A grant to CTY from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation will allow the Center for Talented Youth in collaboration with Anatolia American College to start the CTY in Thessaloniki. The center, which will offer programs for bright students throughout Greece and Southeastern Europe, will welcome its first students in the summer of 2014.
Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools, the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins communications offices.
Mellon Foundation grants three awards totaling $2.5 million to Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University has been awarded three grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—totaling $2.5 million—to create a new interdisciplinary program in music between the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Peabody Institute, to expand arts programming, and to support postdoctoral fellows in the humanities.
Cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez to speak at Johns Hopkins
Cartoonist and graphic novelist Gilbert Hernandez will present a slide talk on his work on Monday, April 15 at The Johns Hopkins University. Hernandez’ talk, “From Funnybooks to Graphic Novels,” will begin at5:30 p.m.in Room 101 of the F. Ross Jones Building,MattinCenter, on the Homewoodcampus at3400 N. Charles St.inBaltimore. A book-signing will follow.
For Love or Money – Sheridan Libraries Open Stephen Crane Exhibition
The Sheridan Libraries at The Johns Hopkins University announce the opening of For Love or Money: Art, Commerce & Stephen Crane at the George Peabody Library in Baltimore. The exhibition is drawn from the Wertheim-Frary Collection of Stephen Crane, which covers the writer’s entire career and much of his posthumous legacy.
“Please Touch” exhibition invites visitors to interact with objects in the name of science
The Program in Museums and Society, Department of Neuroscience, and Sheridan Libraries at The Johns Hopkins University announce the opening of Please Touch: An Interactive Study on the Neurological Mechanisms of Tactile Aesthetics in the quad-level lobby of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library on the Homewood campus. Curated by Hannah Weinberg-Wolf, a senior in the David S. Olton Program in Behavioral Biology, this exhibition introduces visitors to the neuroaesthetics of touch and aims to gather useful data from participants.
Johns Hopkins University senior Eleanor Gardner is Bermuda’s Rhodes Scholar
Eleanor Gardner, a senior at The Johns Hopkins University, has been named Bermuda’s Rhodes Scholar for 2013. The Rhodes Scholarship is considered one of the most prestigious academic honors, offering all-expenses-paid study for two, and possibly three, years at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is given to approximately 80 young adults each year in the English-speaking world, including only one scholar each year from Bermuda.
Johns Hopkins and the Jewish Museum of Maryland explore Jewish suburbia with exhibit
Undergraduates from The Johns Hopkins University, in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Maryland, will present the results of their hands-on work as the curators of the traveling panel exhibit “Jews on the Move: Baltimore and the Suburban Exodus, 1945-1968,” a display of historic images and local stories in Hodson Hall on the university’s Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. The public is invited to attend the exhibition’s opening night at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17., in the second-floor lobby where the exhibit is being displayed.
Painter Lennart Anderson to Speak at Johns Hopkins
Painter Lennart Anderson will present a slide talk on his work on Wednesday, Oct. 10 at The Johns Hopkins University. Anderson’s talk, “On Painting,” will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Arellano Theatre, Levering Hall, on the Homewood campus at 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore.
Evergreen Museum & Library Seeks Museum Docents
The Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library, a fine arts museum and contemporary art center housed in a Gilded Age mansion on 26 landscaped acres in North Baltimore, seeks volunteers to be trained as museum guides.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Egyptian dig diary returns to the web this month
An unofficial summer school course in archaeology is just a hyperlink away at “Hopkins in Egypt Today,” a free educational website showing a dig in progress throughout June.
Heather Sultz Named Artist In Residence at Evergreen
Los Angeles-based choreographer, performer and dance educator Heather Sultz has been named by Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library as the 11th “House Guest” in its highly acclaimed artist-in-residence program.
Two Johns Hopkins Professors Named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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.
Johns Hopkins Theatre Arts and Studies Program Sings the Music of Stephen Sondheim
The Johns Hopkins University Theatre Arts and Studies Program will present “A Celebration: The Music of Stephen Sondheim” during three performances this month in the John Astin Theatre in the historic Merrick Barn on the university’s Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. Curtain times are 8 p.m. on both Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 22.
16th Annual Johns Hopkins Film Festival
The 16th annual student-run Johns Hopkins Film Fest returns on Friday, April 6, for a three-day celebration highlighting exceptional films from independent, international, and student filmmakers along with feature presentations of influential films.
News source: Oikos University shooting
Johns Hopkins University sociologist Katherine Newman is available to speak with reporters covering yesterday’s deadly shooting incident at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif.
Hopkins Symphony Orchestra Season Finale to Feature Concerto Competition Winners
The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra will perform its season finale concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 22 in Shriver Hall Auditorium on The Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore.
Animator J.J. Sedelmaier to Speak at Johns Hopkins April 16
Noted animator J. J. Sedelmaier will screen his work in an illustrated lecture, “J. J. Sedelmaier Productions: Hiding in Plain Sight,” on Monday, April 16. The talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Room 101 of the F. Ross Jones Building, Mattin Center, on the Homewood campus at 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore.
Evergreen Museum & Library Presents Tai Hwa Goh Solo Exhibition
Korean-born artist and Evergreen artist-in-residence Tai Hwa Goh has created a three-dimensional, site-specific paper installation for Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library. It is on view in the solo exhibition, Lullaby in Evergreen, through Sunday, May 27, as part of guided museum tours.
Evergreen Hosts Landmark Retrospective of Artist Alix Aymé
Never-before-exhibited work of the French woman artist Alix Aymé, an influential participant in the promotion of modernism in the era between the world wars, is featured in Evergreen Museum & Library’s current exhibition Alix Aymé: European Perception and Asian Poeticism, on view through Sunday, Sept. 30.
