Category: Featured
Spring Provost’s Lecture Series announced
February 7, 2011
Embryologist and science enthusiast Steve Farber will kick off the spring schedule of the Provost’s Lecture Series, launched last spring to spread the wealth of academic excellence at Johns Hopkins among its campuses. Farber, a principal investigator with the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Embryology and an adjunct associate professor in the Krieger School […]
Egyptian demonstrations change plans of traveling JHU affiliates
February 7, 2011
Twenty-four Johns Hopkins affiliates working or studying in Egypt fled the country last week—many of them having to abandon their plans—when demonstrations marred by violence broke out in protest against the government. In all, five undergraduates, eight graduate students, one alumnus, one faculty member, four staff members, four family members and one other affiliate left […]
CEO of IBM kicks off yearlong lecture series at his alma mater
February 7, 2011
Sam Palmisano, the chairman and chief executive officer of IBM, and a 1973 graduate and former trustee of Johns Hopkins, returned to his alma mater last week to launch a yearlong lecture series celebrating his company’s 100th anniversary. In a speech in Homewood’s Gilman Hall, Palmisano, who grew up in Baltimore and attended Calvert Hall […]
Simulating worst-case scenarios
January 31, 2011
What promises to be one of the nation’s most advanced computer simulation and modeling centers is taking shape on the university’s Mount Washington campus. The Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences is being launched by Joshua M. Epstein. A former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Epstein […]
More global health opps for students
January 31, 2011
Last March, President Ronald J. Daniels announced an initiative to let more Johns Hopkins students pursue international public health experiences. To jump-start the initiative, the President’s Office helped fund the creation of Johns Hopkins global health awards, travel grants for students in all divisions and in all disciplines, nearly a quarter of them designated for […]
A neighborly visit
January 31, 2011
Roland Park Place residents were among the first to explore the Homewood campus’s redesigned Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, which reopened to the public in December. Thirty-five members of the nearby continuing care retirement community visited last Tuesday, one of whom was Carl Christ, an emeritus professor of economics at Johns Hopkins. The residents, photographed here […]
Libraries in the information age
January 24, 2011
Winston Tabb likes a challenge, and he’s OK with change. Tabb became Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and director of the Sheridan Libraries in September 2002. Since his arrival at Johns Hopkins, he has accepted additional assignments, as dean of the university’s museums and as head of a number of arts initiatives. As Sheridan Dean, […]
APL ‘weatherman’ mines data for use by Lab and others
January 24, 2011
Rich Giannola’s weather interest is more than a backyard hobby. An atmospheric scientist in the Global Engagement Department at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, he not only operates a manual weather station at home but has also maintained APL’s automated weather station and related website since both were established in 1996. The APL station, […]
Hawk’s tale
January 18, 2011
You thought our Blue Jays were tough. An adult female red-tailed hawk—who, along with her mate, has enjoyed a celebrity status on the Homewood campus—is poised to make a full recovery following a calamitous collision with a Milton S. Eisenhower Library window in mid-November. The winged creature has some Johns Hopkins animal enthusiasts to thank. […]
Johns Hopkins Medicine cores have new online hub
January 10, 2011
The cores have a hub. Johns Hopkins Medicine’s ever-evolving assortment of “core” research facilities and services—one of the most comprehensive and advanced core sets in the country—can now be accessed through a single online portal. The new Web tool, dubbed the Hopkins Core Conduit, is designed to help researchers navigate and identify Johns Hopkins core […]