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.
Samantha Power, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will address the Class of 2022 at Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 22.
April 1, 2022 Tags: commencement speaker, Johns Hopkins University, Samantha Power, USAID
| Category: Commencement
Entrepreneur, philanthropist, three-term mayor of New York City, and Johns Hopkins University graduate Michael R. Bloomberg will return to campus to address the Class of 2021 at commencement on May 27 at Homewood Field.
May 14, 2021 Tags: Class of 2021, commencement speaker, Johns Hopkins University, Mike Bloomberg
| Category: Commencement, 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
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
More than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students will claim their degrees Thursday, May 23, at the commencement ceremony for all of the University’s divisions and campuses.
May 20, 2019 Tags: 2019, Class Of 2019, Commencement, graduation, Jeffrey Goldberg
| Category: Commencement, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
A Canadian Supreme Court justice, a Johns Hopkins University board of trustees chair, an acclaimed economist, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, a former commander of the United States Strategic Command, a renowned geneticist, and the ad exec who created Meatless Mondays will receive Johns Hopkins honorary degrees this year.
May 6, 2019 | Category: Commencement, University-Related
Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, will speak at the Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony on Thursday May 23.
March 26, 2019 Tags: Commencement, Jeffrey Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University, The Atlantic
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
About 1,500 students will claim their degrees Thursday, May 24, at the commencement ceremony for all of Johns Hopkins University’s divisions and campuses.
May 22, 2018 Tags: 2018, Bryan A. Stevenson, Commencement, George Lucas, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
A ground-breaking movie-maker, the head of one of the nation’s investment bedrocks, a Baltimore civic leader, a trailblazing neuroscientist, a justice crusader and a businessman who’s left an indelible mark on the university, will receive Johns Hopkins University honorary degrees this year.
April 25, 2018 Tags: Commencement, George Lucas, honorary degrees, Johns Hopkins
| Category: Commencement, Institutional News
Lawyer and social justice activist Bryan A. Stevenson, who founded an organization that has helped more than 125 wrongly condemned people on death row, will speak at Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 24.
April 3, 2018 Tags: Bryan A. Stevenson, Commencement, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
About 1,500 students will claim their degrees Wednesday, May 24, at the commencement ceremony for all of Johns Hopkins University’s divisions and campuses. Journalist Frank Bruni, whose 22-year career at The New York Times has included stints as White House correspondent, restaurant critic, and now columnist, will be the speaker.
May 22, 2017 Tags: Commencement, Frank Bruni, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
An award-winning journalist, a trailblazing university president, the nation’s top librarian, an inspiration for the movie Hidden Figures, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, and a Johns Hopkins alumnus whose generous philanthropy has had an indelible impact on the lives of JHU students, will receive Johns Hopkins University honorary degrees this year.
May 2, 2017 Tags: Amy Gutmann, Carla Hayden, Commencement, Frank Bruni, Harold Varmus, honorary degrees, Johns Hopkins University, Katherine C. Johnson, Ralph S. O’Connor
| Category: Commencement
March 28, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jill Rosen Office: 443-997-9906 Cell: 443-547-8805 jrosen@jhu.edu Journalist Frank Bruni, whose 22-year career at The New York Times has included stints as White House correspondent, restaurant critic and now columnist, will speak at the Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday May 24. A wide-ranging opinion writer who […]
March 28, 2017 Tags: class of 2017, Commencement, Frank Bruni, Johns Hopkins, New York Times
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
About 1,500 students will claim their degrees Wednesday, May 18, at the commencement ceremony for all of Johns Hopkins University’s divisions and campuses.
May 11, 2016 Tags: Commencement, Johns Hopkins University, Spike Lee
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
An award-winning novelist, a Nobel Prize winner and Maryland’s first woman to become an administrative Circuit Court judge are among eight distinguished achievers who will receive Johns Hopkins University honorary degrees this year.
April 25, 2016 Tags: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Commencement, Ellen M. Heller, honorary degrees, Johns Hopkins University, Judith Rodin, Laurie Zabin, Richard Axel, Shale Stiller, Spike Lee, Susan Baker
| Category: Commencement, University-Related
Filmmaker Spike Lee, whose acclaimed works including Do The Right Thing and Jungle Fever have challenged assumptions about race and prejudice, will speak at the Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony on May 18.
March 23, 2016 Tags: Commencement, Johns Hopkins University, Spike Lee
| Category: Commencement, Uncategorized, University-Related
About 7,000 students will claim their degrees at the commencement ceremony for all of Johns Hopkins University’s divisions and campuses.
May 19, 2015 Tags: Commencement, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Commencement, University-Related
MEDIA ADVISORY: The university will hold a special graduation ceremony for athletes who will miss Thursday’s commencement because of NCAA championship competition.
May 18, 2015 Tags: Class of 2015, Commencement, Johns Hopkins Men's Lacrosse, track and field
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
About 7,000 students will claim their degrees Thursday, May 21, at the commencement ceremony for all of Johns Hopkins University’s divisions and campuses.
May 14, 2015 Tags: Commencement, Ed Catmull, Johns Hopkins University, Leon Fleisher
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
A longtime Maryland congressman, an acclaimed pianist and a leader in the fight against infectious diseases, are among eight distinguished achievers who will receive Johns Hopkins University honorary degrees this year.
April 22, 2015 Tags: honorary degrees, Johns Hopkins University, Leon Fleisher
| Category: Commencement, University-Related
Ed Catmull, a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, a computer scientist responsible for groundbreaking movie blockbusters like Toy Story and a winner of five Academy Awards, will speak at the Johns Hopkins University’s commencement exercises on Thursday, May 21.
March 30, 2015 Tags: animation, Commencement, computer science, Ed Catmull, Film and Media Studies, Pixar, Walt Disney
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Commencement, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, Technology, University-Related
About 1,500 students will claim their degrees at the commencement ceremony for all of Johns Hopkins University’s divisions and campuses. Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, will be the featured speaker.
May 20, 2014 Tags: Commencement, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels, Susan Wojcicki
| Category: Commencement, University-Related
About 1,500 students will claim their degrees Thursday, May 22, at the commencement ceremony for all of Johns Hopkins University’s divisions and campuses.
May 14, 2014 Tags: Commencement, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels, Susan Wojcicki
| Category: Commencement, University-Related
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the woman and her lawyer who took the fight for marriage rights to the Supreme Court are among seven distinguished achievers who will receive Johns Hopkins University honorary degrees this year.
April 21, 2014 Tags: Commencement, Edith Windsor, Fred Lazarus, honorary degrees, Johns Hopkins University, Norman R. Augustine, Pamela Flaherty, Roberta Kaplan, Ronald J. Daniels, Susan Wojcicki, Taylor Branch
| Category: Commencement, Uncategorized
Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, will address graduates of Johns Hopkins University at commencement on May 22, 2014. Named one of Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business,” one of Forbes’ “100 Most Powerful Women,” and one of Vanity Fair’s 50 “leading innovators [that] shake the foundations of their industries,” Wojcicki became head of the video-sharing powerhouse earlier this year.
March 25, 2014 Tags: Commencement, Johns Hopkins University, Susan Wojcicki
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
