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.
Michael R. Bloomberg and Johns Hopkins University announced an unprecedented $1.8 billion philanthropic commitment, representing the largest ever contribution to an academic institution in American history. The historic gift will be devoted exclusively to undergraduate financial aid at one of the world’s leading education, research and patient care institutions, allowing Johns Hopkins University to permanently commit to need-blind admissions and ensure unparalleled educational opportunities for the next generation of global leaders.
November 18, 2018 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Michael R. Bloomberg
| Category: Giving, Institutional News, University-Related
Santa’s helpers made a visit to the Port Deposit, Maryland, family this week, delivering a gift that promises to make their holiday season especially happy and bright: a walker that was custom-designed and constructed for the family’s smallest member by a group of Johns Hopkins engineering students.
December 22, 2017 Tags: custom-built walker, engineering students, mechancial engineering, special needs child
| Category: Engineering, Giving, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation has committed $150 million to Johns Hopkins University to forge new ways to address the deterioration of civic engagement worldwide.
June 22, 2017 Tags: Agora Institute, Beverly Wendland, Krieger School of Art and Sciences, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Giving, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences
The Clark Charitable Foundation is giving the Johns Hopkins University $15 million to provide financial aid and enhanced learning opportunities for undergraduate engineering students.
October 17, 2016 Tags: Clark Charitable Foundation, Clark Scholars Program, Ed Schlesinger, engineering undergraduates, Financial aid, James Clark, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, scholarships, undergraduate education, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Fundraising, Giving, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Advisory to Baltimore-area news media: The fourth annual Johns Hopkins in Action day of service to Baltimore will take place in locations across the city this Saturday, May 7, involving more than 300 Johns Hopkins alumni, students, parents, faculty and staff volunteers and their relatives and friends.
May 4, 2016 Tags: Baltimore City, community service, Johns Hopkins in Action, Rising to the Challenge
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Philanthropist Elizabeth Grass Weese and her brother, Roger Grass have committed $10 million to advance humanities scholarship and teaching at the Johns Hopkins University and to promote literature, art, philosophy, history and other cultural studies in Baltimore and the wider community. The gift is the largest ever to Johns Hopkins exclusively for the support of the humanities.
April 11, 2016 Tags: Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Beverly Wendland, Christopher Celenza, Elizabeth Grass Weese, Humanities, Krieger School of Arts and Science, philanthropy, Rising to the Challenge, Roger Grass, Ronald J. Daniels, William Egginton
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Giving, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
Surveying homeless youth, picking up trash and harvesting fruits and vegetables for the disadvantaged. These are just a few tasks more than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will pursue on Saturday, Oct. 3, for more than three dozen Baltimore non-profit organizations.
September 30, 2015 Tags: Baltimore City, Johns Hopkins University, President’s Day of Service, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, 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
About 380 Johns Hopkins alumni, students, parents and employees and their relatives and friends are volunteering for Baltimore City at 10 sites on Saturday, May 2.
May 1, 2015 Tags: Baltimore City, community service, Freddie Gray, Rising to the Challenge
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
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
For those who attended the annual Green Mount Cemetery observance, here is coverage of the Dec. 24, 1873, death of Mr. Johns Hopkins, founder of the university and hospital that bear his name, from one of the local newspapers of the time, The Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser.
December 24, 2014 Tags: Mr. Johns Hopkins, obituary
| Category: Giving, University-Related
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation has committed $5 million to Johns Hopkins, enabling the university, the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Maryland Film Festival to transform Baltimore’s historic Parkway Theater into a center for the study, production and exhibition of film.
October 20, 2014 Tags: Film and Media Studies, Homewood Community Partners Initiative, Maryland Film Festival, MICA, Parkway Theater, Station North, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Giving, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
Sheridan Libraries of JHU Partner with Princeton Library and University College London on Mellon-Funded Project FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2014 MEDIA CONTACT: Brian Shields 410-516-8337/443-631-2890 bshields@jhu.edu The Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries, in partnership with University College London’s Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), and the Princeton University Library, have been awarded a […]
July 10, 2014 Tags: Sheridan Libraries, Winston Tabb
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Giving, Homewood Campus News
Johns Hopkins University has named two of its Nobel Prize- winning biologists and a prominent Harvard University sociologist as Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, the first members of a new group of scholars created to foster collaboration across the institution’s many divisions and help address major world problems.
February 17, 2014 Tags: Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, Carol Greider, Johns Hopkins University, Kathryn Edin, Michael R. Bloomberg, Peter Agre, Robert C. Lieberman, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration
Texas energy entrepreneur and financier T. Boone Pickens plans to give $20 million to The Johns Hopkins University to support daring but potentially vision-saving research at the university’s Wilmer Eye Institute.
October 17, 2013 Tags: bequest, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Neil Bressler, Paul Rothman, Peter McDonnell, Ronald J. Daniels, T. Boone Pickens, Walter Stark, Wilmer Eye Institute
| Category: Giving, Medicine and Nursing, University-Related
More than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff are set to spend a day helping several dozen of Baltimore’s non-profit organizations. People will plant gardens, clean the harbor, weed vacant lots and distribute food to the homeless.
October 14, 2013 Tags: President Ronald J. Daniels, President’s Day of Service
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Johns Hopkins aims to advance human knowledge, solve global problems and enhance the student experience with $4.5 billion to be raised in the new “Rising to the Challenge” campaign, the university and health system announced Saturday.
May 4, 2013 | Category: Giving, Institutional News, University-Related
A summary of relevant numbers and other background on “Rising to the Challenge: The Johns Hopkins Campaign.”
May 4, 2013 Tags: Rising to the Challenge
| Category: Giving, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries today announced the acquisition of a unique collection of 280 rare books and manuscripts relating to the history of scientific discovery from the late 15th to the 20th centuries. Made possible through a generous bequest from the Hinkes family, the collection was assembled over 20 years by the late Dr. Elliott Hinkes, a member of the School of Medicine’s class of 1967.
October 14, 2010 Tags: Dr. Elliott and Eileen Hinkes Collection of Books of Scientific Discovery, Elliott Hinkes, Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, rare books
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
