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.
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
About 160 high school students at the Johns Hopkins Baltimore campus — and another 425 students across the country — will compete in the annual Spaghetti Bridge Contest, marking the culmination of a four-week summer course called Engineering Innovation.
July 20, 2016 Tags: Engineering, Engineering Innovation, high school, Johns Hopkins University, Spaghetti bridge contest, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergarteners’ arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense with a quick computer game.
June 15, 2016 Tags: Approximate Number System, brain science, Education, Johns Hopkins University, kindergarteners, Lisa Feigenson, Math
| Category: Education/K-12, Psychology
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
Graffiti scrawlers in Highlandtown, beware: a team of third- and fourth-graders is building a drone to catch you in the act, and also clean the building.
May 2, 2016 Tags: backpack, Baltimore City Public Schools, drone, Global Air Media, graffiti, robot, SABES, STEM, student engineers
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Uncategorized
When evaluating the same black student, white teachers expect significantly less academic success than black teachers, a new Johns Hopkins University study concludes. This is especially true for black boys.
March 30, 2016 Tags: economics, Education, Nicholas W. Papageorge, race, teacher expectations, teachers
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in nursing, education, medicine, and biomedical engineering remain among the best in the nation, according to the newest U.S. News & World Report rankings of “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 16, 2016 Tags: biomedical engineering, Education, Engineering, graduate schools, rankings, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, U.S. News & World Report
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Uncategorized
Three Johns Hopkins University researchers whose 2014 book traced the lives of nearly 800 Baltimore City public school students for a quarter of a century have won the prestigious $100,000 Grawemeyer Award in Education.
December 3, 2015 Tags: Baltimore City, Education, Grawemeyer, Karl Alexander, sociology, The Long Shadow
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore City Schools have partnered to create the city’s first pre-K-8th grade school dedicated to giving students a foundation in engineering and computer skills.
November 11, 2015 Tags: Barclay Elementary/Middle School, computer science, Ed Schlesinger, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, middle school education, Ronald J. Daniels, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore City Schools have partnered to create the city’s first pre-K-8th grade school dedicated to giving students a foundation in engineering and computer skills.
November 5, 2015 Tags: Barclay Elementary/Middle School, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, STEM, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
The Johns Hopkins University School of Education and area educators will hold a forum next month to discuss Baltimore and Maryland results on the new Partnership for Assessments for College and Careers (PARCC) high school assessment test.
October 27, 2015 Tags: David Steiner, high school, Institute for Education Policy, Johns Hopkins University, School of Education, test scores
| Category: Education/K-12
The Obama administration is enlisting help from the Johns Hopkins University in a just-announced initiative to reduce chronic absenteeism in public schools by at least 10 percent a year.
October 7, 2015 Tags: Center for Social Organization of Schools, Everyone Graduates Center, K-12 Education, Robert Balfanz, School of Education
| Category: Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Public policy
Contrary to assumptions that disadvantaged neighborhoods trap children in failing schools, a Johns Hopkins University sociologist has found the opposite to be true: as a neighborhood’s income decreases, its range of educational experiences greatly expands.
September 2, 2015 Tags: high school, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Burdick-Will, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, school choice, sociology, urban issues
| Category: Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Social Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University School of Education, the nation’s number one ranked graduate school of education, will open a policy institute this summer to translate rigorous research into a prominent force for change, to initiate research projects and to analyze important issues in public forums.
May 18, 2015 Tags: David M. Steiner, David W. Andrews, Institute for Education Policy, Johns Hopkins University, School of Education
| Category: Education/K-12
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University will host its 12th annual Physics Fair from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 25. The fair coincides with the university’s annual Spring Fair celebration on the Homewood campus.
April 21, 2015 Tags: Department of Physics and Astronomy, K-12 science competition, physics demonstrations, Physics Fair, physics-themed scavenger hunt
| Category: Education/K-12, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy
On Saturday, April 11, about 600 Maryland middle school and high school students and teachers will attend an all-day competition on the Homewood campus to determine the winners of the 2015 Maryland Science Olympiad and the qualifiers for National Science Olympiad.
April 10, 2015 Tags: academic competitions, Center for Education Outreach, Maryland Science Olympiad, STEM education
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Natural Sciences, Technology
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in education, medicine, public health and nursing and in individual disciplines such as biomedical engineering remain among the best in the nation, according to the newest U.S. News & World Report’s report on “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 10, 2015 Tags: Best Graduate Schools, David W. Andrews, Johns Hopkins University, Michael J. Klag, Patricia Davidson, U.S. News & World Report
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, University-Related
