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.
Members of the last crew to fly aboard the Space Shuttle “Endeavour” — the second-to-the-last flight in NASA’s space shuttle program — will discuss their mission to the International Space Station from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, August 4, at The Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus. Presented by the Maryland Space Grant Consortium and NASA, the event is free and open to the public. The crew will give a video presentation about the mission and answer questions from the audience in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy’s Schafler Auditorium, on the campus’s north end. Free parking is available in the Muller parking deck on San Martin Drive, adjacent to Bloomberg.
July 28, 2011 Tags: antimatter, astrophysicists, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, dark energy, European Space Agency, Homewood campus events, International Space Station, Mark Kelly, Maryland Space Grant Consortium, NASA, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Schafler Auditorium, space shuttle, Space Shuttle Endeavour, spacewalks, strange matter, STS-134
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
A British theoretical physicist doing groundbreaking work in developing “invisibility materials” (a la Harry Potter’s famous invisibility cloak) will deliver the inaugural Robert Resnick Lecture at The Johns Hopkins University at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 23. Sir John Pendry of Imperial College London will present “Invisible Cloaks and a Perfect Lens,” in Schafler Auditorium in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy on the Homewood campus. The event is free and open to the public. Call 410-516-7346 for information.
September 16, 2010 Tags: Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Imperial College London, invisibility, Johns Hopkins University, metamaterials, physics, Robert Resnick, Robert Resnick Lecture, Schafler Auditorium, Sir John Pendry, theoretical physicist
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Technology, University-Related
