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 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
Baltimore’s hospitals and the city health department are working together over the next two weeks to ask city residents to detail their most urgent health needs through an online survey, including how they have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic.
September 25, 2020 Tags: Affordable Care Act, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Obamacare
| Category: Events Open to the Public, JHU Community Connections, Public Health, University-Related
More than 300 elementary, middle, and high school Baltimore City Public Schools students will compete Saturday in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX and VEX IQ Robotics League championship event.
January 10, 2019 Tags: Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Center for Educational Outreach, Hopkins Robotics Cup, K-12 Education, K-12 science competition, Robotics, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
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
Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50. A conference featuring dozens of scholars and experts exploring race, segregation, and inequality 50 years after the release of the historic Kerner Commission Report.
February 27, 2018 Tags: inequality, Johns Hopkins University, Kerner Commission, race, Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50
| Category: Business and Economics, Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Social Sciences, Uncategorized
Baltimore City Public Schools in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University has adopted a program to strengthen science, technology, engineering and math instruction in the district’s elementary schools.
September 12, 2017 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, elementary school, Next Generation Science Standards, STEM
| Category: Education/K-12, JHU Community Connections, Public policy, Uncategorized
August 17, 2017 CONTACT: Jill Rosen Office: 443-997-9906 Cell: 443-547-8805 jrosen@jhu.edu @JHUmediareps WHAT: Solar eclipse watch party WHERE: The Beach at Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. The “beach” is the grassy area in front of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. WHEN: From 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Monday Aug. 21 Details: University […]
August 17, 2017 Tags: eclipse, Johns Hopkins University, Milton S. Eisenhower Library
| Category: Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Libraries, Physics and Astronomy
Leading national and local voices on economic inclusion will gather at Johns Hopkins University to discuss the role of the private sector in expanding opportunity, including specific policies and strategies that have been implemented in Baltimore and elsewhere
May 15, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore City, Ben Seigel, Calvin G. Butler Jr., Economic Inclusion, Johns Hopkins University, Mayor Catherine Pugh, Ronald J. Daniels, Ronald R. Peterson
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
See how Baltimore students would use science to help their neighborhoods – the capstone to a five-year pilot program for science, technology, engineering and math education
May 1, 2017 Tags: Baltimore City Public School System, Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Math, SABES, Science, STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools, STEM education, Technology
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in nursing, education, medicine, and biomedical engineering are considered among the best in the country, according to the newest U.S. News & World Report rankings of “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 14, 2017 Tags: biomedical engineering, geriatric medicine, graduate schools, nursing, rankings, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, U.S. News & World Report, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, JHU Community Connections, Medicine and Nursing, Uncategorized
March 13, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Heather Stalfort Office: 410-516-8329 Cell: 443-794-9164 hestalfort@jhu.edu TREASURES OF CHINESE EXPORT ART AT HOMEWOOD MUSEUM On view through Apr. 2, 2017 Location: Homewood Museum Cost: Included with paid museum admission and on view as part of the guided tour or by advance arrangement. The first American ship to […]
March 13, 2017 Tags: Evergreen Museum, Homewood Museum
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections
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
Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute composer and pianist Michael Hersch, whose groundbreaking work has been performed worldwide, has won the university’s 2017 President’s Frontier Award, an honor that comes with $250,000 for research and innovation.
January 31, 2017 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Michael Hersch, Peabody Institute, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Peabody, University-Related
About 150 Johns Hopkins students are expected to dance all night to raise money to help sick and injured children. Money raised will help support a weekend child life specialist at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
November 10, 2016 Tags: dance marathon, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Student-Related News
Planting, weeding and making lunches for the homeless. These are just some of the ways more than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help the city on Saturday, Sept. 24, as they volunteer en masse at more than 30 Baltimore non-profit organizations.
September 22, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels, President’s Day of Service
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
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
More than 750 public school students in Baltimore’s Charles Village return to classes this year in buildings that are safer, more functional, more attractive and better suited for learning, thanks to $1.6 million in summer upgrades, half paid for by Johns Hopkins.
August 28, 2013 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, Barclay School, Charles Village, Greater Homewood Community Corporation, Homewood Community Partners Initiative, Karen Stokes, Margaret Brent School, Ronald J. Daniels, Tisha Edwards
| Category: Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, University Administration, University-Related
A grant to CTY from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation will allow the Center for Talented Youth in collaboration with Anatolia American College to start the CTY in Thessaloniki. The center, which will offer programs for bright students throughout Greece and Southeastern Europe, will welcome its first students in the summer of 2014.
May 16, 2013 | Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12, International Affairs, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
More than 1,000 members of The Johns Hopkins University community will fan out across Baltimore at noon on Saturday, Oct. 27, for President’s Day of Service, an annual volunteer event supporting the city’s nonprofit organizations.
October 22, 2012 | Category: Institutional News, JHU Community Connections
Hundreds of Baltimore public school students whose families can’t afford required school uniforms have been invited to Johns Hopkins on Wednesday to eat ice cream and receive two free uniforms donated by employees and students.
August 21, 2012 Tags: back-to-school, Baltimore City Public Schools, Michael A. Sarbanes, Ronald J. Daniels, school uniforms
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
Office of Communications Johns Hopkins University 901 South Bond Street, Suite 540 Baltimore, Maryland 21231 Phone: 443-287-9960 | Fax: 443-287-9920 February 21, 2012 TO: Assignment editors, reporters, producers FROM: Brian Shields / 410-516-8337 (office) / 410-631-2890 (cell) / bshields@jhu.edu RE: Johns Hopkins University and the Afro-American Newspaper Launch Event The Johns Hopkins University will host a […]
February 21, 2012 Tags: Afro American Newspaper, Center for Africana Studies, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Mellon Foundation, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Social Sciences, Technology, University Administration
The Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources (CER) announced today the launch of an online database (http://morgue.afro.com/AfroArchon/) describing the archival materials held by the Afro American Newspaper. The three-year project, administered jointly by CER and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Africana Studies, was funded with a $476,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
February 21, 2012 Tags: Afro American Newspaper, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Center for Africana Studies, Franklin Knight, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Moira Hinderer, Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Winston Tabb
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Social Sciences, Technology, University-Related
Media advisory about the annual Christmas Eve graveside commemoration of the founder of the university, Mr. Johns Hopkins, on the anniversary of his death.
December 20, 2010 Tags: Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, Green Mount Cemetery, Mr. Johns Hopkins
| Category: Events Open to the Public, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
In an effort to engage a new and promising audience in Baltimore City’s greening efforts, six Johns Hopkins University students will be visiting three Baltimore City nonprofits this week to help assess their sustainability and to advise them on how to save their organizations money on energy and other resources. A collaboration between the university and Baltimore City, this “Climate Showcase Project” – which was launched in June — strives to help nonprofits become more eco-friendly, while educating students on both sustainability measures and the vital role that these socially focused organizations play in the community.
August 2, 2010 Tags: Climate Showcase Project, eco-friendly, nonprofits, sustainability, Sustainability Office, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Environment, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Public Health, University-Related
Make plans to attend The Johns Hopkins University’s 39th Annual Spring Fair.
April 20, 2010 | Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Student-Related News
