Issue: 2012 April 16
Attacca Quartet to play Evergreen April 21
April 16, 2012
Evergreen Museum & Library will conclude its 2011–12 Music at Evergreen concert series on Saturday, April 21, with a 3 p.m. performance by the Attacca String Quartet in the museum’s Bakst Theatre. Featured on the program will be Haydn’s String Quartet No. 67 in F major, Op. 77, No. 2, Hob.III:82 (Lobkowitz), Janacek’s String Quartet […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Building a legacy
April 16, 2012
In 1875, the newly formed Johns Hopkins Hospital board of trustees selected John Shaw Billings to spearhead construction of the hospital that would bear the name of the prominent Baltimore merchant and banker who had left a $7 million bequest that would also fund the creation of The Johns Hopkins University. Billings, a former Union […]
A week to be green at JHU
April 16, 2012
The naked eye may not see it, but Johns Hopkins has turned several shades of green of late. Call it Earth-friendly higher education. Since 2005, the university has reduced its water consumption by 114,070 gallons annually, even while expanding in size in both population and number of buildings, and recently surpassed its goal of recycling […]