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.
Public health experts predict the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic will include the mass evictions of as many as one million people who rent their homes.
The implications of that people potentially becoming homeless, with cities already struggling to contain the spread of the virus, could be devastating, says Johns Hopkins University sociologist Meredith Greif, who an expert in homelessness and housing insecurity.
July 20, 2020 Tags: COVID-19, evictions, homelessness, Johns Hopkins University, Meredith Greif, unemployment
| Category: Uncategorized
Johns Hopkins University filed suit in federal court Friday in an effort to stop a Trump administration rule change that would severely impact nearly 5,000 international students at the university. The decision to abruptly rescind accommodations for online learning during the COVID pandemic is unlawful and fails to consider the many complexities of meeting our educational mission while also protecting the health of our community.
July 10, 2020 Tags: international students, Johns Hopkins University, lawsuit, SEVP
| Category: Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
The presence of an abnormal number of chromosomes in the genetic profile of early-stage embryos may be far more common – and potentially less threatening – during normal human development than is currently appreciated, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University biologists.
July 8, 2020 Tags: Biology Department, biostatistics, cell biology, Department of Biology, developmental biology, embryos, In-Vitro Fertilization, IVF, pregnancy problems, tests for pregnant women, women's health
| Category: biology
Johns Hopkins University is deeply concerned by the guidance issued yesterday regarding the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) for fall 2020 that may affect the vast majority of our international students. While there are a number of outstanding questions to be resolved regarding this rule and what it means for Johns Hopkins’ students, we take significant issue with this draconian decision that has the potential to permanently and adversely affect the lives of international students.
July 7, 2020 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels, SEVP, Student and Exchange Visitor Program
| Category: Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration
As dying stars take their final few breaths of life, they gently sprinkle their ashes into the cosmos through the magnificent planetary nebulae. These ashes, spread via stellar winds, are enriched with many different chemical elements, including carbon.
Findings from a study published today in Nature Astronomy show that the final breaths of these dying stars, called white dwarfs, shed light on carbon’s origin in the Milky Way.
July 6, 2020 Tags: carbon, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Jeffrey Cummings, stars, White Dwarfs
| Category: Physics and Astronomy
Residents in all 25 of the U.S. counties hardest hit by COVID-19 began to limit their public movements six to 29 days before states implemented stay-at-home orders, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers.
July 1, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lauren Gardner
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Government and Politics, Social Sciences
A group of political science scholars is launching a webinar series on Friday to highlight escalating threats to democracy that have been percolating for decades and boiling over ever since Donald Trump’s election.
June 24, 2020 Tags: 2020 Elections, American Democracy Collaborative, Black Lives Matter, Cornell University, Donald Trump, Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
When Pulitzer Prize and Grammy award winner Kendrick Lamar rapped “I got millions, I got riches buildin’ in my DNA,” he almost certainly wasn’t talking about the humble tomato. But a new study unveiling more than 230,000 DNA differences across 100 tomato varieties which will allow breeders and scientists to engineer larger, juicier, more profitable plants, proves that tomatoes indeed have riches buildin’ in their DNA, too.
June 17, 2020 Tags: Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, computer science, genomes, genomics, Michael Schatz, The Whiting School of Engineering, tomatoes
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering
By chasing cockroaches through an obstacle course and studying their movements, the Johns Hopkins engineers that brought you the cockroach robot and the snake robot discovered that animals’ movement transitions corresponded to overcoming potential energy barriers and that they can jitter around to traverse obstacles in complex terrain.
June 15, 2020 Tags: Chen Li, cockroach, Ratan Othayoth, robot, search and rescue, Terradynamics Lab, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering
In a new study, researchers recently discovered that Indonesia’s national anti-poverty program reduced deforestation by about 30%.
June 12, 2020 Tags: Carey Business School, cash grants, conditional cash transfers, conservation, Indonesia, Paul Ferraro, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Uncategorized
Smart homes of today – with lights, refrigerators and Alexa all talking to each other – aren’t nearly as smart as they need to be to thwart virtual burglars from breaking in. To address the massive security threat to interconnected devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT), Johns Hopkins University and six other institutions are embarking on an effort to fortify vulnerable points of entry against hackers.
June 12, 2020 Tags: computer science, cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Smart Homes
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Government and Politics
Using a new technique originally designed to explore the cosmos, scientists have unveiled structures deep inside the Earth, paving the way towards a new map revealing what Earth’s interior looks like.
June 11, 2020 Tags: Brice Ménard, data, echoes, seismic echoes, seismology, Sequencer
| Category: Earth Science, Physics and Astronomy
The Johns Hopkins University professor behind the popular COVID-19 tracking map is joining scientists at two other institutions to develop new methods for understanding how and why the current coronavirus and future pandemics spread.
June 11, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lauren Gardner, National Institutes of Health, NIH grant
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics
Today, Johns Hopkins University announced a new partnership with Service to School’s (S2S) VetLink Program, which will expand opportunity and access for highly qualified veterans transitioning to higher education.
June 10, 2020 Tags: admissions, Johns Hopkins University, veterans, VetLink
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University researchers who study the mind and brain used methods from cognitive science to test a long-standing philosophical question: Can people see the world objectively?
June 8, 2020 Tags: Chaz Firestone, cognitive science, Jorge Morales, perception, philosophy
| Category: Psychology
COVID-19 has affected people differently, yet many feel the pandemic has radically affected their sense of time. For some, time drags. For others it passes much too fast. And almost everyone is having trouble remembering what day it is. Ian Phillips, a Johns Hopkins University professor who studies how humans experience time, is available to discuss what’s causing this common but very disconcerting experience.
June 1, 2020 Tags: COVID-19, Ian Phillips, Johns Hopkins University, sense of time
| Category: Psychology, Social Sciences
Johns Hopkins University today released a comprehensive report to help government, technology developers, businesses, institutional leaders and the public make responsible decisions around use of digital contact tracing technology (DCTT), including smartphone apps and other tools, to fight COVID-19.
May 26, 2020 Tags: contact tracing, COVID-19, Jeffrey Kahn, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Public Health
More than 9,000 Johns Hopkins University students will have their degrees conferred on Thursday, May 21 starting at 11 a.m. EDT, at the virtual commencement ceremony for all of the University’s divisions and campuses.
May 20, 2020 Tags: 2020 commencement, Commencement, graduation, virtual commencement
| Category: Commencement, University-Related
Johns Hopkins researchers recently received a $195,000 Rapid Response Research grant from the National Science Foundation to, using machine learning, identify which COVID-19 patients are at risk of adverse cardiac events such as heart failure, sustained abnormal heartbeats, heart attacks, cardiogenic shock and death.
May 18, 2020 Tags: AI, Allison Hays, cardiology, machine learning, Natalia Trayanova, NSF, RAPID grant
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
Anyone who’s ever tried to find something in a hurry knows how helpful it is to think about the lost item’s color, size and shape. But surprisingly, traits of an object that you can’t see also come into play during a search, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.
May 12, 2020 Tags: attention, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Jason Fischer, Johns Hopkins University, perception, vision science, visual search
| Category: Psychology
Yesterday, the United States Department of Education (DOE) released long-anticipated final amended regulations governing college and university handling of sexual misconduct matters under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). Title IX is a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational programs and activities which receive federal financial assistance.
May 7, 2020 Tags: amended regulations, Johns Hopkins University, Title IX
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
Internet entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of Reddit and Initialized Capital, Alexis Ohanian will be the speaker for Johns Hopkins University’s virtual commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 21.
May 5, 2020 Tags: 2020 commencement, Alexis Ohanian, Class of 2020, Commencement, commencement speaker, Reddit, virtual commencement
| Category: Commencement, University-Related
By studying how the tiniest organisms in the Atacama Desert of Chile, one of the driest places on Earth, extract water from rocks, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Irvine, and U.C. Riverside revealed how, against all odds, life can exist in extreme environments.
May 4, 2020 Tags: biology, extreme environments, gypsum, Jocelyne DiRuggiero, Mars
| Category: biology
The Johns Hopkins University has launched the East Baltimore COVID-19 Food Access Initiative, a partnership between JHU, Saval Foodservice, Hungry Harvest, and 16 faith based and community organizations to provide emergency food assistance to families impacted by COVID-19.
April 24, 2020 Tags: community, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Food Access Initiative
| Category: University-Related
The U.S. Department of Defense has selected Johns Hopkins University to lead an alliance of major research institutions to understand, predict, and control the behavior of materials in extreme conditions caused by weapons of mass destruction.
April 22, 2020 Tags: HEMI, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Chemistry, Engineering
