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.
Legendary investor and philanthropist William H. “Bill” Miller III has made a lead gift of $50 million in a combined $75 million philanthropic effort to support Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Miller’s $50 million commitment will fund endowed professorships, postdoctoral fellowships, and graduate research, and will provide ongoing support for research infrastructure. His gift also served as the impetus for two anonymous donors to support the department as well, expanding to $75 million the funding to advance key areas of physics research.
December 16, 2021 Tags: astronomy, Bill Miller, Johns Hopkins University, physics, William H. “Bill” Miller III, William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy
| Category: Fundraising, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy
Branville Bard Jr., an experienced and community-oriented law enforcement leader who has earned a reputation as a vocal advocate for social justice, racial equity, and police reform, has been selected as Johns Hopkins’ new vice president for security. Beginning Aug. 30, Bard will oversee security operations for all Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine campuses and facilities worldwide, with the exception of the Applied Physics Laboratory.
July 27, 2021 Tags: Branville Bard, Johns Hopkins
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration
Johns Hopkins University today announced plans to develop a Behavioral Health Crisis Support Team to serve students, faculty, staff, and community members experiencing a behavioral health crisis on or near its Baltimore campuses. This pilot program will launch in the fall of 2021, first around Homewood and then expanding to the university’s other Baltimore campuses. The approach addresses the growing need for innovative public health responses to behavioral and mental health crises and is modeled after best practices for public safety operations.
May 18, 2021 Tags: Behavioral Health Crisis Support Team, Johns Hopkins, public safety
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University, is among 26 scholars to be named to the Andrew Carnegie Fellows class of 2021 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
April 28, 2021 Tags: African literature, Andrew Carnegie Fellows, Carnegie, Carnegie Fellowship, Casely Hayford, Ghana, Jeanne-Marie Jackson
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, Uncategorized, University-Related
With a $20 million gift from the estate of trustee emeritus and alumnus Ralph S. O’Connor, the Johns Hopkins University and its Whiting School of Engineering today announced the establishment of the Ralph S. O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) to serve as the university’s interdisciplinary home for ongoing research and education aimed at creating clean, renewable, and sustainable energy technologies.
April 22, 2021 Tags: clean energy, climate change, environment, Johns Hopkins, Ralph S. O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, Ralph S. O’Connor, renewable energy, ROSEI, sustainable energy
| Category: Engineering, Environment, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
A Johns Hopkins University team of 24 undergraduate students that’s come up with a clear, adaptable face mask is among five finalists in a global challenge to design a better mask.
December 3, 2020 Tags: biomedical engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Mask Challenge, XPRIZE
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
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
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
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
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
Weeding, canvassing neighborhoods to share information about community resources and picking up trash. These are just some of the ways more than 1,300 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help the city on Saturday, Sept. 21, as they volunteer en masse at 38 Baltimore non-profit organizations.
September 20, 2019 Tags: community service, Day of Service, President’s Day of Service, volunteer
| Category: Homewood Campus News, University-Related
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University has unveiled plans for the Institute’s home in Baltimore, designed by world-renowned architecture firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The new structure on the Homewood campus promises to represent the mission and values of the Institute as well as the creativity and vibrancy of the university and the city.
September 19, 2019 Tags: Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University, Renzo Piano, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, 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
In the largest commitment to solar energy in Maryland and one of the most significant pledges to greenhouse gas reduction in higher education, Johns Hopkins University has entered into a long-term agreement to supply its campuses with more than 250,000 megawatt hours of solar power per year.
April 22, 2019 Tags: carbon emissions, Constellation, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels, solar, solar energy
| Category: Environment, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
A political scientist who dedicated her career to understanding civic and political participation will now work to advance them as inaugural director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She starts July 1.
April 4, 2019 Tags: Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute
| Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University students will no longer need a campus identification card to get into their dorms, pay for pizza or do laundry. Starting this week, a flash of their iPhone or Apple Watch will handle all of that and more as the university becomes the fifth in the country to offer students the option to add their campus ID to Apple Wallet.
March 28, 2019 Tags: Apple Wallet, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, 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
Lori Beth Finkelstein has been appointed the new Philip Franklin Wagley Director and Curator of Evergreen Museum & Library. She will begin on March 18.
March 15, 2019 Tags: Evergreen Museum & Library
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Libraries, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in public health, nursing and medicine are once again among the country’s very best, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 12, 2019 | Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University and Health System announced today that the institution has surpassed its three-year goals for hiring, purchasing and construction contracting.
February 21, 2019 Tags: Baltimore, Economic Inclusion, HopkinsLocal, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins Blue Jay mascot debuted a new look during a dramatic reveal today at halftime of the men’s lacrosse home opener. With a nod to Hopkins’ excellence in the fields of science and health, “Jay’s” makeover reflects his efforts to improve his personal fitness while also exhibiting more scientifically and anatomically correct attributes for his species.
February 16, 2019 Tags: Blue Jay, Johns Hopkins University, mascot
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Sports, Uncategorized, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University’s Blue Jay mascot will debut a new look during a dramatic reveal Saturday at halftime of the men’s lacrosse home opener. With a nod to Hopkins’ excellence in the fields of science and health, “Jay’s” makeover reflects his efforts to improve his personal fitness while also exhibiting more scientifically and anatomically correct attributes for his species.
February 15, 2019 Tags: Blue Jay, Johns Hopkins University, mascot
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Sports, University-Related
Many astronomy researchers benefit from sky surveys containing millions of stars and galaxies observed by telescopes. But Brice Ménard’s colleagues say his imagination and insight make him particularly adept at discovering the universal secrets hidden in a daunting amount of data. Ménard, an astrophysicist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, has received this year’s $250,000 President’s Frontier Award to support his exploration of astronomical data.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Brice Ménard, President Ronald J. Daniels, President's Frontier Award
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, University Administration, 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
February 11, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Shani McPherson Office: 410-516-4778 Cell: 510-393-7159 sprovos1@jhu.edu WHAT: More than 300 graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University this weekend for the latest HopHacks, a marathon session challenging students to realize their best software and hardware ideas and compete for cash […]
February 11, 2019 Tags: Engineering, event, HopHacks, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Public Health, Technology
