Go and find out
Camping in rainforests to study the evolution of butterflies. A solo trip Azerbaijan to investigate how ancient Central Asian music has influenced the Western tradition. Surveying Chinese youth to assess cultural taboos and their knowledge about sexually transmitted disease. Johns Hopkins undergraduates who want to know more go amazing places and do amazing things in the PURA and Woodrow Wilson research programs. And now there’s yet another program to put cash behind rookie researchers’ quests for knowledge.
Living healthy... in college?
Yes, it's possible, and the students who chose to live in Rogers House this year proved it.
Lessons learned?
SAIS's Eliot Cohen writes in The New Republic on lessons from Libya.
Engineering to save lives
Engineering grad students invented a pen-sized device to administer lifesaving tests inexpensively in developing countries. Their aim: to save mothers and babies. Their reward: a $10,000 prize to underwrite further development.
Online update for nurses
Starting this month, the School of Nursing is offering a self-paced online course in evidence-based practice for bedside nurses, nurse educators and nurse managers and leaders.
Street smarts
Charles Street in front of the Homewood campus is due for a major makeover.
Learning from the Leathernecks
Strategic studies students take a three-day field trip — and we do mean into the field — with the U.S. Marines.
Not in, but not out
John Latting, dean of undergraduate admissions, explains on public radio's "Marketplace," what the waiting list is all about.
Field surgeon
The School of Medicine's Professor Andrew Cosgarea moonlights (literally, for night games!) as the Blue Jays' head team physician.
Around and around we go...
NASA's MESSENGER probe, built and operated by Johns Hopkins, has now logged more than 100 orbits of the innermost planet. Note to Mercury mapmakers: X marks the spot. Next stop: Titan?
Civil War 150
In the latest installment in the university's Perspectives series on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, three Johns Hopkins alumni tell the story of Baltimore's important but often-forgotten Pratt Street Riot.
Alumni Weekend 2011 by the numbers
Sometimes the story's in the spreadsheet.
- 5,000+ alumni and family who returned to Homewood for Alumni Weekend 2011 (a record!)
- 68 Saturday daytime high, in Fahrenheit
- 81 events staged over three days
- 43 authors who showcased their work at the first Alumni Book Fair
- 958 grads from ’06 to ’10 who reminisced at the Young Alumni Party
- 2,400 crabcakes consumed at the annual Saturday luncheon
- 5,527 tickets sold for homecoming game against our Charles Street rivals
- 8-7 score of Blue Jays men’s lacrosse victory over Loyola
- ∞ new memories made
Relive the weekend in photos and send us your camera’s best to add to the gallery.
College Admissions 101
Get the skinny on the entire process – from the campus visit to application submission – at our annual Admissions Advisory Workshop for rising high school juniors and seniors who are children, grandkids or siblings of Johns Hopkins alumni.
Book Club's new read
Karl L. Alexander, the John Dewey Professor of Sociology, is leading alumni in the online discussion about Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers: The Story of Success.” Pick up a copy and join the conversation today.
Premiering openhouse@theclub
Among podcasts, videos and fascination galore in our online media room, don’t miss the short film by Rob Grobman, A&S ’11, about a recent open house for young alumni at the Johns Hopkins Club.
Celebrating graduations back to 1926, alumni reunite to make class gifts
As milestone graduation years approach, old classmates come together to reminisce and reconnect, and also to honor alma mater's bedrock legacy of philanthropy through class gifts. Over Alumni Weekend 2011, 18 classes – the most venerable celebrating its 85th reunion year – pledged a total of $24.2 million to Johns Hopkins University. The Class of 1971, led by class gift chair Jim McMenamin, A&S '71, rallied to commit $211,457.60 from 145 donors –- including six first-time givers. "After 40 years, everybody remembers our undergrad days at Homewood as a magical time and a real foundation builder. When we came back for our 40th reunion, the campus looked more beautiful than ever and everyone was impressed," he said. "When it came time to give, our class really came together, with more people participating than ever before." See more class giving highlights.
- Dean Edward Miller of the School of Medicine will retire next year.
- The president of Bates College will be the next executive director of Johns Hopkins’ Center for Talented Youth.
- Three from Johns Hopkins are elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Thomas Fulton, for more than 40 years the shepherd of high-energy physics research at Johns Hopkins, has died.
- Nervous system disorder expert, Jack Griffin, has also died.
As today's Jays fly into various NCAA spring tournaments, nine past Johns Hopkins athletes now roost in the university's Athletic Hall of Fame. Earlier this spring, the university celebrated the imminent start of construction on a new nest for men’s and women’s lacrosse.
We love to hear from the Johns Hopkins community, so feel free to send us a story that we missed in this issue.
