins University Press. When he joins the staff on May 16, Britton becomes a senior member of the Press’ executive committee and assumes leadership of the Books Division’s editorial […]