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Katherine Newman, James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School, hosted her weekly faculty-student dinner for members of the Physics department this past Tuesday evening. The faculty speaker for the evening was Marc Kamionkowski, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, who spoke on the topic of dark matter. The event was attended by over 30 undergraduates, graduates and faculty.
Alan Moore, regarded as the greatest writer of comics, has proclaimed the age of creative storytelling over.
This Single of the Week, "All Part Of His Plan" comes from Steve Shiffman and the Land Of No.
Michael Longley followed his wife Edna Longley's lecture on Monday, Nov. 7 with his own poetry reading on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Hailing from Ireland, Longley charmed a large audience at Hopkins with his light-hearted humor and short but strong poetry as part two of The Writing Seminars's 2011 Turnbull Lectures. His reading only lasted 50 minutes, but like his poems, was as brief as it was moving.
New media tends to prove itself with one work. In the 1940s, Citizen Kane proved the merit of film. In the ‘80s, comics proved themselves with Watchmen.
The Office of Multicultural Affairs presents Culture Show 2011 this Saturday at 6 p.m. in Shriver Hall.
The next time you're downtown after dusk, look up.
It is always midway through November, right with Thanksgiving around the corner, that I start to get a bit homesick for those ever-familiar New York City streets.
Two months after the fall show line-up returned to televisions everywhere, Bones — a crime procedural featuring Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist at the Jeffersonian Institute, and her unconventional partnership with FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth — began its seventh season.
Florence Welch follows on the heels of Adele and Lady Gaga as one of the year's most excellent stars, all of whom are bringing some stylish, substantial girl power to the music charts.
It does not have to be December for you to enjoy the Decemberists, the indie folk rock band from Portland, Oregon.
Astronomers now have a more accurate estimate of how often galaxies combined in the last eight to nine billion years. New supercomputer simulations can predict how merging galaxies will look at various stages of interaction and from various perspectives. Jennifer Lotz of the Space Science Telescope Institute and others searched through four astrological surveys, comparing images of thousands of galaxies to the simulated models. This study led them to a more accurate value of the merger rate.
On October 27th, the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee announced a $1.2-million National Science Foundation grant to Hopkins and the University of Maryland at College Park. The grant is supported by the NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure.
The Black Faculty and Staff Association has sponsored a food drive since October 14 in support of Moveable Feast, a Baltimore non-profit that provides free meals to Marylanders with life-threatening illnesses. Beginning in 1989 as the only free meal delivery program in Maryland for persons suffering from HIV/AIDS and breast cancer, Moveable Feast has since expanded its services to provide nutritional counseling and delivery programs for the homeless and those unable to work.
On Nov. 7, Housing and Dining announced a change to its long-standing rule forbidding students from taking any bags into the FFC. The change was prompted by a series of thefts of student property, wherein students property was stolen from the cubby area just outside the cafeteria.
As I look out my window on the fifth floor of McCoy, I see the Hopkins security vehicle idling. It has been there for two hours. Only 20 feet away passes the Red Line of the Blue Jay Shuttle for the fifth time today. I know this is not an uncommon scene, as these vehicles have many routes that require them to sit and observe or, in the case of the Blue Jay Shuttle, simply follow the same route every half hour.
This week marks the 10th anniversary of President Bush's order authorizing the use of military tribunals, a system of justice not used since 1942. His order to the Secretary of Defense called for the detainment of non-citizens accused of international terrorism and their subsequent trial at Guantanamo Bay. On Wednesday, the alleged mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri,which killed 17 U.S. sailors in October of 2000, will go before the military tribunal system reestablished 10 years ago.
Suppose humankind possessed a time machine. Let's rewind a century back and ask the great European powers — Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium — which country they would hedge their immediate bets on, given that they would be struck by economic collapse and potential defaults, financial breakdown and catastrophe, all administered with a debilitating dose of political gridlock (i.e. The Euro Crisis). Political leaders would likely only be able to point to one country for assistance: The United States. Given the booming American economy and the sense of American nationalism and collective agreement, the European great powers would no doubt consider their neighbor across the Atlantic their best bet for economic assistance. It sure as heck wouldn't be the war-torn, revolution-stricken, technologically impotent "Middle Kingdom" that the Great Powers had previously invaded.
Last weekend at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) World Jamboree hosted at MIT, a group of Hopkins undergraduates presented a strain of yeast that some hope will one day change the way nutritional deficiencies are addressed around the world.
It is frightening to consider the costs behind the large amount of drugs used to treat patients today. Fortunately, a recent study at Hopkins Hospital led by Brandyn Lau and colleagues shows that potentially millions of dollars can be saved each year by simply replacing intravenous medications for pills in hospitalized patients who are capable of swallowing.