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.
Computers, like those that power self-driving cars, can be tricked into mistaking random scribbles for trains, fences and even school busses. People aren’t supposed to be able to see how those images trip up computers but in a new study, Johns Hopkins University researchers show most people actually can.
March 22, 2019 Tags: adversarial images, artificial intelligence, Chaz Firestone, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, fooling images, Johns Hopkins University, self-driving cars
| Category: Computer Science, Psychology, Technology, Uncategorized
Lori Beth Finkelstein has been appointed the new Philip Franklin Wagley Director and Curator of Evergreen Museum & Library. She will begin on March 18.
March 15, 2019 Tags: Evergreen Museum & Library
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Libraries, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in public health, nursing and medicine are once again among the country’s very best, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 12, 2019 | Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, University-Related
Can liberal democracy endure? Reawakening the Spirit of Democracy will address this question head-on. Co-hosted by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the Renew Democracy Initiative, this conference will convene global thought leaders from across the political spectrum who will debate threats to democracy and propose strategies to reinvigorate it.
March 11, 2019 Tags: Anne Applebaum, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Barbara Mikulski, Ben Cardin, Bill Galston, Bill Kristol, Bret Stephens, Dana White, Donna Brazile, Ed Lucas, Eric Cantor, Evelyn Farkas, Francisco González, Garry Kasparov, Graham Brookie, Jennifer Rubin, Johns Hopkins University, Jonathan Haidt, Max Boot, Pete Wehner, Renew Democracy Initiative, Richard North Patterson, Sheri Berman, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Yamiche Alcindor, Yascha Mounk
| Category: Uncategorized
The 5th Annual Cyber Security Conference for Executives, co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins University and business advisory and expert services firm Ankura, presents a forum for experts from academia, private business, and government to share their knowledge and experience.
March 6, 2019 Tags: cyber security, Technology, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Technology, University-Related
Incorporating the arts—rapping, dancing, drawing—into science lessons can help low-achieving students retain more knowledge and possibly help students of all ability levels be more creative in their learning, finds a new study by Johns Hopkins University.
March 5, 2019 Tags: arts, Education, K-12 Education, Mariale Hardiman, School of Education, STEM
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12
A popular theme in the movies is that of an incoming asteroid that could extinguish life on the planet, and our heroes are launched into space to blow it up. But incoming asteroids may be harder to break than scientists previously thought, finds a Johns Hopkins study that used a new understanding of rock fracture and a new computer modeling method to simulate asteroid collisions.
March 4, 2019 Tags: asteroid, Charles El Mir, computer simulation, HEMI, KT Ramesh, space, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Physics and Astronomy
A new Johns Hopkins study offers promise towards someday being able to non-invasively examine changes in cancerous tumors to determine whether they’ll respond to radiation treatment, before treatment even begins.
February 28, 2019 Tags: cancer, Engineering, imaging, Ishan Barman, pathology, radiation, radiology, Santosh Paidi, tumor, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
A new method of increasing the reactivity of ultrathin nanosheets, just a few atoms thick, can someday make fuel cells for hydrogen cars cheaper, finds a new Johns Hopkins study.
February 21, 2019 Tags: Chao Wang, electric car, energy, fuel cell car, fuel cells, green energy, Technology, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Chemistry, Engineering, Technology
Johns Hopkins University and Health System announced today that the institution has surpassed its three-year goals for hiring, purchasing and construction contracting.
February 21, 2019 Tags: Baltimore, Economic Inclusion, HopkinsLocal, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins Blue Jay mascot debuted a new look during a dramatic reveal today at halftime of the men’s lacrosse home opener. With a nod to Hopkins’ excellence in the fields of science and health, “Jay’s” makeover reflects his efforts to improve his personal fitness while also exhibiting more scientifically and anatomically correct attributes for his species.
February 16, 2019 Tags: Blue Jay, Johns Hopkins University, mascot
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Sports, Uncategorized, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University’s Blue Jay mascot will debut a new look during a dramatic reveal Saturday at halftime of the men’s lacrosse home opener. With a nod to Hopkins’ excellence in the fields of science and health, “Jay’s” makeover reflects his efforts to improve his personal fitness while also exhibiting more scientifically and anatomically correct attributes for his species.
February 15, 2019 Tags: Blue Jay, Johns Hopkins University, mascot
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Sports, University-Related
Many astronomy researchers benefit from sky surveys containing millions of stars and galaxies observed by telescopes. But Brice Ménard’s colleagues say his imagination and insight make him particularly adept at discovering the universal secrets hidden in a daunting amount of data. Ménard, an astrophysicist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, has received this year’s $250,000 President’s Frontier Award to support his exploration of astronomical data.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Brice Ménard, President Ronald J. Daniels, President's Frontier Award
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, University Administration, University-Related
The more crime that occurs along a student’s way to school, the higher the likelihood that student will be absent, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Baltimore, crime, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Burdick-Will, school commute
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences
Cybele Bjorklund, a longtime federal health policy leader, has been appointed vice president for federal strategy, a new position for Johns Hopkins University and Medicine. She joins the university March 1 and will be based in Washington, D.C.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Cybele Bjorklund, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
February 11, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Chanapa Tantibanchachai Office: 443-997-5056 / Cell: 928-458-9656 chanapa@jhu.edu @JHUmediareps Before the age of GPS, humans had to orient themselves without on-screen arrows pointing down an exact street, but rather, by memorizing landmarks and using learned relationships among time, speed and distance. They had to know, for instance, that […]
February 11, 2019 Tags: brain, James Knierim, location, Manu Madhav, memory, neuroscience, Noah Cowan, Ravi Jayakumar
| Category: biology, Engineering
A diverse array of activists is slated to visit Johns Hopkins University this semester as part of the annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium. This year’s theme is “Disrupt.”
February 11, 2019 Tags: Foreign Affairs Symposium, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
February 11, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Shani McPherson Office: 410-516-4778 Cell: 510-393-7159 sprovos1@jhu.edu WHAT: More than 300 graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University this weekend for the latest HopHacks, a marathon session challenging students to realize their best software and hardware ideas and compete for cash […]
February 11, 2019 Tags: Engineering, event, HopHacks, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Public Health, Technology
The Curiosity Rover may have been ambling around the Gale Crater on Mars for nearly seven years but a group at Johns Hopkins University has just found a way to use it for something new: making the first surface gravity measurements on a planet other than Earth.
January 31, 2019 Tags: Curiosity Rover, gravity, Johns Hopkins University, Kevin Lewis, Mars
| Category: Physics and Astronomy, Uncategorized
China, already the world’s leading emitter of human-caused greenhouse gases, continues to pump increasing amounts of climate-changing methane into the atmosphere despite tough new regulations on gas releases from its coal mines, a new Johns Hopkins study shows.
January 29, 2019 Tags: climate change, emissions, Engineering, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, methane, Scot Miller
| Category: Engineering, Environment
Beginning Feb. 1, the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Museum will replace its traditional guided tour with one that gives equal focus to two enslaved families, the Conners and the Rosses, who supported Homewood’s original family, Charles and Harriet Carroll. All tours will be free in February.
January 28, 2019 Tags: Charles and Harriet Carroll, enslavement, history, Homewood Museum, museum, slavery
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University’s statement regarding the agreement reached between the university and the Freedom Forum, the creator and principal funder of the Newseum.
January 25, 2019 Tags: 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, D.C., Freedom Forum, Johns Hopkins University, Newseum, real estate, Washington
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
A 32-year-old Greek woman is reportedly pregnant from an experimental reproductive technique that uses DNA from three people, the result of the first known clinical trial to use the controversial procedure to treat infertility.
Jeffrey Kahn, director of Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics, who chaired a 2016 U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel that examined the science and ethical issues raised by the three-parent procedure, is available to discuss the implications of this new pregnancy and the procedure, known as mitochondrial replacement therapy, which is banned in the United States.
January 24, 2019 Tags: Berman Institute of Bioethics, bioethics, biology, Jeffrey Kahn, medicine
| Category: biology, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute will sponsor a PBS NewsHour event Divided Nation, United States, to try to uncover how these governors work with their legislatures, relate to their constituents, and define success.
January 15, 2019 Tags: Divided Nation, Johns Hopkins University, partisanship, PBS NewsHour, politics, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute, United States
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
Demi Lovato’s drug overdose and Anthony Bourdain’s suicide resulted in unequal news coverage of national help hotlines, finds a new study published Jan. 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
January 14, 2019 Tags: celebrity, computer engineering, drug overdose, Google, Mark Dredze, media, news coverage, substance abuse, suicide, Twitter, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Technology
