Category: Featured
Starring Role
March 7, 2011
Sixteen years ago, on March 2, 1995, the Astro-2 space shuttle mission—carrying not only the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope but also Johns Hopkins payload specialist Sam Durrance and mission specialist John Grunsfeld on his first flight—launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a two-week dedicated astronomy mission. Last Friday, some 35 members of that […]
Evolving Evergreen
February 28, 2011
Alice Warder Garrett possessed eclectic and somewhat eccentric tastes. Her home, the Gilded Age mansion called Evergreen, would consequently be regularly altered in design, decoration and function. Alice and her husband, John Work Garrett, one-time ambassador to Italy, transformed the mansion’s gymnasium into a private theater decorated by Leon Bakst, the famed Russian set and […]
Two-week French film festival opens on March 2 with ‘Paris’
February 28, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, marks the beginning of the second Tournees Festival of Contemporary French Cinema presented by the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. The free two-week festival, to be held on the Homewood campus, will begin with a screening of Paris, an ensemble film that follows a cast […]
Peabody Conservatory groups to take center stage in D.C.
February 28, 2011
A series of “Peabody in Washington” concerts is on the agenda this semester for three student groups from the Peabody Conservatory. This week, a student chamber ensemble called Trio Appassionata will be joined by musicians from the Shanghai Conservatory for a free concert at the Freer Gallery of Art, and the Peabody Quartet will perform in […]
A new home for lacrosse
February 21, 2011
For more than 100 years, Homewood Field has been the Yankee Stadium of college lacrosse: a comfortable nest for homestanding Blue Jays, a house of horrors for visiting teams. But eventually, even Yankee Stadium needs an upgrade. “We don’t stand on tradition alone,” university President Ronald J. Daniels said in announcing that a new facility, […]
Astrophysicist Riess wins the 2011 Einstein Medal
February 21, 2011
Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at The Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute, on Friday was awarded the Einstein Medal 2011 by the Albert Einstein Society of Bern, Switzerland. The society’s board of trustees recognized Riess for leadership in the High-z Supernova Search Team’s 1998 discovery that the expansion rate of the universe […]
Settling in for a ‘fireside chat’
February 21, 2011
President Ron Daniels sat down for a “fireside chat” with Homewood undergraduates last week as part of Charles Commons Connections, a program launched in 2006 to foster community at Johns Hopkins. The event was held at the Charles Commons residence hall’s Salon C, located behind the Nolan’s on 33rd restaurant. Daniels, dressed in jeans and […]
E2SHI: New acronym, big ambitions
February 14, 2011
Drawing on faculty expertise in environmental science and engineering, public health and other areas, The Johns Hopkins University has launched its Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Health Institute to promote research and education in topics ranging from green energy practices to climate change and related health issues. “This kind of research right now is distributed all […]
Something in Commons
February 14, 2011
Mike Yassa knows brain science, but caramel apples leave him in sticky knots. Yassa, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, wrestled with the treat at the Charles Commons Connections welcome back event on Feb. 1, his first official appearance as the Homewood residence hall’s new faculty in residence. “My caramel […]
Foreign Affairs Symposium to highlight global citizenship
February 14, 2011
The annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium at Johns Hopkins returns on Wednesday, Feb. 16, when former Sen. Chuck Hagel will be the first of 10 prominent speakers to visit the Homewood campus during the spring semester. Hagel’s talk at 7 p.m. in 110 Hodson Hall begins the series of topical lectures and panel discussions under […]