Category: Featured
2011 Arts Innovation Program grants announced
November 8, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University has awarded approximately $24,000 in grants to students and faculty to stimulate new courses in the arts and other arts-related efforts on the Homewood campus, said Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums. Initiated in 2006, the Arts Innovation Program offers funding to faculty to create new courses in […]
Young social entrepreneur makes spare minutes matter
November 8, 2010
Jacob Colker, a graduate student in the Communications in Contemporary Society program in the Krieger School’s Advanced Academic Programs, is among the first group of young social entrepreneurs to be honored by the Rolex Awards for Enterprise: Young Laureates Programme. On Thursday, Nov. 11, Colker and four other winners will be feted for their dedication […]
Where does Johns Hopkins go from here?
November 1, 2010
A who’s who of administrative and volunteer leadership from across the Johns Hopkins enterprise recently took part in a landmark daylong event to help chart the future course for the university. The Johns Hopkins Volunteer Summit, held Oct. 22 at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel, convened more than 350 Johns Hopkins leaders—including deans and directors, trustees, members […]
Gilman, past and present
November 1, 2010
More than 400 people turned out Saturday evening, Oct. 23, to celebrate the rededication of the newly renovated Gilman Hall, a $73 million restoration project that blends original features such as the building’s distinctive stained glass windows with more modern additions such as an auditorium and screening room. The event, attended by trustees, university administrators, […]
Career re-entry grant for women goes to Johns Hopkins physicist
November 1, 2010
As a young Russian physicist doing her training in Stuttgart, Germany, Natalia Drichko envisioned a career that included research on unusual superconductivity and eventually becoming a university professor there. Her plans did not include meeting an American scientist, getting married and moving to the United States. But that is exactly what happened. Now an associate […]
Q&A with Katherine Newman of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
October 25, 2010
This is part of a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Even before she rolled up her sleeves as dean, Katherine S. Newman began thinking about a long-range vision for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences that would focus on the quality […]
A space switch on land
October 25, 2010
With help from a $1.3 million federal stimulus grant from the National Science Foundation, Johns Hopkins researchers are about to build a powerful energy-efficient computing center in a house-sized room that once served as the mission control center for a NASA astrophysics satellite. The transformation of room 156 of the Bloomberg Center for Physics and […]
Getting the green message out
October 25, 2010
Students, staff and faculty lined up in front of Homewood’s Levering Hall last Wednesday to play a game of guess the water: bottled or filtered tap. Many guessed wrong or had trouble discerning the differences, an uncertainty that only bolstered the Students for Environmental Action group’s point that bottled water—no matter how stylish the package […]
Whiting School of Engineering students take a Jhpiego field trip
October 18, 2010
Johns Hopkins University engineering students are helping design biomedical solutions for health care problems in the developing world as part of a unique partnership with Jhpiego, a global health nonprofit and Johns Hopkins affiliate working to prevent needless deaths of women and families. The 15 students, all enrolled in the one-year graduate program of the […]
This is your brain on art
October 11, 2010
The classic Led Zeppelin track Stairway to Heaven, FM dial well-worn as it is, still elicits the desire to turn up the volume, particularly just before guitarist Jimmy Page’s signature solo. The listener lets Page’s effortless plucking wash over him, eyes instinctively close to concentrate on the notes. The sudden urge to air drum or […]