Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
A grant to CTY from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation will allow the Center for Talented Youth in collaboration with Anatolia American College to start the CTY in Thessaloniki. The center, which will offer programs for bright students throughout Greece and Southeastern Europe, will welcome its first students in the summer of 2014.
May 16, 2013 | Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12, International Affairs, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
The annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium at The Johns Hopkins University is returning to the Homewood campus this month, with several prominent speakers scheduled to appear during the spring semester under the theme, “From the Front Line to the Bottom Line.” Retired Gen. Stanley McChyrstal, who most recently served as commander of the International Security Assistance Force and commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, will open the lecture series on Wednesday, Feb. 27.
February 14, 2013 Tags: Foreign Affairs Symposium
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Student-Related News
Vali R. Nasr, a leading scholar, foreign policy adviser to Democratic and Republican administrations, and commentator on international relations, has been appointed dean of The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
March 27, 2012 Tags: dean, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Ronald J. Daniels, SAIS, Vali Nasr
| Category: Government and Politics, Institutional News, International Affairs, University Administration, University-Related
The annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium at The Johns Hopkins University has returned with several prominent speakers scheduled to visit the Homewood campus during the spring semester.
March 5, 2012 Tags: David Frum, John Ashcroft, Occupy Wall Street, Robert Gibbs, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Stephen Moore, Valerie Plame
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, International Affairs, Student-Related News
Members of the Johns Hopkins University chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-JHU) — who have launched humanitarian efforts in Ecuador, Guatemala and South Africa — will discuss their work at the group’s annual showcase on Sunday, Feb. 25.
February 22, 2012 Tags: Engineers Without Borders, EWB-JHU, humanitarian engineering projects
| Category: Engineering, Environment, International Affairs, Student-Related News, Technology
Should the disputed Falkland Islands be returned to Argentina? In his latest article for Globe Asia, titled “The Falklands and other dangerous disputed territories – a market solution,” Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at The Johns Hopkins University, writes that a market solution could help Britain and Argentina avoid another war.
February 2, 2012 Tags: Argentina, Falkland Islands, Prince William, Steve Hanke
| Category: Business and Economics, International Affairs
Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have discovered a way to make time stand still — at least when it comes to the yearly calendar. Using computer programs and mathematical formulas, Richard Conn Henry, an astrophysicist in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Steve H. Hanke, an applied economist in the Whiting School of Engineering, have created a new calendar in which each new 12-month period is identical to the one which came before, and remains that way from one year to the next in perpetuity.
December 27, 2011 Tags: calendar reform, day count, Gregorian calendar, Hanke-Henry Permanent Calender, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Richard Conn Henry, Steve H. Hanke, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Business and Economics, Engineering, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Physics and Astronomy
Why do people from different cultures negotiate in different ways? New research shows that different levels of trust account for these divergent strategies, with negotiators from less trusting cultures engaging in behaviors that lead to poor outcomes.
December 7, 2011 Tags: Amit Nandkeolyar, Brian Gunia, Dishan Kamdar, Indian School of Business, Jeanne Brett, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Journal of Applied Psychology, Northwestern University
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, International Affairs, Psychology, Social Sciences, University-Related
On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack, three student groups – the JHU Muslim Association, Hopkins Hillel and S.E.E.D. (Students Educating and Empowering for Diversity) – will conduct a candlelight memorial service for the lives lost and present four scholars who will speak on the significance of the event.
September 9, 2011 Tags: 9/11 anniversary, Hopkins Hillel, JHU Muslim Association, memorial service, university student organizations
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Social Sciences, Student-Related News
Reporters may want to consider some of the following Johns Hopkins University scholars as potential sources for stories about how the world has changed 10 years after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
August 17, 2011 Tags: 9/11, Sept. 11, terrorist attacks
| Category: Government and Politics, International Affairs, Public Health, Social Sciences
Jessica P. Einhorn, dean of The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, will retire at the end of the coming academic year, she announced today.
August 1, 2011 Tags: Jessica P. Einhorn, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, SAIS
| Category: Institutional News, International Affairs, University Administration, University-Related
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies announced today the release of a new manual to help statistical agencies around the world track the amount, type and value of volunteer work in their countries.
March 23, 2011 Tags: International Labour Organization, International Technical Experts Group, Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, Lester Salamon, United Nations Volunteers
| Category: Government and Politics, International Affairs
Ten distinguished cognitive neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists and linguists from top institutions across the country will gather at Shriver and Mason halls this week to discuss what promise to be the most exciting new developments in the study of the mind and brain over the coming decade. Sponsored by the departments of Cognitive Science and Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, this seminar will do more than stimulate discussion: It will create a blueprint for the future of cognitive and brain sciences at The Johns Hopkins University. This event is the seventh in a series of Futures Seminars that began in September with the Classics Department and has included sessions for the departments of Physics and Astronomy, Anthropology and History; the Humanities Center; and the Film and Media Studies program. By this time next year, 21 Futures Seminars comprising every department, discipline and program in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences will have been held, according to Katherine Newman, the James B. Knapp Dean of the school.
December 14, 2010 Tags: academic direction, brain sciences, cognitive science, Futures Seminar, Futures Seminars, Homewood campus, James B. Knapp Dean, Katherine Newman, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Mind/Brain Institute, Psychology
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Arts and Humanities, Environment, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, University-Related
To raise money for Haiti earthquake relief efforts, Johns Hopkins student organizations have organized a daylong series of events involving music, dancing, food and athletics on Saturday, Feb. 20, on the university’s Homewood campus. The overall theme is “Saturday for Haiti.”
February 19, 2010 | Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Public Health, Student-Related News
With a lineup of big-name speakers and a new, interactive Web site, the annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium is returning to the Homewood campus this week, with a talk by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in Shriver Hall Auditorium.
February 2, 2010 Tags: James J. Yee, Jean-Hervé Bradol, John Yoo, Lisa Jackson, Matthew Eversmann, Niall Ferguson, Nicholas Kristof, Robert Mueller
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Student-Related News
For stories related to the earthquake in Haiti, consider the following sources from The Johns Hopkins University. Listed with each source is a brief description of his or her area of expertise.
January 14, 2010 Tags: children, earthquake, Haiti, healthcare, structures, water quality
| Category: Engineering, Environment, Government and Politics, International Affairs, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
President Obama is scheduled tonight to announce his strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in response, three student groups at Johns Hopkins have organized a panel discussion for Thursday night, reflecting the discussions happening nationwide on the topic.
December 1, 2009 | Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, International Affairs, Student-Related News
