Mashable reports that The Social Network, a movie that has been partly filmed here in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins, will be released on October 15, 2010. The movie based on the book entitled The Accidental Billionaires.

JHU Events

Looking to spice up your Saturday evening? From 9PM – Midnight, come to Nolan’s for a guaranteed sexy night. Enjoy FREE pizza and win sex toys in a raffle. Play Family Planning Feud with your friends to earn prizes and find out what your classmates answered on the Sex Survey!
C’mon… aren’t you curious?”

We talked last week about the filming of The Social Network this week at JHU.

B reports that star Justin Timberlake will not be featured in the Baltimore filming and also passes on this tip:

The best chance to see action: Monday, when filming will be held during daylight hours at the Wyman Quad, the lower quad. Hopkins has never doubled for Harvard before. On film, that is.The Baltimore Sun reports that “Button” was almost filmed in Baltimore, but we lost out to New Orleans because of Louisiana’s aggressive film-production incentive program.

JHU announcements

The Homewood campus will be a shooting location next week for a forthcoming feature film, “The Social Network.”

The Columbia Pictures release will be shooting two sequences on campus on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 2 and 3. The crew will also be on campus on Sunday to prepare for the filming and will be striking and leaving campus on Wednesday, Nov. 4.

All shooting will be outdoors, and primarily at night. The shoot has been scheduled to interfere as little as possible with normal activities. Shooting in the area of two residence halls will take place between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m., when most students are still awake. Shooting in academic areas — primarily the Keyser and Wyman quadrangles — will take place after 10 p.m., after most evening classes are dismissed.

There will be one scene filmed during daylight hours, on the Wyman Quad (the lower quad) on the afternoon of Monday, Nov. 2.

[...]

“The Social Network” is directed by David Fincher, who was nominated for an Academy Award as best director for his most recent film, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” The scriptwriter is Aaron Sorkin, best known as creator of television’s “The West Wing.”

The film is the story of the founding of Facebook. Much of that story took place at Harvard University; Homewood will be doubling for Harvard in the scenes being shot next week.

The IMDB page for The Social Network says that Jesse Eisenberg is playing Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake is playing Sean Parker, and Andrew Garfield is playing Eduoardo Saverin. Eamon Brooks is rumored to be playing “Bobby.”

Shoutout to @ryanatmgh and @timwindsor for the JHU link.

JHU release

Johns Hopkins Professor named co-winner of Nobel Prize

October 5, 2009

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff:

On behalf of all of us, and more than 120,000 Johns Hopkins alumni, we add our congratulations to those pouring in from around the world for Carol Greider, who today was named co-winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Carol, the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the Johns Hopkins Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences in the university’s School of Medicine, is the 33rd person associated with Johns Hopkins to win a Nobel, one of the world’s most prestigious prizes. She is being recognized for her landmark 1984 discovery of the enzyme telomerase, which maintains the ends of chromosomes–known as telomeres–and protects them from damage. Her work has laid the foundation for novel studies connecting telomerase and telomeres to human cancer and diseases of aging.

Studying a single-celled, pond-dwelling organism called Tetrahymena thermophila, which contains many minichromosomes and provides more chromosome ends than other types of cells, Carol discovered that Tetrahymena cells contain an enzyme that adds small, repetitive DNA sequences to the telomeres, keeping them the same length. Carol and her graduate advisor, Elizabeth Blackburn, named the enzyme telomere terminal transferase, later shortened to telomerase.

Carol and her colleagues then found that telomere shortening does indeed occur in human cells when telomerase is inactive or in short supply, suggesting that short telomeres limit a cell’s ability to divide and that blocking telomerase function might limit the growth of cancer cells.

Thanks to her work, we now have a greater understanding of a number of conditions caused by malfunctions in telomerase, and scientists throughout the world are putting that knowledge to work in their research on treatments.

Carol’s profoundly important work, its impact on science and its increasing implications for human health exemplify the Johns Hopkins mission in advancing knowledge for the sake of our world. We are pleased that the Nobel Foundation has chosen to honor her, and we offer her our heartiest congratulations.

Sincerely,

Ronald J. Daniels
President
The Johns Hopkins University

Edward D. Miller, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine