Category: Featured
Dean Yash Gupta of the Carey Business School
May 17, 2010
Yash P. Gupta laid out an audacious vision when he became the inaugural dean of the Carey Business School on Jan. 1, 2008. In short, he wanted Johns Hopkins to reinvent the model of business education. In doing so, he said, the new Carey Business School would become one of the most innovative and prominent […]
Evergreen Museum launches first exhibition on Baltimore-born decorator Billy Baldwin
May 17, 2010
Baltimore’s Billy Baldwin, a landmark exhibition organized by Johns Hopkins’ Evergreen Museum & Library, will explore Baltimore-born William “Billy” Baldwin (1903–1983), the internationally recognized interior decorator and tastemaker who was anointed “dean of American decorating” by the legendary Albert Hadley. The exhibition—the first to celebrate Baldwin’s influential five-decade career—opens with a reception from 6 to […]
Engineering students seek to solve real-world challenges
May 10, 2010
During two engineering design showcases held last week on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses, many Whiting School students demonstrated that they were aiming for the stars. Sometimes, literally: One team built mechanical legs to help a future spacecraft land gently on the moon. Other teams targeted the moon figuratively by designing devices that may […]
Charting ocean currents with a cutting-edge supercomputer
May 10, 2010
This is part of an occasional series on Johns Hopkins research funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If you have a study you would like to be considered for inclusion, contact Lisa De Nike at lde@jhu.edu. Using a $736,000 grant administered through the federal stimulus act, a Johns Hopkins earth scientist […]
Time out with: Beth Stewart, research coordinator, soprano and entrepreneur
May 3, 2010
When the Baltimore Opera Co. dissolved last year, some might have wondered when Charm City would next hear an aria from Carmen, Madame Butterfly, La bohème or another such classic. Turns out, the answer was very soon, thanks to one enterprising Johns Hopkins employee. Beth Stewart, a research coordinator for the School of Medicine’s Pediatric […]
JHU students win $20,000 grand prize in Wharton competition
May 3, 2010
A Johns Hopkins student team that developed a system to make spinal surgery more successful in patients with osteoporosis has won the $20,000 Michelson Grand Prize in the 2010 Wharton Business Plan Competition at the University of Pennsylvania. Since it was launched in 1998, this major competition has drawn more than 150 student teams annually. […]
Dean Martha Hill of the School of Nursing
April 26, 2010
This is the fourth in a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Martha Hill, a Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1980, became dean of the School of Nursing in July 2002 after a one-year role as interim dean. A tireless and passionate champion […]
Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards
April 19, 2010
In research, the journey from point A to point B sometimes leads the individual to C, D or E. The trip, however, typically begins with a question. Here are a few: Does sustained listening to an MP3 player via earphones have a negative impact on hearing? What mathematical secrets can be gleaned from a Bulgarian […]
A personal, targeted gift for Peabody
April 19, 2010
A former Peabody student has prepared a $2 million scholarship bequest to the Conservatory that aims to open musical doors for those impeded by intolerance. Tristan Rhodes, who spent less than three years studying piano and conducting at the Peabody Institute during the late 1960s, said recently that although he did not face antagonistic repercussions […]
Social vs. dependent drinking: Is the difference in the brain?
April 19, 2010
Why some people can enjoy a glass of wine with dinner or a few beers at a ballgame with no ill effects and others escalate their drinking and become dependent remains one of medicine’s baffling mysteries and a major public health concern. Using a $1 million stimulus-funded grant from the National Institutes of Health, a […]