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.
The 137th academic year at The Johns Hopkins University has come to a close, and with that ending, new beginnings will be launched at a university-wide commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 23.
May 21, 2013 Tags: 2013 Commencement Ceremonies, 2013 university graduates, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Homewood Field, Johns Hopkins Commencement
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels announced today that the university will seek a NCAA Division I conference affiliation for its men’s lacrosse team.
May 17, 2013 Tags: Johns Hopkins Men's Lacrosse, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels announced that Peabody Institute Director Jeffrey Sharkey has decided to step down.
May 10, 2013 Tags: Jeffrey Sharkey, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins aims to advance human knowledge, solve global problems and enhance the student experience with $4.5 billion to be raised in the new “Rising to the Challenge” campaign, the university and health system announced Saturday.
May 4, 2013 | Category: Giving, Institutional News, University-Related
A summary of relevant numbers and other background on “Rising to the Challenge: The Johns Hopkins Campaign.”
May 4, 2013 Tags: Rising to the Challenge
| Category: Giving, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Robert C. Lieberman, a distinguished political scientist and accomplished academic administrator at Columbia University, has been named the 14th provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at The Johns Hopkins University.
April 29, 2013 Tags: Jonathan Bagger, Lloyd B. Minor, provost, Robert Lieberman, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Mark B. Rotenberg, general counsel of the University of Minnesota, has been appointed vice president and general counsel of The Johns Hopkins University, responsible for all university legal matters.
April 22, 2013 Tags: Frederick Savage, Mark Rotenberg, Ronald J. Daniels, Stephen Dunham, Vice President and General Counsel
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Nicholas P. Jones, dean of the Whiting School of Engineering, will be leaving Johns Hopkins on June 30 to accept a position as executive vice president and provost of The Pennsylvania State University.
April 19, 2013 Tags: Nicholas Jones, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Kevin G. Shollenberger, since 2008 the chief student affairs officer for undergraduates at Columbia University, has been appointed vice provost for student affairs at The Johns Hopkins University.
April 16, 2013 Tags: Jonathan Bagger, Kevin Shollenberger, student affairs
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
The Innovation for Humanity course of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Global MBA program is being honored in the inaugural Green Blue Jay Awards presented by the Johns Hopkins University Office of Sustainability.
April 12, 2013 Tags: Carey Business School, Global MBA, Green Blue Jay Awards, Innovation for Humanity, Johns Hopkins Office of Sustainability
| Category: Business and Economics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, Uncategorized, University Administration
Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, a renowned neuroscientist and neurosurgeon at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will be the featured speaker at the university’s Thursday, May 23, commencement ceremony. He will address graduates from all Johns Hopkins schools at the morning university-wide event at the Homewood campus at which their degrees are officially conferred.
April 11, 2013 Tags: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, class of 2013, Commencement, Johns Hopkins Hospital
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News
Tuition for full-time liberal arts and engineering undergraduates at The Johns Hopkins University will increase 3.5 percent this fall, the smallest percentage increase in 39 years.
April 5, 2013 Tags: 2013-2014, Financial aid, Homewood campus, room and board, tuition
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
A memorial service for Steven Muller, president emeritus of The Johns Hopkins University, will be held at the university’s Peabody Institute in Baltimore on Friday. Feb. 22, at 3:30 p.m.
February 18, 2013 Tags: Ronald J. Daniels, Steven Muller
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University has chosen a team headed by Baltimore- and Virginia-based Armada Hoffler to develop a mixed-use retail and residential complex with garage parking on university-owned land in the 3200 block of St. Paul Street in Charles Village.
February 8, 2013 Tags: Charles Village, Homewood Community Partners Initiative, real estate, St. Paul Street, St. Paul Street Project in Charles Village
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration
Philanthropist and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has committed $350 million to The Johns Hopkins University, anchoring a major initiative aimed at bringing significant innovation to U.S. higher education. The total commitment – the largest ever to the university – lifts Bloomberg’s lifetime giving to Johns Hopkins beyond $1 billion.
January 26, 2013 Tags: Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, Bloomberg Scholarships, Financial aid, global health, higher education, individualized health care delivery, Michael R. Bloomberg, philanthropy, the science of learning, urban revitalization, water resource sustainability
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Steven Muller, a major figure in U.S. higher education who served 18 years as president of The Johns Hopkins University, died Jan. 19 at his home in Washington, D.C., of respiratory failure. He was 85.
January 22, 2013 Tags: Ronald J. Daniels, Ross Jones, Steven Muller
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Building on the success of last year’s inaugural event, Johns Hopkins University will again host the Symposium on Excellence in Teaching and Learning in the Sciences. The daylong Gateway Sciences Initiative (GSI) symposium will be held Thursday, Jan. 17, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Hodson Hall on the university’s Homewood campus in Baltimore.
January 16, 2013 Tags: Gateway Sciences Initiative
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration
The Johns Hopkins University recently honored Ray Snow of Palm Beach, Fla., with its Heritage Award for his outstanding service to the university and its alumni association.
January 9, 2013 Tags: Heritage Award, Johns Hopkins Alumni Association, Ray Snow
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration
ince its launch in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has revolutionized our view of the universe, establishing a cosmological model that explains a widely diverse collection of astronomical observations. Led by Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett, the WMAP science team has determined, to a high degree of accuracy and precision, not only the age of the universe, but also the density of atoms; the density of all other non-atomic matter; the epoch when the first stars started to shine; the “lumpiness” of the universe, and how that “lumpiness” depends on scale size. Now, two years after the probe “retired,” Bennett and the WMAP science team are releasing its final results, based on a full nine years of observations.
December 21, 2012 Tags: Adam G. Riess, age of the universe, baby picture of the universe, big bang theory, Charles L. Bennett, dark energy, Gary Hinshaw, the density of atoms, University of British Columbia, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, WMAP
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University is offering admission to 530 students into its class of 2017 through the early decision process.
December 14, 2012 Tags: admissions, class of 2017, early decision, Ellen Kim
| Category: Institutional News
The Johns Hopkins University will contribute $10 million over five years to enhance and strengthen neighborhoods surrounding the university’s Homewood campus in northern Baltimore City, President Ronald J. Daniels announced.
December 6, 2012 Tags: HCPI, Homewood campus, Homewood Campus Partners Initiative, Ronald J. Daniels, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
Benjamin Carson, an internationally renowned physician and director of pediatric neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been appointed president of the board of the East Baltimore Community School Inc., effective Dec. 1. The board manages the operation of the Elmer A. Henderson School: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School – formerly known as the East Baltimore Community School (EBCS).
December 3, 2012 Tags: Benjamin Carson, East Baltimore Community School, Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School
| Category: Education/K-12, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing
The Johns Hopkins University performed $2.1 billion in medical, science and engineering research in fiscal 2011, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total research and development spending for the 33rd year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking. The university also once again ranked first on the NSF’s separate list of federally funded research and development, spending $1.88 billion in FY2011 on research supported by NSF, NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.
November 28, 2012 Tags: APL, Applied Physics Laboratory, Department of Defense, federal expenditures, Johns Hopkins University, Jonathan Bagger, NASA, National Science Foundation, R & D
| Category: Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Investment entrepreneur Jeffrey H. Aronson, a trustee since 2006, has been elected to serve as the 16th chair of The Johns Hopkins University board of trustees beginning July 1.
November 16, 2012 Tags: board of trustees, Jeffrey Aronson, Pamela Flaherty, Ronald Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled in favor of The Johns Hopkins University’s motion for summary judgment in litigation filed against the university by Timothy Newell and others regarding the Johns Hopkins Belward Research Park. The university has issued a statement in response.
October 26, 2012 Tags: Belward Research Campus, Montgomery County
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
