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.
Vijayasundaram Ramasamy, a public health studies major who graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2018 and led the team drafting the state of Kansas’ COVID-19 reopening plan, has been named a Rhodes Scholar, one of the top awards available to American college students.
November 22, 2020 Tags: COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, Public Health, Rhodes Scholar, Vijayasundaram Ramasamy
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Public Health, Student-Related News, University-Related
TIME named the Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center, a website that has helped the world better understand and track the COVID-19 pandemic, to its list of 2020 Best Inventions, calling it “2020’s Go-To Data Source.”
November 19, 2020 Tags: 2020 Best Inventions, Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, TIME
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, University-Related
With the pandemic surging to record levels in the United States, Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center will launch bi-weekly webcast briefings featuring updates and insights from the university’s top COVID-19 experts beginning this Friday, November 20.
November 18, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, experts, Johns Hopkins 30-Minute COVID-19 Briefing, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center has launched a new tool on its U.S. state tracking pages that provides county-level insight into the effects of COVID-19 through case and testing data measured against key demographic information, including race and poverty level. The Coronavirus Resource Center is the first to publish such a compilation of at the county level.
November 16, 2020 Tags: cases, Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, data, Johns Hopkins University, testing, tool
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, University-Related
A team of Johns Hopkins University graduate students that invented a sensor that ignores background noise and could improve everything from telemedicine to Zoom calls has won the Runner-Up Award in the Collegiate Inventors Competition.
October 29, 2020 Tags: Collegiate Inventors Competition, graduate students, Hearo, Johns Hopkins
| Category: Computer Science, Environment, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology
A virtual fireside chat with Anthony Fauci will launch the Johns Hopkins University’s Health Policy Forum, a new quarterly series of discussions providing a platform for JHU students, faculty, staff, and alumni to engage in dialogues with Washington leaders around interdisciplinary health policy issues.
October 12, 2020 Tags: Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, Ellen MacKenzie, Fauci, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University’s Health Policy Forum, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, Public policy, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
One team has invented a tool that could shave hours from a rhinoplasty. Another has created a sensor that ignores background noise – a device that could improve everything from telemedicine to Zoom calls.
These two Johns Hopkins University teams, a group of undergraduates and a group of graduates, are among the finalists announced today by the Collegiate Inventors Competition, an annual contest founded by the National Inventors Hall of Fame to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the collegiate level.
September 29, 2020 Tags: biomedical engineering, Collegiate Inventors Competition, James West, Johns Hopkins University, rhinoplasty
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology, University-Related
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
Sen. Ben Cardin will join Johns Hopkins University officials on Friday to talk about efforts to bring relief to small businesses struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 19, 2020 Tags: Alicia Wilson, Ben Cardin, Coronavirus, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, University-Related
With cases of COVID-19 on the rise in Baltimore and new state mandates for mask use, it’s more critical than ever that people living in the city have access to masks. To help get city residents the protection they need, this week Johns Hopkins University and Medicine will partner with The Door and The Mix Churches to distribute 85,000 reusable masks to more than 50 community groups, neighborhood associations and faith-based institutions.
August 12, 2020 Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore City, COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, masks
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University filed suit in federal court Friday in an effort to stop a Trump administration rule change that would severely impact nearly 5,000 international students at the university. The decision to abruptly rescind accommodations for online learning during the COVID pandemic is unlawful and fails to consider the many complexities of meeting our educational mission while also protecting the health of our community.
July 10, 2020 Tags: international students, Johns Hopkins University, lawsuit, SEVP
| Category: Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University is deeply concerned by the guidance issued yesterday regarding the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) for fall 2020 that may affect the vast majority of our international students. While there are a number of outstanding questions to be resolved regarding this rule and what it means for Johns Hopkins’ students, we take significant issue with this draconian decision that has the potential to permanently and adversely affect the lives of international students.
July 7, 2020 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels, SEVP, Student and Exchange Visitor Program
| Category: Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration
Today, Johns Hopkins University announced a new partnership with Service to School’s (S2S) VetLink Program, which will expand opportunity and access for highly qualified veterans transitioning to higher education.
June 10, 2020 Tags: admissions, Johns Hopkins University, veterans, VetLink
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
More than 9,000 Johns Hopkins University students will have their degrees conferred on Thursday, May 21 starting at 11 a.m. EDT, at the virtual commencement ceremony for all of the University’s divisions and campuses.
May 20, 2020 Tags: 2020 commencement, Commencement, graduation, virtual commencement
| Category: Commencement, University-Related
Yesterday, the United States Department of Education (DOE) released long-anticipated final amended regulations governing college and university handling of sexual misconduct matters under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). Title IX is a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational programs and activities which receive federal financial assistance.
May 7, 2020 Tags: amended regulations, Johns Hopkins University, Title IX
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
Internet entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of Reddit and Initialized Capital, Alexis Ohanian will be the speaker for Johns Hopkins University’s virtual commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 21.
May 5, 2020 Tags: 2020 commencement, Alexis Ohanian, Class of 2020, Commencement, commencement speaker, Reddit, virtual commencement
| Category: Commencement, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University has launched the East Baltimore COVID-19 Food Access Initiative, a partnership between JHU, Saval Foodservice, Hungry Harvest, and 16 faith based and community organizations to provide emergency food assistance to families impacted by COVID-19.
April 24, 2020 Tags: community, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Food Access Initiative
| Category: University-Related
A computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University is available to discuss the study that he and his students have completed that analyzes Major League Baseball’s plan to realign Minor League Baseball by eliminating several small-town teams across the United States and re-shuffling remaining squads into new leagues.
April 17, 2020 Tags: Anton Dahbura, Department of Computer Science, Major League Baseball, minor league baseball
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Sports
Johns Hopkins University has learned about the existence of malware designed to look like the university’s coronavirus tracking map in an effort to steal information from users who visit the fake site.
March 17, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19
| Category: Engineering, Technology, University-Related
Due to the ongoing outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University is transitioning to remote instruction for all classroom-based academic programs. To facilitate this transition, we are canceling the next several days of classes. We also are strongly encouraging undergraduate students not to return to campus from spring break next week and to plan to remain home through at least April 12.
March 10, 2020 | Category: University-Related
In announcing new HopkinsLocal goals tightly focused on addressing inequality in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is doubling down on efforts to build the city’s economy by bringing work and opportunity to the people in the city who need it most.
January 29, 2020 Tags: Alicia Wilson, Baltimore, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
More than 500 elementary, middle, and high school Baltimore City Public Schools students will compete in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX and VEX IQ Robotics League championship event.
January 23, 2020 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Robotics, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Events Open to the Public
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
Johns Hopkins employees, alumni, students and friends will attend the annual Christmas Eve graveside observance honoring the founder of the university and health system, Mr. Johns Hopkins.
December 20, 2019 Tags: Christmas Eve, Green Mount Cemetery, Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, University-Related
Indigenous Peoples Day is a new tradition at Johns Hopkins University that celebrates a vital population in our community. A reimagining of Columbus Day, the event will honor the rich heritage of Indigenous communities with a Pow-Wow featuring singing, drummers, dancing, and tastings of tribal cuisine.
October 11, 2019 Tags: Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day, Johns Hopkins University, Pow-Wow
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
