Arts And Sciences

WASHINGTON - Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes, a Maryland Democrat, will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences today at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Sarbanes will join more than 200 honorees from the United States and abroad and will be one of five featured speakers at the ceremony. "This is quite an honor," said Sarbanes, who will be recognized in the public affairs, business and administration discipline. "You're with some people that have made outstanding contributions in both the past and present."

She enters the clinic on a walker, slow yet remarkably steady, and as Pauline Wood hails her host for the day, she gives him a bag of lemon tarts she rose early that morning to bake.  With her white hair and glasses, Wood, 89, is every inch the lovable but tough grandmother, complete with her love of puppies, her passion for raising heirloom tomatoes and her predilection for waving away offers of help with the words, "Oh my goodness, ...

The Johns Hopkins University is using a $10 million gift from trustee J. Barclay Knapp to endow the deanship of its Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.The money will allow the dean, whose position is named after Knapp's late father, James Barclay Knapp, to underwrite programs in the arts and sciences."The only restriction on this money is that there can be no restriction," said Herbert L. Kessler, who as current dean is the the first to hold the Knapp deanship."Once all the funds are in place, the interest can be used at the discretion of the dean to respond quickly to needs.

Amanda Walsh has been named to the fall 2011 dean's list at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash. Nadejda Hvoyneva , a resident of Cockeysville, has earned a bachelor's degree in business from Excelsior College, Albany, N.Y. Michael Lackey , of Towson, and Hannah Shultz , of Lutherville, have been named to the fall 2011 dean's list at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. Rebecca Taylor , of Timonium, graduated from...

When Ronald J. Daniels began to sense that he was a serious candidate for the Johns Hopkins University presidency, he drove to Baltimore by himself to check the place out. Daniels had never been to Hopkins before. His meetings with the presidential search committee had all been in New York. So one day this summer, he walked around Hopkins' leafy Homewood campus and admired the colonial architecture. He explored the medical campus in East Baltimore and then picked up crab cakes to take home to his family in Philadelphia.

The dean of the Johns Hopkins University's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences has abruptly resigned after only 18 months in the position.In a statement sent by e-mail to faculty and students this week, President William R. Brody said Herbert L. Kessler left for "personal and professional reasons."An announcement of an interim or permanent replacement is expected today.Kessler, who was chairman of the history of art department before becoming dean in May 1998, refused to comment yesterday on the reasons for his resignation.

Baltimore philanthropist Zanvyl Krieger has pledged $50 million to the Johns Hopkins University over the next five years, the institution's biggest gift ever and one of the largest in the history of American higher education.Mr. Krieger, an 86-year-old businessman and lawyer who graduated from Hopkins in 1928, stipulated that he will match up to $50 million in gifts to the endowment for the university's financially strapped School of Arts and Sciences.University officials are confident they can raise the $50 million in matching funds, although it will require stepped-up giving to the arts and sciences' endowment, which has recently been receiving about $4 million in gifts a year.

The longtime chairman of art history has been appointed dean of arts and sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, assuming leadership of a school that has been troubled by the defection of distinguished faculty members.Herbert L. Kessler, the Charlotte Bloomberg professor of art history, was approved as dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences during a telephone conference yesterday of the executive committee of the university's board of trustees.Kessler is the second new dean announced this week.

Embattled Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers announced yesterday that he would step down at the end of this academic year, ending one of the shortest tenures in the university's history. In a posting on the university Web site, Summers, the former secretary of the Treasury, said he would resign as of June 30. "Working closely with all parts of the Harvard community, and especially with our remarkable students, has been one of the great joys of my professional life," he said in the open letter to the Harvard community.

Sigmund Richard Suskind, a retired microbiologist who had been dean of arts and sciences at the Johns Hopkins University and the first ombudsman for its Homewood campus, died of cancer complications Dec. 5 at Chester River Hospital in Chestertown. The former Mount Washington resident was 80. Born and raised in New York City, he was the son of Seymour Suskind, an NBC Symphony Orchestra violinist who played for maestro Arturo Toscanini. Family members said the younger Mr. Suskind did not share his father's ability - although he appreciated music throughout his life.

Thousands of children, from toddlers to 12-year-olds, did something yesterday that seems almost novel in the age of computers and digital games: They went outside and played. In the chilly air of the first Sunday of October, Rash Field at Baltimore's Inner Harbor became a sprawling playground. Over six hours, boys and girls skipped rope, jumped rope, hula-hooped, played with sticks and created works of sidewalk art with colorful chalk. They chased big, soapy bubbles created by a clown on stilts.

Marissa Dorsey , of Mount Airy, has been named to the dean's list for the spring 2011 semester at Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia. She is studying occupational therapy. Georges Rizk , of Sykesville, participated in the Summer Scholars Program in Biology and Biomedical Research at Washington University in St. Louis. Rizk, who was one of 24 Summer Scholars this year, will be a freshman at the university this fall. The seven-week Summer Scholars program offers students the opportunity to get a head start on scientific research and their college careers.

Cockeysville resident Jordan Tryhubenko, a member of the Class of 2012 at Washington College, in Chestertown, participated in the Summer 2011 Research Program at the college. The chemistry major, who is the daughter of Steve and Paula Tryhubenko, spent her summer investigating new organic reactions to aid in the synthesis of curved molecules. At Washington College, she is also president of the college's American Chemical Society chapter, vice president of the Health Occupational Students of America chapter and a member of Tri-Beta National Honor Society for biology and the Cater Society of Junior Fellows honor society.

Students patiently scraped away a shallow layer of dirt in a trio of test pits last week as gentle breezes wafted past, nudging the stubborn humidity of summer southward. Nearby, a 6-foot-long segment of stone wall barely crested the soil's surface in another row of sondages, as the 3-foot-square pits are called by archaeologists. Using trigonometry, the students were calculating angles to help predict the configuration of what might lie buried there. Four of the five workers had the privilege of toiling this summer alongside academicians and students at an international excavation site on a picturesque hilltop in France.

Five Johns Hopkins University researchers have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by their peers. Jonathan Bagger, Ted Dawson, Barbara Landau, Jun Liu and Jeremy Nathans are among 486 new fellows around the world. Election as a fellow honors their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Bagger was elected for distinguished contributions to the field of theoretical high-energy physics and for leadership of the U.S. high-energy physics community.

When Ronald J. Daniels began to sense that he was a serious candidate for the Johns Hopkins University presidency, he drove to Baltimore by himself to check the place out. Daniels had never been to Hopkins before. His meetings with the presidential search committee had all been in New York. So one day this summer, he walked around Hopkins' leafy Homewood campus and admired the colonial architecture. He explored the medical campus in East Baltimore and then picked up crab cakes to take home to his family in Philadelphia.

Njideka Agwuna , of Columbia, has been named to the dean's list for the spring 2011 semester at the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University, State University of New York, in Vestal, N.Y.

The Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences is sponsoring a creative writing competition for county schoolchildren, grades two through 12. Entries of 500 words or less will be accepted through Dec. 6.The competition is divided into three age categories.High school students are asked to write about technology: Is it increasing man's ability to do for mankind or reducing concern for mankind?Middle school students: How do you propose to make your community a better place to live? Be specific about how you would implement your ideas.

In some cases, they were simply bad players. In others, they were bad people. And some of them just had bad, bad luck. But whatever the reason, here is a team-by-team rundown of each NFL franchise's all-time worst first-round draft pick. Arizona: Steve Little, K, 1978 (No. 15). A rare first-rounder as a punter and kicker, Little hit just 40 percent of his field-goal tries. Shortly after he was cut by the then-St. Louis Cardinals, he was in a car accident that left him paralyzed. He died in 1999.