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Now that's architecture, hon
New JHU Press book examines Baltimore's buildings, then
and now
Mary Ellen Hayward called it a void. She refers to the
scores of architecture books she had read, studied and
taught that all but ignored Charm City. Sure, many works
featured edifices in New York, Chicago and Boston, even New
Orleans and Washington, D.C. But where was Baltimore?
Ten years ago she, Frank Shivers and a few other
regional historians who had formed the Dead Architects
Society, a group within the Baltimore Architecture
Foundation, set out to remedy the affront and put Baltimore
more firmly on the architectural map.
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JHU offers city students full
tuition
The Johns Hopkins University announced last week that
it will provide full-tuition scholarships to graduates of
Baltimore City public schools accepted into the
university's undergraduate programs.
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FUSE pierces the Veil of Cygnus the
Swan
The Veil Nebula, a delicate network of glowing gaseous
filaments in the northern constellation of Cygnus the Swan,
has long been a favorite of both amateur and professional
astronomers. Part of a much larger nebula known as the
Cygnus Loop, the Veil is comprised of the leftovers of a
star that exploded between 5,000 and 8,000 years ago. For
at least half a century, scientists have probed the Cygnus
Loop with various techniques, trying to understand its
physical characteristics as a model for comprehending a
whole class of similar objects that cannot be observed in
such detail.
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