Hitting all the right notes
The Hopkins Symphony Orchestra offers great music at
affordable prices
In 1995, at age 27, Lisa Seischab decided to end her
professional musical career. A bassoonist who had played
with the Charlotte Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic and
Syracuse Symphony orchestras, Seischab felt she had taken
her performing career as far as it was going to go, and she
wanted a new direction. In 1997, she moved to Baltimore for
a job in the Development Office of the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra. Once here, however, the Roland Park resident
realized how much she missed the lure of the stage. She
would later discover that a way to scratch her performance
itch existed less than a mile away from her home, on Johns
Hopkins' Homewood campus — with the
Hopkins Symphony Orchestra
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Guidelines for travel to risk
areas
A university task force has released a series of
recommendations aimed at enhancing the safety of Johns
Hopkins faculty, staff and graduate students who travel
abroad, in particular those who work or study in areas of
conflict.
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Institute taps computer power for medical
research
The Institute for Computational Medicine, launched last
week at Johns
Hopkins, will address important health problems by using
powerful information management and computing technologies
to produce a better understanding of the origins of human
disease. Institute researchers plan to use this approach to
identify disease in its earliest stage and to look for new
ways to treat illnesses.
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