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Campus Tours
The Graduate Affairs and Admissions Office offers campus tours to prospective graduate students, postdocs and faculty. Tours begin at Mason Hall on the Homewood Campus. Each tour, guided by a current graduate student, lasts one hour. Each visitor receives a welcome bag. The schedule for the 2009 - 2010 academic year is as follows:
Accessible Tours: Please contact the Graduate Affairs and Admissions Office ahead of time at (410) 516-8174 or graduateadmissions@jhu.edu.
Please note: There will be no tours when the University is closed for holidays or inclement weather.
Visit us at Conferences
CUNY Pipeline Recruitment Fair
July 9, 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
City University of New York, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue NY, NY 10016
Ronald E. McNair Scholars Summer Research Conference
July 18, 3:30 - 5:30 P.M.
Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Conference Center
MBRS-RISE
September 23, 2:00 - 4:30 P.M.
Student Union Building, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
QS World Tour Graduate School Fair
September 25, 11:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.
National Building Museum, Washington, DC
McNair Research Conference
October 2, 4:00 - 6:00 P.M.
Trabant University Center, Newark, DE
UC Davis McNair Scholars Campus Visit
October 5, 12:00 - 1:30 P.M.
Hutchison Hall, UC Davis, Davis, CA
Mills College Campus Visit
October 5, 3:00 - 4:00 P.M.
Cowell Building, Mills College, Oakland, CA
merican Indian, Alaska Native & Native Hawaiian Program Visit
October 6, Afternoon appoinments with individual students (Contact: banz@jhu.edu)
524 Lasuen Hall, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
UC Berkeley Graduate School Fair
October 7, 11 A.M. - 3 P.M.
MLK Student Union, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
October 15-18
Sheraton Hotel, Dallas, TX
HBCU-UP National Research Conference
October 30, 12:00 - 3 P.M. and 5:30 - 8:30 P.M.
October 31, 9 A.M. - 2 P.M.
Renaissance Washington Hotel, Washington, DC
Calfornia Forum for Diversity
April 16 - 17, 2010
Calfornia State University, Channel Islands
Brigid O’Brien
In 2004 and 2005, Brigid O’Brien, a graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, began each day by climbing 100 feet of stairs and scaffolding. It doesn’t sound like typical work for an engineer, but then, O’Brien isn’t your typical engineer. She took a year off from her graduate work to pursue what she describes as, “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity:” working to clean and conserve the 130-year-old La Farge murals in Boston’s famous Trinity Church.
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