In Brief

Next 'Gazette' is last before biweekly summer
schedule
With next week's issue, The Gazette will begin its
biweekly summer schedule. There will be no edition on June
5, so the Tuesday, May 30, calendar will include all events
scheduled between that day and Monday, June 12. Calendar
items and classifieds should be submitted for that issue by
5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 23, to gazette@jhu.edu or faxed
to 443-287-9920.

The numbers are in for next fall's freshman class at
Homewood
The high school seniors' responses are in, and so are
the numbers for the class of 2010: 1,217 freshmen are set
to enroll this fall in the schools of Arts and Sciences and
Engineering. They were chosen from a record-breaking 13,863
applicants — 2,585 more students than applied the
previous year. (All figures are official as of May 9,
following the May 1 reply deadline.)
Also of note for the record books is that this will be
the biggest incoming class that the Homewood campus has
ever seen, even as the admissions process became more
selective than ever, with an admit rate of just 27 percent.
Like many records, though, this one could have an asterisk
next to it after the typical "summer melt" occurs,
according to director of Undergraduate
Admissions John Latting, who expects the actual number
of incoming freshmen to be around 1,160.
Some other fast facts about the class:
The split between the Krieger and
Whiting schools is 63/37.
Forty-eight percent are women and
52 percent men — a ratio that held steady from last
year's admitted freshman class.
The top five states in order are
New Jersey, New York, Maryland, California and
Pennsylvania.
Ninety-two of the enrollees are
Hispanic, an all-time high, as is the number of students
from underrepresented minority groups.
A total of $12 million in need-based grant support has
been offered to the class, according to Ellen Frishberg,
director of Student Financial
Services. The class includes 88 Bloomberg Scholars, 20
Hodson Merit Scholars, 18 Baltimore Scholars and two
Westgate Scholars.

Women's Network honors four with Leadership
Award
At its annual spring luncheon, held May 12 at APL's
Kossiakoff Center, the
Johns Hopkins
Women's Network presented the 2006 Women's Leadership
Award to four women representing the organization's
chapters. The criteria were the ability to motivate and
develop leadership skills in others, act as a strong
mentor, increase knowledge of critical issues facing the
university and its divisions; and strengthen commitment of
the faculty, staff and students to the university.
Selected from three dozen nominees were Claire
Bogdanski, associate dean of finance and administration,
School of Nursing, for the JHMI chapter; Crystal Simpson,
assistant dean of student affairs, Office of Diversity for
Medical Students, and assistant professor of geriatric
medicine, School of Medicine, Bayview Chapter; M. Ann
Garrison Darrin, program manager, Research and Technology
Center at APL, APL Chapter; and Adriene G. Breckenridge,
senior academic adviser, Krieger School of Arts and
Sciences, Homewood Chapter.

Correction
The date for the launch party for Our Shared
Legacy: Nursing Education at Johns Hopkins, 1889-2006
was stated incorrectly in the May 15 issue. The event will
be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 8, at the Enoch Pratt
Free Library.
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