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.
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
Having one black teacher in elementary school not only makes children more likely to graduate high school, it makes them significantly more likely to enroll in college.
November 12, 2018 Tags: college, Education, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, one black teacher, race, teaching
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12
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
Children who attend school with many kids from violent neighborhoods show significantly lower test scores than peers with classmates from safer areas, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study.
June 12, 2018 Tags: Chicago, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Burdick-Will, School, school choice, standardized test scores, violence
| Category: Education/K-12
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
Students from nine Baltimore City elementary/middle schools will show off creations they conceived and built—some as part of classroom assignments, and others in response to challenges they encounter in their own communities.
May 14, 2018 Tags: Baltimore City, inventions, SABES, STEM
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering
More schools are offering three-year degrees to counter the ever-skyrocketing costs of a college education but a new Johns Hopkins University analysis finds these new programs are failing students.
May 10, 2018 Tags: Advanced Placement courses, college, Johns Hopkins University, Paul Weinstein, three-year degrees, tuitition cost
| Category: Education/K-12, Government and Politics, Social Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University, Lockheed Martin and Barclay Elementary/Middle School will come together for an evening designed to showcase the science and engineering projects that students have been working on in the classroom all year.
April 17, 2018 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, science and technology education, STEM programs, STEN
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Student-Related News, Technology
The Johns Hopkins University and Lockheed Martin today announced a partnership aimed at enhancing opportunities for Baltimore City public school students pursuing academic and career fields in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The collaboration is designed to close the STEM gap that exists primarily in Pre-K through 12th grade.
April 16, 2018 Tags: Barclay Elementary/Middle School, engineering and science education, Johns Hopkins-Baltimore City Public Schools partnership, Lockheed Martin, STEM programs
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in biomedical engineering, nursing and medicine are once again among the country’s very best, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 20, 2018 | Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, International Affairs, Medicine and Nursing, University-Related
A Johns Hopkins University professor’s working paper that concludes that arming teachers would be risky and ineffective.
March 2, 2018 Tags: arming teachers, expert available, guns, Johns Hopkins University, Sheldon Greenberg, teachers
| Category: Education/K-12
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
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
Though learning is their stock and trade, educators are often removed from research on how people learn. To address this, Johns Hopkins University’s Science of Learning Institute has invited 150 teachers and administrators from around the world to Baltimore for a day to meet scientists doing cutting-edge research on the brain and learning.
July 24, 2017 Tags: brain, Education, educators, Johns Hopkins University, learning, Science, Science in Action Day, Science of Learning Institute, teachers
| Category: Education/K-12
Though scientists know children with strong spatial thinking skills have an edge in science, technology, engineering and math, and that those skills are teachable, no one has formally infused them into a working elementary curriculum. With a $1.4 million federal grant, Johns Hopkins University researchers will co-develop and test such a program for third-grade science classes.
July 19, 2017 Tags: Amy Shelton, elementary education, Johns Hopkins University, Kelly Fisher, Kristin Gagnier, Prince George's County Public Schools, Science of Learning Institute, spatial thinking, STEM, third grade
| Category: Education/K-12, Psychology
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
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
Christopher C. Morphew, an experienced academic leader and prominent scholar at the University of Iowa College of Education, has been appointed dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education.
March 23, 2017 Tags: Christopher Morphew, Johns Hopkins School of Education, Johns Hopkins University School of Education, K-12 Education, Ronald J. Daniels, School of Education, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
On Saturday, Feb. 4, more than 200 middle and high school students from Baltimore City Public Schools will compete in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX and VEX IQ Robotics League championship event. This engineering challenge, which changes every year, is presented in the form of a game.
February 3, 2017 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools students, Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Center for Educational Outreach, robotics competition, STEM education
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Technology
Johns Hopkins mechanical engineering professor Louis Whitcomb, who specializes in underwater robotics, has challenged 6th graders to design a robotic “claw” able to grab and retrieve submerged objects. On Thursday, students will present and demo their designs before the professor and Johns Hopkins undergraduates who spent two weeks helping them create the claws from corrugated cardboard, straws, string, brass fasteners, tape, paper clips and rubber bands.
January 24, 2017 Tags: Baltimore City, Baltimore City Public School System, Barclay Elementary/Middle School, Engineering, Johns Hopkins, Robotics
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering
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
A program that brings live fish into classrooms to teach the fundamentals of biology not only helps students learn, but improves their attitudes about science, a new study finds.
November 10, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, BioEYES, biology, Education, fish, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, Science, STEM, Steven A. Farber, zebrafish
| Category: biology, Education/K-12
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
