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.
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 new interdisciplinary science team, led by experts from Yale and Johns Hopkins universities and funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will try to figure how power generation trends, climate change and public policy interact to affect air quality. A key goal is to trace how the resulting changes in air pollution may affect the health of people who live and work in the mid-Atlantic area.
March 2, 2016 Tags: air pollution, climate change, environmental engineering, power generation, Public Health, respiratory ailments
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Environment, Government and Politics, Public Health, Technology
Ben Seigel, a Baltimore native who helped design the Obama Administration’s place-based strategy and led the federal government’s effort to address deep-rooted issues in Baltimore after last year’s unrest, has joined a Johns Hopkins University project to strengthen cities with similar urban challenges.
January 27, 2016 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore City, Ben Seigel, Johns Hopkins University, Kathryn Edin
| Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Social Sciences, University-Related
Carter Hewgley, former head of analytics for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has joined a Johns Hopkins University project to make cities’ data more accessible and help solve urban problems.
September 22, 2015 Tags: Carter Hewgley, Center for Government Excellence, Government Analytics, GovEx, Johns Hopkins University, open data
| Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Technology
The Affordable Care Act has eroded support for health care spending not just among Republicans, but for Democrats and Independents, a Johns Hopkins University study has found.
September 21, 2015 Tags: Affordable Care Act, General Social Survey, Obamacare, Stephen L. Morgan
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
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
Andrew Nicklin, former head of groundbreaking open-data programs in New York city and state, has joined a Johns Hopkins University project to make cities’ data more accessible and help solve urban problems.
June 3, 2015 Tags: Andrew Nicklin, Center for Government Excellence, Johns Hopkins University, open data
| Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
The chair of the Johns Hopkins University’s board of trustees and his wife have committed $10 million to give students new opportunities in international relations and to enhance scholarly work on major world issues.
May 28, 2015 Tags: board of trustees, Jeffrey Aronson, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Rising to the Challenge, SAIS
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Giving, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Student-Related News
Electricity systems in the United States are so haphazardly regulated for reliability, it’s nearly impossible for customers to know their true risk of losing service in a major storm, a Johns Hopkins University analysis found.
May 27, 2015 Tags: electric utilities, Hurricane Sandy, Johns Hopkins University, power outage, Roshanak Nateghi, Seth Guikema, tropical storm, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Government and Politics, Public Health
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
Three-term New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has committed funds to launch a Johns Hopkins University effort helping cities use data to run more effective operations and fix urban problems.
April 20, 2015 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Beth Blauer, Center for Government Excellence, Kathryn Edin, Michael R. Bloomberg, Ronald J. Daniels, Sharon Paley
| Category: Giving, Government and Politics, University-Related
Three-term New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is providing initial funding for a new international policy institute at the Johns Hopkins University named in honor of his long-time friend, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
April 9, 2015 Tags: Henry Kissinger, Michael R. Bloomberg, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Rising to the Challenge, SAIS
| Category: Fundraising, Giving, Government and Politics, International Affairs, University-Related
Outgoing Maryland governor Martin O’Malley will join the Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School Feb. 2 as a visiting professor focusing on government, business and urban issues.
January 16, 2015 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Carey Business School, Martin O'Malley
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Business and Economics, Government and Politics, University-Related
In an increasingly data-driven world, there is an urgent need for individuals with the analytical skills necessary to address contemporary political, policy and governance issues.
January 15, 2014 Tags: Benjamin Ginsberg, Center for Advanced Governmental Studies, Government Analytics, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
| Category: Government and Politics
Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins professor of computer science and director of the university’s Health and Medical Security Lab, testified Nov. 19 before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology at a hearing titled, “Is Your Data on Healthcare.gov Secure?” In a prepared statement submitted to the panel, Rubin said, “HealthCare.gov does not collect nor store Electronic Medical Records, but it does collect whatever personal information is needed for enrollment. This information, in the wrong hands, could potentially be used for identity theft attacks.”
November 20, 2013 Tags: computer security, HealthCare.gov, identity theft, Obamacare, personal data, Web security
| Category: Engineering, Government and Politics, Public policy, Technology
The National Science Foundation has awarded Seth Guikema, a Johns Hopkins University assistant professor of geography and environmental engineering, a $3 million grant to build a program that will determine the effect of repeated hurricanes and heat waves on the Mid-Atlantic region and suggest ways to improve the region’s ability to withstand them.
October 28, 2013 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Seth Guikema
| Category: Engineering, Government and Politics, Natural Sciences, Public Health, Social Sciences, Technology, Uncategorized
Police departments across the country are using their own predictive strategies such as algorithms, time/space analysis and social network analysis to become “data detectives” in an effort to stop crime before it starts, according a new report by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Advanced Governmental Studies.
October 23, 2013 Tags: Advanced Academic Programs, Center for Advanced Governmental Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
| Category: Government and Politics, Technology
Recent news reports stated that the National Security Agency has pursued new methods that have allowed the agency to monitor telephone and online communication, encrypted information that was thought to be virtually immune to eavesdropping. What steps can and should computer scientists take in response to this privacy threat? How will the recent revelations affect the future of cryptography—the field of encoding and decoding electronic communication and transmissions for the purposes of privacy, reliability and efficiency?
To address these questions, the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute will host an hour-long roundtable discussion Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the university’s Homewood campus.
September 17, 2013 Tags: computer security, cryptography, electronic communication privacy, monitoring telephone and online communication, online privacy
| Category: Engineering, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Technology
Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer Prize-winning former Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, is the featured speaker for The Johns Hopkins University’s ninth annual Constitutional Forum on Constitution Day, Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m.
August 22, 2013 Tags: Constitution Day, Joel Grossman, Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, Political Science, Supreme Court, U.S. Constitution, Yale University
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News
Lester K. Spence, an expert in racial politics and American political thought, sociologist Katrina Bell McDonald, civil rights historian Nathan Connolly and historian Ronald Walters can discuss the impact of the March on Washington and its modern relevance on its 50th anniversary.
August 14, 2013 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Katrina Bell McDonald, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Lester K. Spence, March on Washington, Nathan Connolly, Ronald Walters
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
Supreme Court Fisher Decision: Lester K. Spence, an expert in racial politics and American political thought, and Joel Grossman, an expert in constitutional law, can discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Fisher v. University of Texas case.
June 24, 2013 Tags: Joel Grossman, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Lester K. Spence, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Government and Politics, Uncategorized
The debate over American health care didn’t end with the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Now that the law is in place and its provisions are slowly becoming reality, the discussion has shifted to questions regarding whether the benefits are worth the costs, and whether we will actually be a healthier nation once every citizen has health insurance. Johns Hopkins University health economist Douglas E. Hough hopes his new book, which looks at the state of American health care through the lens of behavioral economics, will be helpful in framing this new wave of discourse in a more productive way.
May 8, 2013 Tags: Affordable Care Act, behavioral economics, health care, health care debate, health care economics
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Public policy
The annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium at The Johns Hopkins University is returning to the Homewood campus this month, with several prominent speakers scheduled to appear during the spring semester under the theme, “From the Front Line to the Bottom Line.” Retired Gen. Stanley McChyrstal, who most recently served as commander of the International Security Assistance Force and commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, will open the lecture series on Wednesday, Feb. 27.
February 14, 2013 Tags: Foreign Affairs Symposium
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Student-Related News
A summit of more than 20 of the world’s leading gun policy experts has identified research-based policies to reduce gun violence in the United States. The policy recommendations were the result of a two-day Summit on gun violence convened by The Johns Hopkins University on January 14 and 15, The Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis.
January 15, 2013 Tags: firearms, gun policy, guns, jhugunpolicy
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
