Category: In Brief
SAP upgrade scheduled for May; training plans TBA
January 11, 2010
In May, SAP will be upgraded to take advantage of future improvements and maintain SAP product support. The upgrade will primarily affect the look and feel of the screens in the shopping cart transaction but will not change functionality or impact business processes. Additionally, R/3 will be renamed to ECC, an acronym for ERP Central Component.
APL engineer scores with song in ‘The Blind Side’
January 11, 2010
About a third of the way through the new hit movie The Blind Side, about Baltimore Ravens rookie lineman Michael Oher, some APL staffers might be hearing a familiar voice. The hip-hop song playing when Oher returns to the rough neighborhood where he grew up is by Ashley Llorens, an engineer in APL’s National Security and Technology Department.
Record numbers apply early decision to Johns Hopkins
January 4, 2010
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions recently sent out early decision acceptance letters and e-mails to 494 students, choosing the first members of the class of 2013 from the largest early decision applicant pool in the university’s history.
Carey Business School plans tech commercialization program
January 4, 2010
Starting in February, the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School will be offering at the university’s Montgomery County Campus a new technology commercialization program titled Innovate!
Gwen Boyd of APL to receive nomination by Obama
January 4, 2010
The White House has announced that President Barack Obama intends to nominate Gwen Boyd of Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory to the board of trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
H1N1 vaccinations now available to all JHU employees
December 14, 2009
Any full-time university faculty or staff member and any part-time university employee for whom Johns Hopkins is the primary employer is now eligible to be vaccinated against H1N1 flu, regardless of age or chronic medical conditions. The vaccine is free to all those showing an employee ID. Vaccinations are available at the Homewood campus office […]
Graveside remembrance of Mr. Hopkins to be held Dec. 24
December 14, 2009
All members of the Johns Hopkins community are invited to the annual graveside observance honoring the institutions’ founder. The brief, informal ceremony will take place at Johns Hopkins’ grave in Green Mount Cemetery at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 24, the 136th anniversary of his death. Mr. Hopkins left $7 million in his will, at […]
MSE Library implements changes during exam period
December 7, 2009
The Homewood campus’s Eisenhower Library experienced unprecedented demand for seating during the fall 2009 semester. To better accommodate Johns Hopkins students during reading period and exams, the library will be open to visitors only from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Friday, Dec. 4, through Friday, Dec. 18.
Weekly Peabody chamber music concerts planned for East Balto.
December 7, 2009
Beginning Jan. 20, a weekly series of chamber music concerts featuring Peabody students, alumni and faculty will be held during the spring semester at noon on Wednesdays in Turner Auditorium on the East Baltimore campus.
Peabody Consort collaboration to be broadcast on NPR show
December 7, 2009
If Music Be the Food of Love, a collaboration between the Peabody Consort, led by faculty artist Mark Cudek, and actors from the Indiana Repertory Theatre, will be broadcast the week of Dec. 7 to 13 on National Public Radio’s nationally syndicated program Harmonia.