Category: Featured
New interface launched for searching JHU libraries collection
March 28, 2011
Students and faculty returning from spring break will notice something different when they get back into the swing of their research. Catalyst, a new search interface, was launched on March 18. The tool, several years in the making, is an open source project and was developed at Johns Hopkins by programmers and librarians from across […]
‘Baltimore, Film and the Arts’ panel kicks off film festival
March 28, 2011
The 14th annual student-run Johns Hopkins Film Fest returns to the Homewood campus on Thursday, March 31, with a special panel discussion, “Film Fest Forum: Baltimore, Film and the Arts,” with Film and Media Studies lecturer and filmmaker Matthew Porterfield, film and video artist Jimmy Joe Roche, multimedia artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrom, musician/photographer Andrew Laumann […]
Messenger begins historic orbit around Mercury
March 21, 2011
At 9:10 p.m. on Thursday, March 17, engineers in the Messenger Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory received the anticipated radiometric signals confirming nominal burn shutdown and successful insertion of the Messenger probe into orbit around the planet Mercury. The spacecraft rotated back to Earth by 9:45 p.m. and started […]
CTY: Math, minds and a milestone
March 21, 2011
President Barack Obama, in his January State of the Union address, challenged Americans, saying, “We need to teach our kids that it’s not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.” Two Johns Hopkins events—a major math education symposium and a ceremony honoring the […]
Residencies at the end of the rainbow
March 21, 2011
The fourth-year medical students may not have needed the luck of the Irish on March 17, but many wore green and crossed their fingers as they opened envelopes that contained the answer to where they will begin their careers as doctors. From the many smiles, shrieks and tears of joy that followed, the majority got […]
University taps 17 as inaugural Gilman Scholars
March 14, 2011
President Ronald J. Daniels and Provost Lloyd B. Minor have tapped 17 eminent Johns Hopkins faculty and professional staff members from across the divisions to serve as the inaugural group of Gilman Scholars, a prestigious designation. The honor is named for Daniel Coit Gilman, Johns Hopkins’ visionary first president, who was interested in establishing a […]
Trustees adopt changes in governance
March 14, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University board of trustees last week passed governance changes with the goal of ensuring that its arrangements are “best in class” and capable of protecting and nurturing the university’s academic missions in today’s rapidly changing environment. The changes were made to enhance the board’s overall performance, level of accountability, and focus and […]
JHU and NUS to offer world’s first international joint degree in music
March 14, 2011
The Johns Hopkins University and the National University of Singapore have signed an agreement to launch a joint bachelor of music degree program starting in the 2011–2012 academic year. Offered jointly by the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins and the NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, it will be the first and only international […]
Mp3 says: Walk like a zombie
March 14, 2011
Dozens of Johns Hopkins students took part in a high-tech game of Simon Says last Saturday on the Homewood campus. Dubbed the Mp3 Experience, the game had the participants download to their Mp3 players identical—and purposefully silly—instructions that they had to follow. At an assigned time, the students walked out of their residence halls and […]
CNN star to send off JHU grads
March 7, 2011
Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN’s flagship international affairs program and one of the most influential political commentators of his day, will be the featured speaker at this year’s university commencement ceremony, to be held on Thursday, May 26, on Homewood Field. The Indian-American journalist hosts CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and also serves as editor […]