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.
Leaders representing about 45 U.S. cities and urban scholars will convene to discuss new research on critical issues for metro areas during the 21st Century Neighborhoods: Research. Leadership. Transformation symposium, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative.
December 1, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, Barbara Mikulski, cities, crime, Economic segregation, Johns Hopkins University, Lester K. Spence, nal Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color, Pat Sharkey, Racial wealth gap, urban issues, violence
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Social Sciences, University-Related
Janet Yellen’s term as chair of the Federal Reserve is slated to end in February 2018. Speculation is underway about who President Donald Trump might choose to be her successor in the highly influential role leading the central bank of the United States.
Johns Hopkins University has several experts available, all with extensive media commentating experience, to discuss this and any news related to The Fed.
October 19, 2017 Tags: Alessandro Rebucci, economics, Economics experts, Experts on The Fed, Federal Reserve, Financial market experts, Janet Yellen, Johns Hopkins University, Jon Faust, Jonathan Wright, Laurence Ball, Robert Barbera, The Fed
| Category: Business and Economics, Public policy
Public, private, academic, and nonprofit leaders from Baltimore and elsewhere in Maryland will gather to discuss strategies for strengthening Baltimore’s financing system for small companies, following a new report from Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative.
October 13, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, Small business
| Category: Business and Economics
Baltimore, a city with clear economic assets and competitive advantages, should have a more robust financing system to cultivate a range of startups and small businesses, concludes a new report by Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative.
September 28, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, Ben Seigel, financing, Small business
| Category: Business and Economics
This is a third list of experts from the Johns Hopkins University on issues associated with the onslaught and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
August 30, 2017 Tags: Disaster, experts, hurricane, Hurricane Harvey
| Category: Business and Economics, Earth Science, Education/K-12, Engineering, Environment, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
This is a second list of experts from the Johns Hopkins University on issues associated with the onslaught and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
August 29, 2017 Tags: Disaster, experts, hurricane, Hurricane Harvey
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Engineering, Environment, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
A list of experts from the Johns Hopkins University on various issues associated with the formation, onslaught and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. This list will be updated as warranted.
August 28, 2017 Tags: Disaster, experts, hurricane, Hurricane Harvey
| Category: Business and Economics, Earth Science, Education/K-12, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
Once-formidable disparities between black and white families living in subsidized housing have largely vanished, and black and white children who grew up in such housing fared similarly in school, jobs and earnings, finds a new Johns Hopkins University study. However, one troubling difference remains between black and white families in assisted housing — neighborhood quality. Black families getting subsidized housing are about nine time more likely than whites to live in segregated, impoverished neighborhoods, the study found.
May 8, 2017 Tags: assisted housing, C. Scott Holupka, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, public housing, race, Sandra J. Newman, Subsidized housing
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Social Sciences
Low-income black students who have at least one black teacher in elementary school are significantly more likely to graduate high school and consider attending college, concludes a new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University economist.
April 5, 2017 Tags: black students, black teachers, college, Education, graduation, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, poverty, race, race match effect, role model effect
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12
Chronically ill, low-income women who thought they were dying, experienced a sharp reduction in domestic violence after getting access to a life-saving treatment, a Johns Hopkins University-led study found.
March 8, 2017 Tags: domestic violence, economics, HAART, Nicholas W. Papageorge, women's health
| Category: Business and Economics, Psychology, Social Sciences
In very poor families, teenagers are going hungry twice as often as their younger siblings, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds.
February 13, 2017 Tags: extreme poverty, food insecurity, hunger, Johns Hopkins University, poverty, Robert A. Moffitt
| Category: Business and Economics, Public Health, Social Sciences
Living in subsidized housing seems to give a boost to children with high standardized test scores and few behavior problems, but it has the opposite effect on students who score poorly and have behavioral issues, a new study finds.
November 29, 2016 Tags: affordable housing, assisted housing, low-income families, Sandra J. Newman, standardized test scores, Subsidized housing
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Public Health, Public policy, Social Sciences
Young African-Americans from some of the country’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods are drawn to for-profit post-secondary trade schools, believing they are the quickest route to jobs. But a new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University sociologist finds the very thing that makes for-profit schools seem so appealing — a streamlined curriculum — is the reason so many poor students drop out.
September 15, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Education, for-profit colleges, sociology, Stefanie DeLuca
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Social Sciences
The following Johns Hopkins University experts, whose research focuses on such subjects as race, economic policy, inequality, gun violence, law enforcement and health care, are available for interviews during the presidential election season.
July 26, 2016 Tags: economics, Election experts, issues, Johns Hopkins University, politics, Presidential election, race
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public Health, Social Sciences
Sunil Kumar, dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a widely published expert on operations management and research, has been appointed the 15th provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the Johns Hopkins University.
July 15, 2016 Tags: provost, Robert Lieberman, Ronald J. Daniels, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Business and Economics, Engineering, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals, the division of Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering that administers online and part-time graduate programs, has launched a new financial mathematics master’s degree program that can be completed online.
May 6, 2016 Tags: financial engineering, financial mathematics, Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals, online master's degree program, part-time engineering classes
| Category: Business and Economics, Engineering, Mathematics
National tax preparation chains continue to exploit the working poor, many of whom spend a significant portion of a key federal anti-poverty tax credit just to pay for filing their taxes, a new study concludes.
April 14, 2016 Tags: Advanced Academic Programs, Earned Income Tax Credit, income taxes, Johns Hopkins University, Paul Weinstein, tax preparation
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Social Sciences
A sick person is obviously willing to pay for a good medical treatment, but a Johns Hopkins University economist and his collaborators finds healthy people are potentially a much broader, if largely overlooked, market for medical innovations.
December 1, 2015 Tags: AIDS, economics, HAART, HIV, infectious disease, innovation, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, pharmaceutical research
| Category: Business and Economics, Medicine and Nursing
In a study recently published in the journal Real Estate Economics, public policy professor Sandra J. Newman and researcher C. Scott Holupka found that race was a key determinate of which low and moderate-income people who bought first homes during the decade made money. During the Great Recession, white homebuyers lost money but black ones lost considerably more. Even during the boom years, when white buyers increased their wealth by 50 percent, black buyers lost 47 percent of their wealth.
October 7, 2015 Tags: C. Scott Holupka, Great Recession, homeownership, Housing boom, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, race, real estate, Sandra J. Newman
| Category: Business and Economics, Public Health, Social Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University and DuPont have signed license and collaboration agreements allowing DuPont to commercialize a garment with innovative features from Johns Hopkins to help protect people on the front lines of the Ebola crisis and future deadly infectious disease outbreaks. DuPont intends to have the first of these garments available in the marketplace during the first half of 2016.
September 30, 2015 Tags: bioengineering, biomedical engineering, Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, Ebola protective suit, Ebola virus, Jhpiego, Johns Hopkins and DuPont
| Category: Business and Economics, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Uncategorized
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University have joined a national effort to produce environmentally friendly materials built at the atomic and molecular scale.The environmental impact of materials used in emerging areas of nanotechnology – used, for instance, in video screens, solar cells and electric car batteries – is largely unknown, but scientists working across the country under a new federal grant hope to learn how these products affect the natural world before their commercial use expands.
September 9, 2015 Tags: chemistry, environmental, materials science, nanotechnology, sustainability
| Category: Business and Economics, Chemistry, Engineering, Environment, Technology
To assist journalists covering the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School experts are available to comment on issues related to risk management, preparedness, community development, infrastructure, health, finance and related issues.
August 26, 2015 Tags: Carey Business School, community development, economic development, environmental policy, experts, health care policy, Hurricane Katrina, nonprofit organizations, organizational preparedness, risk management
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Business and Economics, Environment
In its efforts to curb criminal activity, should the government be allowed to see confidential consumer data collected by businesses? Or does the right to privacy trump such intrusions? These complex questions will be the focus of the second annual Senior Executive Cyber Security Conference, to be held Thursday, Sept. 10, at Johns Hopkins University. Registration for the daylong event is under way.
August 4, 2015 Tags: computer security, cyber attacks, cyber security, cybersecurity, data breaches, data privacy, information security
| Category: Business and Economics, Engineering, Government and Politics, Public policy, Technology
Low-income fathers who might be labeled “deadbeat dads” often spend as much on their children as parents in formal child support arrangements, but they choose to give goods like food and clothing rather than cash, a Johns Hopkins-led study found.
June 15, 2015 Tags: child support, Deadbeat dads, Johns Hopkins University, Kathryn Edin
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Social Sciences
Although critics knock United States-based companies like Apple, Google and Starbucks for dodging taxes overseas, a new analysis shows that European companies in the states are enjoying the same sort of tax breaks.
May 18, 2015 | Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics
