Issue: 2012 April 16
Sequencing cancer mutations: There’s now an app for that
April 16, 2012
Using precise information about an individual’s genetic makeup is becoming increasingly routine for developing tailored treatments for breast, lung, colon and other cancers. But techniques used to identify meaningful gene mutations depend on analyzing sequences of both normal and mutant DNA in tumor samples, a process that can yield ambiguous results. Now, a team of […]
Theatre Arts and Studies Program sings Sondheim
April 16, 2012
The Johns Hopkins University Theatre Arts and Studies Program will present A Celebration: The Music of Stephen Sondheim during three performances this week in the John Astin Theatre in Homewood’s historic Merrick Barn. Curtain times are 8 p.m. on Friday, April 20, and Saturday, April 21, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 22. The show […]
HSO season finale features Concerto Competition winners
April 16, 2012
The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra will perform its season finale concert on Sunday, April 22. In addition to the monumental Symphony No. 1 by Johannes Brahms, the concert will feature performances by two Johns Hopkins undergraduates who are the co-winners of the 2012 Hopkins Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. Matthew Lochner will perform Camille Saint-Saens’ Piano Concerto […]
Cheers — April 16, 2012
April 16, 2012
BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER Constantine Lyketsos, professor and director of the Department of Psychiatry, has received the 2012 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry’s Distinguished Scientist Award. Lyketsos, also director of the Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment Center, is a lifetime member of the association, which strives to enhance the knowledge and practice standards in geriatric psychiatry. […]
Renowned patient advocate to give 19th Shallenberger Lecture
April 16, 2012
Myra Christopher, the Kathleen M. Foley Chair for Pain and Palliative Care at the Center for Practical Bioethics and a nationally renowned patient advocate, will deliver the 19th annual Shallenberger Lecture in Ethics at noon on Tuesday, April 17. The lecture will be held at The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Hurd Hall and is titled “Addressing […]
JHMI Shuttle stop relocated to Broadway and Monument
April 16, 2012
Because of ongoing construction projects and to ensure the safety of passengers, effective Monday, April 23, the JHMI stop for the Homewood-Peabody-JHMI Shuttle will relocate to Broadway at Monument Street. The shuttle route will change, and this will be the only stop on the East Baltimore campus for the foreseeable future. According to Ankur Ponda, […]
Last Peabody Symphony concert free for students
April 16, 2012
To boost student attendance at the Peabody Symphony Orchestra concert on April 21, the last of the season, free tickets are available for students from Johns Hopkins and other colleges and universities. Two graduate conducting majors, Stephen Mulligan and Blair Skinner, will conduct the concert, substituting for National Medal of Arts recipient James DePreist. The […]
SAIS to host conference on food supply, new technologies
April 16, 2012
A daylong conference titled Growing Food: New Places, New Technologies will be held at SAIS from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, as part of the school’s Year of Agriculture. The event will bring together experts from academia, government, international organizations and the private sector to discuss the challenge of feeding a growing […]
Poet Ron Padgett to give 15th Ringel Memorial Reading
April 16, 2012
The Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading celebrates its 15th season on Sunday, April 22, when eminent poet Ron Padgett will read from his work at 5 p.m. in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium. The event is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. The self-described son of an Oklahoma bootlegger, Padgett started […]
U.S. postmaster general to give Leaders + Legends Lecture
April 16, 2012
Patrick R. Donahoe, postmaster general and CEO of the United States Postal Service, will be the featured speaker for the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series on Wednesday, April 18. The event will take place at 7:30 a.m. in the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. Donahoe, whose remarks are titled […]