Category: Featured
Egyptian art arrives from Eton College
October 11, 2010
A renowned collection of Egyptian decorative art from Eton College in Windsor, England, has arrived at The Johns Hopkins University for long-term research and display in the university’s Archaeological Museum. Glazed blue ceramic vessels, ritual amulets and a gilded mummy mask are among the approximately 1,900 pieces of small-scale artifacts on loan for 15 years from […]
President’s Day of Service
October 11, 2010
Nearly 900 volunteers from the Johns Hopkins community joined President Ron Daniels and his wife, Joanne Rosen, on Saturday, Oct. 2, to collectively give back to Baltimore. Organized by the Center for Social Concern, the second President’s Day of Service-whose theme was “One Hopkins, One Baltimore”-featured more than 40 projects across the city. Volunteers painted […]
RD2.5K Presidential Fun Run
October 11, 2010
The Homewood campus sees its fair share of running—to class before the professor arrives, for a meal before the dining hall closes, to a shuttle stop before the bus gets there. But on Sunday, Oct. 3, scores of faculty, staff and students ran just for fun—and to keep up with President Ron Daniels, who inaugurated […]
Johns Hopkins first in R&D for 31st year
October 4, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University performed $1.85 billion in medical, science and engineering research in fiscal 2009, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total research and development spending for the 31st year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking. The university also once again ranked first on the NSF’s separate […]
Learning from ‘The Wire’
October 4, 2010
Though it’s located in Baltimore City, the verdant and well-manicured Homewood campus seems a world away from the gritty drug corners and public housing projects that form the backdrop for the groundbreaking, critically acclaimed five-season HBO drama The Wire. But inside a classroom in Hodson Hall, a group of undergraduates is immersing itself in that […]
Six-city tour: Here’s how JHU is Rising to the Challenge
October 4, 2010
In his 2009 inaugural address, university President Ronald J. Daniels outlined how Johns Hopkins must “galvanize its intellectual and moral strengths” for the betterment of the community and the world. In addition to educating future generations, the nation’s elite universities, he said, have a responsibility to devote their energies to the greatest problems of the […]
Johns Hollywood: We play Harvard in the Facebook movie
October 4, 2010
An undergrad with a mop of hair and a heavy backpack is running across an idyllic quad at nightfall. As the scene unfolds on the big screen, the campus’s glowing lampposts, red brick pavers and white columns look really familiar, even though a subtitle says “Harvard University Fall 2003.” That’s because what we’re really looking […]
A 2010 view of an interconnected world
September 27, 2010
Author Wes Moore will lead off the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium with a talk on Wednesday, Sept. 29, in Shriver Hall Auditorium on the Homewood campus. A reception in the Clipper Room will follow the event. The lecture is the first of seven events making up this year’s symposium, The Global Network: America’s Changing […]
Helping hands from Hopkins
September 27, 2010
A large convoy of Johns Hopkins affiliates will venture out on foot and bus from the Homewood campus on Saturday to collectively give back to Baltimore. Nearly 900 students, staff and faculty are registered to participate in the second President’s Day of Service, a one-day event featuring more than 40 service projects across the city. In […]
VP Biden holds stimulus roundtable with university presidents
September 27, 2010
Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels was one of six university heads who met at the White House with Vice President Joe Biden on Sept. 21 at a roundtable that Biden convened to draw attention to the $18 billion in stimulus money that is going to university research. In remarks made at the open portion of […]