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May 21, 2009.
For more than 6,000 Johns Hopkins University students,
years of hard work, good times, intellectual intensity
and personal growth reached their culmination at
Commencement 2009.
Experience some of the moments by
watching a short video, filmed and
edited JHU's Marketing & Creative Services.
May 14, 2009.
The annual pARTy at the Homewood campus Mattin
Center celebrates — with exhibitions, performances
and demonstrations — the artistic accomplishments
of Johns Hopkins University undergraduates throughout
the academic year.
Watch this short video to get a glimpse of what
Johns Hopkins students did in 2008-2009 in the
visual arts, dance, digital media, music and
other artistic endeavors, both in the classroom
and in extracurriculars.
May 12, 2009.
Johns Hopkins students — those of an
artistic bent and the more engineering-minded —
collaborated on designing and building the Homewood
campus's first entry in Baltimore’s quirky Kinetic
Sculpture Race, sponsored by the American Visionary
Arts Museum.
Watch this short video documenting
how the Johns Hopkins entry, dubbed Twitter Jay
and the Recyclists, overcome obstacles to
complete its 15-mile course over land,
water, mud and sand.
March 26, 2009.
The Center for Africana Studies at Johns
Hopkins is welcoming renowned visual artist
Renee Stout to the Homewood campus this
spring as its inaugural artist in residence
for a series of lectures and workshops.
Stout is planning to create pieces that
will initiate a campuswide dialogue on
critical questions concerning race and
culture, both on campus and beyond.
Watch this recording of Stout’s
first lecture.
December 12, 2008.
For their first major design project, freshman
mechanical engineers at Johns Hopkins
recently had to think low-tech. They were assigned to
design, build and race model cars that could not use
conventional motors — or even a single battery. Each
vehicle could be powered only by two mousetraps and six
rubber bands. Inside the Computational Science and
Engineering Building, 20 student teams put their motley car
creations to the test. Many of the vehicles boasted bodies
made of wooden slabs and wheels made of DVDs. The self-
propelled vehicles had to veer around two obstacles to reach
the finish line.
Watch this short film about a challenging
but fun-filled competition.
October 6, 2008.
In his 50 years at Homewood, Richard A. Macksey,
A&S '53, '57 (PhD), has been a teacher,
mentor, and friend to generations of students
— and has become one of Johns Hopkins'
treasures. He plans to bequeath to the Sheridan
Libraries a treasure of his own: his personal
book collection made up of more than 70,000 volumes,
ranging from 15th-century annotated editions of
Virgil to film studies, and covering just about
everything in between.
Watch this short film about Dr. Macksey and his
enduring legacy at Johns Hopkins.
May 22, 2008.
The stands of Homewood Field were crowded with friends
and family of the latest class of Johns Hopkins University
graduates, as the university held its 132nd commencement
exercises on Thursday, May 22, 2008.
Experience some
of the moments by watching a short video, filmed and
edited by the folks in the JHU Department of Digital
Video Services.
December 11, 2007.
A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers is trying to
solve the airflow mysteries surrounding wind turbines, an increasingly
popular source of "green" energy. The team's experiments,
involving smoke and laser light, are taking place inside a wind tunnel
on the university's Homewood campus. To see and hear more about this
project, please
stop by this page and watch the short video.
May 17, 2007.
The stands of Homewood Field were crowded with friends
and family of the latest class of Johns Hopkins University
graduates, as the university held its 131st commencement
exercises on Thursday, May 17, 2007.
Experience some
of the moments by watching a short video, filmed and
edited by 2003 graduate Ruthie Aslan.
November 13, 2006.
Faculty members and students affiliated
with the National Science Foundation Engineering
Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical
Systems and Technology, based at Johns Hopkins,
want to transform and improve the way many
medical procedures are performed. To see and
hear more about these medical robotics projects
at Johns Hopkins, please
stop by this page and watch the short video.
June 12, 2006.
The Johns Hopkins Tutorial Project
pairs undergraduates with city school
students for twice weekly one-on-one
tutoring sessions during the school year.
Johns Hopkins students have been the
driving force behind this mentoring
program since it began in 1958.
Please
stop by this page and watch
a short video of the students in action.
May 25, 2006.
The stands of Homewood Field were crowded
with friends and family of the latest class of
Johns Hopkins University graduates, as
the university held its 130th commencement
exercises.
Watch a short video of the university-wide
commencement ceremony,
filmed and edited by 2003 graduate Ruthie Aslan.
May 22, 2006.
Three Johns Hopkins mechanical engineering students
designed two custom computer desks to help a woman
with disabilities to continue to work from her home. To
hear the student talk about the project and see
them deliver the desks to their client,
stop by this page
and watch a short video.
December 5, 2005. Join sophomore Stephanie Kallab
on a recent day on and off campus. The Baltimore native
and International Studies major gives insight into the
busy life of a Johns Hopkins undergraduate.
Stop by this page and watch a short video.
November 14, 2005. In its 20th year, CultureFest is
a rich celebration of diversity, recognized by a weeklong
list of activities featuring music, food, lectures and the
popular CultureFest Show, which gives students a chance to
shine. To get a sense of the fun,
watch this short video.
July 5, 2005. Johns Hopkins undergraduates develop a
model airship with sophisticated controls that may aid
professional engineers in developing a surveillance craft
that can explore the outer edge of the Earth's atmosphere.
To see the blimp in action,
watch a video about their work.
June 21, 2005. Cell phones and driving. Can people
really concentrate on the road and a cell phone call at the
same time? New research from Johns Hopkins University
points to a physiological reason why not. To learn more,
watch
this short video.
June 16, 2005. Help for volunteers with
disabilities. Johns Hopkins engineering students modify
tractor to help volunteers pitch in. To learn more,
watch a video about their work.
May 27, 2005.
The class of 2005 moves forward in commencement cermonies
at Homewood Field. The featured speaker was Al Gore. To get
a sense of the event,
watch
this short video.
April 12, 2005. Johns Hopkins in 30 seconds. In
conjunction with the men's lacrosse team appearing on the
new channel, ESPNU, the university prepared a short video
promotional spot that has been seen by national
audiences.
Check out this short spot.
March 16, 2005. Inspired by nature, Johns Hopkins
senior Owen Loh has created a robotic antenna that mimics
the insect's ability to scurry along walls and avoid
obstacles. Ultimately, such a robot could be useful in
unmanned rescue operations at disaster sites or places
where it would be unsafe for humans to venture. See the
robot cockroack in action
by watching this short video.
March 7, 2005. Computer simulations of how black
holes accrete matter show surprising violence and
turbulence, challenging many commonly held assumptions
about the nature of this phenomenon.
Watch these short simulations.
December 17, 2004. Can robots make art? A group of
Johns Hopkins engineering students recently tackled the
problem of creating small robots that could create works
of art. To see how well they did and experience some of the
fun, watch
this short video.
December 5, 2004. How many pounds can a bridge made
out of spaghetti noodles hold?
Find
out by watching a short video presentation of the 11th
Annual Spaghetti Bridge Contest, a traditional test of
freshman Engineering students at the Johns Hopkins
University.
December 2, 2004. In a collaboration that blends
biology and robotics, researchers at the Johns Hopkins and
the University of Maryland are unraveling the circuitry in
an eel's spinal cord to help develop a microchip implant
that may someday help paralyzed people walk again. To
learn more about this research, and to watch short video
segments about it,
stop by this
page.
June 8, 2004. Senior engineering students develop a
low-cost roving robot to detect landmines. To learn more,
see
this robot in action.
May 24, 2004. Three senior engineering students have
created a harness and vest system to better protect people
with osteoporosis and other brittle bone disorders, a
system that significantly reduced impact forces when
tested on a high-tech crash test dummy. To learn more about
the research, and see the crash test,
stop by this
page.
May 24, 2004. The Johns Hopkins University's 128th
academic year concluded on May 20 with commencement
ceremonies. Some 5,819 students earned degrees,
certificates and diplomas. To experience some of the joy of
the event,
watch
this short slide show.
April 28, 2004. Dr. Peter Agre, the 2003 Nobel
Laureate for Chemistry, recently met with about 100 of
Baltimore City's public school science teachers, saying he
respects and honors the important work they do while
emphasizing that producing science-literate citizens has
never been more important.
See
the video.
March 28, 2004. The Johns Hopkins Montgomery County
Campus is in the heart of an area nicknamed "DNA
Alley" for the concentrated biotechnology research
firms and federal labs. The Hopkins campus is poised to
play a key role in the biotech boom. To learn more,
watch
this award-winning short video on the subject.
March 25, 2004. A new device developed by
undergraduate biomedical engineering students at Johns
Hopkins seeks to help doctors with difficult deliveries.
To learn more, check out this short video that shows how
the device works. See
the video.
January 12, 2004. The Great Baltimore Fire —
100 years later. Professor Pete Petersen spent four years
researching this devastating blaze, which destroyed an
area of downtown Baltimore the size of the Johns Hopkins
University's Homewood campus and caused $150 million in
damage (in 1904 dollars.)
Listen
as he talks about his book on the eve of the 100th
anniversary.
January 5, 2004. Tune in as Betsy Bryan and her
team conduct archeological research at the the Temple of
the Goddess Mut at Karnak in Egypt. For the fourth year,
Bryan
has allowed the world to watch as her team works.
See
the video.
December 31, 2003. Students involved in
undergraduate research projects at Johns Hopkins
University. Get a sense of the wide-ranging and exciting
research projects that Hopkins students are involved in by
watching
this short video.
September 23, 2003. Theresa Heinz , chairman of
the Heinz Family Philanthropies and The Heinz Endowments
and a visionary, passionate philanthropist, gave heartfelt
remarks in receiving the 2003 Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal
for Humanitarianism.
Listen as she describes
her journey from growing up in Africa to leading a giant
philanthropic organization.
June 11, 2003. The Class of 2003 assembled
under threatening skies on May 22 for graduation
ceremonies on Homewood Field. Photographers were there to
document the joy and exuberation of another
class going forth. Tune into commencement 2003 by
watching
this video slide show of the day's events.
May 16, 2003. Installing a child safety
seat properly, so that there is little or no wiggle, can
be a difficult challenge for those with small children. It
requires more than 200 pounds of force. Enter three Johns
Hopkins undergraduates, who designed a special device to
help make seat installation easier.
Join them as they explain and demonstrate their
project.
March 19, 2003. Johns Hopkins researchers
are testing the clinical efficacy of a new approach to
birth control and preventing the spreading sexual
transmitted diseases: BufferGel. Professor Richard
Cone describes the long research journey that led to the
development of BufferGel.
Learn
more by watching a brief video.
November 25, 2002. How do researchers and
underwater explorers achieve pinpoint control of remotely
operated vehicles, when thousands of feet of ocean
separate them? A Hopkins team is working on developing
command and control systems for underwater robots. Learn
more by watching a short video.
October 25, 2002. Ever wonder why tales of
demons and witches evolved the way they have? Hopkins
Professor Walter Stephens has studied the story behind the
tales of witches and demons.
Join
him as he shares his findings.
October 14, 2002. Take a riding tour of the
Homewood campus and see the new brick walkways, trees,
landscaping and overall more pedestrian friendly
atmosphere.
Climb aboard.
September 23, 2002. Booms and Busts. Political
Scientist Mark Blyth, in a new book, examines the
historical underpinnings of economic booms and busts,
comparing the 1920s to the bullish 1990s.
What will happen next?
Listen
as he uses history as a guide.
July 16, 2002. Political Scientist Kellee Tsai
travels the back streets and alleys of China to uncover
the mystery of a booming private entrepreneurial sector,
in the absence of private finance or property
rights. Listen
as she describes her journey.
May 20, 2002. Corey Seznec (at right) is among the
first group of Woodrow Wilson Fellows about to graduate
from Johns Hopkins University. Seznec and the other
graduating seniors recently presented their research
findings before a public audience. The Wilson program gives
undergraduates unique opportunities for original research.
Learn more by
watching
the videos of their presentions.
May 15, 2002. Chang Lee, a biomedical engineering
and engineering mechanics major from Atlanta (at left),
tests a whitewater helmet, part of a student project to
design and build a safer whitewater
helmet. Learn more
by watching a video about the project.
April 1, 2002. Matthew Crenson (at right) got his
students engaged in Baltimore's public transportation woes.
Their gritty video tells a powerful tale of a real world
problem. Tune into
Sick
Transit.
March 15, 2002. Researchers at Johns Hopkins
University are developing a library robot to enhance
access to library materials.
See
how this project might affect the future of research
libraries.
February 4, 2002. Heather Campbell didn't give up
the first time she tried to get inside a Chinese orphanage,
as part of her Woodrow Wilson research project. Her
perserverance paid off in a rare inside look at one of the
controversial institutions.
Find out about
her research in her own words.
October 24, 2001. Professor Michael Johnson argues
that the Denmark Vesey affair, the largest slave rebellion
plot in American history, and which resulted in 35 men
being hanged, never existed and the men who died were
innocent. He recently sat down to talk about his
research findings. Hear the story in
his own
words.
June 19, 2001. "This happy and important
occasion..." More than 5,000 students received
bachelor's and advanced degrees during 2001 commencement
ceremonies at the close of Johns Hopkins University's
125th academic year. For a look into the sights and sounds
of that day's events, check out this
slide show.
May 14, 2001. A journey into the world of
16th century English portrait miniatures. Graduating
senior Jamie Franco did advanced research trying to prove
that a female artist of the Tudor court has been treated
unfairly by modern scholars. Her groundbreaking findings
are to be published in a European art history journal this
summer.
Join her as she describes her research
journey.
May 7, 2001. Measuring political attitudes of
Chinese entreprenuers. Kellee Tsa, an assistant professor
of political science, will this summer embark on an
ambitions survey of Chinese entrepreneurs. To find out
more, and to hear about her other research involving
private finance in China,
Check out this short video.
April 26, 2001. John Astin returns to
Homewood.. Best know for his role as Gomez Addams on the
Addams Family television series, John Astin returns
to Johns Hopkins University to teach an Acting
and Directing Workshop in the Writing Seminars. To get a
sense of how it's going,
Check out this short video.
April 2, 2001. "The Quantum Physics Model of the
University." President William R. Brody recently delivered
a speech marking the 125th anniversary of The Johns
Hopkins University.
Listen in to President Brody's talk on Commemoration
Day.
March 28, 2001. Meet the Author: Mame Warren sat
down recently to talk about her ambitious book which
captures John Hopkins University's first 125 years in words
and pictures. Hopkins video production students filmed the
interview and two of the better edited versions of that
interview are presented here.
>> This version was edited by
Priscilla Jesunthadas, a junior natural sciences and
public health major.
>> This version was edited by
Frank Fattori, a sophomore film and media studies
major.
March 12, 2001. The Plan for Homewood Campus has
already leapt off the drawing table and is taking physical
shape around us, but it's just the beginning. The plan will
guide development at Homewood for years to come. To learn
more about the plan and the principles behind it,
check out this short video.
February 23, 2001. Undergraduates in
the Whiting School of Engineering are using a model
helicopter to learn how to design control systems that can
fly the helicopter without the aid of a pilot.
Watch video of the helicopter.
>>
Read the press release.
February 19, 2001. In learning language, infants
rely on the patterns of language more than previously
thought, says Rebecca Gomez, an assistant professor of
psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and who was
presenting her findings at the annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. She
sat down recently and explained what role artificial
language plays in her research.
Watch Gomez in RealVideo format.
Watch Gomez in QuickTime format.
Read more about the research.
February 2, 2001. "Discovery at Umm el-Marra."
Johns Hopkins Professor Glenn Schwartz led a team of
archeologists who discovered an ancient, undisturbed tomb
in Syria. He describes the find and what it means in
this short video.
January 4, 2001.
Maternal Aggression in Mice. Scientists studying
the origins of aggression have highlighted areas in the
brains of mouse mothers that may generate fierce attacks on
males who pose a potential threat to their pups.
Postdoctoral researcher Stephen Gammie recently explained
the research and findings in a brief video.
View the video.
Read the press release.
December 7, 2000. "We believe in research..." Check
out a new video on the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship program,
an undergraduate research program in the Krieger
School of Arts and Sciences.
View the video in Real format.
November 10, 2000. History Professor Louis Galambos
recently edited the last letter of the Dwight D.
Eisenhower Papers Project, an effort underway since 1963
and one Galambos has directed since 1971. He sat down
recently to talk about the former president and his
collected correspondence.
Listen in. Or
Read more about it.
May 25, 2000. The Johns Hopkins University class of
2000 commencement ceremonies. An emotional and triumphant
time for the graduates, their family and friends. If you
missed it or if you were there and want to relive it, the
event was captured in a series of photographs and put to
music in a slide show, which you can view by going to
the slide
show.
January 18, 2000. Global competition, speed,
information overload and aggressive distance learning
companies — these are some of the challenges
a traditional research university faces today and in the
coming years.
William R. Brody, president of The Johns Hopkins
University, recently addressed these issues
and more in his discussion of "The Quantum Physics
Model of the University in the New Millennium."
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