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.
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
Sixteen Johns Hopkins University students and recent graduates have been awarded grants, earning the chance to travel abroad to study, teach and conduct research.
May 21, 2018 Tags: Fulbright, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Student-Related News, University-Related
An undergraduate student design team is developing a walker designed to help get pediatric ICU patients up and moving as quickly as possible.
May 1, 2018 Tags: biomedical engineering, undergraduate research
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing
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, Lockheed Martin and Barclay Elementary/Middle School will come together for an evening designed to showcase the science and engineering projects that students have been working on in the classroom all year.
April 17, 2018 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, science and technology education, STEM programs, STEN
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Student-Related News, Technology
The Johns Hopkins University and Lockheed Martin today announced a partnership aimed at enhancing opportunities for Baltimore City public school students pursuing academic and career fields in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The collaboration is designed to close the STEM gap that exists primarily in Pre-K through 12th grade.
April 16, 2018 Tags: Barclay Elementary/Middle School, engineering and science education, Johns Hopkins-Baltimore City Public Schools partnership, Lockheed Martin, STEM programs
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News
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
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
Maryland Girl Scouts will learn about the physics involved in how roller coasters work and what it takes to be an engineer. Then, the scout troops will design and build their own mini roller coasters.
March 24, 2018 Tags: Girl Scouts, roller coasters, STEM education
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Student-Related News, Technology
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in biomedical engineering, 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 20, 2018 | Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, International Affairs, Medicine and Nursing, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University admitted 2,284 students to the Class of 2022 today, offering admission to a talented and diverse group of scholars that includes researchers, writers, creators, innovators, and social activists.
March 19, 2018 Tags: Class of 2022, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related 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
Graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University this weekend for the latest HopHacks, a marathon session. The event challenges students to realize their best software and hardware ideas and compete for cash and other sponsored prizes.
February 16, 2018 Tags: computer applications, computer hardware, computer programming, computer science, hackathon
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, Technology
On Saturday, Jan. 7, 2018, more than 200 elementary, middle and high school students from Baltimore City Public Schools will compete in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX and VEX IQ Robotics League’s championship event at Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus..
January 26, 2018 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools students, Baltimore City Schools, Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Center for Educational Outreach, Hopkins Robotics Cup
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Technology
Like The Great British Baking Show or the Cake Wrecks blog? Johns Hopkins University students enrolled in a new intersession course called “Cooking the Books” will experience a bit of both this week as they try to recreate desserts from 18th or 19th century recipes.
January 22, 2018 Tags: baking, cooking, intersession, Johns Hopkins University, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, rare books, recipes
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, Libraries, Student-Related News
Legendary investor William H. “Bill” Miller III has committed a record $75 million to the Johns Hopkins University Department of Philosophy, believed to be by far the largest ever to a university philosophy program.
January 16, 2018 Tags: Beverly Wendland, Bill Miller, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, philanthropy, philosophy, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, William Miller
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Homewood Campus 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
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
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
September 21, 2017 CONTACT: Jill Rosen Office: 443-997-9906 / Cell: 443-547-8805 jrosen@jhu.edu @JHUmediareps Painting, gardening and beautifying city neighborhoods. These are just a few of the ways more than 1,200 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help Baltimore on Saturday, Sept. 23, as they volunteer en masse at nearly 40 local […]
September 21, 2017 Tags: Baltimore, President’s Day of Service, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
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
