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.
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
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
The text of an email message sent by Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels to students, faculty and staff concerning the death in Afghanistan of university alumna and U.S. diplomat Anne Smedinghoff.
April 7, 2013 Tags: Afghanistan, Anne Smedinghoff, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus 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
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
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
Supported by a five-year $7.4 million National Science Foundation grant, experts at The Johns Hopkins University are partnering with teachers and administrators in Baltimore City Public Schools on a program to enhance teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering and math in city elementary schools by making STEM a community affair. The program, called STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools – SABES for short — not only will benefit more than 1,600 students in grades three through five in nine city elementary schools, but could also become a national model for science, technology, engineering and math education.
September 25, 2012 Tags: Baltimore City Public School System, City Schools, Engineering, Greater Homewood, Highlandtown/Greektown, Johns Hopkins-Baltimore City Public Schools partnership, Katya Denisova, Lower Park Heights, Maryland Science Center, mathematics, Michael Falk, National Aquarium in Baltimore, National Science Foundation, Ronald J. Daniels, SABES, Science, STEM education, Technology, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Education/K-12, Engineering, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Social Sciences, Technology, University-Related
This Friday, thousands of traffic-sign yellow shoes will appear near the corner of St. Paul and 33rd streets as a reminder to students at The Johns Hopkins University to put their best feet forward when it comes to pedestrian and bicycle safety.
August 28, 2012 Tags: Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Daniel Ennis, Keshia Pollack, Moses Song, pedestrian safety, Road Scholar, Ronald J. Daniels, Student Government Association
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News
Hundreds of Baltimore public school students whose families can’t afford required school uniforms have been invited to Johns Hopkins on Wednesday to eat ice cream and receive two free uniforms donated by employees and students.
August 21, 2012 Tags: back-to-school, Baltimore City Public Schools, Michael A. Sarbanes, Ronald J. Daniels, school uniforms
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
President Ronald J. Daniels announced on Wednesday, July 18, that Provost Lloyd B. Minor will be leaving Johns Hopkins after nearly two decades to accept a position as dean of medicine at Stanford University.
July 18, 2012 Tags: Lloyd B. Minor, Lloyd Minor, provost, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, University Administration, University-Related
President Ronald J. Daniels and more than 75 other research university leaders are asking the federal government to provide top international graduates a clear path to green cards so they can make discoveries, invent technologies and create jobs in the United States.
June 29, 2012 Tags: green card, H-1B visa, immigration, Ronald Daniels, Ronald J. Daniels, STEM, students, visa
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, Student-Related News, University Administration
More than 300 East Baltimore students, residents and others will join Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, city and state officials, and Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels today for a ceremonial groundbreaking of a new $43 million state-of-the-art elementary school and The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Early Childhood Center.
June 11, 2012 Tags: East Baltimore Develoment Inc., Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School, Ronald J. Daniels, School of Education
| Category: Education/K-12
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
President Ronald J. Daniels issued a statement on the news of the death on Jan. 2 of William P. Carey, trustee emeritus of the university and donor of the gift that launched the university’s Carey Business School.
January 3, 2012 Tags: Ronald J. Daniels, William P. Carey
| Category: Business and Economics, Institutional News, University-Related
Paul B. Rothman, a distinguished physician, scientist, educator and academic health care leader, was appointed Dec. 19 as the next dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine,
December 19, 2011 Tags: Carol Greider, Frances Jane Meyer, Francis Burch, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Lloyd B. Minor, Mike Weisfeldt, Paul Rothman, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University has honored John Astin by naming the recently renovated theater in the Merrick Barn after the noted actor and teacher. The naming took place Saturday, Dec. 3 at an event celebrating the completion of renovations to the barn, and recognizing Astin’s 10-year anniversary of teaching, acting and directing at Johns Hopkins.
December 8, 2011 Tags: France-Merrick Foundation, John Astin, Katherine Newman, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
President Ronald J. Daniels sent a broadcast email message to students, faculty and staff at The Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, Oct. 4, congratulating Professor Adam G. Riess, the just-announced co-winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. This is the text of that message.
October 4, 2011 Tags: Adam Riess, Nobel Prize, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Uncategorized, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School will open the fourth season of its Leaders + Legends lecture series on Tuesday, Sept. 20, with a presentation by Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels.
September 15, 2011 Tags: Carey Business School, Leaders + Legends Series, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Events Open to the Public, University Administration
Glenn M. Bieler, now associate vice president for university marketing and communications at Case Western Reserve University, has been appointed vice president for communications and public affairs at The Johns Hopkins University.
May 19, 2011 Tags: Glenn M. Bieler, Michael C. Eicher, Ronald J. Daniels, vice president for communications and public affairs
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
President Ronald J. Daniels announced to faculty and staff members at The Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday, May 4, that Edward D. Miller, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, plans to retire in 2012.
May 4, 2011 Tags: dean, Edward Miller, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Ronald J. Daniels, School of Medicine
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels announced today that the university will break ground in June on the Cordish Lacrosse Center, a $10 million, 14,000-square foot facility that will house the Johns Hopkins men’s and women’s lacrosse programs. The facility, which will be located at the south end of Homewood Field, will be the first of its kind constructed solely for men’s and women’s lacrosse programs.
February 15, 2011 Tags: Cordish Lacrosse Center, Dave Pietramala, David Cordish, David Townsend, Dennis Townsend, Homewood Field, Janine Tucker, Joe Cowan, Johns Hopkins Men's Lacrosse, Johns Hopkins Women's Lacrosse, Ralph O'Connor, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Sports
Liberty Media Corp. chairman and Johns Hopkins alumnus John C. Malone has given the university’s Whiting School of Engineering $30 million for a new research building to be built on the Homewood campus.
January 3, 2011 Tags: Homewood campus, John C. Malone, Nicholas Jones, Ronald J. Daniels, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
