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.
Indigenous Peoples Day is a new tradition at Johns Hopkins University that celebrates a vital population in our community. A reimagining of Columbus Day, the event will honor the rich heritage of Indigenous communities with a Pow-Wow featuring singing, drummers, dancing, and tastings of tribal cuisine.
October 11, 2019 Tags: Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day, Johns Hopkins University, Pow-Wow
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
Quantum computers with the ability to perform complex calculations, encrypt data more securely and more quickly predict the spread of viruses, may be within closer reach thanks to a new discovery by Johns Hopkins researchers.
October 10, 2019 Tags: Chia-Ling Chien, physics and astronomy, quantum computing, quantum mechanics, superconductors, Yufan Li
| Category: Physics and Astronomy
Biologists at Johns Hopkins University have uncovered an important clue in the longtime mystery of how long strands of DNA fold up to squeeze into microscopic cells, with each pair of chromosomes aligned to ensure perfect development.
October 10, 2019 Tags: biology, chromosomes, developmental biology, DNA, genes, Johns Hopkins University, Robert Johnston
| Category: biology, Natural Sciences
In honor of World Sight Day, Vision for Baltimore will host a vision health fair at Henderson-Hopkins School on Thursday, October 10. Now in its fourth year, Vision for Baltimore is a citywide program between The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore City Health Department, nonprofit Vision To Learn and eyewear retailer Warby Parker to provide all pre-K through 8th grade public school students with vision screenings, eye exams and eyeglasses, all at no out-of-pocket costs for families. Other funders include the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Abell Foundation.
October 9, 2019 Tags: event, Henderson-Hopkins School, Vision for Baltimore
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
The market for data analytics jobs in federal, state and local government is expected to expand over the next two years as public agencies across the nation increasingly rely on data to improve operations, according to a new survey conducted by Johns Hopkins University and two partners, REI Systems and ACT-IAC.
October 7, 2019 Tags: data analytics, Government, Government Analytics
| Category: Government and Politics
Weeding, canvassing neighborhoods to share information about community resources and picking up trash. These are just some of the ways more than 1,300 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help the city on Saturday, Sept. 21, as they volunteer en masse at 38 Baltimore non-profit organizations.
September 20, 2019 Tags: community service, Day of Service, President’s Day of Service, volunteer
| Category: Homewood Campus News, University-Related
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University has unveiled plans for the Institute’s home in Baltimore, designed by world-renowned architecture firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The new structure on the Homewood campus promises to represent the mission and values of the Institute as well as the creativity and vibrancy of the university and the city.
September 19, 2019 Tags: Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University, Renzo Piano, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have successfully created personalized digital replicas of the upper chambers of the heart and used them to guide the precise treatment of patients suffering from persistent irregular heartbeats. These simulations accurately identified where clinicians need to destroy tissue to restore the heart’s normal rhythm.
August 19, 2019 Tags: Engineering, heartbeats, Hugh Calkins, irregular heartbeat, Natalia Trayanova, OPTIMA, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
Dark matter, which researchers believe make up about 80% of the universe’s mass, is one of the most elusive mysteries in modern physics. What exactly it is and how it came to be is a mystery, but a new Johns Hopkins University study now suggests that dark matter may have existed before the Big Bang.
August 8, 2019 Tags: Big Bang, dark matter, Department of Physics and Astronomy, particle physics, space, Tommi Tenkanen
| Category: Physics and Astronomy
A new study of rocks that formed billions of years ago lends fresh insight into how Earth’s plate tectonics, or the movement of large pieces of Earth’s outer shell, evolved over the planet’s 4.56-billion-year history.
August 7, 2019 Tags: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Earth, plate tectonics, Robert Holder, rocks
| Category: Earth Science
Some older adults without noticeable cognitive problems have a harder time than younger people in separating irrelevant information from what they need to know at a given time, and a new Johns Hopkins University study could explain why.
August 5, 2019 Tags: aging, brain, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Susan M. Courtney, Thomas Hinault
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Psychology
A new reusable device created by the Johns Hopkins University can help women with breast cancer in lower income countries by using carbon dioxide, a widely available and affordable gas, to power a cancer tissue-freezing probe instead of industry-standard argon.
July 15, 2019 Tags: biomedical engineering, cancer, Nicholas Durr, oncology, student research, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Student-Related News
On July 3, Johns Hopkins University, along with the architecture and design team of Ennead Architects and SmithGroup, filed for an informational review with the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts for the proposed “Hopkins D.C.” facility in the property currently housing the Newseum at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. This is a first step to obtain early feedback from CFA in advance of the formal review process that will begin later in the year, along with reviews and approvals by other entities.
July 5, 2019 Tags: building, Hopkins DC, Newseum
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
In cinema and science fiction, one small change in the past can have major, sometimes life-changing effects in the future. Using a series of snapshots, researchers recently captured such so-called “butterfly effects” in heart muscle cell development, and say this new view into the sequence of gene expression activity may lead to better understanding disease risk.
June 27, 2019 Tags: Alexis Battle, Engineering, gene expression, genes, genetics, heart muscle cells, stem cells, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: biology, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
Alicia Wilson, an accomplished attorney and civic leader with deep expertise in creating local economic opportunity, has been appointed vice president for economic development for Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System. She will lead the newly-created Office of Economic Development when she joins the organization in July.
June 19, 2019 Tags: Alicia Wilson, Baltimore, BLocal, East Baltimore Development Initiative, Homewood Community Partners Initiative, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins Health System, Johns Hopkins University, vice president for economic development
| Category: Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration
They’ve never seen animals like hippos and sharks but adults born blind have rich insight into what they look like, a new Johns Hopkins University study found.
May 21, 2019 Tags: animals, blindness, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Judy Kim, language, Marina Bedny, sight, vision
| Category: Psychology
More than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students will claim their degrees Thursday, May 23, at the commencement ceremony for all of the University’s divisions and campuses.
May 20, 2019 Tags: 2019, Class Of 2019, Commencement, graduation, Jeffrey Goldberg
| Category: Commencement, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
Twenty-five local companies that came together pledging to create more economic opportunity in Baltimore report after the first three years of that effort, they’re buying $50 million more from city and with minority vendors than they had been and have hired more than 1,700 Baltimore residents.
May 15, 2019 Tags: Baltimore City, BLocal, Economic Inclusion, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, University Administration
Rewards are necessary for learning, but may actually mask true knowledge, finds a new Johns Hopkins University study with rodents and ferrets.
May 14, 2019 Tags: ainmals, animal research, behavior, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Kishore Kuchibhotla, learning, rewards, rodents
| Category: biology, Psychology
A new analysis co-led by The Johns Hopkins University identified 25 United States counties that are most likely to experience measles outbreaks in 2019. The analysis combined international air travel volume, non-medical exemptions from childhood vaccinations, population data and reported measles outbreak information.
May 9, 2019 Tags: civil engineering, Lauren Gardner, measles, outbreak, Public Health, The Whiting School of Engineering, vaccines
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
A Canadian Supreme Court justice, a Johns Hopkins University board of trustees chair, an acclaimed economist, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, a former commander of the United States Strategic Command, a renowned geneticist, and the ad exec who created Meatless Mondays will receive Johns Hopkins honorary degrees this year.
May 6, 2019 | Category: Commencement, University-Related
The Centers for Civic Impact, an effort to help public organizations thoughtfully and masterfully use data and research to better understand and improve public life, has launched at Johns Hopkins University.
April 29, 2019 Tags: Beth Blauer, Center for Applied Public Research, Center for Government Excellence, Centers for Civic Impact, GovEx, GovEx Academy
| Category: Government and Politics, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Millennials are more likely to be arrested than their predecessor counterparts regardless of self-reported criminal activity, finds a new study by a Johns Hopkins University expert. Furthermore, black men who self-reported no offenses were 419% more likely to be arrested at the beginning of the 21st century than non-offending blacks of the previous generation, and 31.5% more likely to be arrested than whites of the same generation who did not self-report any crimes.
April 29, 2019 Tags: arrest, crime, disparities, generation, incarceration, Millennials, Political Science, sociology, Vesla Weaver
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
April 25, 2019 CONTACT: Chanapa Tantibanchachai Office: 443-997-5056 / Cell: 928-458-9656 chanapa@jhu.edu @JHUmediareps New measurements from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang, astronomers say. The new measurements, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal, reduce the chances […]
April 25, 2019 Tags: Adam Riess, galaxies, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope, physics and astronomy, space, Space Telescope Science Institute, Space@Hopkins, universe
| Category: Physics and Astronomy
Freshmen mechanical engineering students at the Johns Hopkins University have built an interactive 17-hole miniature golf course for 2019 JHU Spring Fair guests to enjoy. Working in teams of three or four, the students have created 17 holes that make up a lively golf course—each hole has moving parts, sensors and lights. Come see the course for yourself and try your hand at a round or two.
April 23, 2019 Tags: campus, Engineering, engineering student projects, event, golf, Spring Fair, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Student-Related News, University-Related
