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.
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
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
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
Freshmen mechanical engineering students at the Johns Hopkins University have built an interactive 17-hole miniature golf course for 2019 JHU Spring Fair guests to enjoy. Working in teams of three or four, the students have created 17 holes that make up a lively golf course—each hole has moving parts, sensors and lights. Come see the course for yourself and try your hand at a round or two.
April 23, 2019 Tags: campus, Engineering, engineering student projects, event, golf, Spring Fair, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Student-Related News, University-Related
The 5th Annual Cyber Security Conference for Executives, co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins University and business advisory and expert services firm Ankura, presents a forum for experts from academia, private business, and government to share their knowledge and experience.
March 6, 2019 Tags: cyber security, Technology, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Technology, University-Related
A diverse array of activists is slated to visit Johns Hopkins University this semester as part of the annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium. This year’s theme is “Disrupt.”
February 11, 2019 Tags: Foreign Affairs Symposium, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Beginning Feb. 1, the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Museum will replace its traditional guided tour with one that gives equal focus to two enslaved families, the Conners and the Rosses, who supported Homewood’s original family, Charles and Harriet Carroll. All tours will be free in February.
January 28, 2019 Tags: Charles and Harriet Carroll, enslavement, history, Homewood Museum, museum, slavery
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, 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
More than 300 elementary, middle, and high school Baltimore City Public Schools students will compete Saturday in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX and VEX IQ Robotics League championship event.
January 10, 2019 Tags: Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Center for Educational Outreach, Hopkins Robotics Cup, K-12 Education, K-12 science competition, Robotics, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
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. This year’s event marks the 145th anniversary of Mr. Hopkins’ death.
December 20, 2018 Tags: Christmas Eve, Green Mount Cemetery, Mr. Johns Hopkins, Ross Jones
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University Forums on Race in America will present a dramatic reading of “The Drum Major Instinct,” featuring actress Tracie Thoms, and a panel discussion on the role of women in the civil rights movement with Edwina Moss, the former assistant to Martin Luther King Jr.
April 24, 2018 Tags: civil rights, history, JHU Forums on Race in America, Martha Jones, Martin Luther King Jr., The Drum Major Instinct, Tracie Thoms
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Uncategorized
The Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy is hosting its 15th Annual Physics Fair from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, on the Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. Events will take place in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, located on the north end of the campus near Homewood Field.
April 19, 2018 | Category: Events Open to the Public, Physics and Astronomy, Technology, University-Related
Carol Tyler, the acclaimed creator of the graphic trilogy You’ll Never Know, will speak at Johns Hopkins University.
April 12, 2018 Tags: Carol Tyler, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
The JHU Forums on Race in America will present a panel discussion, “Six Months after Maria: Public Health Issues in Puerto Rico.”
March 26, 2018 Tags: JHU Forums on Race in America, Johns Hopkins University, Puerto Rico
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, University-Related
The symposium will explore contemporary black marriage across legal, political, cultural, social, economic, and historical contexts. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, practitioners, and policymakers who will address the current state of black intimate relationships in all of forms and orientations.
March 6, 2018 Tags: black Americans, Johns Hopkins University, marriage, slavery, symposium
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Social Sciences
Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50. A conference featuring dozens of scholars and experts exploring race, segregation, and inequality 50 years after the release of the historic Kerner Commission Report.
February 27, 2018 Tags: inequality, Johns Hopkins University, Kerner Commission, race, Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50
| Category: Business and Economics, Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Social Sciences, Uncategorized
On Dec. 23, Johns Hopkins employees, alumni, students and friends will attend the annual graveside observance honoring the founder of the university and health system, Mr. Johns Hopkins.
December 21, 2017 Tags: Christmas Eve, Green Mount Cemetery, Johns Hopkins history, Mr. Johns Hopkins, Ross Jones
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, University-Related
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the last Republican candidate in the race for his party’s nomination against Donald Trump, will speak at Johns Hopkins University.
November 10, 2017 Tags: John Kasich, Johns Hopkins University, MSE Symposium
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Award-winning painter Amy Sherald will speak at Johns Hopkins University. The talk is free and open to the public.
October 12, 2017 Tags: Amy Sherald, Johns Hopkins University, MICA, Michelle Obama, National Portrait Gallery, Painter
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public
The governor of Ohio, a comedian and Daily Show correspondent, and one of MSNBC’s most popular hosts are among the speakers who will visit Johns Hopkins University this fall as part of the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium.
September 20, 2017 Tags: Hasan Minhaj, John Kasich, Johns Hopkins University, Joy Ann Reid, MSE Symposium, Women’s March
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News
Johns Hopkins University will welcome eight noted authors to the Homewood campus for the annual President’s Reading Series.
September 11, 2017 Tags: Alice McDermott, Andrew Motion, Johns Hopkins University, Katharine Noel, Mary Jo Salter, Presidents Reading Series, Salman Rushdie, Teju Cole, Tracy K. Smith, Yiyun Li
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
Award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Barry Blitt will speak Monday April 3 at Johns Hopkins University.
March 17, 2017 Tags: Barry Blitt, Center for Visual Arts, Homewood Arts Programs, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
