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Field guide to the
afterlife
Ancient Egypt was just a mouse-click away from Johns Hopkins
in January when the daily progress of the Near Eastern
Studies Department's annual dig was posted online. Six
months later, Egypt is as close as Washington, D.C., thanks
to the department's chair, Betsy Bryan, who is part of an
international team bringing a new exhibit of artifacts to
the National Gallery of Art.
Bryan is the curator of The Quest for
Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt, the largest
selection of antiquities ever loaned by the Egyptian
government for exhibition in North America. Bigger than the
blockbuster Tutankhamun exhibit of Egyptian artifacts that
toured the United States and drew mammoth crowds in the
1970s, the new exhibit of approximately 115 artifacts debuts
at the National Gallery on Sunday, June 30. It will be there
through Oct. 14, when it embarks on a five-year tour of the
United States and Canada, including stops at the Boston
Museum of Science, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Denver
Museum of Nature and Science, and the Museum of Arts in
Houston.
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JHU/JHHS to retool biz
systems
A quantum leap forward is on tap for Hopkins' business
systems. Think of it as upgrading from a version 1.1 to a
10.5.
The university and health system are
looking into an unprecedented, massive overhaul of the major
administrative and financial systems across nearly all
Hopkins entities. Specifically being considered is the
implementation of a single software-based system that would
tie together and streamline selected business functions,
including purchasing, accounts payable, payroll, grants
management, general ledger, materials management and human
resources.
Project director Stephen Golding,
executive director of finance at the School of Medicine,
said that what is on the table is an extreme case of out
with the old and in with the new.
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