Category: Featured
Nonprofits in city get greening tips
August 2, 2010
Local organizations that assist those in need are getting some collegial Earth-friendly support this summer. The Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore City recently embarked on an effort to green area nonprofits while at the same time educating students on sustainability measures and the vital role that these socially focused organizations play in the community. The […]
Q&A with Peabody’s Jeffrey Sharkey
August 2, 2010
When Jeffrey Sharkey became director of Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute, he remarked that it should aim to be one of the top two or three music schools in the country and an institution of international importance. Sharkey said that many of the “ingredients” were there to make that happen. He noted the school’s breadth, which […]
APL breaks ground for spacecraft integration facility
August 2, 2010
Officials from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, along with government and construction industry representatives, broke ground July 16 for a new spacecraft assembly and testing facility on the APL campus in Laurel, Md. Designated as Building 30, the $30 million facility is scheduled to open by fall 2012. The 47,500-square-foot structure will include […]
Students design early-labor detector to prevent premature births
August 2, 2010
The birth of a baby is usually a joyous event, but when a child is born too early, worrisome complications can occur, including serious health problems for the baby and steep medical bills for the family. To address this, Johns Hopkins graduate students and their faculty adviser have invented a system to pick up very […]
Home again in Gilman Hall
July 19, 2010
If these Gilman walls could talk, they would have said, “Welcome home.” After more than two years away, the School of Arts and Sciences’ humanities faculty moved back into the extensively renovated Gilman Hall earlier this month. The building was re-populated from the top down, starting with the Department of German and Romance Languages and […]
Caroline Laguerre-Brown named vice provost for institutional equity
July 19, 2010
Caroline Laguerre-Brown, who for the past four years has worked to strengthen fairness, inclusion and diversity guidelines, programs and initiatives at The Johns Hopkins University, has been named vice provost for institutional equity. Laguerre-Brown, formerly associate vice provost for institutional equity, succeeds Ray Gillian, who retired last month. Her appointment was effective July 1. Provost […]
Hartwell grant supports innovative early-vision scanner
July 19, 2010
Of all the disorders of vision, amblyopia—sometimes referred to as “lazy eye”—may be one of the most frustrating for clinicians and public health officials. It is both relatively common, affecting as many as 380,000 children in the United States alone, and relatively easy to address if treatment is initiated before age 3. But few children […]
‘Hubble repairman’ now a Johns Hopkins research professor
July 19, 2010
NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld has walked in space eight times and logged more than 800 hours floating in that deep, dark void over the course of five space flights, including three to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Now, he is about to explore a new frontier: The Johns Hopkins University. On July 1, the man […]
Carey Business School’s first global MBA class takes shape
July 6, 2010
When Johns Hopkins University launched a business school in 2007, the smart money reckoned on an entirely new kind of MBA program. The designers of the program then went to work and proved the wisdom of the smart money. In the Johns Hopkins traditions of service and international outreach, the program was created so that […]
An oasis for Nursing students
July 6, 2010
The opening of the School of Nursing’s Anne M. Pinkard Building in 1998 was a milestone in the school’s history, as it was the first structure dedicated solely to nursing education at Johns Hopkins. The goal was to put everyone under one roof. The result: The space filled immediately. Since then, the School of Nursing […]