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JHU assists Mt. Vernon revamp By Greg Rienzi
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Nursing student Jamie Hatcher, left, is in Abu Dhabi, learning about labor and delivery. Mechanical engineering major Andrew Kelly, above, is in Philadelphia, working on antique sports cars.
By Greg Rienzi
The Gazette
This summer, some Johns Hopkins students are packing the sunblock and flip-flops and taking a deserved rest from studies and exams, but others are using the warm-weather months to sample the real world and put what they learned in the classroom to use. Here’s a look at what five are up to this summer. Their stories are a mixture of high-octane thrills, hands-on learning and adventures in foreign lands.
Andrew Kelly Piston-powered work in Philly
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ule No. 1 of working in an antique sports car museum: Don’t get romantically attached to things on four wheels. Andrew Kelly, a junior mechanical engineering major and an unabashed gearhead, learned this valuable lesson early on in his summer apprenticeship at the Simeone Foundation Museum, located minutes from the Philadelphia International Airport. Assembled by renowned neurosurgeon Frederick Simeone over a 50-year span, the museum collection contains more than 60 of the rarest and most significant racing and sports cars ever built. Among those housed
in an old former engine remanufacturing plant are a 1909 American Underslung with its classic 40-inch, thin white wheels; a 1933 Alfa Romeo Monza; an iconic 1970 Porsche 917 LH like the one Steve McQueen drove in the 1971 film Le Mans; and an original 1964 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe valued at more than $7 million. Kelly fell head over wheels with a car not yet in the permanent collection, a 1954 white Austin Healey 100-4 with red interior that Simeone bought at an auction and planned to drive himself. “It’s just a gorgeous car, a British clasContinued on page 8
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Landau named vice provost for faculty affairs Goal of refocused position is to further support and enhance faculty excellence By Tracey A. Reeves
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the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed vice provost for faculty affairs. She succeeds Michela Gallagher, former chair of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Krieger School, who stepped down as vice provost for academic affairs to return to her research. As vice provost for faculty affairs, Landau will work closely with the vice deans for faculty in the respective schools and with faculty across the university to advance and promote their work and to improve the quality of faculty life. She assumed her new role on July 1.
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‘As You Like It’ under the stars; blood drive; ‘Regulation of Medical Devices’
“Barbara is a proven scholar and academic leader,” said Lloyd Minor, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. “She is ideally suited to fill this important role, which has been refocused to address the most pressing issues of one our most important resources—our faculty. Barbara will be a wonderful addition to the Office of the Provost,” Minor said. Landau, whose research focuses on the nature, acquisition and development of Continued on page 4
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