In Brief
Senior at Homewood found dead in his off-campus
residence
Austin Rottier, a senior computer science major
from Ellicott City, Md., was found dead in his off-campus
residence near the Homewood campus on March 29, just before
9 p.m.
Susan Boswell, dean of student life, said that
Baltimore City police informed the university that they had
found no evidence of foul play and that preliminary
findings lead investigators to believe the student had
taken his own life. As of press time on Friday, no official
determination had been made.
In an e-mail sent Thursday morning to the Hopkins
community, Boswell wrote, "The loss of any of our students
diminishes us all, because each and every student
contributes so much to the community we build here at
Homewood. So sudden a loss is all the more difficult for
us, reminding us as it does of how precious — yet
fragile — life is."
A date will be announced for a campus memorial
service.
'U.S. News' releases annual graduate school
rankings
Hitting newsstands today is U.S. News & World
Report's 2006 "Best Graduate Schools" issue, which
includes rankings in medicine, engineering, education and
the sciences, a discipline last ranked in 2002. In the
category of medical schools/research, Johns Hopkins retains
last year's No. 2 spot, again behind Harvard. In
specialties, JHU is again No. 1 in internal medicine and
tied for first (with Yale) in drug/alcohol abuse. Other
rankings: primary care, tied at 41; women's health, 3;
geriatrics, 2; AIDS, 2; pediatrics, 3.
In engineering, JHU is tied at 21, up from 26, and
ranked No. 1 in biomedical/bioengineering and No. 2 in
environmental/environmental health.
In the biological sciences, JHU is tied at 5 with
CalTech and ranked in the top 10 in cell biology,
neuroscience/neurobiology, microbiology,
biochemistry/biophysics/structural biology, molecular
biology, ecology/evolutionary biology and
genetics/genomics/bioinformatics.
Also ranked are chemistry, tied at 24; computer
science, 28; earth sciences, tied at 21; mathematics, tied
at 21; and physics, tied at 22.
In schools of education, JHU is in a three-way tie at
32.
For complete listings and methodology, go to www.usnews.com.
Weeklong celebration of student employees at JHU begins
today
The Homewood campus will kick off its annual
celebration of National Student Employment Week with free
ice cream from noon to 2 p.m. today, April 3, at Levering
Plaza.
Deans Paula Burger, Susan Boswell and William Conley
will be doling out free scoops for everyone in honor of the
more than 4,200 Homewood undergraduate and graduate
students working throughout the Hopkins community, as well
as the offices and departments that employ them.
The week's events include a luncheon on Thursday, when
the student employee and employer of the year will be
announced.
Chocolate Factory fundraiser returns to
Homewood
Sweets lovers are in luck this week as the Chocolate
Factory opens its doors on the Homewood campus for the
second year. Hosted by the
Center for Social
Concern's student advisory board, this year's festival
will have triple the number of vendors and prizes as in its
maiden year.
The event is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on
Friday, April 7, in the Glass Pavilion. The $5 admission
charge buys five tickets, which can be redeemed for samples
provided by local vendors or used to play games or enter
raffles. Prizes have been donated by the business community
and cultural institutions.
All profits support Baltimore schools, nonprofits and
other institutions whose success makes for a better
city.
SAIS to hold discussion today on America's role in the
world
The School of
Advanced International Studies will hold a forum, "The
Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's
Government in the 21st Century," at 5:30 p.m. today, April
3.
Part of the SAIS Faculty Book Series, the discussion
will be based on the book of the same name by Michael
Mandelbaum, the Christian A. Herter Professor of American
Foreign Policy and director of the American Foreign Policy
Program at SAIS. The book was recently published by
PublicAffairs.
Mandelbaum's introductory remarks will be followed by
a panel discussion by Fritz W. Ermarth, former chairman of
the National Intelligence Council; Robert Lieber, professor
of government at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh
School of Foreign Service; and Robert Guest, Washington
correspondent for The Economist.
The event will be held in the first-floor auditorium
of the Rome Building.
Undergrads run homeland security event for local high
schoolers
On April 7 and 8, a group of Johns Hopkins
undergraduates will hold its second annual Securing the
Future conference for Baltimore-area high school students
wanting to learn about timely issues of homeland
security.
Speakers include Steven David, professor of
political
science and chair of the JHU Homeland Security program;
James Kraft, city councilman; William Goodwin, Baltimore
fire chief; Earl Lewis, secretary of the Maryland
Department of Transportation; and Dennis Schrader, director
of Homeland Security for the state of Maryland. The
conference will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday
and 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, both days in
Levering's Great Room, Homewood campus.
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