Category: Featured
Fleisher Scholars Fund endowed with $1 million gift
March 4, 2012
Having launched the Leon Fleisher Scholars Fund with a gift of $250,000, Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker have now contributed an additional $750,000 to the endowed scholarship fund at Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Conservatory, where Fleisher has taught since 1959. The agreement was signed by the well-known Baltimore philanthropists on Feb. 27. “This wonderful act […]
‘Afro-American’ newspaper digital archive project completed
February 27, 2012
An online database describing the archival materials held by the Afro-American newspaper has been launched. The three-year Johns Hopkins project—administered jointly by the Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Africana Studies—was funded with a $476,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The archive’s home […]
First in space
February 27, 2012
Like most people her age, Jessica Noviello uses Facebook to announce exciting developments in her life. So when the 19-year-old sophomore from Smithtown, N.Y., learned that she had become the first student approved for a new minor course of study at The Johns Hopkins University, she proclaimed it via social media. “I’m now a space […]
Johns Hopkins senior Hannah Joo wins Churchill Scholarship
February 20, 2012
Hannah Joo, a Johns Hopkins University senior from Redmond, Wash., has been selected as a Churchill Scholar by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States. The Churchill Scholarship is awarded to 14 students nationwide who have demonstrated a capacity to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the sciences, engineering or mathematics by completing […]
Two from JHU awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships
February 20, 2012
Astrophysicist Brice Menard and biomedical engineer Feilim Mac Gabhann of The Johns Hopkins University have won 2012 Sloan Research Fellowships, which seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise by offering each a $50,000 grant, distributed over a two-year period. The two are among 126 young scientists and economists to […]
Training the Twitterati
February 20, 2012
Margaret “Meg” Chisolm loves a good tweet. The owner of two Twitter accounts, Chisolm plugs in whenever time allows to share news or offer some thoughts. In a world awash in social media, the existence of another tweeter or blogger comes as no shock. What might surprise some, however, is the fact that Chisolm is […]
A rare look inside the Amish world
February 13, 2012
From a distance, the Amish appear caught in 18th-century amber. In the days of iPads and hybrid cars, the members of this Christian order cling to their plain dress, bonnets, long beards, and horse and buggy rides. The truth about this insular group, however, has more shades of gray than the London skyline, says Donald […]
Peabody students to sing in two chamber operas at Theatre Project
February 6, 2012
It will be Morocco one week and Egypt the next at Baltimore’s Theatre Project, as Peabody Conservatory students take the stage to sing in two chamber operas: Dominick Argento’s surrealistic one-act of 1971, Postcard From Morocco, and George Frideric Handel’s Italian epic of some 250 years earlier, Giulio Cesare. Set just before World War I, […]
Flight Plan
February 6, 2012
To improve the next generation of bug-size flying machines, a Johns Hopkins engineering team has been aiming high-speed video cameras at some of the prettiest insects on the planet. By figuring out how butterflies flutter among flowers with amazing grace and agility, the researchers hope to help small airborne robots mimic these maneuvers. U.S. defense […]
Please do touch the art
January 30, 2012
It’s the first rule at any art museum: Do not touch the artifacts. Except at this museum and at this one time. At the Touch and the Enjoyment of Sculpture: Exploring the Appeal of Renaissance Statuettes exhibition at The Walters Art Museum, open now through April 15, visitors are invited to disregard that decree and […]