Category: In Brief
Four from JHU tapped for new mayor’s transition committees
February 8, 2010
Before being installed last week as Baltimore mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake selected four Johns Hopkins officials to serve on her transition committees. President Ronald J. Daniels and Philip Leaf, professor in the School of Public Health, were tapped for the Education and Youth Services Committee. Levi Watkins, professor in the School of Medicine, and Richard Bennett, […]
Republican leaders’ spouses make two Peabody stops
February 8, 2010
During President Obama’s meeting in Baltimore with Republican congressional leaders on Jan. 29, a delegation of Republican spouses took an “architectural highlights” tour of the city. Led by author and photographer Bill McAllen, whose book Spirit of Place: Baltimore’s Favorite Spaces was published a year ago, the group toured the George Peabody Library and visited […]
Homewood campus set to test emergency alert systems
February 8, 2010
Homewood Campus Safety and Security will conduct a test of the campus siren/public address system and the Johns Hopkins Emergency Alerts text messaging system at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9. The tests will be a full-scale simultaneous activation of both systems. The siren/PA system, which is activated by radio signal from the Homewood Communications […]
Date announced for 2010 JHMI Biomedical Career Fair
February 1, 2010
The JHMI Professional Development Office announced last week that it will host the fourth annual Biomedical Career Fair on Monday, March 1, on the School of Medicine’s Turner Concourse, East Baltimore campus. The event, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., is open to all JHMI graduate students, postdocs, alumni, faculty and staff. Among those […]
Watch those cans and bottles: RecycleMania competition is on
February 1, 2010
Johns Hopkins is once again competing in RecycleMania, a 10-week challenge for colleges and universities across the country to see who can recycle the most and reduce total waste. Last year JHU took first place in three categories against participating Maryland schools, and this year the event organizers want to beat what are known as […]
Theatre Hopkins announces productions for 2010 season
January 19, 2010
Theatre Hopkins, celebrating its 88th season, has announced that it will present two musicals in 2010 at the Swirnow Theater on the Homewood campus. Opening in February will be Follies: Concert Version and in June, the Maryland premiere of The Glorious Ones. The concert version of Follies, featuring Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award–winning score, with book […]
Men in Nursing to host talk on future of the profession
January 19, 2010
Michael Bleich, dean of the Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing, will give a presentation next week about the future of nursing. The event will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 26, in room 140 of the School of Nursing, with a reception to follow in the Carpenter Room. […]
Noted condensed matter physicist to give public lecture
January 11, 2010
A public lecture by noted condensed matter physicist and renowned speaker Philip Phillips of the University of Illinois will be the centerpiece of a three-day workshop to be hosted this week at Homewood by Johns Hopkins’ Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Study: Nonprofit job growth in Maryland defies recession
January 11, 2010
Despite the recession, nonprofit employment in Maryland increased by 2.7 percent in 2008, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies. By contrast, for-profit employment in Maryland decreased by 3.3 percent during this same period.
Peabody Jazz students, alumni to perform in Kawasaki, Japan
January 11, 2010
A sextet of Peabody Conservatory jazz students and alumni will depart for Japan tomorrow, Jan. 12, with Gary Thomas, director of Jazz Studies and the Richard and Elizabeth Case Endowed Professor in Jazz. The city of Kawasaki invited the group, billed as the Baltimore City Peabody Jazz Ensemble, for a week and a half of performing and sightseeing. Baltimore and Kawasaki have been sister cities for more than 30 years. The participants are alto saxophonists Daniel Cherouny, a senior, and Russell Kirk, a 2005 alumnus; double bassist Blake Meister, a 2008 graduate; guitarist Kevin Clark, a sophomore; pianist Jacob Silver, a 2009 alumnus and a Graduate Professional Diploma candidate; and drummer Daniel Marcellus, a 2006 graduate. They will appear with ensembles of Japanese jazz students and professionals in concerts at Senzoku Gakuen University, Kawasaki International Center and Showa University of Music.