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 pandemic has made clear the threat that some viruses pose to humans. But viruses can also infect life-sustaining bacteria and a Johns Hopkins University-led team has developed a test to determine if bacteria are sick, similar to the one used to test humans for COVID-19.
February 25, 2021 Tags: bacteria, Chesapeake Bay, ecology, Johns Hopkins University, Sarah Preheim, viruses
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Environment
A new Johns Hopkins data tool helps people with disabilities determine when they qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine and compares how different states prioritize the disability community in the vaccine rollout.
Created by researchers, students and advocates who themselves are disabled and have personally experienced how inequitable and inaccessible the pandemic response has been, the COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization Dashboard launched to not only help the disability community get vaccinated, but also to arm policymakers with data to improve the system.
February 16, 2021 Tags: Bonnielin Swenor, COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization Dashboard, disabilities, Disability Health Research Center, Johns Hopkins University, vaccine
| Category: Government and Politics, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected on Friday to release guidance on the safe reopening of schools. Johns Hopkins University experts, including experts from the university’s Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, which has been studying the complex question of what it will take for the nation to safely return students to school, will be available for perspective and commentary on the CDC update.
February 11, 2021 Tags: Annette C. Anderson, CDC, Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, COVID-19, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Odis Johnson, Pandemic, school re-opening
| Category: Education/K-12, Public policy
Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. universities in research and development spending for the 41st consecutive year in fiscal year 2019, spending a record $2.917 billion.
February 10, 2021 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, National Science Foundation, research, research and development spending
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration
history than ever before. However, ongoing analysis from Johns Hopkins University finds these efforts often fail, because coursework emphasizes the negative aspects of African American life while omitting important contributions made by families of color in literature, politics, theology, art, and medicine.
February 10, 2021 Tags: African-American, Ashley Rogers Berner, Black history, Black History Month, Black Lives Matter, high school curriculum, Institute for Education Policy
| Category: Education/K-12, Public policy
A major research and science organization on Tuesday awarded the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center a public health honor for providing reliable real time data and analysis to help inform national and international responses to COVID-19.
February 4, 2021 Tags: Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, CRC, Johns Hopkins, Research!America
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, Technology
Faster commuter trains between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. could have a profound economic impact on Maryland’s largest city by attracting an influx of District residents that could spur more neighborhood redevelopment and by giving Charm City residents easier access to higher paying jobs in the nation’s capital.
February 3, 2021 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, commuter train, development, economy, high-speed rail
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public policy, Social Sciences
The lack of reliable access to broadband internet service for many in Baltimore, particularly the poor, has profound economic and social consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this painfully clear with an abrupt shift to online learning, remote work, and telemedicine. A new analysis from Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative says the city could move towards digital equity, with a roadmap of recommendations built on existing knowledge of Baltimore’s digital assets and the experience of other cities.
January 25, 2021 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, broadband, COVID-19, digital equity, Internet, Johns Hopkins University, Mac McComas, Mary Miller, Pandemic
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, Technology
The higher a person’s income, the more likely they were to protect themselves at the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, Johns Hopkins University economists find.
When it comes to adopting behaviors including social distancing and mask wearing, the team detected a striking link to their financial well-being. People who made around $230,000 a year were as much as 54% more likely to increase these types of self-protective behaviors compared to people making about $13,000.
January 14, 2021 Tags: COVID-19, economic inequality, income, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, masks, Nicholas Papageorge, Pandemic, poverty, protective behavior, social distancing
| Category: Business and Economics, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Social Sciences
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Wednesday awarded a $4.4 million grant to a team of scholars at Johns Hopkins University that is investigating the history of academic racism in higher education and building a citywide network to preserve Baltimore’s African American history, culture and arts.
January 13, 2021 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Baltimore Africana Archives Initiative, Billie Holiday Project for Liberations Arts, Immigration & Citizenship, Kali-Ahset Amen, Lawrence Jackson, Nathan Connolly, racism, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Arts and Humanities, JHU Community Connections, Libraries, Social Sciences
A team of Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineers and heart specialists have developed an algorithm that warns doctors several hours before hospitalized COVID-19 patients experience cardiac arrest or blood clots.
January 13, 2021 Tags: applied mathematics and statistics, biomedical engineering, cardiology, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Biomedical Engineering, JH-Crown Registry, Johns Hopkins Health System, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Natalia Trayanova
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Most consumers of drinking water in the United States know that chemicals are used in the treatment processes to ensure the water is safe to drink. But they might not know that the use of some of these chemicals, such as chlorine, can also lead to the formation of unregulated toxic byproducts.
January 12, 2021 Tags: Carsten Prasse, Department of Environmental Health & Engineering, environmental engineering, water, water quality, water treatment
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Environment, Public Health
I watched with horror, as did so many of you, the tragic, sobering, and unfathomable scenes of violence that unfolded earlier today at the U.S. Capitol.
January 7, 2021 Tags: democracy, Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels, U.S. Capitol
| Category: University Administration
The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, a site launched in the spring of 2020 to offer critical data and perspective during the pandemic, logged its one billionth page view today.
January 6, 2021 Tags: " Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope, Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, dashboard, Johns Hopkins University, tracker
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology, University-Related
A Johns Hopkins University team of 24 undergraduate students that’s come up with a clear, adaptable face mask has won the Future Forward Award in a global challenge to design a better mask.
December 22, 2020 Tags: biomedical engineering, COVID-19, face masks, Johns Hopkins University, Mask Challenge, Pandemic, XPRIZE
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Student-Related News
Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center has launched a tracking tool to offer daily updates and nationwide perspective on the progress of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the United States.
December 18, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, vaccine, vaccine tracker
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
To offer perspective on how the nation’s hospitals are managing the surge of COVID-19 patients, the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center is now tracking county-level hospital occupancy data, with fresh updates every day.
December 15, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, hospitalization data, Johns Hopkins University, tracking
| Category: Computer Science, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
By mapping the brain activity of expert computer programmers while they puzzled over code, Johns Hopkins University scientists have found the neural mechanics behind this increasingly vital skill.
December 15, 2020 Tags: brain, coding, computer programming, Johns Hopkins University, logic, Marina Bedny, neuroscience, Python
| Category: Computer Science, Medicine and Nursing, Psychology, Technology
Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Medicine have developed a possible new antibiotic for a pathogen that is notoriously resistant to medications and frequently lethal for people with cystic fibrosis and other lung ailments.
December 8, 2020 Tags: antibiotic resistance, antibiotic-resistant infections, Antibiotics, Communications Biology, Craig Townsend, cystic fibrosis, Eric L. Nuermberger, Gyanu Lamichhane
| Category: Academic Disciplines, biology, Chemistry, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
A Johns Hopkins University team of 24 undergraduate students that’s come up with a clear, adaptable face mask is among five finalists in a global challenge to design a better mask.
December 3, 2020 Tags: biomedical engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Mask Challenge, XPRIZE
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
A team of Johns Hopkins University researchers has developed a new software that could revolutionize how DNA is sequenced, making it far faster and less expensive to map anything from yeast genomes to cancer genes.
December 3, 2020 Tags: biomedical engineering, computational biology, Department of Computer Science, genetics, Michael Schatz
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Technology
Vijayasundaram Ramasamy, a public health studies major who graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2018 and led the team drafting the state of Kansas’ COVID-19 reopening plan, has been named a Rhodes Scholar, one of the top awards available to American college students.
November 22, 2020 Tags: COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, Public Health, Rhodes Scholar, Vijayasundaram Ramasamy
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Public Health, Student-Related News, University-Related
TIME named the Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center, a website that has helped the world better understand and track the COVID-19 pandemic, to its list of 2020 Best Inventions, calling it “2020’s Go-To Data Source.”
November 19, 2020 Tags: 2020 Best Inventions, Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, TIME
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, University-Related
With the pandemic surging to record levels in the United States, Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center will launch bi-weekly webcast briefings featuring updates and insights from the university’s top COVID-19 experts beginning this Friday, November 20.
November 18, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, experts, Johns Hopkins 30-Minute COVID-19 Briefing, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center has launched a new tool on its U.S. state tracking pages that provides county-level insight into the effects of COVID-19 through case and testing data measured against key demographic information, including race and poverty level. The Coronavirus Resource Center is the first to publish such a compilation of at the county level.
November 16, 2020 Tags: cases, Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, data, Johns Hopkins University, testing, tool
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, University-Related
