Hill named dean of
Nursing
Martha Hill, a Johns Hopkins faculty member for 22 years and
a national leader in the health community, has been
appointed dean of the School of Nursing, effective July
1.
Hill, who has served as the school's
interim dean since July 1, 2001, was selected by a committee
after a national search. The university's board of trustees
approved her appointment on Sunday.
President William R. Brody said that Hill
was the clear choice to steer the future course of a
division committed to excellence and growth.
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Trustees set $2 billion goal for
campaign
The Johns Hopkins Institutions have announced a $2 billion
goal for a new fund-raising campaign to build and upgrade
facilities on all Hopkins campuses, to strengthen endowment
for student aid and faculty support, and to advance
research, academic and clinical initiatives.
More than $728 million already has been
committed to the effort, which will be called The Johns
Hopkins Campaign: Knowledge for the World and will benefit
both the university and The Johns Hopkins Hospital and
Health System. Though the campaign is being launched
publicly now, it has been accepting advance gifts since July
1, 2000. It will end in 2007.
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Hubba-Hubble! Images from ACS surpass
expectations
Elated astronomers from Johns Hopkins, the Space Telescope
Science Institute and NASA recently unveiled the first
images taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, a new
instrument installed in the orbiting Hubble Space
Telescope in March.
The new pictures contain beautiful vistas
that include nebulas awash in glowing gas and dust, and
galaxies colliding or merging on panoramic backdrops of more
distant galaxies and proto-galaxies.
"These are among the best images of
the distant universe that humans have ever seen," said
Holland Ford, astronomy professor in the Krieger
School of Arts and Sciences and leader of the team
that built the new camera.
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