Category: Featured
Studying the city’s demographic transformation
December 19, 2011
While Baltimore continues to dwindle in population size, many neighborhoods with high ethnic and racial change are growing, triggered in part by a significant increase in the number of Hispanic and Asian residents, according to a study by 62 students in the Institute for Policy Studies’ Master of Public Policy program. For the annual Baltimore […]
Theater in Homewood’s Merrick Barn named for John Astin
December 12, 2011
Johns Hopkins University has honored John Astin by naming the recently renovated theater in the Merrick Barn after the noted actor and teacher. The naming took place Dec. 3 at an event celebrating the completion of renovations to the barn, and recognizing Astin’s 10-year anniversary of teaching, acting and directing at Johns Hopkins. Notable actor […]
The world, and its data, at their fingertips
December 12, 2011
With the room’s lights turned low, the projector screen in Stan Becker’s Population Health and Development class suddenly bursts alive with a detailed 2-D topographical map of the Earth. A Homewood undergraduate, remote in hand, zooms in on Southeast Asia like an animation culled from a National Geographic Channel special. With another click, cartoonlike icons […]
Cyclone sweeps the series
December 5, 2011
With the power of rubber bands, Walt Mayfield (hands up) and Khari Douglas (foreground), both first-year engineering students from Texas, won the annual Mechanical Engineering freshman design competition on Nov. 30 with their entry, the Texas Cyclone. For the project, part of Freshman Experiences in Mechanical Engineering, students could use up to six rubber bands […]
Lighting of the Quads
December 5, 2011
Members of the Johns Hopkins community gathered outside the Milton S. Eisenhower Library on a cool, clear November night for the Lighting of the Quads, an annual tradition that kicks off the holiday season at Homewood. The Nov. 30 ceremony included holiday musical performances by the Pep Band, the Sirens and the AllNighters before President […]
Space surgeons
December 5, 2011
Johns Hopkins engineers, recognized as experts in medical robotics, have turned their attention skyward to help NASA with a space dilemma: How can the agency fix valuable satellites that are breaking down or running out of fuel? Sending a human repair crew into space is costly, dangerous and sometimes not even possible for satellites in […]
80-plus years of the Woman’s Club
November 28, 2011
They aided the war effort in the 1940s, wrapped presents for returning veterans and, in more recent years, have supported local schools and awarded scholarships to Johns Hopkins students in multiple divisions. But let it be said, in their day, the members of the Woman’s Club of The Johns Hopkins University could throw one doozy […]
Scientists find evidence for subsurface ‘great lake’ on Europa
November 28, 2011
In a finding of significance in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have discovered locked inside the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes, an area that could represent a new potential habitat for life. In a Nov. […]
Restoration begins on Homewood Museum’s iconic portico
November 28, 2011
Homewood Museum, the landmark Federal-period home whose grounds in the early 1900s became the Johns Hopkins University campus, is undergoing a significant restoration effort. The work will address the south portico, a prominent and iconic element of the building’s architecture that influences the look of many other buildings on the campus, notably Gilman Hall and, […]
Imagining their new community school
November 14, 2011
On a beautiful fall day last week, students of East Baltimore Community School walked five blocks to the site of their new school building, scheduled to open in August 2013. Students posted their dreams for the future, which were written on 3 x 5 cards, on the fence surrounding the site and performed a ribbon-cutting […]