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.
A new Johns Hopkins data tool helps people with disabilities determine when they qualify for the COVID-19 vaccine and compares how different states prioritize the disability community in the vaccine rollout.
Created by researchers, students and advocates who themselves are disabled and have personally experienced how inequitable and inaccessible the pandemic response has been, the COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization Dashboard launched to not only help the disability community get vaccinated, but also to arm policymakers with data to improve the system.
February 16, 2021 Tags: Bonnielin Swenor, COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization Dashboard, disabilities, Disability Health Research Center, Johns Hopkins University, vaccine
| Category: Government and Politics, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Faster commuter trains between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. could have a profound economic impact on Maryland’s largest city by attracting an influx of District residents that could spur more neighborhood redevelopment and by giving Charm City residents easier access to higher paying jobs in the nation’s capital.
February 3, 2021 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, commuter train, development, economy, high-speed rail
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public policy, Social Sciences
The lack of reliable access to broadband internet service for many in Baltimore, particularly the poor, has profound economic and social consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this painfully clear with an abrupt shift to online learning, remote work, and telemedicine. A new analysis from Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative says the city could move towards digital equity, with a roadmap of recommendations built on existing knowledge of Baltimore’s digital assets and the experience of other cities.
January 25, 2021 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, broadband, COVID-19, digital equity, Internet, Johns Hopkins University, Mac McComas, Mary Miller, Pandemic
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, Technology
The Cyber Attack Predictive Index (CAPI) provides a predictive analysis of nations most likely to engage in the surreptitious strategy waged with keyboards, code and destructive malware rather than soldiers, tanks and airplanes.
October 14, 2020 Tags: Anton Dahbura, cyber attacks, cyber security, cybersecurity, Department of Computer Science, Stuxnet, U.S. Cyber Command
| Category: Computer Science, Government and Politics, International Affairs
Unforeseen circumstances force low-income families to quickly move from one home to the next, a process that helps to perpetuate racial and economic segregation in the United States, research shows.
October 8, 2020 Tags: affordable housing, Department of Sociology, housing, poverty, public housing, sociology
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
Anti-vaccination discourse on Facebook increased in volume over the last decade, with opposition to vaccines coalescing around the argument that refusing to vaccinate is a civil right, according to a new study published today in the American Journal of Public Health.
October 1, 2020 Tags: Anti-Vaxxers, COVID-19, Department of Computer Science, Facebook, Mark Dredze, vaccination, vaccines
| Category: Computer Science, Government and Politics, Public Health
A new book released Aug. 11 by Johns Hopkins University political scientist Robert Lieberman and Suzanne Mettler of Cornell University explores the frightening fragility of American democracy when faced with historical challenges reminiscent of today’s political rancor and division.
August 11, 2020 Tags: American Democracy Collaborative, Donald Trump, economic inequality, inequality, Nativism, Polarization, Political Polarization, racism, Voter Suppression
| Category: Government and Politics
Residents in all 25 of the U.S. counties hardest hit by COVID-19 began to limit their public movements six to 29 days before states implemented stay-at-home orders, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers.
July 1, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lauren Gardner
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Government and Politics, Social Sciences
A group of political science scholars is launching a webinar series on Friday to highlight escalating threats to democracy that have been percolating for decades and boiling over ever since Donald Trump’s election.
June 24, 2020 Tags: 2020 Elections, American Democracy Collaborative, Black Lives Matter, Cornell University, Donald Trump, Johns Hopkins University, Swarthmore College
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
Smart homes of today – with lights, refrigerators and Alexa all talking to each other – aren’t nearly as smart as they need to be to thwart virtual burglars from breaking in. To address the massive security threat to interconnected devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT), Johns Hopkins University and six other institutions are embarking on an effort to fortify vulnerable points of entry against hackers.
June 12, 2020 Tags: computer science, cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Smart Homes
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Government and Politics
The economic ideas that dominate global climate policy have undergone a “major transformation” over the past three decades from strictly market-based notions to recent diversified approaches featuring more government intervention, according to new research published in Nature Climate Change by a Johns Hopkins University political scientist.
April 22, 2020 Tags: climate change, global climate change, Nature
| Category: Environment, Government and Politics, International Affairs
Johns Hopkins University experts in public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness will offer a briefing this Friday for Capitol Hill officials seeking facts and perspective on COVID-19 and the new coronavirus as it spreads worldwide.
March 5, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Hopkins on the Hill, Johns Hopkins University, Lauren Gardner, Tom Inglesby
| Category: Government and Politics, International Affairs, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Two political science professors are available to discuss the Democratic primary contest as voters in 14 Super Tuesday states cast ballots that could either settle which candidate emerges as the favorite to win the nomination or signal a protracted party battle.
March 3, 2020 Tags: Election experts, Political Science, Super Tuesday
| Category: Government and Politics
Scientists developing a rapid system for tackling outbreaks of avian influenza at their origins in Thailand are available to discuss their project and how it could potentially help improve responses to other pandemic threats such as coronavirus.
February 12, 2020 Tags: Applied Physics Laboratory, Coronavirus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Pandemic, SARS, World Health Organization
| Category: biology, Government and Politics, International Affairs, Public Health, Uncategorized
A sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University is available to discuss whether China’s hardened domestic authoritarianism and expanded global influence since the 2003 SARS outbreak is helping or hindering the international response to the new coronavirus.
January 27, 2020 Tags: China, Coronavirus
| Category: Government and Politics, International Affairs, Public Health, Social Sciences
A co-director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering is available to discuss the center’s website, launched today to track the international spread of coronavirus in real time. The data visualizations are all available for download.
January 22, 2020 Tags: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coronavirus, World Health Organization
| Category: Engineering, Government and Politics, International Affairs, Public Health, Uncategorized
Three decades ago Johns Hopkins University political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg warned in his book, Politics By Other Means, that party loyalty was beginning to trump a higher sense of national duty among elected leaders. The trend, he wrote, would one day “undermine the governing capacities of the nation’s institutions, diminishing the ability of America’s government to manage domestic and foreign affairs, and contributing to the erosion of the nation’s international political and economic standing.”
January 17, 2020 Tags: Congress, Donald Trump, impeachment
| Category: Government and Politics, Public policy
Jan Dutkiewicz, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins and an expert in the alternative meat industry, can explain:
How the history of the Impossible Burger and other popular alternative meats can be traced to Thanksgiving.
Why despite the current plant-based meat craze, there is not yet a turkey option that’s created as much buzz.
How in the future Thanksgivings, with lab-grown meat soon to be available, people might be able to buy turkey created in a petri dish.
November 11, 2019 Tags: alternative meat, Beyond Burger, Impossible Burger, Jan Dutkiewicz, Johns Hopkins University, lab-grown meat, plant-based meat, Thanksgiving, tofurky
| Category: Business and Economics, Environment, Government and Politics, Public Health, Social Sciences
Johns Hopkins University experts are available to offer perspective on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
October 28, 2019 Tags: Anniversary of Berlin Wall fall, Berlin Wall, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Government and Politics
The market for data analytics jobs in federal, state and local government is expected to expand over the next two years as public agencies across the nation increasingly rely on data to improve operations, according to a new survey conducted by Johns Hopkins University and two partners, REI Systems and ACT-IAC.
October 7, 2019 Tags: data analytics, Government, Government Analytics
| Category: Government and Politics
The Centers for Civic Impact, an effort to help public organizations thoughtfully and masterfully use data and research to better understand and improve public life, has launched at Johns Hopkins University.
April 29, 2019 Tags: Beth Blauer, Center for Applied Public Research, Center for Government Excellence, Centers for Civic Impact, GovEx, GovEx Academy
| Category: Government and Politics, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Millennials are more likely to be arrested than their predecessor counterparts regardless of self-reported criminal activity, finds a new study by a Johns Hopkins University expert. Furthermore, black men who self-reported no offenses were 419% more likely to be arrested at the beginning of the 21st century than non-offending blacks of the previous generation, and 31.5% more likely to be arrested than whites of the same generation who did not self-report any crimes.
April 29, 2019 Tags: arrest, crime, disparities, generation, incarceration, Millennials, Political Science, sociology, Vesla Weaver
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
A political scientist who dedicated her career to understanding civic and political participation will now work to advance them as inaugural director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She starts July 1.
April 4, 2019 Tags: Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute
| Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute will sponsor a PBS NewsHour event Divided Nation, United States, to try to uncover how these governors work with their legislatures, relate to their constituents, and define success.
January 15, 2019 Tags: Divided Nation, Johns Hopkins University, partisanship, PBS NewsHour, politics, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute, United States
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
Aleph Farms of Israel announced today unveiled the world’s first lab-grown steak, a steak grown in a petri dish that has the taste and texture of one that comes from a real cow. Other companies are also racing to perfect various versions of lab-grown meat. Jan Dutkiewicz, a postdoctoral fellow in political science at Johns Hopkins University who has researched the emergence of cellular agriculture, or “lab-grown meat,” and its potential to transform the American food landscape, is available to talk about the new steak and offer perspective on the development.
December 12, 2018 Tags: Jan Dutkiewicz, lab-grown meat, steak
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public Health, Technology, Uncategorized
