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.
Pieces of Johns Hopkins University’s past have a permanent and prominent place in the present, thanks to a new, expansive art installation inside the Brody Learning Commons.
October 2, 2012 Tags: Brody Learning Commons, Mark Dion, Winston Tabb, wunderkammer
| Category: Homewood Campus News
The Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources (CER) announced today the launch of an online database (http://morgue.afro.com/AfroArchon/) describing the archival materials held by the Afro American Newspaper. The three-year project, administered jointly by CER and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Africana Studies, was funded with a $476,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
February 21, 2012 Tags: Afro American Newspaper, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Center for Africana Studies, Franklin Knight, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Moira Hinderer, Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Winston Tabb
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Social Sciences, Technology, University-Related
Leaders at Duke, Cornell, Emory, and Johns Hopkins universities jointly announced last week that they would begin making the full text of thousands of “orphan works” in their library collections digitally accessible to students, faculty, and researchers at their own institutions.
August 29, 2011 Tags: HathiTrust Digital Library, Orphan Works Project, Winston Tabb
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Institutional News
The United States Senate this week confirmed the appointment of Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins, to the National Museum and Library Services Board.
June 25, 2010 Tags: Applied Physics Lab, Eisenhower Library, Evergreen Museum & Library, Friedheim Library at the Peabody Institute, george Peabody Library, Gilman Hall, Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library, Hutzler Reading Room, IMLS, Institute of Museum and Liibrary Services, John Work Garrett Library, Johns Hopkins University, Marsha L. Semmel, Mason Library at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Milton S, National Museum and Library Services Board, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins, University Libraries Council, Welch Medical Library, Winston Tabb
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums at The Johns Hopkins University, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to the National Museum and Library Services Board.
January 21, 2010 Tags: libraries, National Museum and Library Services Board, Winston Tabb
| Category: University Administration, University-Related
