Category: Featured
Lights spark season of celebration
December 6, 2010
An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the names of the winners of the gingerbread house contest. We regret the error. After listening to performances by a cappella groups, students sipped hot chocolate on a brisk, windy (and slightly damp) Wednesday evening and watched as President Ron Daniels, Provost Lloyd Minor and Sarah Steinberg, […]
Building a better mousetrap car
December 6, 2010
The freshman mechanical engineering students who competed last week in what was called a “Special Delivery” contest faced some very special challenges. The 18 three-member teams had to build devices powered by only two mousetraps and six rubber bands, supplied by their teacher, that could deliver a credit card–size “payload” past obstacles and across a […]
Growing the family
November 29, 2010
For 16 struggling students at Baltimore’s Academy for College and Career Exploration, their family and support system just grew eightfold. The students, all freshmen at the Hampden-area high school, could use the assistance. Most have low grades, have failed several classes and have grave attendance issues. Without intervention, many are in danger of failing out. […]
HUT, 20 years later
November 29, 2010
Twenty years ago this week, the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope was launched into space aboard NASA’s space shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., as part of the 12-day Astro-1 astronomy mission. The telescope was conceived, designed and built by Johns Hopkins University astronomers and engineers to perform astronomical observations in the […]
Sleep in or head out? Here’s the snowdown
November 29, 2010
Hit the snooze button or dig the snow boots out of the closet? That’s what Johns Hopkins students, faculty and staff want to know when their clock radios awaken them early on winter mornings with news of an overnight storm. Johns Hopkins rarely closes for snowstorms, even when local school systems and other colleges do. […]
APL-led atmospheric mission extended for fourth time
November 29, 2010
Nine years after beginning its unprecedented look at the gateway between Earth and space and collecting more data on the upper atmosphere than any other satellite, NASA’s Timed (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) mission has been extended yet again to continue to study the influences of the sun and humans on our upper atmosphere. […]
Q&A with School of Medicine’s Ed Miller
November 15, 2010
This is part of a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Edward D. Miller, the 13th dean of the School of Medicine and inaugural CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has symmetrically entered the 13th year of his tenure. The university’s currently longest-serving dean […]
Students want to give back more
November 15, 2010
Johns Hopkins students give back, and want to give some more, according to a survey conducted earlier this year on the Homewood campus. Nearly 72 percent of students surveyed said that they participate in some form of community service. Nearly the same number wanted their involvement in the community to increase. The Center for Social […]
Historic American Indian photos on display at Evergreen
November 15, 2010
Opening this week at Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library is the exhibition “Edward S. Curtis: Photogravures from The North American Indian,” which will run through March 27. The museum will host an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 17, with curatorial remarks at 7 p.m. The opening is free, […]
Johns Hopkins to help develop medical school and teaching hospital
November 8, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medicine International have signed an agreement with Academic Medical Centre and an associate company of Turiya to help Malaysia develop its first fully integrated private four-year graduate medical school and teaching hospital. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Deputy […]