Issue: 2012 April 23
Peabody composer Puts wins Pulitzer Prize for ‘Silent Night’
April 23, 2012
The opera Silent Night begins in an opera house, where a duet is being sung in German by a man and a woman in 18th-century costume. But this isn’t a work by Mozart; it’s a passage written by Kevin Puts in the style of Mozart, soon to be stopped short by an announcement that Germany […]
Calendar — April 23, 2012
April 23, 2012
COLLOQUIA Tues., April 24, 4 p.m. “The Dwelling Science: An Anthropology of the Otherwise,” an Anthropology colloquium with Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University. 404 Macaulay. HW Tues., April 24, 4:15 p.m. “Multilayer Light Harvesting Arrays for Molecular-Based Solar Cells,” a Chemistry colloquium with Peter Dinolfo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., April 25, 3:30 p.m. […]
JHU profs named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 23, 2012
A yeast geneticist and an economist at The Johns Hopkins University are among 220 “thinkers and doers” in the 2012 class of new fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced last week. With the election of Jef Boeke, a professor of molecular biology and genetics in the School of Medicine, and […]
Community service matchmaking
April 23, 2012
Michelle Rozo, a third-year doctoral student in biology in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, says that she chose Johns Hopkins in part because of its MInDS (Mentoring to Inspire Diversity in Science) program, an outreach effort that, among other activities, encourages K-12 and undergraduate students to pursue a career in science. Rozo says […]
Student teams to compete for JH Business Plan prize money
April 23, 2012
The nationally recognized Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition, hosted by the Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Leadership Education, provides an opportunity for students to take a novel idea or innovative technology and develop a business plan based around it. Starting with a concept, students build an understanding of their target market, analyze potential […]
Undersec of state to discuss Open Government Partnership
April 23, 2012
Maria Otero, undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy and human rights, will speak at SAIS at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, about “The Open Government Partnership: A Progress Report.” Otero, a SAIS graduate, has taken a leading role at the State Department in launching and steering the OGP, a new multilateral initiative that […]
JHU Press staff, Charles Village students produce literary journal
April 23, 2012
Since the fall of 2011, volunteers from the staff of the Johns Hopkins University Press have been working with seventh- and eighth-grade students at the Village Learning Place, a community center near the Press’ offices in Charles Village, to plan, write, edit, design and publish a literary journal. The first edition of the journal, proudly […]
Free online tool estimates youth exposure to radio school ads
April 23, 2012
A new online tool from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health determines the extent of exposure to radio alcohol advertisements among young people ages 12 to 20 in 75 different media markets. This free and user-friendly tool, available at camy.org/radiotool, is the first service to provide […]
Carey School plans workshop on Safe Space Sticker Program
April 23, 2012
The Committee for Diversity and Inclusion of the Carey Business School has planned a presentation for Thursday, April 26, on the Safe Space Sticker Program, which uses visible markers to indicate that a campus community is supportive of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons and their allies. Members of the GLBTA Resource Center of American […]
WMAP mission scores ‘world’s most cited’ in science pubs
April 23, 2012
All three of the most highly cited scientific papers in the world published in 2011 were from an astrophysics space mission project led by a Johns Hopkins scientist, according to Thomson Reuters’ ScienceWatch. The papers cite results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a NASA spacecraft launched in 2001 that has revolutionized our knowledge of […]