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.

John Kasich to Speak at Johns Hopkins

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

Environmentalist Winona LaDuke to Speak at Johns Hopkins

The next event in the JHU Forums on Race in America will feature environmentalist Winona LaDuke.

November 6, 2017 Tags: environment, JHU Forums on Race in America, Johns Hopkins University, Winona LaDuke
| Category: Environment, Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Uncategorized, University-Related

University Buys Baltimore’s Landmark Stieff Silver Site

The Johns Hopkins University today bought Baltimore’s historic Stieff Silver complex, making a highly visible symbol of the city’s manufacturing heritage formally a part of its future in the knowledge economy.

November 1, 2017 Tags: Ed Schlesinger, real estate, Stieff Silver, T.E. Schlesinger, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related

MEDIA ADVISORY: Don’t Let These Creepy Skeletons Get Under Your Skin

On Halloween night, from their haunted hiding places beneath Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus, scary skeletons will come to life in the dark depths of Hackerman Hall—and begin to dance!

October 27, 2017 Tags: anatomy, augmented reality, Halloween, medical training, skeletons
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology

Johns Hopkins Announces 2017 Fall Speaker Series

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 Announces 2017 President’s Reading Series

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: Class of 2021 Arrives in Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University’s newest class of students arrives in Baltimore this week. A highlight for these students will be Baltimore Day, a chance to get to know the city they’ll call home over the next four years.

August 23, 2017 Tags: Baltimore Day, Class of 2021, first-year, Johns Hopkins University, move-in
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related

Materials Scientists Probe Protein’s Role in Speeding Ebola Spread

Two Johns Hopkins materials science graduate students and their professors played a key role in a multi-institution research project that pinpointed how a tiny protein seems to make the deadly Ebola virus particularly contagious.

August 21, 2017 Tags: Ebola, Ebola virus, Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, materials science, nanobiotechnology, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing

Johns Hopkins Launches Effort to Improve Civic Engagement

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: JHU to Host Panel Discussion on Economic Inclusion and the Private Sector

Leading national and local voices on economic inclusion will gather at Johns Hopkins University to discuss the role of the private sector in expanding opportunity, including specific policies and strategies that have been implemented in Baltimore and elsewhere

May 15, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore City, Ben Seigel, Calvin G. Butler Jr., Economic Inclusion, Johns Hopkins University, Mayor Catherine Pugh, Ronald J. Daniels, Ronald R. Peterson
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related

Columnist Frank Bruni to Give Commencement Address

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

Christopher Morphew Named Dean of Education

Christopher C. Morphew, an experienced academic leader and prominent scholar at the University of Iowa College of Education, has been appointed dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education.

March 23, 2017 Tags: Christopher Morphew, Johns Hopkins School of Education, Johns Hopkins University School of Education, K-12 Education, Ronald J. Daniels, School of Education, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related

Illustrator Barry Blitt to Speak at Johns Hopkins

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

JHU Museums Spring Calendar Highlights

March 13, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Heather Stalfort Office: 410-516-8329 Cell: 443-794-9164 hestalfort@jhu.edu TREASURES OF CHINESE EXPORT ART AT HOMEWOOD MUSEUM On view through Apr. 2, 2017 Location: Homewood Museum Cost: Included with paid museum admission and on view as part of the guided tour or by advance arrangement. The first American ship to […]

March 13, 2017 Tags: Evergreen Museum, Homewood Museum
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections

Panel at Johns Hopkins to Discuss Social Identity Issues

The next event in the JHU Forums on Race in America will feature a panel of scholars and activists discussing how the recognition of multiple, overlapping social identities has a powerful effect on individuals’ daily lives and social movements.

March 2, 2017 Tags: JHU Forums on Race in America, Johns Hopkins University, Laila Alawa, Mo Speller, Monica Yorkman, Norma Day-Vines, Payton Head
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, University-Related