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.
At the annual meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the nation’s largest gathering of black elected officials, about 100 students from Baltimore City’s Dunbar High School will participate in an event called the STEAM Revolt Youth Workshop: Wakanda Design Challenge. In this interactive contest, students, who are part of Dunbar’s P-TECH college prep program, will create a new Avengers superhero with ties to African culture.
September 12, 2018 Tags: Baltimore City, Black Panther, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Education, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, P-TECH, STEAM
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Institutional News, Technology
Sixteen Johns Hopkins University students and recent graduates have been awarded grants, earning the chance to travel abroad to study, teach and conduct research.
May 21, 2018 Tags: Fulbright, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Student-Related News, University-Related
Carol Tyler, the acclaimed creator of the graphic trilogy You’ll Never Know, will speak at Johns Hopkins University.
April 12, 2018 Tags: Carol Tyler, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
The latest exhibit in a program that brings together artists and scientists opens at Johns Hopkins University.
April 10, 2018 Tags: HEMI, HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Program, Johns Hopkins University, Kim Hall, Lori Graham-Brady
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Engineering
Mark Christian Thompson, a Johns Hopkins University English professor who this semester taught a course “Race at the Movies,” is available to talk to reporters looking for movie analysis and award-season commentary.
January 22, 2018 Tags: #OscarSoWhite, African-American, Get Out, Golden Globes, Johns Hopkins University, Mark Christian Thompson, movie expert, movies, Oscars, pop culture expert, race
| Category: Arts and Humanities
Like The Great British Baking Show or the Cake Wrecks blog? Johns Hopkins University students enrolled in a new intersession course called “Cooking the Books” will experience a bit of both this week as they try to recreate desserts from 18th or 19th century recipes.
January 22, 2018 Tags: baking, cooking, intersession, Johns Hopkins University, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, rare books, recipes
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, Libraries, Student-Related News
Legendary investor William H. “Bill” Miller III has committed a record $75 million to the Johns Hopkins University Department of Philosophy, believed to be by far the largest ever to a university philosophy program.
January 16, 2018 Tags: Beverly Wendland, Bill Miller, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, philanthropy, philosophy, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, William Miller
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
This festive season, Johns Hopkins University researchers dug deep into their reserves of scientific expertise to explain how these unexplainable plot lines in holiday classics like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, The Grinch That Stole Christmas, and A Christmas Carol just might be (almost) (possibly) possible.
December 4, 2017 Tags: A Christmas Carol, Christmas, David Kass, Grinch, holiday science, holidays, Ibrahima Bah, Johns Hopkins University, red nose, Rudolph, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Scrooge, Steven A. Farber, The Grinch That Stole Christmas, time travel
| Category: Arts and Humanities, biology, Earth Science, Medicine and Nursing, Physics and Astronomy
Award-winning painter Amy Sherald will speak at Johns Hopkins University. The talk is free and open to the public.
October 12, 2017 Tags: Amy Sherald, Johns Hopkins University, MICA, Michelle Obama, National Portrait Gallery, Painter
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public
This is the first major exhibition to showcase some of the rarest and most spectacular treasures of the George Peabody Library, which was founded in 1857 by Baltimore tycoon George Peabody. Many of the extraordinary exhibit items will be on display to the public for the first time.
September 20, 2017 Tags: Bibliomania, Earle Havens, george Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, rare books, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Libraries, Peabody
Johns Hopkins University will welcome eight noted authors to the Homewood campus for the annual President’s Reading Series.
September 11, 2017 Tags: Alice McDermott, Andrew Motion, Johns Hopkins University, Katharine Noel, Mary Jo Salter, Presidents Reading Series, Salman Rushdie, Teju Cole, Tracy K. Smith, Yiyun Li
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation has committed $150 million to Johns Hopkins University to forge new ways to address the deterioration of civic engagement worldwide.
June 22, 2017 Tags: Agora Institute, Beverly Wendland, Krieger School of Art and Sciences, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Giving, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences
Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Barry Blitt will speak Monday April 3 at Johns Hopkins University.
March 17, 2017 Tags: Barry Blitt, Center for Visual Arts, Homewood Arts Programs, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
Julia Rose has been appointed the new Director and Curator of Homewood Museum. Rose is currently the director of the West Baton Rouge Museum and an adjunct instructor in museum studies at Louisiana State University. She will begin her new role at Johns Hopkins University on June 1.
February 27, 2017 Tags: Homewood Museum, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Rose
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Libraries, University-Related
Dec. 7, 2016 CONTACT: Jill Rosen Office: 443-997-9906 Cell: 443-547-8805 jrosen@jhu.edu @JHUmediareps WHAT: Seventeen Men: Portraits of Black Civil War Soldiers, portrays the faces of 17 African-American soldiers, including one from Baltimore, who served under Captain William A. Prickitt, who recorded the faces of each man in a miniature photo album. Artist Shayne Davidson researched […]
December 7, 2016 Tags: Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins, Seventeen Men: Portraits of Black Civil War Soldiers
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
Boston-based painter Catherine Kehoe will present slides and discuss her work on Thursday, October 27 at Johns Hopkins University.
October 17, 2016 Tags: Catherine Kehoe, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
The Enigmatic Edgar A. Poe in Baltimore & Beyond features highlights from the Susan Jaffe Tane Collection of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the finest private collections of Poe materials in the world.
October 3, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe, george Peabody Library, Susan Jaffe Tane Collection
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Libraries, University-Related
A record number of Johns Hopkins University students and recent graduates – 19 – have been named Fulbright Scholars, earning the opportunity to travel abroad to such places as Peru, Malaysia and Spain to study, teach and conduct research.
May 12, 2016 Tags: Fulbright Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Music can make you want to dance, sing and clap your hands, but can it also make you want to learn math? A Johns Hopkins University professor of applied mathematics hopes so.
April 25, 2016 Tags: Herbie Hancock, International Jazz Day, jazz, mathematics, music, Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, U.S. Department of Education, UNESCO
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, Mathematics, Student-Related News, Uncategorized
Aspiring visual artists in Baltimore will have access to the expertise and connections of top filmmakers and executives through a new program launching at Johns Hopkins University.
April 21, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Film & Media Studies, film incubator, Freddie Gray, Johns Hopkins, Roberto Busó-García, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media Studies
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
Philanthropist Elizabeth Grass Weese and her brother, Roger Grass have committed $10 million to advance humanities scholarship and teaching at the Johns Hopkins University and to promote literature, art, philosophy, history and other cultural studies in Baltimore and the wider community. The gift is the largest ever to Johns Hopkins exclusively for the support of the humanities.
April 11, 2016 Tags: Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Beverly Wendland, Christopher Celenza, Elizabeth Grass Weese, Humanities, Krieger School of Arts and Science, philanthropy, Rising to the Challenge, Roger Grass, Ronald J. Daniels, William Egginton
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Giving, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
Mitchell B. Merback, a Johns Hopkins University art historian, is among 178 prominent scholars to win 2016 Fellowships from The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
April 7, 2016 Tags: Guggenheim, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Mitchell B. Merback
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
Award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist Ben Katchor will present an illustrated lecture on his work Monday April 4 at Johns Hopkins University.
March 14, 2016 Tags: Ben Katchor, cartoonist, Center for Visual Arts, Hand-Drying in America and Other Stories, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
Young people in Baltimore City will have a chance to express themselves creatively and build their resumes with the launch of Johns Hopkins University’s youth filmmaking program.
December 21, 2015 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Baltimore City, Baltimore Youth Documentary and Film Arts Program, Film & Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Arts and Humanities, University Administration, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries’ new exhibition on John Barth offers visitors a kind of funhouse experience devoted to exploring the author’s life and legacy.
October 16, 2015 Tags: george Peabody Library, John Barth, Johns Hopkins University, The Sheridan Libraries at The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
