Getting pumped
Young engineers head to rural Guatemala to put their lessons to work

DOGEE graduate student Maya Sathyanadhan, left, and Chicorral villagers near the spring that now serves as the community's source of water.

For the villagers of Chicorral, Guatemala, the routine practice of obtaining water will be considerably less cumbersome and time consuming next year, thanks to a team of Johns Hopkins engineering students.
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Student loan code adopted, no lender lists
The Johns Hopkins University announced on April 25 that it is adopting the code of conduct proposed by the New York attorney general to govern the relationship between universities and student loan companies.
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Crisis Response Team looks inward — as always
From the instant the tragedy at Virginia Tech started to unfold, the members of Johns Hopkins' Crisis Response Team began to monitor and track the situation. The CRT members, most of whom are high-ranking university administrators, remained in constant communication with each other as the campus shootings tragically played out, learning what they could from media coverage.
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